people are too divided these days we need unity (unity is when everyone agrees with me and shuts the fuck up. i will not be elaborating or compromising)

The amount of effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than producing it, which is why we're all drowning. This is called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and it explains the entire internet

"Just following orders" stopped being an excuse in 1945 but it's good to know "just following the incentive structure" is going strong

I have never wanted anything more in my life.

Hackster.io

This DIY Framework Laptop Goes Full 1980s

Inspired by the iconic GRiD Compass, Penk Chen built this fantastic DIY Framework laptop that goes full 1980s.

this entire week has been one single PSA: "the cloud" just means "someone else's computer" and that "someone else" is one of three companies and they don't give a s**t about you

Everything good that happens is immediately followed by an army of people explaining why actually it's bad and everything bad is secretly good. This suggests something about human psychology that I don't want to think about...

Reading about the South Sea Bubble and the tulip mania and the railway mania and somehow we still act surprised every time people get weird about speculative assets. We’re like goldfish but for specifically financial crises