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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gloom

Just a matter of time 😞 

“On their Y Combinator profile, Baid and Mohta outline who gets what out of installing micromanaging AI surveillance on assembly lines.”

Just a matter of time 😞 

“On their Y Combinator profile, Baid and Mohta outline who gets what out of installing micromanaging AI surveillance on assembly lines.”
https://www.404media.co/email/b7eb2339-2ea1-4a37-96cc-a360494c214c/

Murderbot on the small screen in May


Not sure about watching this bc my internal imagery so strong, yet will necessarily be displaced 

https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2025/02/apples-new-sci-fi-series-murderbot-starring-and-executive-produced-by-alexander-skarsgrd-and-hailing-from-chris-and-paul-weitz-to-make-global-debut-may-16-2025/

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Just a matter of time
https://x.com/clonerobotics/status/1892250639360561234

I’m not big into crypto, but my Twitter is full of Bybit news while Warpcast is empty, even after a search… I like Warpcast, hope it becomes better for following breaking stories

Kash Patel has been confirmed as FBI Director:

Don’t be evil —> can’t be evil flippening on an accelerated schedule now

Self-custody, zk, private keys, 

doge-resistant relationship to usg

Books

https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb

Thinking about MCE/BDE and NPC as an essential tension on the current road to ruin

“He allowed his name to be forgotten.”
… from
“He didn’t want to be distracted by too much commotion. Later in life he reported that he had found his fame boring—not because it was immoral or corrupting, but simply because it was exactly the same thing every day. He was looking for something richer, more textured, more varied. So he dropped out. He went to live in Europe and stayed there for twenty years. He lived for a while in Italy, a while in Denmark, but mostly he lived in a shepherd’s hut on a mountaintop in Greece. There, he contemplated the eternal mysteries, watched the light change, and wrote his poems in private. He had his love stories, his obstacles, his victories. He was happy. He got by somehow, making a living here and there. He needed little. He allowed his name to be forgotten.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

… and

Climate

Will cacao and coffee prices raise awareness? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/15/extreme-weather-likely-to-cause-further-food-price-volatility-analysts-say

good q, what needs to get real in daily life

more cultural degradation; the tech gods have taken all that once made us unique, leaving us cloning & accelerating towards a stale, bleak homogeneous future—nothing new will come, ai will make sure of it 

no more goths, jocks, nerds—all kids are one; even those who are “different” are just wearing their parents clothes. vocabularies simplified; retardation ran amok. see jaguar redesign; taco bell, mcdonalds & wendys—all now resembling mid tier physical therapy practices. walk through the mall & see for yourself. restaurants called “eggslut;” others stripped down to a single four letter word. apps colliding; designers dying. endless books filled of slop called things like “the subtle art of not giving a fuck” & “unfuck yourself.” houses bought up en masse by our private equity overloads & pasta’d across entire towns; millennial grey burning holes in my retina. hollywood bleeding out our favorite sagas, milking ip dry

and it all looks just the same

This is the bit from itsbasil’s riff that’s top of mind for me atm. Housing costs as the backbreaking straw

“… houses bought up en masse by our private equity overloads & pasta’d across entire towns…”

Two bedrooms start at $6,775/month and three bedrooms start at $7,400.00/month

Rich people are so out of touch these days :(

It’s raining pretty heavily tonight in my hometown and seeing drivers deliver packages late at night just really emphasizes the banality of misery of life under the api. That seems dismal gig for $20-25 bucks an hour. I was having dinner with my parents and my mom to her credit insisted on tipping the driver in cash. Not through the platform. She didn’t trust the intergiants to actually go through w that