John

Favorite band is The Cranberries

[John @ptrbry]

My icky guilty pleasure is feeling righteously annoyed. The X algorithm has figured this out about me, so it keeps serving me stuff that encourages me to become a self I'm embarrassed by. I regret my time here.

[John @ptrbry]

@nw3 Interesting to see a bunch of guys in suits (powerful) and they're all crowding around one guy in particular

[John @ptrbry]

@eigenrobot Hitting a major league baseball is a weird genetic thing. Some guys just have it. Check out Alejandro Kirk. He's short and chubby and looks like a turtle but for whatever reason he was born with a gift.

[John @ptrbry]

@intjgamergirl Makes sense. I think their underlying qualities are normal like everyone else's but their effect on people gets exaggerated by their looks. So they may be normal and act normal but people perceive their (normal) behavior as abnormal.

[John @ptrbry]

@full_blown_book @jeremymstamper We've reached your slogan layer I guess

[John @ptrbry]

I wonder if the new James Bond movie will have YA elements like a plucky protoge or love triangle. Seems like a thing that could happen now.

[John @ptrbry]

@intjgamergirl They also tend to be believed preferentially by onlookers, possibly because emotional appeals hit some kind of "this is an emergency" bug in our evolved hardware

[John @ptrbry]

@full_blown_book @jeremymstamper Nice Obama reference man I love references but we were actually talking about a different person/situation

[John @ptrbry]

She took her very old dog to a photo op so she can look at the photo later and feel wistful about her beloved dead dog. It's a reasonable thing to do. The parents at the zoo or the Louvre with a six month old aren't at a photo op.

[eli 🕯✨ @nienna121]

Logged onto threads to see the funniest possible roast

[John @ptrbry]

Charlie asked short questions so he was good. The only thing that matters is whether the interviewer shuts up and lets the guest hold the floor.

[Kerwin Fjøl @zermatist]

Idk why people are turning on Charlie Rose all of a sudden, but I'm good with it. For people of my age group who would grow up seeing his serious-looking interviews while flipping thru the channels, discovering that he isn't too bright was like a rite of passage into adulthood.

[John @ptrbry]

I gotta respect Ethan Mollick's Herculean labor to drag LinkedIn Americans into the future. Online, LinkedIn Americans are extremely low status. Mocked and hated, untouchables. Yet Ethan never gives up on them.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

An easy way to get a team engaged with AI is just to build the thing you are talking about in the meeting during the meeting using Codex or Claude Code.

At worst, it fails in ways that can be constructive. At best, you built the thing and the meeting topic shifts forward a month

[John @ptrbry]

@QiaochuYuan @visakanv It's got the 2008 millenial earnest optimism which we all had at the time and which has now curdled

[John @ptrbry]

@bodenlosig People already have this lol and it's revealed by their favorite genre of porn

[John @ptrbry]

@eigenrobot @SeanMombo You enjoy Cinnamon Toast Crunch responsibly, as a man does with a fine cigar. A kid smoking a fine cigar is another matter.

[John @ptrbry]

@pol_plesiosaur @jeremymstamper I bet Kimmel is really funny in person. The same way character actors seem unexpectedly good looking in person. A big league bench warmer is still better than any regular guy.

[John @ptrbry]

@full_blown_book @jeremymstamper Haha yeah that old joke about guys who've had three assassination attempts on them in the last two years

[John @ptrbry]

@jeremymstamper He's probably trying his best, like we all are

[John @ptrbry]

@meaning_enjoyer Have you read "Redwall"? It's full of this

[John @ptrbry]

@basilYam Caveman voice: Eat marshmallow, me strong