Cori Doctorow calls it enshittification. It’s a very real thing.
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Cori Doctorow calls it enshittification. It’s a very real thing.
Maybe a puppy the size of a puppy-sized dinosaur?
In my case, it was also that she echoed all the things my insecurities told me were wrong with me.
And if the treatment is the same regardless of the test results, then act now rather than waiting.
She’s perfect! One of my favorite gifs is of my younger son at that age where I just put the camera on burst mode and took shot after shot of his facial expressions.
And I believe the proper reply is “pearls before swine.”
Missouri’s gain is the nation’s loss.
Great, Jessie is reinstated, as they should be. Now, about the Palestinian accounts…
Hey @bsky.app @pfrazee.com let it be known on the record that JK Rowling deserves to be crushed by a falling piano. Reinstate Jessie immediately.
And welcome immigrants.
I like Kansas City’s new airport quite a bit, but I do wish their BBQ restaurants served chicken.
The Flinx series by Alan Dean Foster.
Slings and Arrows got an entire season out of his Hamlet!
Triptans in general have been life changing for me.
A few thoughts on charting out a post-Trump future and reclaimed democratic America talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...
The Darwin is the way to go, especially for folks with Alpha-gal (the fastest growing allergy in the US).
“Dude” is delightfully noncommittal.
Rarely do I get a piece of junk mail that clearly grasps the current economic reality, but this one gets it.
I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them. Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
Yes, I am judging the person ahead of me whose trunk is held shut with masking tape. That’s a job for duck tape.
Does “minimum security” mean fewer cameras?
At my most recent wedding, the priest said to the 20 or so attendees, “If any of you has any objections to this union, you should have come to see me in my office before now. “
Yeah, I guess my answer depends on your definition of “believe” and “god.”
Exactly!
I disagree. The point of kids sports is to teach them to lose gracefully.
Oh, cmon. Next thing you’re going to tell me that Beaver Cleaver has some hidden Freudian meaning.
Mine, with a bonus sliver of the moon.
Gotta love Goodhart’s Law.
Not just artificial, but trite, mundane, and mediocre. LLMs are a machine designed to produce the lowest common denominator. That has a couple of uses, but producing meaningful text or creating new knowledge is not among them.
Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
My corner of choice is hashtag woodworking, but this place has a lot of corners.
My wife’s hobby is collecting hobbies, and I am here for it.
I just had Stray recommended to me. You play a cat helping robots.
There ended up being some amazing colors and grain in this rotten piece of maple that otherwise would have been pitched for being too hard to split and too rotten to burn. 4/4 #woodworking
A few weeks ago, I cut them down into nice Euclidean shapes and used packing tape to seal all but one side. I mixed up a bunch of epoxy with mica flakes in it for color, and set about filling the voids left by rot and bugs. The epoxy also bridges cracks and stabilizes rotten areas. 3/🧵 #woodworking
Last fall, my SIL had some trees that needed to come down, and she saved some logs for me. They were bug-riddled and rotten, so I stuck them in my fancy solar kiln for a while. 2/🧵 #woodworking
This is a lidded bowl I turned from found wood last week. Here’s a thread on how I made it. 1/🧵 #woodworking
pam bondi as porta potties: thread
Helluva way to go…
Every major medical association and leading world health authority supports health care for transgender people and youth. glaad.org/medical-asso...
Iced green tea with a cardamom/cinnamon ACV shrub.
Love the chatoyance on that complex grain. Such a pain to plane, but so beautiful with the right finish!
Yeah, nobody’s going to take that job unless there are no better jobs available. Econ 101!
True. But I’ve never been in the middle of a glue up and thought, “I need more protractors.”
I was a cynic in my teens because most of the smart people I knew were cynics. As I got older and expanded my circle, I noticed that the smartest of the smart people cultivated hope and worked to make the world better for those around them.
Lord, I have so much malware in my brain around this. I’m constantly catching myself about to say stuff like that to my kids. But I refuse to pass on the dysfunction!
It’s guessing. The process behind the guesses is fancy, but it’s still guessing.
That is such a good point. Another way that homophobia hurts straight men, too.
Unless those kids are trans and you want to give them evidence-based support.
Yeah, but episode four only makes sense if you’ve read the comics. Obviously, I mean the ones the writer put out on Substack, not the sellout corporate version that came out in stores.
