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He’s a recurring archetype: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleon

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Providing actual value additive commentary is fine. It’s just inserting yourself in and making faces or saying empty headed nonsense like “Y’all! I’m DYING!“ that should be cast into the fire.

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Wait! Law firm pretending to be a tech company? You’re right! We are reinventing Oracle!

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The AI doesn’t change the pressures but it changes the economics of what sorts of solutions are viable. Instead of jamming your process through a single sized SaaS product it can look more like having an expert developer/architect team on retainer. Kind of like a law firm model.

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Nothing makes me more ashamed to be a Dem than Democrats’ reflex to wet themselves the moment they feel hope. This entire party has an anxiety disorder. We will win. If people want to be anxious about something be anxious about our leaders chickening out from imposing consequences on the enemy.

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Very ironic that the party of valorizing the entrepreneur has a whole infrastructure to pave and smooth out the path for their people while the supposed “nanny state” party throws its aspiring talents through a thunderdome of gunners.

The talent grooming pipeline and networking opportunities Cons have set up for their budding apparatchiks is insane. Meanwhile, for a lib your options are to slave away as an intern in an NGO or campaign and maybe try to develop enough clout to set up your own consultancy.

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I hate to hand it to Ramaswamy but. . .

A Jack Chick meme showing Vivek Ramaswamy’s quote about how American culture venerates mediocrity over excellence and celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ. The gathered crowd wearing a MAGA hat yells at him to Shut up! The caption beneath says “They hated Vivek because he told them the truth.”

PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fear in the 90s/aughts of MNCs having the power to contest democratic states seems quaint now, and kind of stupid. Why WOULDN’T they have just bought the media and taken over the public square, and then the government by proxy? It’s so obvious in hindsight!

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

17 different implements of violence 0 methods for purifying drinking water

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can’t understand ”EDC” knife without a bottle opener. My EDC knifing needs are opening boxes and, occasionally, cutting fruit or cheese. Anything more heavy duty than that I’d bring other tools. Gimme a corkscrew and an opener though, and I can get a party started on a moment’s notice.

PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s not the literal same thing. Offloading to a human involves forming an interpersonal relationship. For those attached to more communitarian, “warm” ways of existing that part is inherently appealing regardless of what you’re doing cognitively. They’re getting something separate out of it.

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I kind of thought the process was to just administer a lethal dose of morphine or some other opiate? I also imagine the success rate is helped along by the fact that almost all cases are people who are already in poor health.

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The guillotine remains the most reliable and humane method of execution, but people unable to face the fact that ending a life is a gruesome affair keep trying to find ways to mask it instead of facing up to the reality of what’s being done.

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s a lot of the budget that are black holes where money goes and nothing of value comes out. Ironically these mostly involve procurement and compliance. It may be we gotta have it to avoid corruption, even if it sucks. It’s a hard problem, but “more compliance” is probably not gonna solve it.

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is it the phones (internet/social media in your pocket) or is it internet ubiquity? The spread of this stuff happened alongside (and driven by) the spread of phones, but I wonder if people would have been AS crazy if they had to go to a specific room in the house to use it.

PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Have a bagel (after standing in line for 2 hours because you only ever go to places that are trending on Instagram).

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think with a lot of the ongoing characters, like Superman or Batman, they’re also covered by trademarks so exactly what is and isn’t covered by the original copyright can be a little vague.

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300 and Watchmen were both over-faithful adaptations and the message of the latter was “hey superheroes are inherently kind of fascist (and you should feel weird about that!)” while Frank Miller was leaning into “superheroes are inherently kind of fascist (and that’s cool as hell!)”

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I think it has more to do with his source material largely being from the deconstructionist and edgelord era of comic books.

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It’s not even like any pundits have anything intelligent or wonky to say anyway. It’s just people who can’t remember high school algebra asking about how to pay for it like we’re balancing a checkbook. It’s an extremely ridiculous cargo-cult simulation of a policy discussion.

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This specific thing made me decide talking about specific policies, proposals, budgets, etc. during elections is very stupid. Even if everyone is honest, nothing is going to survive intact through the legislative sausage machine anyway!

