and any time this week means the anniversary would sometimes fall on Labor Day, which would be great
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and any time this week means the anniversary would sometimes fall on Labor Day, which would be great
At first I was like, oh no, am I going to have to give that man some credit? But then it turned out that nope, exactly as I assumed
I want this for us!!! Happy birthday!
Thank you! Will do!
The doc is also such a love letter to the city and its people, who have been handed the worst of everything and still manage to be the best. Also, fuck Brad Pitt
Just finished the new Spike Lee doc about New Orleans and Katrina. It’s so fucking good. I gave basically no connection w NOLA apart from a few visits, but the abandonment of the city in 2005 broke me. Anyone who even jokingly vindicates Bush needs to be reminded of what he did (or didn’t do).
Thank you for your service
It would make Labor Day extra special, especially considering how much he hates workers
Sorry for not closing parenthesis, it’s not even 6am and now I am An Old
Please let it happen on my birthday (it’s tomorrow where I live, but still my birthday in most of the US, and maybe it happened hours ago Please please please
Literally how I found this “Oh, Nate Silver is trending? What did he do now?” I didn’t wanna miss out Me and my blueskyism
Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English
Gavin Newsom is the American version of Kier Starmer and I will put my fingers in my ears until people get over him
Brb gonna go paint a flag over them
Lascaux Cave in France contains paintings from the Paleolithic era, 17,000 to 22,000 years ago. The paintings depict people, animals and abstract symbols and you couldn't do them today because of woke.
This dalek full of bananas is why when people are like “I want AI to do my laundry” I just shut up. An AI laundry bot would be an incompetent dalek that would rip the socks right off your feet because it’s whites day
I’m in overly credulous Sweden (non-elite uni), and the other PhD students demand a course on how to use it to write their dissertations. Senior faculty now use it to write word salad emails to us, it’s in everything, nobody even wants to talk about the issues around it (in a humanities dept!)
*Pushes 2 + 2 on hand held calculator* *4 appears on screen* Wow it’s alive and thinking, maybe even sentient
this is the funniest one I’ve seen
The divorces are going well x
The University of Southern Maine, just down the street from me, is hiring a medievalist. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37871743....
He is so snuggly
Everyone needs a sleepy pup Sound on for comforting snores
This is good news, at least.
It was so nice when we didn’t know! I want to go back to there
There’s still time to delete this
I’m picking up good vibrations I’m picking up excitations Wouldn’t it be Nice?
when president garfield was dying, they shoved a bunch of stuff up his butt in the hopes it would save him. it didn't work, in fact it definitely killed him quicker. but if any white house guys are reading this: you're the chosen one, you can make it work
Stephen Miller screaming for some Hollywood makeup artists to fit him into a Trump suit and makeup
when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones
opening and closing and opening social media like a maddened orca slamming myself against the walls of the pool
Sometimes you want your cart to be WAYYY in front of your horse, actually
Imagining him caught on a blade by the waist of his oversized pants, face like the anger guy from Inside Out, trying to dictate a truth social post to correct the record I am not owned I am not owned
Oh my god I would love this for you
Oh no This is a good application of it 😅
I think about this joke every day.
In fact, this whole situation is helping to sort the hopeful from the people who seem to revel in the misery Who is worse, the “it’s definitely not true” crowd, or the “it will only get worse” shitheads, I can’t decide Also, if he’s not dead? This could make him mad enough
Um... www.pizzint.watch
Oh my god, how did I not know about this index? My new fave, thank you
Also pleased to realize I haven’t lost the ability to hope
Hey US time zone friends, it’s morning in Central European time, so if you need to sleep, I can take over the timeline watch Am here ready to block every “oh you think anything will change?????” goober
I’m just practicing the lyrics to “yub nub” in case it turns out to be true
It’s morning here and I’m READY and it’s on my vision board Sleep well!
