(this one was a meme on here two years ago, glad to see they are thriving now)
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(this one was a meme on here two years ago, glad to see they are thriving now)
Types of call: -margin -collect -clarion -roll -booty
Describe police reform in 4 words
Joseph Weizenbaum said “The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it. But in fact there are actors”
"Sure we give you an intentionally unfinished, malfunctioning product, but you should not let that stop you."
To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
Hard agree! sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...
Spud would be an excellent name for a cat
Big deal! I can detect heart failure far faster than AI, as long as there is no particular requirement for being right.
Damn that's some crazy elevation gain...but isn't a lot of that route over major roads?
And you can go the other day to connect with the rail trail that connects to New Paltz and Kingston!
I've been planning on doing that route over 3 days lmao
You've been holding out on us??
Oh wait no he actually did go, in a dorky golf shirt
Imagining Andrew Cuomo at J'Ouvert, in a suit and tie, slowly getting reduced to rubble by the sheer sonic waves of the steel drum band.
When the canary in the coal mine kicks, you don’t shrug, keep working, and put in an order on Amazon Prime for more vulnerable birds. You get the fuck out of the mine, and work on fixing whatever the issue so that it’s safe for canaries.
I have no doubt that whenever someone brings this up the "engineers" make a crude joke about dispensing their massive load and then start high fiving indefinitely
In the same way that ChatGPT outputs only have meaning because its users assign them meaning, Sam Altman's outputs only have meaning because a guileless press corps full of stenographers immediately rushes off to "interpret" them. "CEO said a thing" gets spun into "OpenAI has accomplished a thing."
Remember, when Sam Altman says shit like "future iterations of GPT will require fusion power" or "we will need to build data centers on the moon" he's not revealing an ambitious roadmap. He's doing marketing. Putting "OpenAI" and "moon base" in the same sentence is the only goal.
You need to imply that I hate waffles
*yami yugi voice* you've activated my charcoal
Normally I'm always against trying hard, but this time I think you can certainly put in more effort
I'm a little disappointed that I've never gotten the wave of low quality replies everyone else keeps complaining about. Are my posts not good enough?
Isn't it a ch sound then
If each follower donates one skull, you'll have enough in no time
Before AI, memes used to be good
github has a soft g if gif does
Per @bretdevereaux.bsky.social "Gaius Julius Caesar is rendered as Geye-uhs Yoo-lee-uhs Keye-sar."
If it worked for vodka sauce...
That's only when you put vodka in the dressing
Yeah malleable software is one thing, but a designer just making it accessible from the beginning is actually much better
Technically it should be pronounced kaiser salad.
Important reminder for anyone who thinks you can feed photos of Trump through AI filters and believe you’re getting a more accurate picture of reality.
STALKER 2 looking phenomenal
They were working on a nuclear powered plane for a while, which for obvious reasons didn't pan out
Why does China want Siberia? Russia is already building out tons of infrastructure for sending resources to China at a deep discount. The only advantage of owning that land directly is to have a bigger name on the map.
Bsky is dying. A new bsky struggles to be born. Now is the time of poasters.
YALL this is brilliant and mind blowing using the audio from Vietnam war on the national guard here in #DC
For reference, here is the Space Needle seen from 9 miles away.
I never joke.
It's a TV show as well as a film but I rather liked Bomb Girls, following a group of women making munitions during WWII
It's just this x 1000
UX design
The only card more powerful than Exodia
they/themlock, is this anything
It tickles me that the Hakka - "guest families" - are called that because they were latecomers to southern China, arriving a mere 1000 years ago
"In 1751, Benjamin Franklin classified the world's population... black, tawny, swarthy, and white. Some will be surprised to discover that Franklin listed the French, Germans, Russians, and Swedes among the swarthy. The only whites to his mind were the English and the Saxons."
I am going to lick it
Happy labor day, go thank a union
environmental storytelling used purposefully can warn the player this opponent is higher level and more dangerous than the character art suggests
I'm a card carrying member of the bean club (ok they don't send you a card but they do send you beans)
A donut is round like a circle! You can't fool me!!
