Julian Lighton

he/him @[email protected] also jl8e at cohost and hive and bluesky

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@davidhsiegel They’ve been mostly ignoring the Looney Tunes for ages

I’m guessing this is because space jam 2 underperformed, and they decided they weren’t viable

A modern Bugs ought to be a meme-generating machine.

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@seananmcguire I knew what you meant, but “parking lot pie” sounds like an obscure American regional dish

[Invictus @TBPInvictus]

People insist on comparing other cities to NY. It’s a fool’s errand, especially around Halloween.

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@davidhsiegel Isn’t that close to what people were estimating when he bought it?

With all the debt, it’s probably much closer to negative

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@Stonekettle I’m sure it also helps to have private security

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Suddenly want to write a story about AI that loves humans and nothing makes them happier than finding one. Just blinding joy. But it‘s piloting a loitering munition suicide drone and doesn’t know. Thousands are used a day, each one initialized exactly the same.

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@0xabad1dea @SwiftOnSecurity I guess it reduces the chance of an undetectable bit flip by 7/8?

Galaxy brain move would’ve been to use ‘I’ and ‘O’

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@_whatshername I’m aware of Gargoyles fandom, but it’s still going to be too niche to justify the CGI budget it needs.

Also, do they actually make anything new anymore?

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Writers the contest is over: this sentence has been written and you’ll never write a sentence this bad.

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@nameshiv Cats are well-known to be libertarians, so this commie stuff isn’t going to fly

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@davidhsiegel Heh. We actually owned some, and I still don’t remember that

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@merlinofchaos Huh. Maybe there’s a server out there that he’d unplugged right before they pushed the update

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@merlinofchaos It feels like the most gratuitously pointless. The others, I can usually understand why, given his premises and particular dysfunctions, but this one, I got nothing

(Also, if you’re tweeting from mobile, stop updating your app. I still see headlines)

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

@merlinofchaos It’d be the dumbest, save for all the others

[Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone]

What are the odds that some Presbyterian minister born in 1701 came up with the right way to think about probability? The Bayesian priors aren’t very favorable.

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

If you tweet on the phone, stop updating your client. A remarkable number of things have kept working for me.

A bunch of things that get added don’t work. (Did you know that the new checks are a completely different system than the old ones?)

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Twitter/X will remove the ability to see interaction counts (likes, reposts and comments) from posts on the timeline.

[celia @_celia_bedelia_]

TERF: TERFs ARE SO PUNK! PUNK YEAH!

Also TERFs:

[Julian Lighton @jl8e]

The Lego futures market is up 15% on this tweet

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

You can outperform most venture funds by buying LEGO.

I analyzed the last 20 years of secondhand LEGO pricing data, and found randomly purchasing sets will match most VC's returns

if you're somewhat intentional about what you buy-- you massively outperform even the best firms