This is why it matters whether the government takes climate change into account when building out infrastructure. That includes considering what materials mix would be best for roads in areas likely to get much hotter in coming years. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... 🧵
Roughly a thousand years ago, when I was a young man, my dad told me that sports exist so men can have something to argue about without trying to kill each other.
I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but the secret to pulled chicken that shreds easily is to pay attention to the grain when you cut it up so that the individual stands are short, around an inch. Practically falls apart.
It’s good you were specific. “I’m off my meds” has a different vibe.
I made a useless little box. (Deck of cards for scale) #woodworking
But when did H tell his group chat?
Yes! He’s trying to save a safe place to perch between the dangers of civilization and the dangers of wilderness, but all that’s available is the illusion of safety clung to by the mayor and other powers that be.
Be who you are fully. Everyone else is already taken.
Sounds like that’s from the book? I like the gunshot reading because of how it fits with the film’s theme of unseen horrors, but there’s an argument for following the “original” text.
Go for Close Encounters for more Richard Dreyfus.
Did you notice the way Brody lifts up his shirt, touches a gunshot scar, and doesn’t say anything. Immediately explains why he moved out of the city and conveys so much character without a single word of dialogue.
The reason AI evangelists get angry when people say their tech isn't working as well as they promised (or, as @tressiemcphd.bsky.social puts it, is "mid") is the same reason I get cranky when my wife says my DIY plumbing isn't good enough. It's not. It's never going to be. And I know it.
Years ago, I bought a shredder with the largest sheer capacity I could afford, and it’s so satisfying to just drop junk mail in without even opening it!
A change of clothes can be a way of distinguishing time as apart from ordinary time. I once worked with a guy whose work drove the financial fate of the company. He wore a tie even when he worked from home and wasn’t on camera. Why? When he had a tie on, he was at work. When he didn’t, he wasn’t.
I’m reorganizing the #workshop and built a rolling cart for my drill press. Instead of drawers, I put Gridfinity grid on pull out shelves, and have been printing specialized bins. #woodworking
Urgent care!
Nice lines! Are there things you know will get stashed there? If so, get their height. I ended up redoing part of my pantry reno because the shelves were about an inch too short for my favorite cereal.
Steinbeck, Travels With Charley
A whole lotta people who were in favor of war with Iraq but now pretend they opposed it are suddenly in favor of war with Iran and I’d like them to skip years ahead to the part where they’re against it but this time I’d like to skip the part where we get into an unnecessary war.
I briefly had a boss who said, “Your team doesn’t do X enough, so I need you to do Y and Z. I don’t care if they don’t like it.” Me: “I bet I can get them to do X without Y and Z. Give me two weeks.” Boss, 2 weeks later: “They’re doing X now, but you didn’t do Y or Z so I’m not giving you credit.”
I honestly think there were more people on the Mall the last time I was there on a random Thursday.
😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns
Undocumented immigrants contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes every year. Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1% dodge $163 billion in taxes annually. The real drain on America isn’t coming from the border — it’s coming from the boardroom.
And every child’s brain rebuilds the language through exposure and then it grows and changes more throughout a life.
Do mine next!
Thank the janitorial staff, too.
My personal hypothesis is that somebody read about passing a Turing test as proof of AGI and then proceeded to design a tool to pass said Turing test without ever even bothering to find out what AGI even is, let alone achieve it.
I’m a man trying to guide two young men into adulthood, and the thing I dislike the most about being a man is the anger.
Do you even have a feed at this point?
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
Raise your hand if you’re not even a meteorologist and you still know there’s a hurricane season.
amazingribs.com/tested-recip... This is good for anything you put on the grill, basically. This and a good thermometer will take you a long way.
You don't even need to translate the message to understand the video. 🥰
Big Bird
I am telling you right now, and I've said it before, I'm not voting for Democrats who move even a centimeter towards the right on trans issues.
Is there such a thing as reverse Dorian Gray?
That's why they conceal their nature.
I consider it a victory if my to-do is shorter when I go to bed than when I got up.
Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social
What happens to all the stuff inside a werehouse when the moon is full and it turns into a house?
And the ongoing choices of those who enable and empower him.
"I've Never Been to Spain" is the best song ever written by/about a celebrity trying to correct their own Wikipedia entry.
UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!
That's awesome! Way cooler than the one I made. Though mine has Joust and Dig Dug...
Dr. Feta?
If he got the idea for tariffs on movies from watching movies, I would not worry about him going after books.
Using the retail calendar helps with some of this, but, yeah YoY always has issues.