Whether or not it’s really happening, it’s great to realize that he’ll probably die mad that he can’t post through it
It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
It’s absolute mayhem right now. I’m not directly affected, but obviously I CARE. And wow, however bad it seemed before, this is sillier
Oh yeah, it’s absolutely being done so I can’t attend or participate. The whole thing is a shitshow anyway. We’re all affected in different ways, and me prob the least
I mean I waded in in part because at least I could tell this little BRF gauleiter off and blow off steam from not being able to tell off my head of school for disinviting me from a meeting about disbanding our department. As I cried in the airport, I was like, HOW AM I THE SHIT STIRRER HERE?
Like they say Swedes avoid conflict, but this is not true. That implies a culture of people pleasing. They stir up so much shit, it’s carbonated. They avoid the *consequences* of conflict.
It should be more satisfying to have ended with “at least my values are strong enough not to be threatened by a little dryer lint byeeeeee” but now I wonder if I’ll wake up to a stinkbomb on my doorstep
My ill-advised decision to wade in on an “I saw Goody Proctor with the Devil in the tvättstuga” thread in the neighborhood Facebook group has ended poorly for me. It’s the only way it could have gone unless I joined the “bring back hanging” side
I mean how these people call themselves scholars of the humanities, I don’t understand
Exactly! Like we’re allowed to be like, this is a problem and we should just remind people to do it, but the suggestions are like “permanently ban them.” And the post was 7 or 8 pics of lint screens. Not even laundry left behind. They just hadn’t done the lint screens!
I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂
I always knew academia was terrible, but this is a level I couldn’t have imagined.
Thank you! Thankfully, two of the other PhD students on the call messaged right away to be like “wtf omg what is happening here” But man, the number of ways they find to be insulting and terrible and then say it’s “just a misunderstanding” on my part is astonishing
It’s all a lesson in Godwin’s Law! You’re better off!
Like the difference between us and them is that you and I will be like “jail for 1000 years!” But we wouldn’t seriously condone things that harm vulnerable people
If you’re in the Älvsjö/Solberga group, you can see me being passive aggressive to someone who probably self-identifies as an “I choose joy” person, but also thinks she should be allowed to retaliate. I’m like, be annoyed! It’s totally annoying! I’m annoyed about everything! But man. These people
Oh it does me too! I made a comment about how I also got pissed off, but then this really elderly neighbor once asked me for help getting the laundry into the machine because he couldn’t bend over, and that was a good reminder that it’s not always the result of neglect.
Thank you! It’s rotten. I mean I had to get supervision from outside the department already, so I could just ignore it all and be unaffected. But I actually care about the future of the discipline AND about my fellow PhD students, so I mean… Just the PETTINESS of these people.
Name me one thing that turns people into authoritarians faster than the Swedish communal laundry room. I’m a bad person so I’ve waded into the comments with the wild suggestion that perhaps some of the suggestions are a little disproportionate. Every BRF is filled with wannabe gauleiters.
I was just in a meeting where I asked how they planned to gather input from those of us who can’t be part of the meetings because I’d like to contribute, and I was told that I should visit the university counseling center. I said, “I’m not continuing this call.” and red buttoned out.
Now we get a pile of word salad that’s been run through ChatGPT. Even though the other PhD students are happy to hold meetings in English, we’ve been told that’s not possible (but not why). I’m assured that this is not a work environment issue. Communicating exclusively through ChatGPT is fine!
They also say it can only be done in Swedish. They will do an English summary “with the help of ChatGPT.” In fact, since they started using it, they use it for ALL communications in any language other than Swedish. They used to do a Swenglish version (SOMETIMES) for really urgent stuff.
But the overall School we’re part of has been increasingly Swedified. We don’t get offered language training as part of our jobs, and it’s not a requirement in our contracts, so it’s not like we knew this when we started. But they are forcing us to do unpaid work as part of the disbandment, for one.
So my university department is being disbanded, not for financial reasons but for petty political ones. I need to preface this by saying we are an international university and 3 of the 4 PhD students are doing our dissertations in English and work and interact internationally.
I do know! I admire you all so much for it, and it’s so unfair that the punishment seems eternal.
Oh no! I’m so sorry! This is incredibly stressful for all of you. I can’t even fathom how bad the crisis is there! It’s always been chaotic, but it sounds brutal now.
Truly!!!!
