iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you reconsider your premises in public you have been Owned, and being Owned is a fate worse than death.

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

you never have to believe a word these people say about how it's a Hard World and Hard Things Must Be Done. they get off on this shit. one thing to think Hassan being executed is justified, another entirely to do it one handed while jacking yourself off like this.

1575990

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Beyond just writing code, a good LLM can take the place of a lot of research assistants (clean these data, find some papers on this topic, go through all these by hand the check them, etc) Pretty big win for those of us that don't have RAs in our program tbh

030

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I 100% believe that firms believe this, they purchase some software because they want someone they can sue because I've been hearing this since the 90s But I also think this is dumb, if your backup plan when stuff breaks is to fight Oracle/Microsoft/SAP in court, then you have no backup plan

1101

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Ha ha, what are you gonna do with that history degree? Lol" Get a job? History majors do just fine on the job market and always have. Some of the more "practical" degrees don't do any better, might as well take classes in something you enjoy.

1163

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am hesitant to ask this, because some knowledge is not meant to be possessed, but what's wrong with Lib Dems? Why are they like this? I feel like they've kind of always been like this?

000

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My new theory of language is that words get used up over time, and as they do a word converges to a synonym for good or bad, losing all other meaning along the way We're basically already there with "goated" for example, and I think we were there with "Zionist" before I was born

010

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026

What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌

37608159

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Given the time and resource constraints involved, and the inherent power imbalances, there's a surprising amount of good journalism at university student newspapers, which is right in line with Steve's cost center argument

010

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't want to say that a preference for seniority is inevitable in unions because it's not, but people that have a lot of influence in an org are frequently the ones that have been there a long time and guess which rules they tend to like

010

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think this is good advice, but also used Canon and Nikon budget DSLRs are a great choice for a casual photographer They take great pictures, accessories are cheap and easy to find, and the cameras and lenses are extremely affordable right now

020

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It turns out that a decent acid test for "is this a good MBA program" is whether they generally admit people straight out of undergrad, because the ones that might be worth paying for mostly don't

011

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I refuse to believe that we're still talking about Aella in <current year>

010

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep saying it's the boomers that are the most out of control with their phones, but everybody wants to be all "kids these days" and ignore grandpa glued to the dumbest mobile games imaginable

020

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it is an incredible testament to the power of midcentury Soviet propaganda that the dumbest leftists in the world are still confusing the expansionist reactionary petrostate which grew out of its corpse for the thing itself

16814

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Separate from this discussion, Feygin's book is pretty good and highly readable, 100% worth your time if you haven't gotten to it yet

000

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Me, at the gym looking in the mirror: why am I soft in the middle now, the rest of my life is so hard? Me, at home looking at the half-eaten pint of Häagen-Daz: oh yeah, that's why

030

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Speaking of Claudish language, does anyone know which model(s) are the ones obsessed with the phrase "sit with that for minute" that all the YouTube AI slop channels seem to use?

010

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Western Michigan got absolutely screwed, they legitimately won that game

020

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Look, if we're doing technically correct then a jury didn't, exactly, find that he wasn't an abuser, they simply found that alluding to his abuse in public while being female is defamatory

041

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

People say wild stuff about these data, and I wonder if they aren't doing some sort of % of disposable income in their heads, because my boring, normal apartment complex verifies income and won't rent to you if you're above 33% of gross

010

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Older centrists think we want dignified statesmen who will stand above the fray. Nope. Most Democratic voters basically want petty, vindictive people who are going to make the bullies pay for their crimes and cry hard as they do it. They're begging for it.

46998157

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A bunch of people are, perhaps unwittingly, admitting that they would not then check and read those sources and I don't think they realize they're telling on themselves

120

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Insane amounts of mental and emotional labor has gone into figuring out which table you sit at in the cafeteria during grade school and now no one is willing to say it was all pretty silly

030

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Machiavelli nodding along to Luthen Rael's monologue, taking notes: "I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do."

020

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's well-understood that rich people stay rich because they can afford to buy Rolexes in bulk, thereby getting a discount on a more durable mechanical watch compared to its budget-friendly competition

030

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's wild looking at the replies go nuts about bulk buying toilet paper; I promise the owner of your local car dealership does not plan tp purchases, buying household goods is entirely convenience driven for them One of the perks of being rich is buying what you want, whenever you feel like it

150

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@jamellebouie.net's take here aligns really well with my view that musk is still not fully comfortable with being known as a whiny racist and he's still desperate to be seen as cool & Important

youtu.be

Is Elon Musk the world's biggest billionaire piss baby?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

001

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This whole thing has made me much more nervous about a conflict with China, where Xi is much more likely now to think that they just have to survive for three weeks and then we'll be out of ammo

020

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As an academic myself, I fully support telling all of us to stfu, every single person holding any form of doctorate needs to hear that at minimum once a week

021

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 27/07/2026

conspiracy thinking makes you stupid

2232

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21/07/2026

"decommodify" is one of those phrases that causes me psychic pain every time i see it

71125

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 06/07/2026

anyway now i am going back to never thinking about maine

142236

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

On the one hand, I totally agree and this is just facts. On the other hand, I'm having trouble passing up an opportunity to point and laugh at the Pod bros and everyone else that lined up to promote him

110

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Wait, Michael Tracey is an idiot and a rube? You're just now telling me this. I'm hearing this for the first time.

020

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If the bad thing we're looking at *also* existed in decidedly pre-capitalist societies in antiquity or the middle ages, it's going to be pretty hard to argue that it is capitalism's fault. Many of society's ills are things capitalism inherited, rather than things it caused.

28411

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Quoting this mostly to get this out of Nick's mentions. A fact that can help demystify FICO scores for some people is that credit reporting agencies (Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax) cannot *directly* see your income or your assets, just your debts, and therefore FICO can't either

110

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A huge part of what PMC firms like blackwater did/do is just hire soldiers with in-demand training/specialities and actually pay them what they're worth, then turn around and charge the government double that for them. taxpayer paying a middleman so people trained at public expense can work for govt

215019

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This sort of vagueness is downstream of "everyone who disagrees with me is evil and disingenuous" My policy proposals are all simple and complete, there's nothing of substance to debate, therefore you oppose me because you're Bad

0162

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This *does* have me rethinking universal suffrage, just not in the way op wants me to

010

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/06/2026

ngl, the space x IPO being largely successful immediately after elon musk spent a week fomenting racist pogroms in northern ireland is one of the more blackpilling events of the year for me

362305344

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

You deserve REI. You deserve to go and smell the scent of various clean rubber products and then have things explained to you by an outdoorsy they/them with a nose ring. You deserve REI.

620113

Reposted by just some guy (the bad kind)

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Going to just pick one part here to take up which is the Rousseauian notion that agriculture leads to land ownership which leads to warfare. If that were true, we'd expect non-agricultural societies (hunter gatherers especially) to be relatively peaceful. Instead, they're hyper-militarized. 1/

23697155

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Your own vote isn't supposed to do anything that you would directly experience: Voting is a civic duty.

040

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I end up blocking the people Matt has these debates with; I just can't with someone that spends hours insisting that someone else respond to and explain every objection they dream up Just read the methodology description if you care, the preferences you're revealing are a bad look

010

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I think that they want to avoid going through the procurement process, with all that entails including taking forever to select products that are a moving target, almost as much as they don't want to spend the money. Almost.

000

just some guy (the bad kind) @viscousboredom.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I'm declining to see the movie in question, but this very much sounds like 2026 era streaming service thought where everything is assumed to be second screen content, and I just want more people to make movies that other people are intended to watch

0342