The effects of writing FORTRAN on a human mind
(it's the Normal Guy from this comic, but next year I'll do The Proletarian)
Well now I know what my Halloween costume is going to be
But it is embedded in a flat universe, checkmate atheists
This is actually my job on this website. I'm paid a lot.
comically large castle that bankrupts your kingdom
You know your neighbors. How many see the same doctor as you? I hope you understand that the rollbacks on making industries pay for poisoning drinking water mean that not only will you foot the bill to clean it, you will also struggle to prove it made you sick in the first place.
One of my favorite tricks for naval invading is to slap down an airport as soon as I've captured a state, makes breaking out a lot easier when you have CAS
Is this post about Rudy Giuliani
STALKER 2 looking phenomenal
OMG I had to email this NOAA researcher to be like, what's this .rex file things you're using, it's not documented anywhere, and he was like I named it after my dog Rex Because the dog was big and the files were about big hurricanes
the specific ones that were coming to mind in making this post were Scott's Window Resizing Utility and Tom's MIDI Player btw. they both do the thing they say www.scottandmichelle.com/scott/progra... www.grandgent.com/tom/projects...
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Aside from theater, they are not "doing" anything bro
So stoked to see the National Design Studio's undying commitment to craft and taste extends to poaching Big Balls from DOGE
When are you dropping your "top must read 40 articles about design systems" linkedin post?
Which is tricky esp with younger Gen Z and Gen Alpha, who really only know the internet as frictionless largely thanks to heavily personalized algos and overly simplified UX. Introducing friction and framing it as a positive is a real challenge.
"What did they click on?" is a long studied problem in HCI that interface designers never studied
Do React devs (as in the devs who work on React) know that there is any other way?
It's usually some variation of summarizing ideas (it doesn't actually summarize, it abbreviates), writing code/generating prototypes (many words written about why it doesn't work), and therapy (this "use case" has already killed several people)
I genuinely do not think that the people making the tools are aware that they're articulating an opinion!
I wish I could fold the Brompton without having to unclip the bag from the bike
I've been compelled to write about it.
The problem is that the tools let people do shit that doesn't matter, and it's distracting them from learning the shit that matters
What designers think UX is: sick ass animations that tap into 300% of your CPU to perform the perfect element transition that's keyframed for the most delightful ease curve What UX is: make the text bigger and let people hold the thing
The advantage of getting Linux is that going on the internet to ask for help won't be met with "just install Linux" unless you installed the wrong kind of Linux
I asked my butler to compose an appropriately lowbrow joke that will resonate with the Blue Sky set, and he proposed "Châteauneuf-du-Crap"
Every time my brain goes "Josh technical product manager" and then I remember I blocked him ten years ago and laugh and laugh
Big popular accounts add alt text to you screenshots challenge (impossible).
software craftsman
my body is craving nutrience (salt)
Script kid: I can cast 10,000 spells per second Frieren: oh, when? Script kid: as soon as my rate limit period expires
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
jfc if I'd seen this before publishing, I would have included it in the article. A certain percentage of fashy designers are cheering in expectation that their personal taste will be elevated to the level of government policy like neoclassical architecture has been.
Weizenbaum makes a compelling argument over several pages that the invention of the computer arrested social innovation and progress in institutions, allowing for the preservation of a conservative way of life that is both resistant to change and unable to deal with the complexity it itself created
The uproar from misogynists over Silent Hill f being about the Japanese women's movement of the 60s plays into a theory I've had that these people all fetishize media that comes from Japan because in their minds Japanese culture is immune to feminism.
Students throughout history have been the driving force behind democratic movements; unfortunately our administration knows this
As you watch Indonesia remember: Yes, it's workers protesting but importantly also students, a short thread on their role in history.
OK this is not actually what the show is about, but it's also not NOT what it's about
Hyped up script kid of the week: what, you're using basic magic? Don't you know that you have to adopt the cutting edge of progress or fall behind? Frieren: your vibe spell has 281 security flaws
Enjoyed watching Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, a show about an industry veteran schooling newbs who only know how to do magic using chatgpt
Folks closer to events are sharing footage on here
Looks like the government is simultaneously caving to protester demands and dialing up crackdowns, which seems to signal a lack of sincerity? Protesters pausing action to avoid reprisals but don't seem convinced.
It does seem like tensions have been simmering for a long time, but haven't they everywhere at this point
