I liked the part where the reviewer is mysteriously compelled to visit France while reading this novel, which is notably set in France.

I’d chalk it up to the LWer inability to a) summarise and/or summarise accurately, and/or b) LLM usage.

Username is one “t” off from being an anagram for enteritis

smdh for not welcoming vampires in for peaceful discourse and good faith debates instead

Yes

kittymine!!

these fucks: “Don’t make me tap the sign!!!”

the sign: “My final braincell fell out of my open mouth while drooling”

but I also still think superintelligence shouldn’t be built, because if we’re letting Sam Altman and Elon Musk dictate the “values” encoded into it I do not want to live in that world

Well, sure. FWIW most of us here are on one of two trains:

1. “superintelligence” will never be built
2. There is no clear path from where we are technologically that leads to “superintelligence,” so there isn’t much point to worrying about it.

Of course, there is something to be said about not wanting anyone throwing money at Musk or Altman because they’ve conned people into thinking we’re on the cusp. But yeah, I would say most people here do not share this concern, just as no one should be concerned about a dragon razing their town.

One of my ongoing sidequests is creating a K-pop playlist of songs that describe the lifecycle of a bubble economy. I only discover songs through accident right now, so progress on this playlist is slow, but that means that I can store the whole list in my head. Here’s the current playlist:

1. “Golden” by Huntrix from KPOP Demon Hunters. “We’re going up! up! up!”
2. “Bubble Pop!” by HyunA. Self explanatory

And finally, I can announce a new addition to this collection:

Antifragile by LE SSERAFIM. Specifically, this is included as a reference to NNT’s book and concept Antifragile. I think this is a good song to have at the end of the playlist to represent the economic analysis before and after a bubble.

OFC I am open to suggestions! They have to be K-pop though.

theyrenotconfessingtheyrebragging.flac

the spectre of Ea-nāṣir stirs

I’d never been particularly ardent about believing it, but this right here is firm evidence to me that existing in a rigid gender binary is mental and spiritual poison. Whoever this person is, they’re never going to grow up.

Honestly i feel like my role in many of my friendships is simply telling people that they don’t have to follow these prescriptions and are allowed to do things outside of them, and that following these prescriptions isn’t some magic pill that is going to fix their lives, and is more likely a poison. So yeah if you started ardently believing that, I would not be opposed.

These people are bitter and sad because they are trying to perform in hypermasculine roles that only exist as fiction in marketing and propaganda. I’m bitter and sad because:

• these people exist
• i have to acknowledge that part of their ignorance is sustained by capitalist pressure and isn’t their fault
• i also have to acknowledge that these people are ruining the world and still need to be destroyed because they never show signs that they can be rehabilitated

Manifesting a more ironworker forward 2026 bless 🙏🙏🙏

not to make light of abuse but I do just want to entertain the alternate world where people are holding CNC (computer numerical control) parties. I imagine they’d have a lot of caliper talk but since it isn’t about skull measurement it’s fine

I am still processing this while also spinning out. One day I will have distilled this into something I can talk about but yeah I’m going through it ngl

my promptfondler coworker thinks that he should be in charge of all branch merges because he doesn’t understand the release process and I think I’m starting to have visions of teddy k

Guys like this read some big name author once and think that all you have to do to be a good writer is like, have a writing style. And then they proceed to fail upwards forever

one more manifesto bro one more and it’ll fix it

dead dove

Truer words, dawg. Amongst everything else, what the fuck is up with the subtitle.

ok if I saw “every male encounter is implied violence” tweeted from an anonymous account I’d see it as some based feminist thing that would send me into a spiral while trying to unpack it. Luckily it’s just weird brainrot from adams here