Unpopular opinion: It's rude that women don't lift the toilet seat up once they're done

Lol, guess I'll never be able to go to a the Chelsea Flower Show since I use a VPN and can't buy tickets. It's not just the internet that's dead.

Kinda reassuring that Meta is incompetent enough to waste $50Bn + on a virtual reality world which they're now shelving

"The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." - Adam Smith on Bitcoin

Toilet seats should have handles

In the Fallow Field I went down on my hands and knees Looking for trees, Twin leaves that, sprung from seeds, Were now too big For stems much thinner than a twig. These soon with chamomile and clover And other fallow weeds Would be turned over; And I was thinking how It was a pity someone should not know That a great forest fell before the plough. - Andrew Young

JFC, can Roku pls stop trying to market horror versions of Bambi and Popeye to my kids

One of the best things about coding AIs is that they don't spend the first two hours figuring out who to blame before attempting to solve a problem

You can't block shipping lanes for Bitcoin

Trump has really fucked up this time

JFC, CEO reckons it's "wartime" for our SaaS company so his solution is mandatory more days in the office and letting people comp dinners if they work late. That's the whole strategy. 🙄

Everyone at my company thinks they're a programmer/designer now. I just get tagged in everyone's shitty feature PRs and as the PM have to explain why most of them suck and create tech and UX debt, and don't actually solve the customer problem that well. So basically AI has made me less productive 😅

Have gone my whole life without ever needing to use the word "apropos"

What if all AI compute just goes into attacking or defending against other AIs, and then basically nothing else changes except we have robots that clean things badly

Yes the CCP is so smart that they implemented the one child policy and engineered a self-inflicted demographic disaster.

Most charitable interpretation of the Iran attack: It shows that Trump is serious and won't make empty threats the next time there are negotiations. Then restart talks soonish and give Iran regime an offramp (no more nukes, some reforms) from a point of weakness.

Test

Seems more and more likely that AI is going to have a large short term disruptive impact on employment. This will lead to panic - I'm already seeing it from normie white collar job friends who think they'll be unemployed in a year and are making big decisions factoring this in. I honestly don't know what the fuck will happen and I'll probably panic too. But you know who will really panic? Governemnts. And they will both feed off and feed into the panic. The most obvious thing people will demand is guaranteed income and more welfare to protect them - I think even normies will realise AI is too powerful to simply regulate. This will lead to money printing. And this will happen before AI has a chance to grow the economy enough (i.e. pay the national debt from more taxes paid by Google and OpenAI). I don't know if Bitcoin goes higher in this scenario, but it increasingly looks like the one thing that can't be fucked with.