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Also I expect letting people stay on their parent’s insurance until 26 probably filled in a lot of the gaps that a mandate would have addressed. That’s the specific cohort that’d be most likely to shrug it off.

PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I dunno. The argument was no mandate -> adverse selection driving up spending and premiums, and premiumshave been going way up. Has anyone done a study on how much of that is selection? It’d be a hard study to do since the mandates ended right as COVID hit.

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It’s very cool. It certainly adds a ton of value to the world that people can do this for themselves. In theory it adds a bunch of value to GDP creates a big consumer surplus. But it doesn’t translate to money in anyone’s pockets.

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It won’t make money because, by its nature, the advantage of these things is to be able to build tools for idiosyncratic niches that normally couldn’t justify a software development team to build. A bunch little toy apps with an addressable market of a few dozen people isn’t gonna make anyone rich.

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m from the same background as Shiv and I think he’s slavering a bit there.

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Be the sort of Democrat the Republicans think you are”

The Pillar Men from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Three impossibly muscular men in skimpily clothes and dramatic poses.

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Yeah I always had a reason. “I’m a new parent so I’ll get the one with the good camera THIS time while the kids are small.” “Well I’m away a lot so I need more battery life just while I’m at this job.” “I got a desktop so I’ll stick to a bigger screen until I get a laptop or tablet. . .”

The mini phone is like driving a 2-seater convertible. I want to have the kind of life where it’s practical to have one, but I don’t.

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Tech was all in on “big screen good.“ Apple was the lone holdout worrying about silly things like “ergonomics” and ”pocket fit.“ The public eventually forced them to move, and now everyone wonders why their pinky fingers are randomly cramping.

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While this would actually be a good idea for them, I don’t think Trump could effectively be managed by producers anymore both due to being too stubborn to listen when he doesn’t want to and too senile to remember what he was supposed to do even if he did.

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tabasco is best thought of as a spicy vinegar.

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Asking “why would you ruin your career?” to a mathematician (given the nature of academic careers where the only real currency is clout) to convince him to let you steal his clout out from under him is very funny. These guys are such 1-trick ponies.

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PVN2099 @pvn2099.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s safe to assume that anyone demanding clear black-and-white lines on what constitutes asshole behavior is just trying to suss out exactly how much of an asshole they can get away with being and uninterested in simply not being an asshole.

For an individual yes, but enterprise development it can and does change how you work. There’s a lot of effort involved in understanding these complex systems before mucking w/ them. LLMs make it easier to both figure out the situation and to learn the best practice for solving your problem.

Update: I sent my wife this excellent skeet+article and she is now on board. Bye bye 1pass!

I actually did this back when they made the switch from being a native Mac app to being an Electron app, but it wasn’t hard at all. Exporting and importing the vault is easy and I always had my 2FA on a separate app anyway.

I switched to Apple’s built-in app, which works on my PC via iCloud too. I’m trying (and failing) to get the rest of my fam to switch, but it was hard enough to get them in the habit in the first place and Passwords is a kludgier experience (despite being a native app integrated into the OS).

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Back in the Obama years I went to Thanksgiving in Florida and had grown ass physicians asking me about what’s gonna be in the Obamacare bill. Me, a 22 year old who happens to live in Washington DC and had no connection to the administration besides canvassing for the campaign.

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My family had the former for our first kid and the latter for our second and it’s pretty night and day. Both were zero-complication, blessedly healthy pregnancies and deliveries and the former cost us like $6k out of pocket and the latter cost us DOUBLE that.

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BANG BANG BANG The sound of the hammers must never stop

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Every grifter wants to have ”AI qualifications“ but nobody wants to learn linear algebra, information theory, or computer science so they do this performative signaling bullshit instead and waste everyone’s time and money.

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Alt: A gif of a scene from Mad Max: Fury Road where a character is spraying his mouth with chrome paint screaming “WITNESS ME!”

The peak of manliness is when you frequently and publicly proclaim your feats of strength to all who will listen. This will make you seem powerful and confident, and not-at-all like an insecure child begging people to pay attention to you.

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