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Channel motto: Life is pain, only potato. For sharing gloomy poasting, whining, abd complaining. The more apocalyptic or petty the better. It’s always darkest before it turns pitch black.

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Gloomy vibes only.

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AI foom risk and goonpocalypse “People are hugely overindexed on Al foom risk and hugely underindexed on infrastructure vulnerabilities introduced by irresponsible vibecoding and the rapidly growing threat of a large fraction of the population falling deep into the gooncave “Of these two the infrastructure risks are more immediate and acute, but are also both easier to fix technically and more valuable to fix, we might bring down the grid but we won't repeat that sort of mistake “Goonpocalypse is more insidious and scarier, bad incentives etc etc” https://x.com/mattparlmer/status/1957877559494078940

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Astounding how much my tolerance for travel inconvenience has fallen. Though I think air travel especially is only going to get worse. Enshittifying airliners and airlines, increasingly weird and dangerous climate, Overcrowding.

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✅ daughter home all week with awful hand foot mouth ✅ cancelled family trip (2nd cx this summer) ✅ extractor pump blew, shit covered walls in utility closet ✅ bc of the backup, laundry room drain overflowed, flooded When it rains it pours, but truly all solvable. Testing my gratitude practice today 😌

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Hadn’t been able to articulate this thought until I saw this tweet The practice of nurturing talent is disappearing People are no longer valued for their potential but for their history

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@#$&@$ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3320853/trump-funding-cuts-hit-even-maths-prodigy-terence-tao-china-remains-talent-magnet

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I’ll admit I’m starting to get at least mildly queasy about flying, especially unnecessarily, between enshittification of air travel infrastructure and aircraft, and this climate stuff https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/flight-turbulence-worst-routes-vis

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CW: Disturbing story. Second such story this year, after a similar one involving monkeys in Indonesia. This is the sort of thing that makes me kinda okay with the idea of extinctionism. Humans are the only species that practices organized sadism at scale for pure pleasure. Something deeply fucked up and unfortunately deep-rooted. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yp9w5kyw7o

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Blindfolds are just as effective at suppressing free speech as muzzles. What’s the point of being able to talk if signal generators whose output is worth talking about are systematically turned off? Corporations for public broadcasting is shutting down. Climate data sources and collections ops are shutting down. Economic indicator data are undermined if politically unfavorable (next BLS head will undoubtedly discover that the economy is adding record new jobs for the next 40 months). In flation measurement is under siege. I’m not a particularly data-driven or news-driven guy but this war on reality feedback signals seems like the most dangerous of many underway.

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Fascinating to see entire nations poking their eyes out in multiple creative ways. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cpqvdxzwv22t https://www.usermag.co/p/the-uks-censorship-catastrophe-is

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So we’re at the stupid prizes phase of the stupid games

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brains will be cheap, and beauties will be generated. being cute is all that's left

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Grim thought: past a certain age, thinking is maladaptive and rigidity of comportment is rational. You rely increasingly on others for leveraged impact as your individual powers wane, and younger people who sign up to play lever rely on you for for providing a Schelling point of fixity to rally around. Your job is to stop thinking, as a computational kindness to others who can therefore think better than they otherwise would. Your job is add more net collective thinking output rather than individual. If you disagree, GET OFF MY LAWN

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Signing bonuses are not what they used to be. https://ground.news/article/metas-salaries-to-ai-experts-more-than-400-000-for-software-engineers

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