Josh Payette (he/him)

Can't believe it's coming up on a year since I launched www.remnant2toolkit.com. My first project of this scale, and it's fully open source. We are close to 2 million page views, and just broke 400k users in that time. Never thought it would get this big! #Remnant2

Really well-thought out write-up about tech debt, LLMs, and the concept of decoherence. Refreshing to read something like this in a sea of slop. maevyn.codes/decoherence

the Internet rn

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

we cannot co-exist with people like this. we either find a way to excise them, or we let them choke us with their ignorance.

I gave AOC a recurring donation and it’s a nightmare in my emails and texts and i don’t even know who half the candidates are

ok, yes. i used a little blood magic to make this potion. but in my defense, it's hard NOT to use blood magic these days. all the tomes and orbs are powered by it. blood magic is really a systemic issue. in a way i'm a hero for admitting i use it

One thing you learn from reading the academic literature on parental estrangement is that it's rarely *just* about events from childhood. Most adults are willing to reconcile with their problematic parents as long as they can acknowledge their mistakes and own up to them. A lot of them refuse.

Does it make sense to deport a man who overstayed a visa but otherwise has no criminal record when his deportation means shutting down a food pantry that serves meals to 7,000-8,000 needy people a month? Does choosing not to exercise discretion in his case make America greater?

Time to brush off an old classic

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying.

i simply want democrats to be the version of themselves that steven miller conjures in his nightmares

Dogcatcher xkcd.com/3309/

Nixon resigned for secretly breaking into the opposition's office. Now you can break into the opposition's home openly.

HOW DARE

Now he’s been fucking illegally disappeared because he panicked when armed unidentified men started smashing his car windows when he had a child in the vehicle. What the fuck are we DOING HERE

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

I can tell red state Dems one thing: release a transphobic ad and you won’t see a dime from me

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

(wearing sweatpants on the couch watching old cartoons when i get the call that i've won a prestigious literary award) ahh, yes, I am... in Chile right now... interrogating the... mellifluous nature of... the growing huitlacoche fungus

they did the thing

They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment.

The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...

imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's

God, that sucks for him. Difficult decisions? Goddamn. The poor guy.

I started out pretty AI neutral, aside from the environmental concerns, but I'm, being pushed into hating it more and more because it keeps making things I care about actively worse, and the results keep speaking for themselves in a really bad shitty way.

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

partial debt forgiveness for pell grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in a disadvantaged community against the machine

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

what keeps me up at night is these guys have basically never received real pushback and they still lost their minds and shredded the federal government's regulatory capacity when employees started griping too much in the company slack. What if you actually arrested one of them for their crimes

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...