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In case you don't know, the equivalent in American is rectangle-with-a-dick-on-it-ish.
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New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
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For me, likely the biggest thing is the choice of expression in panel 2. This is still hard to describe but it's a very flat expression, without specificity? Artists with this level of rendering skill would generally do something beyond a generic distressed face.
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I wonder if this is how farmers feel when regular people are like "one day I'll quit my hard job and run an organic farm." The farmers I know all have high blood pressure and shake their heads a lot.
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Watching the Internet starting in the 90s has been like a multigenerational, 100 trillion dollar, galaxy-sized "this is why we can't have nice things."
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Also a lot of Civilization II.
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Rudyard Kipling was like having Ann Coulter's politics, multiplied by the 19th century, warehoused alongside the most gifted poet in English maybe ever. Albert Speer was a Nazi who made great architecture! Sorry! Add your asterisks, please, but this is a fallen world, man!
Startling end to comic available here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/witch-2 #smbc #comics #fables
Hey tech dorks, do you think the book "The Innovator's Dilemma" actually changed how companies respond? Like, I've been surprised how much the megacap companies are pouring into Ai, when at least in principle it should damage core business (e.g. buy eating search)
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One of the interesting thing from talking to economists is the extent to which the private discourse is way more narrow than the public discourse, on e.g. immigration, rent control, and free trade. Like in immigration, the private discourse is almost exclusively pro; just a question of specifics.
Nerd confession: I've read hardly any Pratchett.
But yesterday, my 12 year old got loaned a copy of Wee Free Men and read it front to back in, like, an afternoon. And then was quoting it to me for hours.
Help me, what does she need next?
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Interesting data from Pew on use of Ai by race/ethnic categories and by wealth. www.pewresearch.org/internet/202... Broadly speaking the more social privilege you have the less likely you are to use Ai for help.
Reading a book by a British author when suddenly she writes "Weighing nearly 1.5 kilograms (close to four tins of baked beans), it contains an extraordinary movement." I am delighted to imagine a country where "like holding four tins of beans" is a more imaginable unit than a kilogram.
Really appreciated this review: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07...
Not a lot of people are this able to dissociate their emotional reaction from reasoning. Though, I'll still argue our book is completely consistent with a Star Trek future. There's just a lot of work to do.
Book Review: A City on Mars - ...
Hey parents of bsky:
What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?
Once again "there's aluminum" is not a strong argument for going to the Moon. If there were bars of gold on the Moon's surface, it would not be worth it to get them. Why don't these articles ever talk to an economist? Or just a boring person?
fortune.com/2026/08/06/p...
‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk deta...
Seeing this passed everywhere. Appears not to be a Nietzsche quote, which is not that surprising because it doesn't even sound like Nietszche? Like, was he on an episode of Reading Rainbow that week?
People seem to really dislike utilitarianism* and I honestly don't quite see why. In my experience, people often dislike ethical philosophers and then assume that somehow they are making philosophy-free choices in their daily lives.
*Possibly it's the weird moral dilemmas leaking into public?