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just noticed that the "Block AI" option in settings was toggled off after the most recent update and i am pissed @firefox.com

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loving how darmok and jalad this post sounds tbh

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almost word for word the copy you'd see for the Underwear Party at the Ice Palace in Cherry Grove

would love to see In Search of Lost Time rewritten to be understood by the modern idiot and it coming out to a single page

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there's a kindle version of Wuthering Heights that re-writes it into modern prose. shitty as that is, i hope that they don't do anything about the one actually confusing aspect of the book, which is all the characters who have, and are referred to by, the same name

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In love with this squidward (?) plush a girl here has. Extremely relatable.

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three midterms next week and i don't even know where to begin

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Woah woah woah now, what i got is different, I won't step up to defend that on any grounds

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Santeria is bad but not that bad" is maybe my least popular opinion, second only to, "pearl jam isn't that bad." Somewhere in there are, "phil Collins has always been absolute ass" and "Madonna is a terrible singer"

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Haha I know you famously hate that song. I dont think it's that bad, in fact I would rather hear it than wonder wall, but I dont want that misconstrued into people thinking I like it or think it's like objectively good

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Santeria" are you fucking kidding me? Truly life is just the worst parts of high school forever

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interesting overhearing "Buddy Holly" by weezer on the radio in this college dining hall and realizing I'm of the age that I can recall when stalwart radio staple classics first came out. Speaking of which, "wonderwall" sucked then and it sucks now

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

at what point is cringe itself an actionable tort? intentional infliction of emotional distress?

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i have to do a memo about a negligence claim involving players of "quadball" which is the real-life sport based on the harry potter game, and it is doing severe psychic damage to me every time i have to think about a game where people have to squeeze PVC-pipe "brooms" between their legs

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i understand that like a lot of legal thresholds there's no bright line for "cruel and unusual" but surely being executed TWICE has to count

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they performed appeals court hearings at my school today which was cool to watch. only 15 minutes to assert your appeal seems pretty harsh but it was kinda fun like legal speed dating. one of the judges said hello to me in the hallway and i totally flubbed an opening ah well

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh my hometown made it up to the Supreme Court not that long ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzger...

en.wikipedia.org

Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee - Wikipedia

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

reading this and a guy's name is Nathaniel Comfort. i want to be Nathaniel Comfort. i'm that now, my name is Nathaniel Comfort from now on

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i had to live through the horrible "let's just paint some bike stenciles on the street and call it a day" era so i'm so glad to see some actual anti-driver hostile policy in effect www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/04/m...

bostonglobe.com

Somerville’s new ‘Neighborway’ is designed to make the road safer by adding obstacles - The Boston Globe

To make roads safer, the city says, sometimes you have to put some obstacles in drivers' way.

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's actually healthy to stare at your phone in a dark room lying completely prone on your bed fully clothed. It's good for you

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mistake doesn't defeat intention. You can intentionally make a mistake.

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Only room on this earth for one type of collective hallucination that's been institutionalized to tell dumb people how to live their lives, I suppose

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trey Parker and Matt stone were paid $1.5 BILLION for the five year streaming rights + 30 new episodes of South Park. Yes South Park is still on the air and is apparently worth one thousand five hundred millions of dollars

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

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How on Earth did I not read this yet? really interesting and honestly kind of brazen modelling of the entire lifecycle - downstream, data centres, upstream use - of AI. Puts AI industry at 1.1% of total global energy, about the same for global emissions. More than 10x previously stated estimates

Final Results and Concluding Thoughts
Adding it all up, we estimate that the AI sector is responsible for almost 1,900 TWh of global energy consumption in 2026. And after accounting for additional factors that we did not explicitly analyze, like the construction of new electrical substations, robotic-centric warehouses, water reclamation facilities, and other infrastructure specifically designed to support the data center buildout, it’s likely that total AI-driven global energy demand is already closer to 2,000 TWh. Even at 1,900 TWh, the AI share of total global energy use in 2026 would be roughly 1.1%. We also estimate, after adding up all the sectoral numbers and landing at roughly 650 million metric tons of AI-driven CO2 emissions, that the AI share of global GHG emissions in 2026 stands at about 1.2%, with total annual global emissions sitting at roughly 55 gigatons of CO2-eq, albeit with a wide range of figures from EDGAR to UNEP (anywhere from 53 gigatons to 58 gigatons depending on a broad array of different assumptions). As we’ve discussed already, these numbers are much higher than many others in the media and academia have guessed on the basis of simplistic calculations and naïve assumptions.