And he was SO SOFT
This is Benny. He’s 2, and the happiest boy on earth. He was found in a trash can with his litter mates and a chicken. All the pups survived (not sure about the chicken) and now he spends his days bringing joy to the people of Matosinhos, Portugal. He loves the camera almost as much as it loves him
Omg I’ve actually gotten real LinkedIn messages just like that opener 😅
Ganley!!! Lord almighty
In like 2004, i didn’t want to get WiFi in my house because I thought “I’m already on the computer too much” and then I did, and I was on it too much and more
And because I silly-ly used Typeform, I had to pay 37 euro AFTER I shared it because I missed how the free version only allows 10 responses a month (it used to limit the number of questions). I paid for 500 responses so pls help me get my money’s worth.
I’m posting this again! I’m doing a talk about the way software for our work has become some weird rentier landscape and it’s a problem! I especially want to hear from folks outside of Europe and North America, as well as small agencies and solo acts.
I love when people decide to question my legitimacy in an anonymous form field. Fun! Maybe it’s just me this happens to? Because it’s every fucking time.
All those people you’ve been shitty to while you’ve raked in money and attention? They built the platform you’re about to stand on, sooo
If you’re abandoning your boosterism, remember to apologize and atone before changing your LinkedIn bio to “expert on AI criticism”
All answers are helpful! Thank you!!!
Wait wait, I thought I’d be able to use the spam protection and duplicate response prevention, which are extra handy if you’re an individual paying for a smallish number of responses. But I thought wrong! Another little monetization turd JAIL FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS
This is what you get when PMs are told they’re the CEO of the team and then they’re in charge of the research But really, jail is the only answer here Which sucks because it used to be the nicest tool to work with! But now it’s full of monetization turds, hiding around every corner
Then I go to the insights tab, where instead of actual insights, I get a big upsell telling me I can upgrade AGAIN to learn where respondents are dropping off. I can’t dismiss it, so I guess…just no insights? I’m generally an abolitionist but this product should go directly to JAIL
I set it for 500 responses a month, so paid 37 euro. Before it let me confirm (which was stressful bc I wanted to complete the payment before I got rate limited) there was another upsell MODAL telling me I should let them automatically charge me once I go over 500 responses.
Typeform will get my money this one time, and then never again. When I upgraded to paid, the default they offer is a business plan that if you’re not careful, will bill you €1000. You have to find the individual plans behind a tab and the monthly behind another one.
And, unintentionally proving my point, I somehow missed that Typeform only allows you to have 10 responses a month for free, so now I’ve shelled out 37 euro to keep collecting responses 😂
I’m doing a talk at Button, a content design conference, where I’m going to talk about the high cost of tooling in the work we do. I’ve made a survey so I can capture some numbers. If you work in content/design/adjacent (yes, ESPECIALLY if you’re unemployed) this is for you (and thanks!)
I love that they seem to have (wisely) locked down the emoji reaction selection to snail, heart, box, truck, heart, and PIZZA. So obviously everyone is sending pizza ones. An SVT interviewer is going around the crowd, interviewing people. Honestly, the world is a mess, watch this for a bit
If you wanna watch the #ChurchLurch live, here ya go. Even if you don’t speak Swedish, it’s both charming and soothing www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...
Omg we have like 18 hours to make this hashtag catch on
Today is the big move for Kiruna’s historic church, one of the largest wooden buildings in Sweden. It’ll be moved 0.5km per hour, over two days, all in one piece. I’m more excited than I should be and bummed not to be there www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
www.techradar.com/computing/cy... So now that Denmark holds the EU presidency, theyre pushing Chat Control back onto the European Parliament again. That means breaking encryption & automatically scanning & flagging all private communications online. EU fam, contact your reps: fightchatcontrol.eu
The only good thing about John Boyne’s constant comebacks is that we get to watch him step on rakes over and over A truly terrible person
I still don’t have a drone!!!
"Habibi, release your client list" i'm screaming
But truly would love to see it
My kid, age 4, huge fan
I can understand underestimating DC if you’ve never spent any time there, but imagine living there and still thinking you can mess with it DC is awesome