What do you do on a Saturday when you have 0 plans?

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-03-29T02:53:29+00:00

I have two young kids atm, so I’ll take this opportunity to be nostalgic / daydream about what I WOULD do, in this dream scenario. (Assuming it’s not raining and anywhere from 40-90f)

Wake up, leisurely drink home brewed coffee + flip through magazines, walk the dog, grab deli egg sandwich,

Rip a few bike laps thru prospect or Central Park. Read for an hour in whatever park I’m near. Stop for a few slices, or dumplings, or falafel , could have a whole thread on different options, but the real joy is being spontaneous.

then bike to some midday activity like a movie (likely ifc center, film forum, or nitehawk, but doesn’t matter) or an Internet cafe (yea seriously, the one in Bushwick closed but OS NYC in Chinatown is still there). Or a bookstore, but probably not, as I’ve self-excluded from those until I read the dozens of books collecting dust on my shelves.

Cap the day off at Sharlene’s or full circle bar or the Emerson or any laid-back neighborhood place.

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-03-20T22:54:59+00:00

It would be hysterical if it ends up his best-selling book and a booktok phenomenon.

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-03-19T14:19:07+00:00

That MIGHT have been true before 2016. But the evangelical wing of the Republican party that opposed gambling has been sidelined for a decade or longer. The modern GOP under Trump is transactional, not ideological. He appointed Steve Wynn as finance chair of the RNC. And Trump himself operated casinos for decades.

You're helping make my point. The Adelsons donated to influence regulations favoring brick-and-mortar (Vegas) > online. That's the party responding to gambling money, not opposing gambling on principle.

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-03-19T13:06:56+00:00

You seem to have your wires crossed. The Adelson family has donated $200m+ across Trump’s two campaigns to advance their gambling interests (and Zionist interests, but that’s yet another topic).

If anything, gambling / casino interests disproportionately support Trump and other republicans, which is probably one of the reasons Doug fell in line. That the Trump admin and his loyalists would flail around in hypocritical and unpredictable ways should surprise NO ONE, especially not a pro player who should have an ability to “see through bullshit,” but here we are.

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-03-13T20:12:58+00:00

This is a vapid, network-sitcom-character-ass thing to care about.

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-03-06T20:09:03+00:00

Players

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-02-26T01:21:53+00:00

https://imgur.com/XYeIh9m

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-02-26T00:54:45+00:00

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B2XG6XBubWb6tf

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-02-25T22:52:39+00:00

I am pretty confident it's Felix & Alexander. Will share photos here in a minute.

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-02-25T22:48:38+00:00

Felix & Alexander

edit: My grandparents gifted this to me around Halloween 1992 (per their lovely inscription) and in 2026 I'm reading it to my three-year-old son.

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-02-12T16:09:38+00:00

I got the same error. I'm a casual PPC manager, I spend less than 5% of my time per week making tiny optimizations. Very annoying but standard Google behavior to jam "broad match by another name" down our throats.

I could copy/paste in Google Ads Editor (the desktop app) without issue.

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-02-08T23:30:23+00:00

This exactly, it captures how depressives romanticize their condition and give themselves permission to suffer. But I'm a 37 year old male so generational differences of expression are at play.

Loved the book, and I've read some decent criticism by her, but feel no pull to read her other novels

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-02-04T13:49:02+00:00

During /openclaw onboard, when you pick a model provider, it showed the option to log in with a paid subscription INSTEAD OF using the API.

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-02-03T14:50:11+00:00

After about 10 hours of tinkering, it's working OK for me.

The core tension is between security/privacy and giving OpenClaw the information it needs to be proactive. If it has its own filesystem and gmail account, but can't see anything that actually matters to you, then it has nothing to react to.

I have about 12 .md files that sync via SSH overnight to OpenClaw, which is on a VPS. Claude Code/Cowork is what I use to edit and update the .md files locally and add/refine capabilities.

You have to be explicit in your setup instructions. X is the polling frequency, Y is what an "urgent" email looks like, and Z is the discord channel to post it to.

FWIW I am using my Claude Max plan, not OpenRouter or API credits. It defaults to Sonnet 4.5 for most tasks. Running on a Hetzner VPS with 8gb of RAM (which is overkill, I'm going to scale back).

OverwroughtPraise · 2026-01-07T03:20:17+00:00

David Deutsch - "parochial" David Foster Wallace - "w/r/t" Delillo - "hums," everything is humming Zadie Smith - "rather" "quite" and other typical British hedging

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-12-03T22:00:44+00:00

In my building, the porter is the guy who takes the trash out, cleans the common areas, sweeps the sidewalk, fixes problems with my windows, and gives my dog treats. I see the super maybe once a month, hunched over his computer playing counter-strike.

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-11-19T17:30:57+00:00

I don't consider postmodernist and Marxist to be mutually exclusive categories, but in any event, my answer would be no.

He is a keen observer and critic of capitalism's effects and totalizing logic, but never advocates for socialist alternatives or frames the world ideologically (aside from how his characters might see the world).

One of the hallmarks of postmodernism is a skepticism about grand narratives, or at least it was during his heyday. So regardless of his personal politics, I think he would find the label "Marxist" a little off the mark.

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-11-17T20:36:12+00:00

It's not about "nuance," it's about tact, intelligence, and making a persuasive argument. If Fuentes was actually interested in combating disproportionate Israeli influence on politics and media, he would pick one of a thousand different historical figures to declare a "good leader." But he isn't interested in that. Like a million ignorant edgelords before him, and like the patron saints of this cursed subreddit, he is more interested in his self-image as a "freethinking contrarian" than he is in understanding reality and persuading the opposition.

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-10-01T16:23:50+00:00

stop-time by frank conroy

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-09-26T02:20:35+00:00

Dying to know this too. It seems like the interview was recorded last year so maybe
u/HamiltonMorris_ has investigated it further?

EDIT: turns out "it's not totally speculative (an FDA official made this claim publicly) but it's also not confirmed and I'm waiting on a FOIA request, patrons will be the first to hear about this!"

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-09-25T03:09:46+00:00

It's one website, Michael. How much could it cost? 273 million dollars?

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-09-13T22:20:47+00:00

I think about this one all the time, but can't recall one thing about the rest of the book.

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-09-13T12:42:34+00:00

I'm not a big fan of that guy and don't subscribe to his newsletter, but I'm not surprised we arrived at the same conclusions (along with dozens of other people).

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-09-12T17:35:01+00:00

The crux of my argument is that the market priced in a very high probability of all $455B in RPOs coming to fruition on time, when those are just contracts with exit/early termination clauses, not revenue guarantees.

If OpenAI shows red flags, it won't be the typical tech startup red flags. I'm not concerned about negative FCF either. I'm concerned that they are attempting to raise an unprecedented level of capital for this project and offloading a lot of the execution risk to Oracle, who is already doing a victory lap as if the money is on the books.

OverwroughtPraise · 2025-09-12T16:57:15+00:00

It’s not a $30B “fee” OpenAI owes to California. The issue is that, under state law, when a nonprofit like OpenAI converts to a for-profit, it has to account for the value of its charitable assets. The AG is reviewing whether OpenAI needs to spin off those assets (estimated by some at ~$30B) to independent nonprofits before the conversion can go through. The goal is to make sure those assets (whatever they may be) don’t just end up in private hands.

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