The Satanic Temple doesn’t worship Satan either really. It’s Pastafarianism, except more metal. It’s a parody religion designed to push back on Christianity, going through the motions of worshiping Satan entirely to trigger Christians. You’ll note in the invocation that she said to “Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true.” The existence of Satan is not demonstrably true and the Satanic Temple doesn’t claim that it is. They’re metalhead non-theists going through the motions of invoking Satan in order to get Christians to freak out so they can make their points and make the Christians look dumb. And when I say Christians, I mean these Christofascists / Christian Nationalists we’re seeing trying to take over government, society and culture. They don’t target peaceful Christians going about their own business. They target Christians in government (or other positions of authority) being authoritarian assholes.

Or vibecoded firmware that is sending every piece of telemetry Claude decided it needed to some hard coded local ip address and NO HUMAN has ever looked at the code or the network traffic.

How’s his relationship with his kid?

I loved the book as a teen, haven’t reread it since my 20s but I probably read it five or six times.

The sequels were meh with one exception:

The one about his daughter doing a space startup was fun because I work in New Space and pretty much all the tech stuff she does is real. I was on the first project to use Iridium to send data between earth and above the Karmen Line and we currently have a payload in orbit aboard Vigoride-7 doing exactly that. So when we have Davie and Millie’s daughter teleporting herself into orbit and talking to the ground on an Iridium phone which sets off an alarm at Iridium HQ I was like… “Hell yeah, she can do that! And it would.”

This is less believable than them listening to mic 24/7.

It’s known fact, and in 2026 AI orchestrated. You’ll observe that if you’re logged into multiple google accounts and google makes you log into one again because your session expired, you ONLY have to log into one of them. They also track association and phone location and correlate it. I’m not saying they don’t listen to your phone, just that you should assume there is a record of every tech related thing you do (including other people’s devices), parts of that record are being disseminated via data brokers on an “as needed” basis and that multiple AI models are accessing that record daily in order to see if they can infer anything about you that can be used to sell you shit, improve their predictive modeling or mold your political opinion. As you have observed, degoogling yourself isn’t sufficient. Google knows where you were (gps, wifi mapping) who else was there and what their relationship to you is. A frontier model such as Gemini can guess which person in that room was accessing pirate sites and sculpt their youtube recommendations accordingly in order to increase your engagement. They don’t have to listen to you, they just have to look at your metadata, which is barely regulatorily protected, because the industry convinced the Boomers in congress that metadata is harmless.

Welcome to late stage capitalism.

I agree. Silly / stupid stuff had an awesome place to live (Lower Decks), always landed poorly for me in SNW. The show lost me early season 3.

Do I really need an explanation why there is a guy named “Al Banian” and why the name is actually a remnant from a completely different reality?

And the setting ended up with almost 5000 years of extensive lore, and you need to be familiar with several different philosophies and cultures to understand any of it.

I’m getting to the point where the lore is so complex it starts to sound stupid if you don’t know all the details.

Yesh, stop world building, doing that is just silly. XD /s

Wow, that Elias Mouawad guy’s lawyer has the techno-fascist goon look nailed.

• Criminal defense attorney defending crooked cops, looks like someone Peter Thiel sends to kill you.

Taking me to a spa is 100% something my weird grandma would have done (she took me some weird places back in the '80s). There wouldn’t have been any nudity, but she was a Republican, not a Betazoid.

Yeah, I would tell this joke to my son now that he’s 17, but 7 years ago, I would not have. My brother 100% would have.

Calling it now:

• Idaho legalizes abortion.
• State legislature immediately finds sketchy rationale to overturn it.

I see no statistic for the Bat’leth. This game is without honor.

Dear Strong Bad. What roles would you and the rest of the crew there have on the starship Enterprise? I want to know what kind of crazy space shenanigans you would gets up to.

Crapfully yours, Bardgeen CO

Brilliant!

• Begins project to print out all essential data and move it into three ring binders, then format hard drive.

• Obviously Darmok.
• Also, the Chase. - The crew find hidden code in DNA across multiple planets, end up having to cooperate with Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians to unlock it.

This is a different world. Stop asking yourself “What tooling is available to me?” and start asking yourself “What tooling do I want, that I can describe to Claude?” Most of the interfaces I interact with recently are interfaces I designed.

tl;dr: Fuck Cursor. It’s yesterdays vibecoded garbage.

I grew up around wealth. Wealthy people who have been poor sorta get it, but can lose it depending on who they hang out with. Wealthy people who grew up wealthy and went on to be wealthy adults don’t understand what lower / lower middle class life is like, what it does to you to live your life with intermittent low level financial stress and peaks of high financial stress. They can have empathy for it, they can see you’re struggling, but the behavior associated with financial instability looks to them like a series of bad decisions and choices they could never see themselves making. Their peer groups overwhelmingly come from the same economic class they do, so they have no social model for what a person making those choices is going through.

Most especially, the human brain uses peer feedback to calibrate it’s own sense of right and wrong and what’s real and what’s not. Wealthy people who spend no time with less fortunate people actually can’t process those people’s lives as something immediate or directly present. They can only think about it abstractly. They can’t connect it to their own inner life. They can be moved by the plight of people in need, but they genuinely don’t get it.

Also, they’re just as short sighted, shallow, selfish and superstitious as any other demographic, and they have inflated senses of their own intellect and capabilities (due to only getting specific kinds of peer feedback), so they tend to be offended (rather than self reflective) when presented with the idea that they don’t understand something.

If we select leaders (of either party) from the upper class (I.E. those who can afford to run for office) we will ALWAYS get willfully out of touch psychology from our leaders. And when we select someone else (A Mamdani, an AOC), it will always look to the wealthy like this person is unhinged (because their actions and rhetoric don’t fit into the rich person’s calibrated sense of reality).

Microsoft marketing blog spam? Really? This doesn’t teach anything, it sells a product.

Double standards much?

Release the Epstine files.

“many prominently feature American flags”

Of course, they’re targeting a certain demographic known to be highly susceptible to bullshit.