Ashwin Rodrigues
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I like when Google Maps sends a push notification like “have you tried Eating before?”
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I like when Google Maps sends a push notification like “have you tried Eating before?”
I’m watching the Arsenal match in a Liverpool bar. They’re playing both and it’s a buffalo-ranch situation of pain and joy
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I’m watching the Arsenal match in a Liverpool bar. They’re playing both and it’s a buffalo-ranch situation of pain and joy
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“Dudes rock” has intense proxy pro-Christian nationalist vibes.
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“Dudes rock” has intense proxy pro-Christian nationalist vibes.
Some say the backlash against pickleball was an overreaction but if you suggest building concrete Labubu shrines in the middle of public basketball courts, they’ll say you are a fad-chasing nuisance with no respect for your community
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Some say the backlash against pickleball was an overreaction but if you suggest building concrete Labubu shrines in the middle of public basketball courts, they’ll say you are a fad-chasing nuisance with no respect for your community
Once you get tricked by an AI video of animals being friends you can get so mad you decide Sam Altman isn’t even a real guy
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Once you get tricked by an AI video of animals being friends you can get so mad you decide Sam Altman isn’t even a real guy
A few years ago, I pitched an editor on how ChatGPT will change people to think in prompts, kind of like how extended Twitter use makes you think in posts. they said it’s probably true but need some studies to show that first, and passed. and now that pitch would be met with “wow! no fuckin shit”
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A few years ago, I pitched an editor on how ChatGPT will change people to think in prompts, kind of like how extended Twitter use makes you think in posts. they said it’s probably true but need some studies to show that first, and passed. and now that pitch would be met with “wow! no fuckin shit”
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I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...
I didn’t realize the depths of Man’s Dilemma until 2014. I was talking to a friend about lifting and he said you gotta wear a long sleeve shirt on leg day because your upper body won’t have a pump. Surprised there hasn’t been an HBO limited series about this specific thing yet
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I didn’t realize the depths of Man’s Dilemma until 2014. I was talking to a friend about lifting and he said you gotta wear a long sleeve shirt on leg day because your upper body won’t have a pump. Surprised there hasn’t been an HBO limited series about this specific thing yet
A lot of anti-AI stuff is lowkey thinly veiled discrimination against incels but yall aren’t ready for that conversation
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A lot of anti-AI stuff is lowkey thinly veiled discrimination against incels but yall aren’t ready for that conversation
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1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
I know anecdotes are not data but I personally know several people who followed the Knees Over Toes guy’s exercises and it helped them tremendously. And I feel partially responsible for helping since one of my friends started doing it after reading my profile of the guy. I’m a doctor now
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I know anecdotes are not data but I personally know several people who followed the Knees Over Toes guy’s exercises and it helped them tremendously. And I feel partially responsible for helping since one of my friends started doing it after reading my profile of the guy. I’m a doctor now
It seems cartoonishly American hamburger-brained to hear someone go “maybe the government could help poor people access fresh produce” and go “what’s next, Hitler?” And some of those people are asking the same question of their president
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It seems cartoonishly American hamburger-brained to hear someone go “maybe the government could help poor people access fresh produce” and go “what’s next, Hitler?” And some of those people are asking the same question of their president
Maybe you can recall being a child, when one of your parents would say “I think somebody’s sleepy!” and nothing you could do would dispel the allegation. The President is dealing with that, except it’s millions of people going “I think somebody’s dying”
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Maybe you can recall being a child, when one of your parents would say “I think somebody’s sleepy!” and nothing you could do would dispel the allegation. The President is dealing with that, except it’s millions of people going “I think somebody’s dying”
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Whenever I see an Indian person at the Thanksgiving table, I say “Oh great. I thought we agreed no politics this year.” But this year, that seems like a politically charged statement. My latest, for The Free Press:
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Whenever I see an Indian person at the Thanksgiving table, I say “Oh great. I thought we agreed no politics this year.” But this year, that seems like a politically charged statement. My latest, for The Free Press:
The biased media refuses to admit that our healthy and vigorous president has received top marks on his last 25 MRIs
Here’s a gift link to the NYT story about Trump flagging energy that so annoyed him that he just called its female co-author “ugly both inside and out.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The biased media refuses to admit that our healthy and vigorous president has received top marks on his last 25 MRIs
He kind looks like Jon Voight wearing an extra Jon Voight
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
He kind looks like Jon Voight wearing an extra Jon Voight
How about less pie takes and more pie gives (acts of charity)
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
How about less pie takes and more pie gives (acts of charity)
there is an incredible amount of racism towards Indians on the computer. tremendous amounts. but I also think some people think it's racist to say "Indian." like how some people miss a step when they say "Black" or "Mexican"
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
there is an incredible amount of racism towards Indians on the computer. tremendous amounts. but I also think some people think it's racist to say "Indian." like how some people miss a step when they say "Black" or "Mexican"
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At least one of these anonymous coworkers sounds strikingly intelligent and well-dressed.
Elon Musk claims Grok's "epic vulgar roasts" can "make people really laugh at a party" so I took him up on it and used my coworkers as guinea pigs: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers
It went about as well as you’d expect.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
At least one of these anonymous coworkers sounds strikingly intelligent and well-dressed.
Visited my hometown gym only to find it’s been overrun with Yakubian broccoliheads. One trusted me enough to spot him. They’re not so different than you or me.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Visited my hometown gym only to find it’s been overrun with Yakubian broccoliheads. One trusted me enough to spot him. They’re not so different than you or me.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
psychologist: and do you still think the internet unlocks a world of creative possibility? or is it sanding down your brain, to the point where you rely on a handful of phrases to communicate
patient: it could. but I'm built different
psychologist: so you admit it can happen
patient: skill issue
patient: it could. but I'm built different
psychologist: so you admit it can happen
patient: skill issue
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
psychologist: and do you still think the internet unlocks a world of creative possibility? or is it sanding down your brain, to the point where you rely on a handful of phrases to communicate
patient: it could. but I'm built different
psychologist: so you admit it can happen
patient: skill issue
patient: it could. but I'm built different
psychologist: so you admit it can happen
patient: skill issue
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
achieving liftoff
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
achieving liftoff