work is pushing ai so like a good little worker I tried to use our LLM to finish off a 300+ line Case When statement and I had to tell it 5 times to write the full statement! "The full statement would be 300 lines, here's a truncated version." bitch no! how's an incomplete statement saving me time??
Top 10 mysterious outsiders who wandered into town and changed our lives forever
Sliced bread (1928) was only 23 years old when the phrase “the best thing since sliced bread” was coined (1951), so being the best thing since sliced bread is a lot more impressive now than it was then
Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."
It's striking to me that in addition to continuing to ship right up until the day before yesterday, they shipped this lettuce to Iowa and Wisconsin but not Minnesota, the state with the notoriously good team for sourcing these outbreaks.
paris martineau@paris.nyc · 3w agoNew: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
I bet reanimated skeleton warriors don't have to wake up tomorrow and spend all day on the computer
most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
Violence in Blue
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
granta.com
As a US politician you can routinely call for, and use your considerable power to vote for and agitate for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people around the world and it doesn't count as killing them for some reason. A person who does that is not a killer for some reason.
If you live in Philly and you have menswear to donate, please consider donating to the Warehouse: careerwardrobe.org - they are particularly in need of menswear at this time.
Home - The Wardrobe
Exciting news! The Wardrobe is opening a temporary POP-UP location at Plymouth Meeting Mall starting July 13, 2026! Supporters are invited to shop, donate, and volunteer while helping us empower peopl...
careerwardrobe.org
THANKS, CHRIS. YES, I'M HERE IN THE CONTROL CENTER OF THE BATH, AND I'M SHOUTING SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO HEAR ME OVER THE ROAR OF THE TAPS. IT'S A MAGNIFICENT SIGHT, ONE MADE POSSIBLE BY A FEAT OF PLUMBING AND A BIT OF HOPE. THE TECHNICIANS ARE TELLING ME THEY EXPECT TONIGHT'S TO BE A BATH TO REMEMBER.
Unfettered access to one insane friend's media collection is better than any streaming service on the planet
Horsepower is a cool unit of measurement. More stuff should be measured in horse units. How tall is your building, in horsetower?
This is insanely damning and yet more reason why LLMs should not be used (and, indeed, should be *banned* from being used) in even areas they are technically "proficient", such as generating citations.
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
New app: do you want to enable notifications? Me: I don't even want to have this phone
the disgustingly, violently American intersection of people unable to afford diapers and murderous cops
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2mo agoKohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.
where are we searching for tattoo inspo now that pinterest is full of ai?? is zuckstagram really the only game in town
Great deep dive onto unionbusting practices in Minnesota nursing homes—a systemic issue across the U.S. for a population of workers that's already exploited and vulnerable.
"How Is This Okay?": Union Busting at Publicly Funded Facilities Amid Staffing Crisis - Workday Magazine
A report published in March by Columbia University’s Labor Lab finds that nursing homes in Minnesota that receive public funds through Medicare and Medicaid are more likely to use union-busting tactic...
workdaymagazine.org
You can say the most vile shit imaginable about the places that produce most of the nation’s GDP where most Americans live but the second you so much as breathe disdain for massively subsidized flyover exurbs You Have Done A No Growth, How Dare You.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2mo agothe real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit
Getting bloodwork for Wrigley done this morning and this sign was in the lobby (it’s a vet office, just to be clear)
NBA is rigged! when Spurs had 29 point lead the game should have been immediately stopped and Spurs declared winner. Instead officials decides to play "4th quarter?" and Knicks "somehow" score enough baskets to win. Fraud!
