when in doubt, kill your protagonist. if still in doubt, kill your antagonist. continue killing characters until all doubt is removed and your story is just a description of some land or a building

me: "officer, i understand that this is the city's parking space, but as you can see i have cleared the snow off of it. according to john locke's theory of property, by mixing my labor with it, i have made this parking space my own." police: "i think you've failed to take proper

french authors be like what if the biggest pervert in the world also happened to be broke and completely devoid of any other redeeming qualities

Mosquito 1: I still can't shake the feeling that maybe we're inherently evil Mosquito 2: (pausing blood sucking) Listen pal, we've been over this. There's no such thing as absolute sin or virtue. It's all relative

Just created a burner email account to email all my enemies and cc jeevacation@gmail so they end up in the 2027 Epstein files

Globally fertility is a thorny problem, but Korea’s fertility bottleneck is comic because in Korea you could give a bonus of just a few points per sibling on standardized tests and they’d immediately be at TFR 5.0

i hate video content more than anything getting information from people talking is like trying to satiate yourself by eating lettuce. near zero value density. this is an incredible imposition on the infovore's time

majority of the time thinking from first principles is this

I'm extremely proud to share that the Symbolica research team has achieved a monumental result in program synthesis. We have been able to reach SOTA on ARC-AGI-2 (85.28% @ $6.94/task) using Agentica as a neurosymbolic program synthesis engine. This engine is not ARC

I had submitted an application months ago and was on the 6th interview. Heartbreaking to learn I lost the job like this.

Take a look at this multithreading.

First we had one child and I thought I knew what children are like. Our second child was completely different; I’d overgeneralized. There are actually two types of children.

A Russian joke that explains why Russia would never nuke the EU or the US. 🔽🔽🔽 One general says to another, “Let’s strike Miami.” “I can’t, my wife and daughter live there.” “Then maybe London?” “No, my grandchildren study there.” “So where are we supposed to strike?” The

The correct amount of movie making lore in my feed is zero.

Ingmar Bergman on the creative process

You know those demons who just try to figure out a verbal pattern that you can catch you on to seduce you into taking your blood or soul or whatever. Then they start trying to hypnotize you to pull you in. Yeah. That’s how I see everything the Left says now. I can’t parcel them

I don't think of myself as a maverick, but so much of life feels this way to me, and sometimes I can't take it anymore and just walk through the open gate, and everyone seems shocked.

Matt Walsh

AI companies are about to discover what real power looks like