Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 2hI can never remember which one is simulation and which is simulacra 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 3hWell if you had to choose between quietly giving people lots of money or getting up on stage and yelling for three hours, what would you do. Be honest 010
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 5hI hope pawing though my posing history for that at least made you feel a little gross You don't know me and you're way out of line. Go get your head right 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 6hI thought Mitsubishi's whole deal was if you're a defense contractor and industrial equipment manufacturer and also a bank then you might as well sell a few cars 030
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 6hI do not like the plastic shirts ad, I do not like the man in it who looks like he has the wrong number of organs, and if a clothing company runs the same ad for two years then yes obviously it is somehow a scam 030
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 8hI think I prefer the political ads made by firms that don't realize a lot of people watch sports on mute 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 8hBut we all have the pictures. They're public, the newspapers published them months ago 060
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 9hThe vast majority of empty housing isn't being held for tax purposes, it's in transition: homes being sold and rental vacancies We can argue about what occupancy rate is optimal in a healthy economy but it's going to be less than 100% 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 9hHey good job with the stalking there, very normal behavior to add to the impression you're already making 100
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 11hIt's notable that even after an aside noting the problem of centering white kids you're assuming my kids are white, and very much not offering up the same kinds of choices for nonwhite kids 100
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 12hForcing people into something that has a success rate under 30% when it's *voluntary* seems like bad idea even before we get into everything else wrong with this 010
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 13hI was going to go with "The Cola Out of Space" but you really need a hair trigger to get a riff like that off in time eh 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 14hSub-compact? I mean it's not a 3-row SUV but even before the '27 redesign it was rather noticeably larger than, like, a Fiat 500 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 15hNot doing anything to allay my discomfort with most of quantum physics coming down to "we've constructed an algebra that fits observations but have no idea what's going on in there beyond that" (it's fine, I'm a grownup, I can handle it) 120
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 15h"Ellison doesn't want an incompetent hack running CNN" only gave me joy for the brief moment needed to realize "oh he wants a competent one then" 030
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The only physical difference red-dye diesel has from normal diesel is the red dye It's cheaper because it's not taxed. It's dyed to prevent farmers (and other legal users) from turning around and reselling it 040
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Let's not sleep on the tailor who sewed a pocket big enough to hold those cartoon guns in the inside of his coat without batting an eye 150
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Do you really want to live like that? You don't have to 110
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026For real, certain other cities are far more appropriate hosts for their dismal football teams 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Look if you don't like the phrasing of the joke that's fine but it's pretty clear that you're nitpicking and the large majority of colts are unshod 100
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What I'm hearing here is that with the exception of an extreme type of work, horses that are unshod because they're too young are called colts 100
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you're not even a yearling anymore you're definitely not a colt 110
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Then you might want to avoid referring to previous controversies as "only the usual human mistakes" 030
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You don't shoe colts though, horses are left unshod until they're like 4 years old 170
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sure Chuck E Cheeze was a con artist, but before we get too judgemental let's remember that Showbiz featured Antioch The Birthday Spider 010
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It should have stayed in the back of the house, the line has reasons to talk about production in terms like this some of the time but you gotta hide that view of the trade from the customer 100
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026While we're at it could someone remind the studio execs that AI-generated assets can't be copyrighted, thx 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026No I swear we've got the right mix of vouchers, means testing, and rebates this time, it's totally gonna work if you just give it a chance 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Rage Against The Mildly Socialist Primary Challenger 020
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You're using technology when you just dig a hole in the ground More like "does it require electronics." Like yes you can have electric lights, you just can't have any microchips. OK maybe the little one in the LED lightbulb but if you try to automate the toilet paper we're going to hunt you down 040
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In addition to not having a clock, we know neurons are not the only cells in the brain involved in cognition, neurons do not have static thresholds, brains do not buffer output and prepended it to the next input, etc Brains aren't computers. It's just a metaphor 010
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Or possibly, maybe, a biological neuron is quite a bit more complex than a single static parameter in a weighted graph data structure, even without quantum effects 210
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The problem is that the underlying design of the chatbots is inherently inefficient, a neural net doesn't work at all if it's too small or constructed from too little data And we hit diminishing returns years ago; so predictable to everyone except the guys yelling "scale is all you need" 120
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/20263. A wad of bubblegum 7 times the mass of Jupiter, if created, poses an existential risk to humanity 1141
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Didn't realize there had been a benefits scandal, ouch 020
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The only poll that's close is for AG, where republicans usually do better 100
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's a quiet Sunday evening, feeling a little bored, let's stir up some internet Civil War discourse sure why not 0230
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And if they've got water on them they're slippery rocks. If they've got ice on them they're desserts 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh that's tempting I never eat at Subway but I do get takeout from Jimmy Johns once in a while 010
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Warhol would be redundant, arxiv is already The Factory 000
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I tried this but it turned out my boss was, you guessed it, 020
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 04/10/2026God knows GenX is tedious about it but editing a couple lines in an .ini file to get a video game working really did deliver a hell of a nerd endorphin rush 030
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The thing is though, there are uncountably many things on the internet that I'm completely oblivious to, despite being Too Online Whatever is going on, it's not *only* easier access; something, be it the zeitgeist, algorithms, the media, whatever, is selecting subcultures or tendencies to surface 020
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 04/10/2026OK, even if we want to think about zeitgeist as something independent of history, it's worth considering that Up came out in the same year as Avatar, and I remember it as having more weight in the zeitgeist than Avatar, which had three times the box office receipts 010
Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sales are a pretty crappy measure of the zeitgeist to begin with Casablanca grossed less than a million inflation-adjusted bucks on initial release but we all quote it far more often than Avatar 100
