Malört Supernova
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January 14, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely.
Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.
We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely.
Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.
Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI
The Internet and AI are encouraging more and more people to deny reality itself. Here's why that's bad.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
January 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re...
We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely.
Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.
We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely.
Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.
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Has anyone posted this yet
January 1, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Has anyone posted this yet
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Spend 15 minutes fighting traffic to get to the gym then spend 15 minutes fighting traffic to get a sandwich then spend 15 minutes fighting traffic to shop for groceries then spend 45 minutes idling in the traffic jam outside your kids’ elementary school and then the neighbor mows his lawn at 9pm
My most extreme and radical opinion is that US suburbs are inherently anti-social and bad and should all be ripped out and replaced by much denser infrastructure that enables the movement and autonomy of people who cannot drive *above* anyone behind the wheel of a car
December 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Spend 15 minutes fighting traffic to get to the gym then spend 15 minutes fighting traffic to get a sandwich then spend 15 minutes fighting traffic to shop for groceries then spend 45 minutes idling in the traffic jam outside your kids’ elementary school and then the neighbor mows his lawn at 9pm
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This is by far the best article about the DCA mid-air and the systemic issues in that airspace that I have read to date: theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...
Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong
D.C. midair crash was the result of a complete collapse of the protections designed to keep aviation safe — and the institutions that design and maintain them
theaircurrent.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This is by far the best article about the DCA mid-air and the systemic issues in that airspace that I have read to date: theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...
Always wanted to fly airplanes when I was a kid, but the adults in my life told me you need perfect vision, which isn’t true. Then 9/11 happened. Then 2008 happened. Then Covid happened. Still managed to make it to the cockpit of a jet after all
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Always wanted to fly airplanes when I was a kid, but the adults in my life told me you need perfect vision, which isn’t true. Then 9/11 happened. Then 2008 happened. Then Covid happened. Still managed to make it to the cockpit of a jet after all
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it's insanely funny for people to be talking like this about New York of all places, the city with a big metal lady in the harbor holding a sign that says "we love immigrants"
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
it's insanely funny for people to be talking like this about New York of all places, the city with a big metal lady in the harbor holding a sign that says "we love immigrants"
This reads less like a plan and more like a velvet rope blocking off areas the donors paid them not to step into
This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on ‘kitchen table issues’ but they don’t have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! ‘Expanding drug price negotiation’ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.
Okay, let's get into the text...
Here are their bullet point recommendations: Talk about the economy! Don't talk about immigrants or climate or "social issues!" Criticize the ultra-wealthy, but in a very-not-socialist sort of way!
This is... just popularism? Didn't we already do this?
Here are their bullet point recommendations: Talk about the economy! Don't talk about immigrants or climate or "social issues!" Criticize the ultra-wealthy, but in a very-not-socialist sort of way!
This is... just popularism? Didn't we already do this?
October 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This reads less like a plan and more like a velvet rope blocking off areas the donors paid them not to step into
Whoops, looks like a Swiss A330 is trapped on a closed runway in BOS
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Whoops, looks like a Swiss A330 is trapped on a closed runway in BOS
It’s like the trolley problem, except in this case on one track there’s your own life and four random billionaires, and on the other there are zero people but if you pull the lever your company ceases to exist and everyone’s mad at you
Oh my god. The scale models kept imploding so he's like "don't worry I have a new manufacturing method that will stop these implosions" and they're like "should we test a scale model built with this new method" and he's like "no no just try it on the real sub I'm sure it'll work"
October 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
It’s like the trolley problem, except in this case on one track there’s your own life and four random billionaires, and on the other there are zero people but if you pull the lever your company ceases to exist and everyone’s mad at you
To hell with doritos and medieval peasants, this is a sentence that should vaporize anyone under the age of 40
crazy fact habbo hotel still has NFT items releasing in the year of our lord 2025 to use in game
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
To hell with doritos and medieval peasants, this is a sentence that should vaporize anyone under the age of 40
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An interesting range of interpretations here but what jumps out at me most is that sharp economic downturns seem to be associated, with some lag, with the far-right cannibalizing the center-right and thereby threatening democratic systems.
Some implications, perhaps, for democratic system design.
Some implications, perhaps, for democratic system design.
In our - very limited - historical experience of democracy,
(i) states rot from the centre-right
(ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)
(i) states rot from the centre-right
(ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)
October 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
An interesting range of interpretations here but what jumps out at me most is that sharp economic downturns seem to be associated, with some lag, with the far-right cannibalizing the center-right and thereby threatening democratic systems.