The projections up to 2030 are obviously far worse and imply a catastrophic impact to global ecological stability. ChatGPT alone “processes approximately 2.5 billion prompts per day worldwide.”122 The scale of AI growth and diffusion globally is truly astounding, and the industry’s corresponding ecological footprint will soon rival that of major countries like India. It's not farfetched at all to think that the AI share of total global energy demand could rise to something like 5% by 2030, rivaling and in some cases surpassing the footprint of established dominant industries. The potential consequences of this extra resource pressure on biodiversity, global warming, freshwater scarcity, and biogeochemical cycles could be absolutely staggering and devastating for the…

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the hook in this track is so beautiful it wouldn't be out of place in the best of beethoven or chopin. can anyone really claim that anything an american act has produced in the last three decades (including music i love) has come even close? www.youtube.com/watch?v=u51H...

youtube.com

Mdou Moctar - "Tala Tannam" (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Mdou Moctar

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i know it belies a subjective personal preference for guitar tones, but imo American music is fully dead, a complete zombie; the only music left with any pulse is coming from other cultures. for me, north African, Tishoumaren desert blues is the most exciting thing happening that i'm aware of

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this is my essential skepticism regarding electrification in general, which gets spoken of here on bsky as the holy grail of climate adaptation. it's essential, yeah, but increased capacity just all goes into the vast black hole of increased consumption and i'm not seeing the displacement yet

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why tf did my phone autocorrect "advisor" to "sissies" what have I been saying in the gay guy group chats

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

need to start a thread specifically for the type of bullshit you read in law school. stuff that makes sense in its context (maybe. generously) but is otherwise absurd. today's bullshit: "A future interest is a present interest"

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 01/10/2026

It seems quaint now that we do all our banking and race science there, but, nevertheless, it's true: at one time, people mostly wrote jokes on Twitter. 10 years ago, I wrote one about an old asshole and it kinda changed my life. Not his, though. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

cnn.com

The tweet that defined a decade of Trump | CNN

It’s been 10 years since Jesse Farrar accidentally defined a political era with one pithy, prescient tweet. He wishes it never happened.

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Conservative psychos are all the same, no matter the position they hold. The bloodlust that motivates them all might be more overt in the rank and file, but at the higher levels these sickos quietly love the "burden" of putting people to death, which I'm sure they regret most sincerely

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are dub remixes supposed to suck all the life out of a track and reduce it to a mild gray noise, or have i only been exposed to bad ones?

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

unfortunate real name i just encountered, "Gaylardo"

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

those rare, ~rare~ days i manage to get enough sleep really make me realize how much i'm missing out on, how much lower my potential is because of how poorly i sleep. how much more capable, motivated, and friendly i can be. it feels inappropriate to call it a disability but it sure does feel like it

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

nobody has been able to tell me what "ranch" flavor actually is. all flavors come from some component food-type so what is it?

Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it takes a long time to get there but that feeling of playing an instrument effortlessly is the greatest feeling in the world fuuuuuck

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

poor guy on reddit posting about his - real, concerning - symptoms of schizophrenia and how scared he is, and every top post is CALL A PSYCHIATRIST IMMEDIATELY PULL OUT YOUR PHONE DO IT NOW. i don't know i think inducing panic is maybe not the best approach to helping someone imo

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

love that schumann made this achingly beautiful melody and called it Chopin. homage or light teasing? youtu.be/3RAvBGR2kic?...

youtu.be

Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9: XII. Chopin

YouTube video by Daniil Trifonov - Topic

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Nathaniel Comfort @dedolence.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i genuinely don't think my LA roommate has ever seen this much rain in his life, it's kinda cute