Losing my mind that the first part of “hallelujah” is most likely ultimately an onomatopoeia of that high pitched trill they do in the Middle East
Ohhhhh my god u have a deficit of attention and are overly active? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite hans asperger
In like 2045 someone (hopefully me) is going to go viral among exhausted millennials with the groundbreaking idea that “the purpose of a system is what it’s intended to do.”
Did not predict “data centers” (the vague concept, not the actual facilities) to immediately spring into the American low-information public consciousness from whole cloth this year as something to be immediately polarized against but here we are.
We don’t talk enough just how much “Ron Paul” (like the candidate and the idea of the candidate) permeated the discourse of anyone who attended college in 2007.
Claude vs. Codex vs. Gemini is the Moderna vs. Pfizer vs. Johnson & Johnson of 2026, respectively, do not at me
Joni Mitchell’s “Hey, farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now” has gotta be up there with Macklemore’s “I’m, I’m, I’m huntin’, lookin’ for a come up / This is fucking awesome” as some of the worst song lyrics of all time, right?
How funny would it be if we had gone to space and turns out the continents weren’t shaped like that at all. Like we completely beefed it
Two young computer science students are walking the halls and happen to meet an older TA walking the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, how’s the code?” And the two young students walk on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is code?”
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE is one of those movies that you actually have to know the plot of to understand what the title is referencing. It doesn’t have that format just because “there’s someone in Seattle who can’t sleep.”
I know there isn’t a good way to transcribe English’s “click of disapproval” sound using English characters but the Brits gave maybe the worst possible attempt with “tut tut.”
I think we’re maybe three or four years away from a semantic consolidation into “In 1995 Pixar released Toy Story, the first feature-length film to use AI generated graphics instead of hand-drawn animation.”
The average suburb-head would never understand working from a sidewalk café on the first day of false spring while a few tables over kids who just got out of the elementary school across the street are digging into their homework.
AI built software is clay. Incredibly responsive, fast to shape, you can model something recognizable in minutes. But clay that never goes through the kiln dissolves under pressure. It looks like the thing, it feels like progress, but it has no structural integrity.