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Tim Dobbs
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So, like, IMO we need to create a societal understanding that using these copes is bad for you, and expect adults and young people to learn that being part of society means not falling in love with a piece of software. It *should* be embarrassing!
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 PM
But that's the point - I can have a lot of empathy for users of these technologies, but this is a *bad solution* to their loneliness the same way drinking heavily is a bad solution to loneliness.
Fundamentally it's a cope, but it could become a problem for both the user and, at scale, society.
January 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I *love* Quizzards!
January 18, 2026 at 1:23 AM
I mean, this is what Design of Experiment is for, no? I've heard people say that even DoE needs to be rethought for bio, focusing on "space-filling" designs that reveal all of the many many nonlinearities.
January 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Love the music of the HPLC auto-injector
January 17, 2026 at 1:23 AM
OMG
January 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Diet caffeine free coke
January 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM
I really felt he hand-waved the translation stuff so that he could get to the plot points that were relevant to the main sci-fi conceit of the book
January 2, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I forgot how choice the cover is. Incredible
December 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Not proud of this
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
For giving things away, the BuyNothing app does good work!
December 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
One day we will conquer metabolic energy
December 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
We all gotta use Floorp now. I'm sorry.
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM