This episode broke me. I had no idea how hard he screwed with these peoples’ lives until this.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/670/beware-the-jabberwock

I dated twins once. The easiest way to tell them apart was that Ruby always had her nails painted red and Ron had a huge cock.

I have edge installed on my steam deck, I used it to play bf6 on game pass before they jacked up the price last year.

My sister is a teacher. She explains it as her students don’t need to know the information in their papers, they need to know how to research, cite, and write their papers. She says she feels sorry for the students who just spit out a paper with an LLM and don’t care about the skills they are letting atrophy and will eventually lose. They are losing the ability to think critically and research then take that information and summarize it to convey thoughts and ideas to others.

What happens when a generation of people lose that capability?

My wife was in labor for 39 hours after months of a difficult pregnancy. I love my wife more than any other human on this planet, she is my partner, my best friend, and my ezer. After watching her struggle through labor for so long, she finally gave birth to our daughter. The nurses took my daughter to the corner of the room and I felt so proud of my wife. I was also exhausted, emotionally and physically, and I was so worried about her that I just wanted to be by her side and tell her that I loved her and I was so proud of her. She looked at me and put her hand on my arm and said “I’m ok, go see our daughter.” It hadn’t even been a thought because I was just so relieved my wife was ok.

I walked across the room with the firm belief that my heart was absolutely full of love for my wife and I didn’t understand at the time how I could ever love anyone as much as I did her. I walked to the warming table and saw my little one laying on a small pad surrounded by nurses. I put my hand on the clear plastic side of the contraption she was in and she reached out with her tiny hand and grabbed the end of my index finger. Something happened. I didn’t love my wife any less, but suddenly it was like a big double door in my heart was thrown open and there was this new giant space to love more than I ever imagined possible.

The time passed, the doctors left, and the nurses left. Mom fed her and then as she passed out for a well deserved sleep, I sat in the corner with my little one in my arms. I stared at her and she looked back up for just a minute before falling asleep. I sat and held her quietly as she slept and stared out the window with a feeling that nothing would ever be the same in my life from that moment on.

I don’t understand how historically every generation has strived to make the world a better place for their children with the exception of boomers. The greatest generation set them up for so much success, and they’ve done nothing but try to destroy everything for the kids that are coming after them. I’m Gen X and my biggest focus is trying to create something for my children, to have something to pass on to them, to save for their college so that they don’t have to struggle like I did, and to leave them with a better world than the one I got handed.

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times,” - G. Michael Hoof

The quote is men, but I believe it should be generations.

Classic conservative mindset. She has no idea how awful everything is until it affects her.

Library Genesis is a great resource. No claims about it being legal in your country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

Or more likely, bounty programs will be shut down because of dealing with AI slop flooding their systems.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/curl_ends_bug_bounty/

I read this the other day. Seemed pretty depressing. I feel bad for the kids who are the guinea pigs here.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/25/an-ai-elementary-school-with-no-teachers-to-open-in-chicago-this-fall/

I have no doubt that it’s a PR stunt not releasing this amazing thing that’s so incredible they can’t even show you! Their last code leak and showed brittle memory issues, AI generated functions with incredibly inefficient functions that appear to be designed to inflate API calls.

Open AI also immediately had a press release about another super secret project that they can’t show you that they also somehow released 6 months ago. The one that was already released is also too dangerous to be released!

PR stunt after PR stunt. Just trying to drum up more investors.

https://www.sabrina.dev/p/claude-code-source-leak-analysis

I work in cybersecurity. My job is in no danger. AI seems to be an expert in things until you start asking it questions about a subject you’re an expert in. Then it all falls apart. Anyone who thinks they’re using AI for cybersecurity or thinks AI can do cybersecurity knows nothing about cybersecurity.

The only people who would use AI for cybersecurity wouldn’t hire a cybersecurity firm anyway but would instead ask their friend Bob who “knows computers” and would get roughly the same level of expertise as a result and feel just as happy about either.

A man under a tent with the words prove me wrong written on it while arguing against gun control getting shot was definitely the definition of asking for it.

My watch has an operating system. So does my car.

It’s this level of dumb that makes me wonder when boomers are ever going to get term limits so someone who can open outlook without asking a staffer can make a decision on tech.

Using all the same UMU launcher scripts makes it a snap, plus super easy to configure . I’m glad to hear you like it.

Here’s a neat and totally unrelated random website I found!

https://www.trackaipac.com/

Well… he’s a pedophile, maybe she just means brown people and the poor who are not her.

Would you say you’re… rock hard?

As a Christian, I can’t say I’m appalled given the source. I have never aligned with MAGA and even had my eyes opened during the Tea Party movement that the conservative party was now purely a tool to make billionaires richer. I know it was like that before, but I admit I was in denial 20 years ago.

This quote is from a “Christian” Trump supporter.

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” link

I believe that Trump’s followers are not affected by this at all. I think that their pocketbooks are the only thing that’s shaking them enough to wake up a little.

I think he’s not “being their retribution” and instead just making his billionaire friends rich. He’s not hurting the people that his voters want to see hurt and it’s making them wonder why he’s there in the first place. Affecting their pocketbook touches on him hurting “me” and not who 'I" think he should be hurting.

The current MAGA “Christians” are like the Pharisees of Jesus’ time. So focused on the law while trying to feel holier than others that they would condemn the savior for healing on the wrong day instead of recognizing the miracle of the healing. They ignore all of Jesus’ teachings and focus on condemning the sins of others. They have no concept that they will be judged on only their actions and not compared to those they’ve labeled as less than them.

Edit: Reading this whole verse is very important, but this is the part I’d like to highlight especially.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 NRSVUE

[3] Let no one deceive you in any way, for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one destined for destruction. [4] He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.

Not a single dad, but my wife was gone for a year when our daughter was two. I used to watch moms struggling with kids in the grocery store and no one batted an eye (GA, USA). I’d do grocery shopping with mine in the cart and keep her amused while shopping and checking out and on more than one occasion for compliments about what a great dad I was.

I love my girls and spend as much time with them as I can and do things with them all the time. Still, my wife gets nothing and I occasionally still get pats on the back and compliments on doing basic dad stuff from both men and women.

Always struck me as such a weird thing. Sometimes moms really need more recognition too, I think.