Kurt Y.
@kurty.bsky.social
Race cars, weird games, other nonsense. Opinions solely mine. He / Him.
created August 3, 2023
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Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
On the other hand, I did drive that section of 93 a few times this weekend, and let me tell you. People have lost their ABSOLUTE TINY MINDS on northbound since Friday and there's a non-zero chance that this is just a dumb nothing, stupidly told.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know about the "can't" side but I still use HomePods as my primary TV speakers for the AppleTV, works great.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I can remember times when 20 minutes in the Miata in full Nomex during summertime meant you could have -poured- me out of that car. Have had sessions when even parking properly afterwards felt like too much to manage.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
I am the furthest thing from a Barves fan but I need radio calls of this ASAP.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I will say, the first of these that I saw floating around, I thought "Ohhh, edgy internet humor with fake screenshots is back. Not my thing but I guess Zoomers gonna Zoom." I did not consider for a heartbeat that it was real and that's on me for not internalizing JUST HOW BAD IT IS THERE OMG.
Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team) reposted
[after tying my partner to the bed] them: i can't resist at allll what are you gonna do to me me: make you say nice things about yourself. repeat after me. them: what. No. What me: i am valuable- them: what's the safe word me: and am capable of doing things them: SAFE WORD WHAT'S THE SAFE WORD
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Comp Sci - the subject of my major comes up from time to time in my work. But every -single- workday the stuff I learned from the liberal arts side, or how to navigate challenging courses / professors, comes in handy.
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
He has refused his Assent to Laws… For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world… For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury… For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences… A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
And the timing makes me queasy. Years of inaction, and then a couple days after he's not under contract this happens? Not saying the club was protecting him, but it's certainly reasonable to wonder if they were.
Evan Urquhart (@evanurquhart.bsky.social) reposted
Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted
I have three hearings at three different courthouses today. At the second, someone was sobbing outside the courtroom. They'd asked ChatGPT what to say in Court. They believed what it told them. They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Somewhere along the line, someone taught Bettman about kayfabe and it stuck right and proper.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
$35M in super PAC money gets you a ride back to the suburbs. Get absolutely wrecked, gerontocracy in general and sex pests in particular.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Mr. Lander has the right of it.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
When I moved, it was revelatory how good Hannaford was compared to my NYC stores!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't understand it. I'm a huge sports fan and even I've started to cut back drastically because tickets + all the streaming options cost SO much. Maybe I'm just getting old and they really are continuing to extract so much more from folks in their 20s and 30s!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
So I picked it up probably eight or nine years ago after a hiatus and had the same reaction - but if it's the same Commander format from back then that also caught me by surprise, it's genuinely a lot of fun!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
They just fed "NK military parade but small and sad and American" into an AI slop generator.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is its own sort of shocking, because it means they're putting that over what I suspect is some, uh, pretty heavyweight institutional pride?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
This is making me think maybe the Navy -did- drop those jets in the drink on purpose.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, until today, I didn't think the Navy was dumping all those jets in the drink on purpose the last few months? But hooooo boy this is not a group that wants to be doing anything they're doing.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm shocked, to be honest! I don't know anything about military but they look out of sync, casual, absolutely not sharp?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, I'm the exact farthest from an expert - but isn't this marching super sloppy for a parade? They don't look in sync, sharp, anything like that.
William Shakespeare (@shakespeare.lol) reposted
Sorry am I his numbers are so few
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
First-timer here! It was a great time. Super energizing. We have neighbors who have our backs, and we have theirs.
Col. Boozy Badger (@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com) reposted
“I’m am invoking my right to remain silent and I am invoking my right to have an attorney present.” Then you shut the fuck up.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Targeted political assassinations by either police or people dressed as police? Seems real bad after weeks of ICE acting as badge-hiding paramilitaries!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Nope. Nope nope nope. Don't like this one bit. I would prefer we not hurdle fecklessly over every obstacle towards the Cool Zone?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
LFG!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
If only cities had a well-established plan to clear, say, "encampments" of unhoused individuals that they don't care to have around. Maybe they could bus them to TX.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Never heard of it!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I see you have the editors that normally do the police beat on this one. The exonerative tense, applied to rockets?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
The exonerative tense, but for rockets.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Steak, grilled corn, maybe a random veg like asparagus and a starch is S-tier in terms of "reasons to be".
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks, I hate it and I dislike you playing booster for it!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Inside you there are two wolves:
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Those Nuphy keyboards are so satisfying on key feeling! I get it.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Smaug-ass dictator.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
It's ~real bad out there~
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
This is horrific! I think I might love it?!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, a beaux-dega!
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Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
First prequel was my first formative fandom experience with "maybe this... isn't good despite my really wanting it to be?" Went from all-in to, to this day, never having seen the other prequels.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
(Better than even if you sub "we" for "they"...)
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
If anyone tries to tell him about the Brandenburg test, even odds his response is "I didn't know they had a camp there!"
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
The inclusion of "Award-Winning Lawyers" in the Court's filing struck me as deeply, entertainingly malicious.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Great, now I'm realizing the boaters I'm watching over a beer are way too competent for peak entertainment. Link?
Thew Adams (@toygrind.bsky.social) reposted
We're getting pizza and I'm obsessed with this slightly broken mural that used to be about eating with your hands but now it reads like Saruman's manifesto
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Took an urgent "prevent burnout" break for the week. New England, you suit me just fine.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I am "lucky" that work is turning into a 12-hour daily intense slog, keeping me from feeling hockey feelings entirely! I manage to forget that it's Caps playoff szn for multiple hours at a time.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
DIS-CORD ROAD TRIP! *clap clap clapclapclap*
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Genuinely glad I got, like, three months and change of full-on distraction from Like a Dragon and Infinite Wealth. Now to hold out for the pirate one to go on mega-sale...
