The best diet is the one you'll stick with. If you want to get into fiction but haven't read a lot before, try finding a short story collection. "Best short stories of 2026" or something more genre if you know you like a particular genre. I like Weird Fiction and cosmic horror for example, so I might look for a Weird Fiction reader. If you don't like a story, you can move onto the next one. Once you find a writer you like, try reading their longer form stuff.

Same thing with nonfiction. Browse through publications in subjects you know you're interested in. If you want to learn about String Theory or ancient Rome or modern Japan, pick up something focused on that and move outward.

Long term attention is a muscle you have to exercise. Turn your phone off and watch a movie, read a book, play a game, listen to an album, listen to an audiobook, watch a video essay, put together a model kit, draw or paint something. Focus on only paying attention to the thing you're doing. Meditate for ten minutes in silence. Get coffee with a friend and turn your phone off while they're talking. Delete shortform apps from your phone. Find a hobby that gets you in a flowstate and spend an hour or more on it. Your attention span will come back, but you have to put the work in.

It was most recently an LA Fitness but they moved about a mile down the road, I think it was a bookstore prior to that

Okay, I'll leave linux then.

Linus Torvalds arguing he should be able to let LLMs contribute to the Linux kernal has me worried. I left Microslop because of their slop machines, if Linus wants them that badly I'll have to leave linux too

I don't know about the most, but I think the Girl in Resident Evil Requiem was the most recent one that got me. I know the Uktena in Uktena 64 got me the first time I played it. I want to say the Anglerfish in Anglerfish got me once or twice. Ooh, and the creature from FAITH Chapter 1.

I hope he loses, his wife and children leave him, he goes bankrupt, gets excommunicated from New York, and ends up working a crabbing vessel in Maine where his harm can only be to himself

Good night, flustrat

There's a collection of short stories by Edogawa Ranpo called Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1956) that might be up your alley based on the key words. He's often compared favorably to Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

There wasn't like one moment, I just never really connected with masculinity in any real sense. We'd talk about masculinity in college or my grad program and I'd always be like "Well it's all made up anyway, right?" As I got older I started making more trans friends and meeting non-binary people and realized I felt more comfortable identifying as non-binary than as a man.

There's a certain portion of people for whom an entertainer being a horrible person is a selling point. They like it when Logan Paul comes into a new hobby as a tourist, drives it into a commodity speculation market, then runs off with the money. It makes them feel good and superior. "Fuck those people who got scammed or screwed by externalities," they think. "Fucking idiots following the social contract, buncha NPCs. Not like me and Logan Paul. We're real people." And then they get scammed or screwed by externalities, and they blame poor people, or trans people, or immigrants, or someone else who has no social power because it can't be the fault of someone like Logan Paul. He's a real person, not one of those dregs of society screwing everything up for them. So they cheer on the people fucking them over and blame the people being fucked over with them. And it's very easy to stop: If an asshole can take power through structural incentives, we should change the structure to disallow such power from being amassed. But nobody wants to change the structure, because someday they could be Logan Paul, with all the money and the fame, and you can't take that from them, no matter how many people get fucked or scammed.

Person with an English degree here.

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