Somebody said The Apple ads for AI look like they’re describing the people who are the biggest pieces of shit you work with or know.

Tom Bombadil started as his children’s toy who became the narrator of his children’s bedtime stories.

Out of those, grew The Hobbit.

LotR was an intentional effort to turn the setting of the Hobbit into an epic fantasy.

“I only oppress people when they deseve it.”

Fascism is the endgame of private equity–VC is private equity, VC runs silicon valley.

“Earth First” is an interesting and compelling explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

Well, you expect your hate to create for you a few comrades, but it’ll only make for more hillbillies named Conrad.

Yes, but Americans hating their government is exactly what got us here.

Doubling down on that sentiment is only going to make things worse.

You understand that, right?

yes but they all go bbbbuuuuuurrrrrtttt

I went to seminary

Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.

Apple’s standard was eventually mass adopted, and since then Walmart has refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.

There’s only one company that makes microwaves.

The electronics are so particular that creating more than one supply chain doesn’t make sense.

Every brand just whitelables microwaves assembled by Midea

The first conspiracy was Watergate.

After Watergate, Late night FM (new at the time) programming filled with a bunch of “Well what else is the government hiding from us?”

Someone eventually proclaimed that aliens were covered up at the Roswell Incident, which everyone had forgotten about after 20 years.

How many languages do you speak?

Perfectly rigid sticks don’t exist.

AI is either a solution in search of a problem,

or it’s the next scheme designed to gobble up as much VC money as possible and boost NVIDIA stock value, now that the Cryptocurrency bubble has passed.

Tiananmen Square, Georgia

8 was at least an attempt to try to make things better for home users and get away from win32 cruff.

Like or hate the exact approach they took, you have to admire the spirit.

10 and 11 has been Microsoft saying “fuck em. They won’t ever be happy steal everything you can while they’re still here.”

Potassium > pot-ass-e-yum

“TikTok is influencing you politically”

So you’ll shut down Fox News, right?

That’s fine. 1% per uberweird news cycle is the death of facebook.