Reposted by squarely rootedMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 14hAt the same time, big increases in wealth inequality. Top income decile saw their net worth go up 31%, while everyone else had fairly undramatic shifts. 4361
Reposted by squarely rootedMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 14hAs expected, income inequality somewhat decreased in the last 3 years, with the real income of the top quintile decreasing while everyone else saw real increases. 3361
Reposted by squarely rootedMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 14hThe new Survey of Consumer Finance is out! www.federalreserve.gov/publications... For Matt Darling aficionados: - Median household net worth is $215.9k (up 2% since 2022) - Median assets in transaction accounts is $8,200 (-6% since 2022) (Percent changes are in real (adj for inflation) terms.)federalreserve.gov 89110
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 16h@davidcrespo.bsky.social before the internet annihilated “travel agent” was a whole category of job lots of people had and used! 120
Reposted by squarely rootedconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“clicking around on websites that have existed for 8 years is a natural part of the human experience“ is one of the worst arguments against using AI I have ever heard, and that’s saying something. 99+% of the humans who ever lived have never done anything like it www.hottakes.space/p/a-slow-ced... 3121719
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 18hincreasing numbers of things are going to increasingly polarize into two main directions: moar computer or anti-computer. a lot of thought is being put into how to make things moar computer, but less into how to make things anti-computer. but there's a big future in anti-computer. 010
Reposted by squarely rootedMike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In anticipation of a future I pray will never come, I've written the following. Yes, even in tragedy, there is hope... mine is that this poem will heal the wounds that divide us. It is called "Elegy; or, The Fall". 1622055
Reposted by squarely rootedconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026the trajectory we’re on is that computation just happens a lot more. a lot more of the energy output of our civilization will go to computation. everything we do will be accompanied by more and more computation. could be bad! and yet computation itself is not taken seriously as a material phenomenon 11137
Reposted by squarely rootedmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 08/10/2026a guy found a planet 117 light years away using Claude Code with Opus 5.5 & Fable NASA gave him telescope time to acquire better proof The agents used traditional astronomy tools for processing, search, transit fitting, and false positive checks www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...reddit.comFrom the ClaudeAI community on RedditExplore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community 1022525
Reposted by squarely rootedGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026setting aside that musk is nowhere near this popular, the US is years deep in a pretty massive accountant shortage, a fairly basic fact about the labor market the vice president should know, but doesn’t 991771314
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 08/10/2026i tried reading the march north by graydon saunders and it was literally an entire book of this. seemed like an interesting setting plot and characters, good writing, but no. no. i refuse to 010
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 08/10/2026lol yes i am getting too old, i don’t want to have to infer what happened, tell me! 120
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 08/10/2026impossible to tell from this graph since it’s just percent changes 110
Reposted by squarely rootedDiscontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Burger King Halloween Whopper (2015-2015): A classic Whopper burger, with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo, and A1 Thick n Hearty sauce, served on a "spooky" dyed-black bun-with more A1 sauce baked into it. It became infamous for complaints of the dye turning stool green. 53643110
Reposted by squarely rootedWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The money pit restaurant I would open as a billionaire would be the opposite of farm to table. What are the most unnatural flavors possible? Hiring top food scientists, giving a blank check and telling them to really explore the dark corners of the flavor latent space. I want to taste eternity. 1041404107
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026new AI use case - imposing any buzzfeed personality quiz one can devise on the whole internet 030
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026oh man can we crowdfund for tokens for this? we need this so badly 340
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026this is the wet-dry missing link we’ve been looking for 130
Reposted by squarely rootedQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ok so basically what half these proofs show is that every beautiful and perfect result in mathematics is just another fucking Borwein integral under the hood and we never bothered calculating hard enough for the scales to fall from our eyes. 1239341
Reposted by squarely rootedACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Air to Ground Message: PAX LEARNED THAT YOUR MOM IS A WORLD CLASS KARAOKE SINGER TAKING REQUESTS Area: Austin, TX, USA Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing) A: #a75cf04b48f F: #f9700a79583 1134
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026i’m not sure “i can haz sad but computer no can haz sad” is exactly the sparkling definitive own this author thinks it is 120
Reposted by squarely rootedhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I would like to live in the world of this poem, in which every essay assignment is an opportunity to broaden one's horizons instead of a piece of tedious busywork assigned to meet some quota. It's important to write for the sheer joy of it instead of just offloading it to AI, but come on. Really? 2124020
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026absolutely hilarious outcome would be for ds to win a bunch of wild senate shockers (ak? sc? id? mt?) but also lose mi and me 210
Reposted by squarely rootedIsaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you want to know why Jews are suspicious of you when you're just trying to be a well-meaning antizionist gentile, consider that these two things were written by the same man, Guangtian Ha, a (currently suspended) religion professor at Haverford 2638793
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026depending on how stuff plays out one possible thing could be “only landlines get phone numbers and system access” 010
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026i think this is generally right and points towards the right way of thinking about the future equilibrium, which is “what if the internet became infested with ~♾️ daemons, gremlins, and other little guys”? 140
Reposted by squarely rootedsquarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026anyway folks who are worried about social changes coming from new ways of encoding and processing information are in venerable company! 011
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 07/10/2026anyway folks who are worried about social changes coming from new ways of encoding and processing information are in venerable company! 011
Reposted by squarely rootedThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 185110211838
Reposted by squarely rootedghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Virtue Polarization is a hell of a thing 456851
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a large number of people in creative or academic sectors CORRECTLY see using AI to do certain load-bearing (sorry) aspects of what they do as defeating the point of doing it at all, not realizing that applications of AI elsewhere may be attacking very-much-not-loadbearing uses of intelligence&effort 170
Reposted by squarely rootedLos Angeles Times @latimes.com · 06/10/2026Eva Marie Saint, a graceful actor best known for her Oscar-winning film debut in “On the Waterfront” and for her turn as a sultry spy in another 1950s film classic “North by Northwest,” died Tuesday. She was 102. www.latimes.com/entertainmen... 1027453
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 06/10/2026ever see an image and instantly you know it’s Canon 000
Reposted by squarely rootedPJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 06/10/2026One of those panels you spend all day regretting you thought of it 1633827
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 06/10/2026this one’s always a tough one on the “development progress is actually fake” crowd 030
Reposted by squarely rootedDan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm relieved to report that the long-awaited second edition of An Infamous Traffic is even better than the original — in gameplay, in narrative, in clarity. My preview: spacebiff.com/2026/10/05/a...spacebiff.comAgain, Opium War, AgainWhen Cole Wehrle first unveiled An Infamous Traffic way back in 2016, it was a scrappy little devil. Not only was it Wehrle’s second design, it was also the earliest releases from Hollandspie… 612521
squarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 06/10/2026me to @colewehrle.bsky.social every dang timestatic.klipy.comSpongebob Says 'Take My Money!'ALT: Spongebob Says 'Take My Money!' 000
Reposted by squarely rootedghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026sounds like AI has zei psychosis 11756
Reposted by squarely rootednorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Why use human word when residual gate Claudlish holds not only the structural spine receipts—but the residue's verification do-trick as well 413412
