Bryn
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she/her // 29 // girlfriend and #1 simp to the one and only @nerdjpg.com
I feel like there’s been such a shift toward a sort of mindless optimization fetish in the past 5-10 years: productivity influencers, side hustle grindset influencers—where meaning and purpose seem scarce, compulsive optimization slop will suffice, or rather what I’m tempted to call Sloptimization
But a lot of that need* for meaning and purpose finds secular avenues: the cultivation of a hyperreal image of the body and self and lifestyle as a form of social capital mediated by capitalist social media
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
*needs can be both manufactured and very real, for our purposes I don’t think it matters
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I feel like there’s been such a shift toward a sort of mindless optimization fetish in the past 5-10 years: productivity influencers, side hustle grindset influencers—where meaning and purpose seem scarce, compulsive optimization slop will suffice, or rather what I’m tempted to call Sloptimization
I guess this generally at least cast as a crisis of Meaning—the christofascist right loves to prattle on about purpose and meaning, usually with lazy gestures toward whichever set of biodestined teleological roles just so happen to coincide with the ones the regime is having trouble recruiting for
I think there’s some sense in which mid-20th century libidinal economy written by world-weary French intellectuals was completely unprepared for the crisis of desire that seems to manifest in a sort of culture-wide anhedonia and the foreclosure of any real sense of futurity that’s not half-assed
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I guess this generally at least cast as a crisis of Meaning—the christofascist right loves to prattle on about purpose and meaning, usually with lazy gestures toward whichever set of biodestined teleological roles just so happen to coincide with the ones the regime is having trouble recruiting for
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The Lord Buddha warned us of deprivation and self-mortification as means of attaining quiescence. Only honesty and Truth can set you free. Delusions cannot be coped with by projecting them onto everything but the bitter pill of Truth. Hold the L or become a malignant narcissist, or worse—a hypocrite
What if we combined the asceticism of the monastery with the restless paranoiac neuroticism of capitalist subjectivity? What if we made a big show out of rejecting the fleeting pleasures of the excremental material world so we could work even harder on developing my chatbot named Otis or some shit
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 AM
The Lord Buddha warned us of deprivation and self-mortification as means of attaining quiescence. Only honesty and Truth can set you free. Delusions cannot be coped with by projecting them onto everything but the bitter pill of Truth. Hold the L or become a malignant narcissist, or worse—a hypocrite
What if we combined the asceticism of the monastery with the restless paranoiac neuroticism of capitalist subjectivity? What if we made a big show out of rejecting the fleeting pleasures of the excremental material world so we could work even harder on developing my chatbot named Otis or some shit
!["The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6 [working from gam to 9pm, six days a week], lift heavy, run far, marry early, track sleep, eat steak and eggs," Daksh Gupta, the
23-year-old co-founder of an AI start-up, told the San Francisco Standard recently.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jg3hlyjpcn4n5sbryi3qhyiv/bafkreie3mnljvdgs35wyhbggriqo7zk5djhtfuc4e6kcfbyxg37n2nllva@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 AM
What if we combined the asceticism of the monastery with the restless paranoiac neuroticism of capitalist subjectivity? What if we made a big show out of rejecting the fleeting pleasures of the excremental material world so we could work even harder on developing my chatbot named Otis or some shit
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starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Went to the gym about it and then poasted weird about it; feeling marginally more normal thank you denizens of the digital void that I periodically scream into to blow off steam
February 10, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Went to the gym about it and then poasted weird about it; feeling marginally more normal thank you denizens of the digital void that I periodically scream into to blow off steam
“Jane Remover?? But I hardly kn-“
*fizzles out of the ontic plane after accidentally hitting the secret Rate Limit for really really dumb jokes made by one Entity*
*fizzles out of the ontic plane after accidentally hitting the secret Rate Limit for really really dumb jokes made by one Entity*
Anomalies will be Purged, in Post.
Not the sterile muddy shit CG artifacts though, that’s just The Style
Not the sterile muddy shit CG artifacts though, that’s just The Style
February 10, 2026 at 1:51 AM
“Jane Remover?? But I hardly kn-“
*fizzles out of the ontic plane after accidentally hitting the secret Rate Limit for really really dumb jokes made by one Entity*
*fizzles out of the ontic plane after accidentally hitting the secret Rate Limit for really really dumb jokes made by one Entity*
Spoilers maybe if you give a shit about that sort of a thing but also I don’t know what I’m talking about bc I’m gleaning this secondhan and I’m Not Watching That Shit but
Did Stranger Things Finale basically just steal the Madoka Experiments Lain ending? Bc if so, lmao ?
Did Stranger Things Finale basically just steal the Madoka Experiments Lain ending? Bc if so, lmao ?
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Spoilers maybe if you give a shit about that sort of a thing but also I don’t know what I’m talking about bc I’m gleaning this secondhan and I’m Not Watching That Shit but
Did Stranger Things Finale basically just steal the Madoka Experiments Lain ending? Bc if so, lmao ?
