Interesting article, but calling it THE defining aesthetic of our time feels a bit sensational.

"our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism."

Did not call it the aesthetic of our time since the term was first used for post world war I economies.

We must be in late-to-its-own-funeral capitalism.

A ton of liminal space photos are of Soviet era stuff, especially brutalist architecture.

I blame it on the art world being full of pseudo-intellectual little shits, so of course they get off on the Marxian esthetic of throwing around signalling phrases like "late capitalism". They live and die by pretense, there just isn't anything more than that to these "people". All facade, nothing inside. The average LLM has more soul than these types, I fear.

To be a contrarian, you could possibly become very famous if you swam across the Pacific Ocean or even walked across Siberia. Not sure on the McDonald's though, might be harder to get sponsorship for that.

Mukbangs are a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukbang

Yeah this one kinda hurts.

Incredibly misleading title, practically click bait.

Yeah this is what I do. This article feels like crazy overengineering for something that's not really a problem

A dedicated key for all window-manager things is what people that have thought about it do (I use the "windows" key). But keyboard manufacturers haven't thought about it, so sometimes reasonable things aren't possible. I don't know.

Unless you have RSI. Then it might be worth it. Depends on what hurts.

What specifically about this feels AI generated. It might be, IDK, but I'm not seeing any tells, so wondering if you could expand.

I'm not saying it looks AI generated, but AI made it possible to polish things to a level that very few people took the time to ever do themselves.

This is a great thing, but it's also a tell since we all saw the UIs people were building by hand pre-AI.

That said, I don't think it matters. What matters is whether it's low quality.

Love it. The grid is cool but I think it needs to be more transparent.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. You can use Claude Code on Linux.

He's probably talking about the desktop version, which afaik doesn't officially exist on Linux. There are Debian packages that repackage the electron code though: https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian

This is written by AI

So...it's a Chromebook. With "ai".

Running Android, not Gentoo.

Not quite Android: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112299