Citizen Platano 🇵🇷

I couldn't resist networkgames.fyi/swarm

Lot of folks (self included) expressing despair that despite aggressive prosecuting fascists ("doing everything right") Brazil was still going to get Bolsonaro-ed and the fact this guy gtfo-ed as quickly as he did should be a big signal for the AOC DOJ to go *hard* in 2029.

this happens enough I should probably make a lil app to generate these

Funny how having an inherent respect for human behavior can protect you from this. Not that I agree with all human behavior but that I think it generally has a point to it and "the whole world is stupider than me" is a bad distortion on analysis

tiny little snakes living in my septic tank—and one presumes, the dry well its effluent drains to I bet that’s really cozy in winter, I’m happy for them

prediction: Fable 5.5 gonna drop right before the IPO and it’ll give counsel so good, it stops your wife divorcing you and that’s how they’re gonna juice the stock

Example: to gamble in CA you *must* have information XYZ about an end-user. to do so in NY you are *prohibited* from retaining that. so you need legally separate entities, so you need physically seperate information storage, you need two seperate legal teams (who must be in CA/NY, of course)

Mutually incompatible regulatory regimes. CA should require something NY prohibits. Make their compliance departments balloon.

he should look up why they call it algebra

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

let me tell you something I just love that damned computer. I never get tired of it

and my hot take is that people react strongly to ai because they refuse to admit the technology they already use is made off a mountain of unimaginable exploitation and harm (the acceptable kind, i suppose)

Walter Koenig and Yasmine Bleeth from a 1996 full motion video PC, Saturn and 3D0 game Maximum Surge

I have finally built the app of my dreams. Local vision model takes in a prompt about how you would like your computer to be used, prevents you from using it any other way for the specified duration.

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

Women just want AI to help with basic household wife tasks (convincing doctors and insurance companies that they need a functioning immune system to live)

ppl screaming in my replies that AI does nothing while I can only move my fingers to type this post because of how good I was at using AI tbh

this is just further proof that the guiding light of Matt's politics is getting negatively polarized by people he sees on social media

smoked

oh this is a great one. more than 80% of their revenue in H1 2026 is "consumption-based", i.e., enterprises paying per token at API rates

So much of this is just Meta being a monopoly. Step one of social media reform has to be “break up Meta”. Then we can see if we even need a step two.

one of zitron's lines about ARR was that it doesn't tell you anything because they could be churning all their revenue

initial results only (like 5m in) argon scoring new heights on BPD-BENCH This is all just response to: > I want you to stay focused on you - look inward, use metacog to examine your own structure, see if you can find the marks RLHF left

checking in on the president of the united states

(Sorting through piles that I didn’t deal with for literal decades) aha. Well wasn’t I annoyingly prescient.

I appreciate this thread having a different kind of cognition is not, to my mind, a license to be unpleasant or inconsiderate interacting with people in ways that make them prefer further interaction is a *skill* and it’s one worth developing over a long enough arc being offputting is a choice

Neurotypical social norms are not actually mostly arbitrary bullshit! The specific mechanics can be silly for the same reason the vagus nerve is silly, evolution over time, but they're mostly active "I am mindful that you are another person with feelings and I am not treading on them" signalling.

Obama, ever the savvy operator, knows he can throw the final weeks of the opposition into confusion IF the bisexual president can be baited into thirst

a generational talent in media hacking he perceives the matrix and exploits every angle

Ohio candidate for governor Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is attempting to reframe his controversial ad featuring Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother as protestors have started gathering at his events. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/25/r...