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
The Gap swing-dancing ads that used the same camera trick were one of the first ads I can think of that went 'viral', for a '99 definition of the term, anyway.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Ooof. SJU, man. That hurts.
Ryan North (@ryannorth.ca) reposted
today is the day
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
I may be about to lose my mind and go on an absolute temper tantrum about The Brands. Please, PLEASE cool it for like a MINUTE, marketers.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no, now I'm back to missing blaseball so very, very, very much!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
ST. JOHN'S! WOOOOO!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
On the other hand, maybe this goes towards the obvious endgame of making us pay a premium for "the product but without AI in it"
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
It was rough this year. They put an LLM in and I spent an hour redoing stuff because their LLM got a bunch of stuff backwards and sent me on a wild goose chase.
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Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Having an absolutely hideous time with Dell. Bought a top-of-the-line Alienware less than a year ago - had a horrific RMA experience last summer and now it's dead again. What a terrible experience!
Patrick Rapa (@classypatrick.bsky.social) reposted
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Uhh - is it just me or is Tom Cruise, at this age, starting to bear a bit of a resemblance to Neil Breen?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Hell yeah! When I got my photo with the NYCFC starting XI, I was proud to stand by fellow SJU alum Chris Wingert!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
The Threadnaught turned my latent, high-school-era interest in IP law and SCO vs. IBM into a pretty seamless "here is an entertaining person who talks about IP law" experience. Plus your Discord community is great.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Just hope we don't hit a tipping point where his judges get just as lawless. Cannon has shown them it's open season with no consequences if they just want to Calvinball things for Trump's benefit.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, there all day Saturday, let's say hi!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
@bills-endalzracing.bsky.social You going to be at Daytona for the 24?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Commanders playing with house money for weeks now. What a blast this is!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
It just feels really good to have a team to root for again. Commanders!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
There's just some tiny part of me that wants to believe this can be satire and an elaborate Hitchhiker's Guide tribute and not what I fear, which is that Douglas Adams' satire is now just... what we have going on.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I decided to move away from smartwatches for a while because of notification overload: went with the G-Shock G-LIDE partly because of how you talk up Casio and absolutely loving it!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
I moved back from a smartwatch to a Casio G-Shock because too many notifications on my wrist were becoming a nuisance - it's great, but I have SO MUCH phantom notification syndrome now. Brains are weird.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I wouldn't say no to a blocked FG returned for 2 next week...
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
JOINING THE PANTHEON OF GREAT D.C. SPORTS DOINKS! youtu.be/LbNPDlCLPPo?...
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
ONE OF THE GREAT D.C. SPORTS DOINKS, JOINING THIS ONE! youtu.be/LbNPDlCLPPo?...
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
AHHHHHH THE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS HAVE DONE A THING! JAYDEN DANIELS, TAKE A BOW!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
AHHHHHHHHHHH
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Even living there for well over a decade, the sum total of my driving was "need to go somewhere off the island and not near transit", which consisted of 'get the rental car to/from the FDR / West Side Highway as quickly as possible'. I have never gone point-to-point in NYC even once!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably, but at least the one I looked into was a 'normal' provider with decent reviews! The whole thing just feels so sketchy that I put it off for when I'm a more savvy and experienced homeowner.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Genuinely, they all wanted me to email them an unredacted power bill so badly I just assume they're all doing identity theft and/or selling personal info, with solar as a side business?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I got my first house this year and the door-to-door solar sales-people are SO SKETCHY they made me delay my solar plans! I don't know what it is about the business that makes them just... not want to be normal and sell you solar without being weird?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Special teams apparently took every one of those 87 yards personally!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
(Obviously not a real question - just goes back to 'this is nothing, designed for nobody')
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I am pretty plugged-in and I have no idea what Apple Intelligence even -is-. Is it just the bespoke emojis?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
It's baffling. I work some long weeks (no, not 80 hours) and will treat myself to a burrito taxi sometimes during those weeks, but I don't fool myself that it's somehow cheaper - that's what the money from working is for!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
People are going to scoff, but this kind of basic research is -crucial- if we ever want to advance our understanding. Looking forward to the very, very specific ways in which this doesn't work.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Jayden Daniels, wow. What can you even say? Raise hail, Commies, and PLAYOFFS!
Scorigami (@nflscorigami.bsky.social) reposted
BAL 31 - 2 HOU Final No Scorigami. That score has happened 2 times before, most recently on September 19, 1965.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
There is a 'Quiet Posters' feed that just shows you the posts from your less loquacious follows! bsky.app/profile/did:...
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
I have a confession to make. I've been working in IT or consulting for twenty years, and I have -no idea- what it means to be "on a roll on LinkedIn" like they keep mailing me. Worse still for The Brands, I don't -want- to know and I wish they'd stop telling me about it.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
MLS is fun, USMNT is boring, no stakes with auto-quali, and the USMNT discourse is EXHAAAAAAUSTING and I just don't want to engage with any of it. "More MLS vs. MLS doesn't matter" wore out ages ago.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I like to think that it's because I needed a little treat. Thanks, Caps, for bringing back the Tiger!
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
"Gorging on pornography" is a much more evocative phrase than I'd like it to be.
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, it -is- a long drive from New York back to Florida in that Mercedes he was photographed in toda- wait a minuuuuute....
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
That'll be a heck of an exhibit for Thursday's hearing, huh?
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social)
Did the thing. #IVoted
Kurt Y. (@kurty.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember delaminating in the weeks running up to it, and then nothing pretty much until Four Seasons Total Landscaping.