you're either not understanding or misrepresenting valente's points in order to make yours: that we can't have nice things and shouldn't either want or expect them, because it's unreasonable. nothing can change, nothing good can be had, nothing good can be achieved. hence: nihilism.

an ex-crypto-and-nft-promoter, now confabulation machine promoter feels that the confabulation machine hate reached unreasonable levels. thread of replies is full of persecuted confabulation machine promoters realists.

terrible state of house CO detectors is not an excuse for putting a CO generator in the living room.

if you have a point, make it. nihilism is cheap.

again, my point here is that cegłowski is an unreliable narrator; you should not build an opinion based on his anecdotes (or his transphobia).

he's also a self-important arse, which is kinda problematic when one tries to do organising. (one of the very important part is that doing the union work is not a social club, and you may need to work with and accommodate people whom you personally very much dislike.)

maciej cegłowski is also a self-serving arse, so i'd take anything he says with a large grain of salt.

enter hashimoto. cringe intensifies

all things aside, is current ghostty any good, or still an audiophile consolephile-ware?

i'm generally reluctant to try something which reeks of intensive self-promotion, but few months ago i decided to finally see what's the hype about, and, well, it's a terminal emulator.

wezterm does much more, and with a much cleaner ui, and it's programmable, and the author doesn't remind me that hashicorp is a thing that exists.

what i actually want to see in space are billionaires doing extended evas. not necessarily suited up, too.

i hereby propose a new metric for a popular publication, the epstein number (Ē), denoting the number of authors who took flights to epstein's rape island. generally, credible publications should have Ē=0. this one, after a very quick look, has Ē=2, and also hosts sabine hossenfelder.

github produced their annual insights into the state of open source and public software projects barrel of marketing slop, and it's as self-congratulatory as unreadable and completely opaque.

relevant: a firefox extension for the steam shop pages that highlights the use of generative ai.

it's good.

such words never stopped dr. roy before.

for what it's worth schestowitzes don't seem to understand that they lost a defamation case and should stop digging.

ah the cookie pop-ups, the wretched cookie pop-ups (that have nothing to do with the gdpr, but the americans always know better).

nostr neatly covers all obsessions of dorsey. it's literally fash-tech (original dev, fiatjaf, is a right-wing nutjob; and current development is driven by alex gleason of the truth dot social fame), deliberately designed to be impossible to moderate (“censorship-resilient”); the place is full of fascists, promptfondlers and crypto dudes.

at least the dude who writes most music for elder scrolls online seems to be decent enough.

if you enjoy older elder scrolls music, don't ask too many questions about jeremy soule either.