Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Reading the last part carefully... if the same money were spent, and the same progress made, what makes that not "worth it?" What is this hidden extra cost of humans 110
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Me: Peaches don't grow like that! They grow on trees! In the South! EMT feeling my pulse: uh huh. And you drank just one can, right 010
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the background peaches appear to be growing in a peach patch 110
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"We must automate drudgery" We did! That was the 20th century! We automated drudgery so well our investors moved on to automating thought and creativity 010
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Adorno says children like to play with trucks & dolls (i.e. things adults associate with domestic servitude and low-wage labor) because labor is low-key fun before the exchange relation deforms it. No such thing as drudgery; scrubbing toilets may yet be a joyful hymn 111
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 27/09/20262000: your favorite device got better 2013: your favorite device got more annoying 2026: your favorite device has been armed and detonated 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 26/09/20262006 is the last good year to set a movie. Any year after that you have to depict the characters texting one another 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Oh for sure, but our contemporary robber barons are no improvement 110
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026JD Rockefeller was endowing whole colleges and slinging dimes and nickels to every stranger he met while being called a robber baron so this is very much a skill issue 172
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is why I only subscribe to cooking channels. "we made chicken curry" hell yeah you you did 0131
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 19/09/2026to be fair, I don't think a wikipedia plot summary ever made a movie sound good 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Why are they 1.2v in the first place? Makes the low battery light go off at 90% 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A day will come that proves Matt wrong. But it wasn't today. And it won't be tomorrow 000
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Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Never make the user learn anything" A User-Experience demand hidden in every instance of the word "intuitive", and also the most damaging 001
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026brought me close to tears learning about his friend behind the camera 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026moreover why shouldn't one be apprehensive of something that "changes the nature of humanity" seems like a reasonable thing to be apprehensive of 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026if you look here, here and here at the cabinet secretary's AI-generated meme you'll realize it is repellent and unprofessional 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026tech industry transferred everyone's attention from a stream of things that aren't real to a stream of things that aren't real that aren't real and now they wonder why we're all crazy 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Funny how it was insisted that genAI was needed to solve the world's most pressing issue: a *dearth* of code and images (in 2022 no less), and now these guys are like, "aw shucks, well you see, there was SO SUCH code and images" 010
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026not cliche at all, in fact i was the one who said it first 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Amazing! Do the penguins each run identical code or is there some kind of PenguinServer object that does all the solving here? 100
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026For $5 a month, I can tell you what's true. For $5K a month, you can tell me what's true. 0100
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026the water thing is probably overblown but ah geez who's gonna pay me to say so 61682
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Virtually all information? Best we got is one decent encyclopedia and Borges' library of non-erotic pornography 020
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A panda and a chameleon can make a mudskipper. This kind of stuff is what makes your work better than B*jack Horsem*n 010
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 24/08/2026My nextdoor had a pic of some teens kicking a soccer ball back and forth in a tennis court at night. The lady who posted it said the teens called it "European Tennis". She was legit mad 052
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Data centers were invented because we needed computers that don't turn off. This was back when we used to turn off the computer. They're obsolete now 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"Resistance is futile?" Who's resisting? Borg me up, man. Get over here and borg my shit up 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 20/08/2026In a better world these kinds of gadgets would fill a whole Best Buy. There'd be joysticks with trackballs, trackballs with wheels, keyboards with airplane switches, 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The stars are aligned. The fates have spoken. The year of Linux On The Desktop is finally at hand 0130
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 19/08/2026As a youth I learned biblical canon the way kids today learn the Star Wars canon: inferred through clips from Family Guy 010
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Indeed I am rotating the emperor's valid premise in my mind 020
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It is said only a fool cannot accept the emperor's premise. Why, here he comes wearing his premise now 130
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It's hard to believe none of the characters in Star Wars have seen or heard of Star Wars. Not very realistic. Luke should be saying stuff like, "Whoa, a lightsaber! Just like in Star Wars!" 010
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Our generation needs its own Bill Waterson, someone who strong-armed the platform to follow *his* format, instead of the other way round 000
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Nolan adapted The Odyssey the way a realtor flips an old house. His crew came and did it all up in blank grey walls. Not much character but it'll double his money 131
Sam @worldsday.bsky.social · 10/08/2026In Linux you can type curl wttr.in and a 3-day forecast will appear in milliseconds. You are being abused if your weather app shows you ads. A kind-hearted policewoman needs to put a blanket on you. "Please show me on the screen where they made you look at content."wttr.inwttr.in — Weather Report 020