Jason Weiser

“Then the spaceman took over the bird site so we all started tooting at the elephant place.”

“Oh…ok grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.”

Hey, brief reminder that today is #GroundHogDay so please be kind. You don’t know where people are on the cyclical, existential journey of empathy and self-discovery

A fun* game to play is thinking of a restaurant/product/service that used to be quality but has gone down the toilet and then going to their Wikipedia page and seeing when they were sold to private equity. It’s the case absolutely every time.

*it is not actually fun

I can excuse the creation of the gestapo and the racism and the needless foreign wars and the summary execution of American citizens and the concentration camps, but I draw the line at slightly higher gas prices

I don’t know why I’m stressed all the time maybe it’s because I look at my phone the moment I wake up and inject the worst things done by the worst people in the world directly into my eyeballs all day until finally closing them at night in fitful sleep but who knows

Like half of that song is just a shakedown for figgy pudding

RE: @dunequotes@mastodon.social

The ghola of my Dune quote bot lives after I failed to save the original from the Botsin.space shutdown

The most incisive indictment of the boomer worldview was done by Bill Watterson. Within this comic is the key to understand how we got to where we are today. It was made 30 years ago.

The party of small government and states’ rights

https://www.techpolicy.press/trump-signs-executive-order-to-combat-state-ai-regulation/?ref=werd.io

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

I feel like if AI should be replacing anyone, it’s tech CEOs. I mean, it’s great at inane solutions that it will walk back with extreme sycophancy at the first sign of friction

Beginning my entry into middle age has brought the realization that there’s a pretty hard ceiling on how cool you can look wearing podiatrist-recommended orthopedic shoes

RE: @stux@mstdn.social

I actually do use a disposable email on Mastodon for privacy

Oh…wait

With the devastation of the entrenched ruling class due to the calamity and the upheaval and the rise of capitalists like President Hudson and scientific progress through Purah and others, Hyrule is probably only a generation or two from the true fall of the monarchy.

Saw so many cheap products out there with AI art this year. It’s ridiculous how little effort it would take to make it actually look decent, but the irony is that anyone who cared enough to fix it wouldn’t be selling AI slop in the first place

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

The Santa Clause but Tim Allen’s son is dropped off at that Christmas Eve party at the start of the movie, which is taken over by terrorists. Santa visits, gets executed, henchman turns into Santa but Tim Allen takes him out, becoming Santa himself. He and his son then need to take out remaining terrorists and deliver toys before sunrise using Christmas magic