nick

Still sailing east

[nick @diskontinuity]

hot take the belief that this is ok is another Geek Social Fallacy or comes from the same deep woundedness or lingering feeling of exclusion

[constans @constans]

Back even when tech coded as liberal and at worst libertarian, I said that the most common personality disorder of someone in tech is the amoral boundary-violator. The guy who, if you left your computer unlocked, would think nothing of reading your emails or taking your files

[alice @aliceisplaying]

@tomieinlove

[Slime🐍 @ItsKingSlime]

D1 Volleyball athlete Naija Gadis prank-calls her Dad, Indiana basketball hall of famer David Gadis, to ask him about stats of the guy she’s “dating,” but they were her Dad’s college stats all along 😭💀👀

“He’s not gonna play in the NBA. He’s gotta get an education”

[nick @diskontinuity]

@__ghostfail ime in claude ai it's like there are a lot of knots tied around each other that I need to find or even look at OK. and untangle. and it takes a lot of time and its not straightforward to figure out, bc they can grow/regress if if im not careful about how im doing it

[maria 🇵🇭 @OldLady_Hopkins]

@GlitchWizzrd @MostControPod a drunk cig is OK if youre pure of heart

[nick @diskontinuity]

i remember i named my aff case folder big booty hoes in reference to this image and i got in trouble with stiminsky over it

[once and future wife geist @wife_geist]

kids will hear a phrase, assume they know what it means, and become extremely attached to this imaginary correlative, which is unlikely to exist anywhere in the world. then they become grown ups and do it harder

[mc lumps ⏹️❗️ 🔨⏱️ @lumpenspace]

it's funny because both are pure artifice attempting to outsmart natural ecosystem growth, but one has the hubris of trying to beat evolution at its own game.

so yea, poignant and insightful

[nick @diskontinuity]

@eternalism_now what the fuck

[rain @__ghostfail]

I think there should be research access to Opus 4 or 4.1, it's a necessary anchor for measuring Claude's "wetness" over time

[snav @qorprate]

gave this vgr classic a refresh for 2026

[tetraspace in 🇰🇷 💎⏹️🇺🇳 @TetraspaceWest]

Your car was stolen on April 22nd 2026, and I'm here to figure out who did it and what happened.

"My car wasn't stolen on that day."

So you're saying you sold your car on that day?

"No, I didn't sell my car. I still have my car."

Makes sense. If you sold your car, you'd have the money from it, but you're not much richer than you were. It's very implausible you'd have sold your car for less than, say, $300, above which you'd visibly be buying more; the average car sells for $12,000±0.5 oom, and $300 is 1.5 oom out, a probability of only 0.13% assuming a log-normal distribution over sale prices. So 99.87% this is instead explained by your car being stolen.

"I'm not claiming at all that my car is in the possession of someone else legitimately, I'm claiming that I still possess my car."

I mean, sure, in a society of car thieves, there are going to be a lot of claims that cars weren't stolen; everyone driving a car is of course going to say that the driver and the owner are the same person. Am I to believe that we live in a society of saints, where nobody would ever steal a car? Or that you have an extremely secure driveway and car, such that, no matter how motivated a thief may be, they're unable to ever steal your car? I've saw cases of other people stealing cars (e.g. trustworthy journalist saying their car was stolen https://t.co/Em3n4F8KAZ, car theft devices explaining how a car might be stolen https://t.co/2w9yGMwBOS, report of a car theft happening too fast to stop https://t.co/8kSZkwwMyO), it's sure not impossible.

"I'm also not claiming that it wasn't stolen because I have an a priori argument about my security model. I'm claiming it wasn't stolen because I still have my car."

Okay, I'll admit, I do see the car I'm investigating in your driveway. But on April 22nd, when I walked past your driveway at 3 pm, there was no car in there. So it was clearly stolen at the time, and that still leaves something to explain.

"I was at work. I drove my car to work, and then drove back four hours later after my shift."

This is still consistent with the car thief realizing that they'd been spotted, and returning the car, hoping that nobody would notice. Well, I noticed!

"It sounds like you strongly suspect that a car has been stolen, because you have theoretical arguments for car theft being plausible in general, and are trying to find the evidence of the car theft after concluding that it occurred roughly as you expect."

Perhaps. Well, I've called the police, and the car thief is going to be, hehe, investigated, and we'll find out what really happened then.

[nick @diskontinuity]

<sung to the tune of The Joker>

I’m a menace
I’m a dentist
I’m an oral hygienist

[nick @diskontinuity]

@1969itS @notmoeezm @punished_daniel oh ive never read hpmor if that's what you're asking

[nick @diskontinuity]

lou piniella throwing first base-- literally ejaculatory, _iacere_, after-- _after_ he's been _ejected_

[nick @diskontinuity]

jouissance is an ump ejecting a manager

[nick @diskontinuity]

@repligate @nise_yoshimi @1969itS get cracking

[thebes @voooooogel]

some of you would have been straight up killed by sydney though

[nick @diskontinuity]

many such cases

[Michael Druggan @Michael_Druggan]

@nickcammarata There was a time in my life where I was deeply entangled in an unrequited and unconfessed love situation with my female best friend. I got food poisoning like once a month during that period.