As Of 2025, Globally, 0.3% Of Windows PCs and 0.1% Of All Devices Across All Platforms Continue To Run

The Giant Squid Nebula

People in their thirties remember the olden days, when it was just you, your Windows 95/98/me desktop with floppy disks, and Nokia 5110 versus the universe.

When my mind hands me a small thought, I can ask “Is this true?” and my mind will answer “Good question, let’s go over three thousand different rationality techniques and see what answer each of them gives.

When my mind hands me a big thought, I ask "Is this true?” and my mind just answers “It better be, m——–r, cause this is how you’re gonna be thinking about everything from now on.”

Bart Simpson writing on the chalkboard: "I will not waste CPU cycles. I will not waste CPU cycles. I will not waste

Beautiful Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustis), family Viperidae, Thailand

Venomous.

photograph by Justin Coburn

A storm brewing (Puritan and Cavalier), oil on canvas ― Edgar Bundy (British, 1862-1922)

Bruckner Expressway, South Bronx, 1958

NYC Municipal Archives

You are either committed to science, technology, engineering, and math—venturing deep into the intersection of numbers and philosophy—or you get swallowed by one of the lesser ideologies like communism, makeup, or video game addiction

I love the way leveling works in so many games, like "shooting an arrow through my arm used to kill me, but I picked up a bunch of random things and brought them to random people and the experience was so rewarding that now a rocket-propelled grenade to the face is only a minor inconvenience"

The White House bragging about how many different countries have reached out to negotiate in response to the tariffs reminds me of that part of Disco Elysium where you have the option to put a loaded gun in your mouth and threaten to pull the trigger as a negotiating tactic. It is certainly one way to start a conversation!