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j @lowercase.name · 24/06/2026

the official explanation given for why the rayban branding was dropped is nonsense (trying to say it's about luxury pricing when the cheapest of these is still more than a pair of normal raybans) so i'm going with the more likely explanation of "they finally noticed the pr disaster in the distance"

“For us, it’s just about continuing to expand the choice that people have in the marketplace of what to pursue,” Bosworth said in a Q&A. “Reaching people isn’t just about even design or style, it’s also about the price point that you can reach. So, if you’re going to be wearing the Ray-Ban Wayfarer, it’s the most popular style, and most frequently worn style of glasses in the world, and it’s iconic; you pay a premium for that.”

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j @lowercase.name · 29/05/2026

something we really need to beat over people's heads: the a.i. bubble literally hinges on everyone --- not "a lot of people", not "most people", *literally everyone* --- being on board the people in charge of the bubble know this. this is a quote from the ceo of anthropic

Basically I’m saying, “In 2027, how much compute do I get?” I could assume that the revenue will continue growing 10x a year, so it’ll be $100 billion at the end of 2026 and $1 trillion at the end of 2027. Actually it would be $5 trillion dollars of compute because it would be $1 trillion a year for five years. I could buy $1 trillion of compute that starts at the end of 2027. If my revenue is not $1 trillion dollars, if it’s even $800 billion, there’s no force on earth, there’s no hedge on earth that could stop me from going bankrupt if I buy that much compute.

Even though a part of my brain wonders if it’s going to keep growing 10x, I can’t buy $1 trillion a year of compute in 2027. If I’m just off by a year in that rate of growth, or if the growth rate is 5x a year instead of 10x a year, then you go bankrupt. So you end up in a world where you’re supporting hundreds of billions, not trillions. You accept some risk that there’s so much demand that you can’t support the revenue, and you accept some risk that you got it wrong and it’s still slow.

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j @lowercase.name · 12/05/2026

you can tell nobody who lives here was involved because a) they're showing off this building like it's an impressive size, in a district surrounded by giant skyscrapers b) if you knew how much people here love setting stuff on fire for no reason you would *not* show off this many trees

the mockup render for a data center in the middle of downtown vancouver; it looks like someone got a hold of an evil silver obelisk and thought they could spruce up the place with a few trees

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j @lowercase.name · 04/05/2026

very funny that "the guy who runs the robot is responsible for what the robot buys" is actually one of the first things we figured out about automated agents on the modern web nextnature.org/en/magazine/...

“We are the legal owner of the drugs – we are responsible for everything the bot does, as we executed the code", Domagoj Smoljo - one of the makers - told to The Guardian. “But our lawyer and the Swiss constitution says art in the public interest is allowed to be free”.

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j @lowercase.name · 15/04/2026

hello, website i only willingly signed up for to look for jobs, what did you want to email me today oh

LinkedIn News
Snap initiates mass layoffs

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j @lowercase.name · 02/04/2026

this was the email title btw

I’ve been unemployed for months now and it seems like I’ve hit a dead end with...

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j @lowercase.name · 02/04/2026

you can tell the economy is good because glassdoor gave me an email that contains exclusively doomposting

Glassdoor email giving previews of posts with the header of: "Catch up on the latest trending posts from the community."

Post 1 Preview: "I’ve been unemployed for months now and it seems like I’ve hit a dead end with finding a job. I’ve applied to many jobs. And every time I see... [rest cut off]"

Post 2 Preview: "has anyone ever gotten a job off here? or am i wasting my time"

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j @lowercase.name · 01/04/2026

think about this one post all the time mastodon.social/@jk/11549633...

mastodon post:

i just saw a screenshot of some linux distro. i was like. what window manager is this? what UI theme? it looked kinda like one of those fancy "we're easy to use!" linux distros you see. yknow where they make it look kinda like Mac OS. but there's always some small, telltale signs: odd text alignment, unclear, monochrome icons, an overall lack of polish. you can tell it's not a *real* Mac because of those. anyway i looked a bit closer, and it actually was Mac OS. thats what a Mac looks like now

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j @lowercase.name · 23/03/2026

i'm having, maybe, a little too much fun with real-time dithering of images

the footer section to my personal website; four two-toned icons are on the right, with the left side clarifying the current color scheme as "guy trying to figure out what old paper looked like but he only sees them in videogames"

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j @lowercase.name · 23/03/2026

you ever read a job listing explanation and realize someone just got away with the heist of a century

SEO Specialist (19 month Maternity Cover)

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j @lowercase.name · 19/03/2026

updated my site to have (hopefully) less grating color schemes as much as i loved the one that made everything look like a knockoff commodore, for some reason i think anyone who likes reading would have disagreed with neon blue and pure white on non-thick text

a screenshot of the front page to my website

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j @lowercase.name · 17/03/2026

a lot of people who instinctively cling to a.i. (especially the managerial class) in software did so on the assumption it would somehow get cheaper and more accessible nah. this is the cheapest it will ever be. it can only get worse bsky.app/profile/edzi...

The obvious argument that you could make is that Anthropic could simply increase the price of the subscription product, but I need to be clear that for any of this to make sense, it would have to do so by at least 300%, and even then that might not do the job. This would immediately price out most consumers — an $80-a-month subscription would immediately price out just about every consumer, and turn this from a “kind of like the cost of Netflix” purchase into something that has to have obvious, defined results. A $400-a-month or $800-a-month subscription would make a Claude or ChatGPT Pro subscription the size of a car payment. For a company with 100 engineers, a subscription to Claude Max 5x would run at around $480,000 a year.

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j @lowercase.name · 14/03/2026

well, the past month of looking up jobs on indeed has resulted in 0 listings, that aren't for senior developers with 10+ years experience, and also isn't a literal scam. but surely today i can find a job that's real, right haha hahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

a job listing for an AI ANIME ENGINEER ARE YOU KIDDING ME

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j @lowercase.name · 14/03/2026

very all-in on keeping this site two-tone, which is why this script was a godsend github.com/andrewstephe...

a photoshop image, combining stock photos to make a very bad condo shower

that same image, now having gone through the dither

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j @lowercase.name · 14/03/2026

median vancouverite yells about condos lowercase.name/blog/the-con...

a sink with the faucet right in there and the water leaking; an intercom with a handwritten note reading DON'T WORK, CALL XX-XXXX; a gas stove setting a fire alarm off

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j @lowercase.name · 13/03/2026

reasons they probably shouldn't fast-track random() in css: there's about 500 more useful things that need to be fast-tracked that would result in better code reason they should fast-track random() in css: doing this in js is annoyinggggggggg

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