Did Stranger Things Finale basically just steal the Madoka Experiments Lain ending? Bc if so, lmao ?
I Think this is what Chained saw Man is about, but I can’t re-member with certainty
I have a ravenous bottom-up inductive tentacular bodymind operating system and I’ve grafted onto it a ruthless top-down deductive overcoming in an attempt to curb the worst excesses of the latter. They meet in the middle over Truthiness, or they separate and leave things at a stalemate
February 10, 2026 at 1:32 AM
I Think this is what Chained saw Man is about, but I can’t re-member with certainty
I’ve been thinking a Lot, about how much I rely on a feeling of ‘truthiness’ to determine what’s objectively true and what’s just a feeling. What terrifies me is the realization is that ‘truthiness’ is also just a feeling
How do you learn how to want things that you don’t desire, or to choose things that you don’t Want, or whatever it is that adult humans are supposed to be able to do. I think I lost the instruction manual before I learned to read. I think my map is drawn Wrong. As a joke.
February 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
I’ve been thinking a Lot, about how much I rely on a feeling of ‘truthiness’ to determine what’s objectively true and what’s just a feeling. What terrifies me is the realization is that ‘truthiness’ is also just a feeling
My enfleshed spirit has been so small and so weary and so fearful for longer than I’ve been properly alive.
February 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
My enfleshed spirit has been so small and so weary and so fearful for longer than I’ve been properly alive.
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You're toast, kid. You've completely lost sight of the motivations and objectives that no longer serve you. You're never going to climb that mountain that had nothing of value at its summit.
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
You're toast, kid. You've completely lost sight of the motivations and objectives that no longer serve you. You're never going to climb that mountain that had nothing of value at its summit.
It’s wild to me that Anthropic ran with the name “Claude” when the American pronunciation of that name naturally lends itself to people mocking your product (“more like CLOD amirite?” etc)
February 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
It’s wild to me that Anthropic ran with the name “Claude” when the American pronunciation of that name naturally lends itself to people mocking your product (“more like CLOD amirite?” etc)
It’s over once they invent Agential AI for Nonbinary
The two genders, according to tech bro advertisers:
Men: my intellect is so vast, so unusually large, that I use a robot to think for me instead of wasting my time with trivial matters
Women: my brain is so tiny and fuzzy that I use a robot to think for me and now I don't get headaches anymore!
Men: my intellect is so vast, so unusually large, that I use a robot to think for me instead of wasting my time with trivial matters
Women: my brain is so tiny and fuzzy that I use a robot to think for me and now I don't get headaches anymore!
I'm getting a lot of ads with women saying "wow ai seemed confusing but now that my little lady brain understands it it is great!!"
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
It’s over once they invent Agential AI for Nonbinary
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99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off
why do you need to observe your house if you're not in it. you are giving yourself an opt-in mental illness. no one has to live like this
February 9, 2026 at 6:08 AM
99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off
Apparently the number YouTube is giving is 6mil, which would make it about 6% the size of the REAL halftime show’s viewership, but people are skeptical of that number (they think it might be a considerably inflated) bc it’s actually the sum of a bunch of different streams on like, Rumble and shit
Do we have numbers for how many people actually tuned into the “(don’t let this guy near your) Kid” Rock halftime extravaganza?
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Apparently the number YouTube is giving is 6mil, which would make it about 6% the size of the REAL halftime show’s viewership, but people are skeptical of that number (they think it might be a considerably inflated) bc it’s actually the sum of a bunch of different streams on like, Rumble and shit
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i hate articles so much dawg absolutely useless meaningless filler words
December 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
i hate articles so much dawg absolutely useless meaningless filler words
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It is with unbearable bitterness that I toot my own horn tonight.
January 22, 2026 at 6:00 PM
It is with unbearable bitterness that I toot my own horn tonight.
Do we have numbers for how many people actually tuned into the “(don’t let this guy near your) Kid” Rock halftime extravaganza?
February 9, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Do we have numbers for how many people actually tuned into the “(don’t let this guy near your) Kid” Rock halftime extravaganza?
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I'm having one of those things boombers call Brain Farts.
"GAS GRASS OR ASS NOBODY RIDES FOR FREE"
"GAS GRASS OR ASS NOBODY RIDES FOR FREE"
February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I'm having one of those things boombers call Brain Farts.
"GAS GRASS OR ASS NOBODY RIDES FOR FREE"
"GAS GRASS OR ASS NOBODY RIDES FOR FREE"
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this shit is so Kafkaesque
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
this shit is so Kafkaesque
I think this is what’s called a “bluesky moment”
Was that editorial decision made exclusively to ensure that the comments section was 90% this shit rather than anything politically substantial:
February 9, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I think this is what’s called a “bluesky moment”
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Also why is there a Miku bot that talks to you like you're on a ledge
February 8, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Also why is there a Miku bot that talks to you like you're on a ledge