Lonesome Sock
@lonesomesock
"$81K or I walk. Those fries aren't gonna make themselves." Those fries start making themselves.
text: "I'm leaving you for my pilates instructor." summary: "For reasons tangentially related to the achievement of her health and fitness goals, your wife is opting to alter her present location as a means of maximizing her future happiness."
It's honestly impressive how Apple's AI can receive an incoming message and summarize it in a way that's the same length as the original but still removes 100% of the valuable details
When you're trying to ruin a country but your tax hikes aren't driving top earners to expatriate as fast as you'd hoped.
Wikipedia is currently in a legal battle with the UK government to try and stop the platform being censored in the UK - or even completely blocked - thanks to the Online Safety Act.
Compilation of Steve Jobs' ideas on how to design insanely great products.
anyone familiar with Aesop knows that this is actually the fastest line
A shoutout to whomever at the Japanese supermarket thought to put up a sign saying “Turtle Line: for customers who prefer to not be rushed and take their time.”
how to make 20% of the world's population murderously angry with four words
how does this happen at a serious company
@grok why doesn't the Grok app know Grok 4 exists lol
why is it that after I started following a bunch of fintwit people all my ads on X are for various AI astrology services?
congrats to kim jong un on the triumphant launch of his new hybrid destroyer-submarine
So I just managed to make $100k on predicting the new pope today. If you're interested in reading how, I'll fully go through it. If you aren't, then see ya! But please say a quick prayer that I don't get excommunicated, thx. --- Alright, so normally I don't like to talk about…
as techonology advances, it gradually approaches the likeness of an evil snowman
One photo shocked the entire aerospace industry: SpaceX's new Raptor engine looked too simple to work. Their biggest competitor thought it was fake - now they're scrambling to catch up. Here's how Elon's Algorithm changed manufacturing forever:
We replaced authoritarianism with stronger authoritarianism. At least in the next election we'll finally be able to fix the whole mess by replacing that with even stronger authoritarianism.
As I said then, it was wrong when Dem House members in 2021 wrote cable and streaming companies questioning their decision to carry Newsmax, Fox, and OAN after Jan. 6. And it's wrong for the FCC chair to now tell news organizations how to cover the news. x.com/JamesSurowieck…
offering even 0% tariffs to the US doesn't get reciprocal treatment because Trump calculates "tariffs" based on trade deficit. E.g. if Madagascar wants 0% they have to buy enough Teslas to balance vanilla bean exports to US. It's not a serious negotiation.
Hearing that Europe wants to drop tariffs, but they are alleging Trump isn't acting in good faith and won't drop tariffs to 0 if they do the same... Congress needs to step in
🪰 RELICS OF TOMORROW 🦗 Midjourney v7 + MagnificAI + Runway Gen4 🖤
The old unspeakable: DEI is a largely a grift. The new unspeakable: People don't want to buy American. They want high paying manufacturing jobs that the chump next door better buy or else he's a damn traitor.
this will be great for when I'm too drunk to grab the handle
Huawei's gesture-sensing tech enables touchless car door opening
the only holiday you celebrate by canceling it
Huawei's gesture-sensing tech enables touchless car door opening
"My fellow Vesuvians! We've got many problems in this town. Rats! Thieves! Public drunkenness! What's all this hullabaloo about a volcano that does nothing but belch a bit of smoke? Why not focus on the problems we actually have, rather than invent new ones?"
Fox News is wall to wall with dead-eyed politicians telling you that Iran is a dangerous “sponsor of terror.” Softening up the base for a war. But what exactly does that phrase mean, and how does it apply to the United States? Here’s one measure: over the past twenty years, how…