Some implications, perhaps, for democratic system design.
Some implications, perhaps, for democratic system design.
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Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
September 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
Death Shinkansen For Cutie
Queens of the Bronze Age
Technologically advance a band:
OLED Soundsystem
OLED Soundsystem
September 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Death Shinkansen For Cutie
The Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office at 1500 on Tuesday the 9th of September—
[god generating 2025]: bug game, nazis, cringe, many nazis, youtube unusable, horse girl casino, recession, big recession, labubu, no mail, $22 coffee, chatbot psychosis, AI wizard of oz, unbearable cringe, pedophile nazis, need ID for wikipedia, ugly, not masterpiece, huge breasts, new pope, bad
September 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office at 1500 on Tuesday the 9th of September—
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The song "Funiculì, Funiculà" was written in 1880 to advertise the new funicular railway at Vesuvius. Less than a decade later, Richard Strauss used the tune in a symphony assuming it was a traditional folk song, only to be sued by the very much living composer
Basically all Italian pasta recipes go back to a single cookbook in the 1960s. Fondue was invented as a marketing ploy by the Swiss cheese union in the same decade. Sushi was mostly tuna until a Norwegian guy invented salmon sushi to promote salmon exports to Japan in the 1980s
a lot of people who were recording 'traditional festivals' didn't realize that they were constantly being made up/based on popular culture/what the guy doing it thought would be funny
August 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The song "Funiculì, Funiculà" was written in 1880 to advertise the new funicular railway at Vesuvius. Less than a decade later, Richard Strauss used the tune in a symphony assuming it was a traditional folk song, only to be sued by the very much living composer
I think this is why aviation is shockingly resistant to the Silicon Valley playbook of creating an illegal service, offloading the liability onto workers, and becoming entrenched before regulators catch on. Of course, someone tried in 2019 but the FAA stomped on them before anyone got Buddy Holly’d
I work with small drones - in the intersection of aviation and AI, in a certain sense - and every day I am grateful that my technological niche is one with at least some carry-over DNA from the pretty damn sane and risk-averse world of aviation.
August 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I think this is why aviation is shockingly resistant to the Silicon Valley playbook of creating an illegal service, offloading the liability onto workers, and becoming entrenched before regulators catch on. Of course, someone tried in 2019 but the FAA stomped on them before anyone got Buddy Holly’d
Right, so all we need is to harvest ~50 million solar masses, transport it all to the solar system, somehow transmute 99.7% of it into carbon, and then invent faster-than-light communication to run it all. Only then will we know for certain how many R’s are in the word “strawberry”
And also - THIS!
Like, it doesn't matter which way in to this problem you come, he gave an idea that doesn't work FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SCIENCE FICTION.
This is for a system of *DATA PROCESSING CENTERS*. For which milliseconds of lag matter!
Milliseconds!
Like, it doesn't matter which way in to this problem you come, he gave an idea that doesn't work FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SCIENCE FICTION.
This is for a system of *DATA PROCESSING CENTERS*. For which milliseconds of lag matter!
Milliseconds!
IMO, round trip comms delay to Neptune being nearly 10 hours is enough to burry this. Don't have to get into logistics or materials or scale. I was more generous, picturing a swarm in near-earth Solar orbit, and it's still a quarter hour delay on average in best case. Unusable for stated purpose.
August 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Right, so all we need is to harvest ~50 million solar masses, transport it all to the solar system, somehow transmute 99.7% of it into carbon, and then invent faster-than-light communication to run it all. Only then will we know for certain how many R’s are in the word “strawberry”
“Should I fill my Emu with 20w50 full synthetic?” - the greatest thread in the history of car forums, locked by a moderator after 12239 pages of heated debate
Okay, so I know there are far more pressing questions in the world right now, but: who is buying emu placenta cream?!?
August 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“Should I fill my Emu with 20w50 full synthetic?” - the greatest thread in the history of car forums, locked by a moderator after 12239 pages of heated debate
Slightly diminish a band:
Duchesses of the Chalcolithic
Duchesses of the Chalcolithic
Slightly diminish a band:
Godspeed You Black Baronet
Godspeed You Black Baronet
Slightly diminish a band
Magdalene
Magdalene
August 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Duchesses of the Chalcolithic
Duchesses of the Chalcolithic