Topher

All-American dirtbag. Writer, performer, musician. @SFNeoFuturists. Coop & solidarity economy enthusiast. Chaotic Neutral. For banality, try @boring_clizzin.

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Also very cool: https://t.co/4r0uZGaFcc

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TIL there's a daily dashboard for energy demand, supply, and emissions in California with hour-by-hour numbers 🤯 https://t.co/3eYyRZCb8d

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REFUSE ENTERTAINMENT

[kang @jaycaspiankang]

wrote about the 'no-explanation war,' collective memory of Iraq and Afghanistan, and Trump, Rubio and Hegseth's strategy of skipping the whole part where they have to explain why they're about to do this. Just shoot first and don't answer questions later. https://t.co/uvYFgcTxJF

[😈 @turtlekiosk]

i taught my claude to start each conversation with a Stolen Data Acknowledgement

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i dunno, guys, those abstract geometric shapes are pretty fking psychedelic, but did you, like, actually feel something

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is this the hill you wanna die on? so many other great hills.

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🎶 you do it to yourself, you do, and that’s what really hurts 🎶

[Alice Chen 🌸 @flower_alicee]

After 6 months of living in SF, I understood why I hate it here.

In short, everything is optimized for ROI:

> bend your “values” for better “results”
> exaggerate results cuz everyone is doing it
> stay “friends” in case they become successful
> ghost people with low “return”

It’s all about optics and outcome. SF truly took “fake it till you make it” to another level.

But no matter how shiny the apple looks, the rot inside will show one day. If this is what is shaping the kids who dropped out to “build the future”, imagine the kind of future they’ll build.

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it’s weird that the new iOS makes a point of universally locating the search bar at the bottom of the screen to make it easier to reach, but leaves the back button at the top. you had the insight, just…take…it…one step…further…

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why can't people be normal and gracefully pass on leadership for the sake of institutional robustness and longevity

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an AI-powered feature i would actually like: when i save or generate a digital flyer image, auto-suggest a reasonable name based on text in the image, instead of a random mess of numbers.

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i get that sometimes malicious obfuscation is the goal, but talking about times that people are trying to communicate in good faith and getting in their own way.

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i don't understand why people who can totally speak normally suddenly go into gibberish mode when tasked with writing a formal statement for an organization. decorum doesn't require lack of clarity.

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respect mystery

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she’s ADD for nature.

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tech company : “AI” :: theatre production : “immersive”

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Why was sixteen afraid of seventeen?

Because seventeen eighteen nineteen!

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one example. i understand the intent, but the kind of person who would ask this question in the first place is gonna be highly allergic to words like "mission" and "diversified, impactful programming."

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nonprofit lingo often includes talk of "programs" and "programming" but most people don't know what that means and it comes off as jargony bullshit.

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the thing about an onion is that even though it has many layers, they all taste the same.