Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I briefly considered going into pure math (even made it a year into a masters program), and there is absolutely poetry in mathematics. The focus on rote arithmetic and application strangles that breath of life out of the subject 020
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Better Call Saul solves my biggest issue with Breaking Bad. It has heart. The characters don’t feel cynical. They want to do the right thing, but they also want to take care of their own. By shaping circumstances to force that choice, it all feels more tragic 000
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And any restaurant that doesn’t do online reservations should institute lifetime bans for using an ai agent to call them 120
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Every time I see a new picture of Jeff Bezos he looks more like Joe Rogan 000
Reposted by AlexGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 809207404634
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’ve been using this analogy every time people talk about it being too late to “put the genie back in the bottle” and I’m surprised how few people know about it 000
Reposted by AlexJessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i don't think you should be allowed to call your business a speakeasy if it has a yelp page 31279112
Reposted by AlexBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years. 252118783
Reposted by AlexRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else 568420842
Reposted by AlexNathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That Bannon says that about Newsom should be the kiss of death for his nomination prospects. Definition of an acceptable nominee is someone who is Steve Bannon's worst nightmare. 22684159
Reposted by AlexKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI will never be able to make art. Thanks. 1085646806
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I am not in any way religious. I do not believe in a higher power or any metaphysical phenomenon in any literature sense. But the rise of AI has thoroughly convinced me of the existence of something I can only call the human soul 220
Reposted by Alexmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 49103331830
Reposted by AlexNotorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026there has never been a “computer did it” defense. why is there one now. 744154
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If ai: terrible, evil, product of the mechadevil If not ai: beautiful, poetic, the light of the lord 010
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Guess that helicopter commute bill is looking pretty steep 000
Reposted by Alexjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US 3053861098
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My wife and I joke about our dog being autistic because she’s very rigid about her routines and super awkward with other dogs. We do this because it’s funny. Why would anybody care for real? 020
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Meta using disabled veterans to manipulate people into being cool with the pervert glasses is fucking sickening 030
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So much of these statements from ai workers makes sense when you remember all of them got their brains fried in rationalist circles discussing Roko’s basilisk 051
Reposted by AlexGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I want to ride the everyone mocks Seth Moulton train until the end of the line 73384472
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It does make me slightly happy that this looks like shit 040
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Very excited for the sudden rapid success of @mapquest.com, but the lack of transit option combined with the poor bike routing makes it pretty much unusable for me 0112
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 27/08/2026There’s also a strong racial discrimination fear: black neighborhoods are already policed more, and a helmet mandate would provide additional pretext for stops 020
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I feel a similar way about those supplements that purport to prevent hangovers. I am drinking alcohol. The enjoyment I get from that must be balanced by the consequences that follow 020
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Utah actually had a lot of successes with a similar model! It only began to fail when funding was cut 0373
Reposted by AlexKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/202614 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion! 301109161841
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I start orientation for law school tomorrow morning, and they’ve asked us to brief Terry v. Ohio for the first day. I’m working on it but it keeps pissing me off 000
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Being in an airport longer than you planned while everywhere runs out of inventory feels like being held hostage in a series of smaller closets 010
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026My flight has been delayed 2 hours and I’m ready to commit crimes 110
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Saw a guy on a flight ask Claude for help finding an AirPod his kid had dropped. He was using an iphone 3545
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I will never pay for tsa precheck. I will never pay for global entry. I will not pay the government a bribe to remove an obstacle they put in place and refuse to improve upon 020
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I hate how stupid things work in the country I live in 000
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Undervalued sign that this is a scam country is the fact that you can only use the more efficient and accurate passport scanners that every EU country uses by default if you pay for global entry 010
Reposted by AlexGore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 15/08/2026[me to Gavrilo Princip after he shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand] bro you just shot that guy at random 420615
Reposted by AlexGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026And it's not just e-bikes. We are seeing cycling broadly being attacked in the U.S. and the biggest brands in the country are pretty much...silent on the issue. 234623
Reposted by AlexGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bike brands are pivoting to gravel and MTB in part because it's become absolutely hellish to ride recreationally on the road in the U.S. But at the same time, there's really no advocacy from the bike industry towards safer streets. And to be clear, I'm talking about the biggest brands here. 839233
Reposted by AlexGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I'm not the first person to say this, but the bike industry in the U.S. is really missing a huge opportunity by not aggressively defending and promoting e-bikes. I think this is largely the result of it being an industry built on recreational cycling and not transit riding. 131649213
Reposted by AlexHegelian vs. Predator @telemark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The Rockies exist. The Appalachians wait. 1161
Reposted by AlexAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Those mountains are older than the concept of trees and bones and you WILL respect them 442561552
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 13/08/2026They’re gonna piss off the ancient gods laying dormant beneath the appalachians, which are older than bones 0160
Reposted by AlexKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam" 181142502637
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Also, we absolutely ARE noticing it more in adults when adult testing is actually available. But that’s really hard to find in some areas and even harder to get insurance to cover 050
Alex @watts-the-point.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It’s because they want land ownership to be weighted heavily in our electoral process! 000
