Jake Nelson
@jakenelson.bsky.social
Ex-politics, retail, games, tokusatsu. Just some guy, I guess?
Yandex is uploading everything to the cloud. Very advanced Russian technology. No cables, no servers.
If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.
have never disliked my hometown, but the thought of spending my whole life in one place is viscerally, existentially disturbing to me Very likely to hit the extremely common "Minnesota Boomerang": leave for somewhere 'more interesting', come back a few years later because it's just better here
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6h agoi know i’m getting old when i visit my hometown — which i was desperate to escape — and think, “you know, this place isn’t so bad”
That's a very good point about the cartoon network and other leaks that I feel like is understated in all this Companies keeping all of their production materials so private that not even the people who worked on it can access it is 100% an anti-worker measure
Melo@letitmelo.bsky.social · 13h ago325gb of art and material that artists and animators weren't allowed to use in portfolios to keep themselves fed.
these companies need to be strangled to death with the full force of the regulatory state at the soonest opportunity
It's possible to see a rare fragment of the original face of St Anthony Falls on @eastbankmpls.bsky.social, bypassed long ago by millponds and the NSP hydroelectric station. Getting here involves some care, I nearly fell down an uncovered concrete shaft when taking this video.
As you get older, you realize the importance of having a large amount of shallow bowls in which to put small amounts of discrete objects
Because I’m 42 and don’t know who Zoosha is otherwise.
Steve Burak@swburak.bsky.social · 16h agoWhy do people with vision need alt text for an image...?
These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me
to me, a layup sensible AI regulation is "do not allow the AI agent to make phone calls for any reason"
John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social · 4d agoA lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence...
Hot singles in your area are looking for a host organism
Twenty bucks says the password for Skydance’s servers is 12345 like in Spaceballs.
ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · yesterday⚠️ A massive leak containing model sheets, puppet rigs, storyboards, and other materials from Cartoon Network shows have been spread on the internet. Fans are speculating that the Skydance merger (as Paramount’s content is very notorious of getting leaked) was the cause.
The media widely covered the stakes of the 2024 election as being that Biden and Harris supported endless forever wars and Trump opposed them, despite literally the opposite being true
Institute for the Study of War@thestudyofwar.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: US President Donald Trump told reporters on October 10 that he is considering whether the United States will conduct offensive strikes against the Houthis in response to recent Houthi attacks on Saudi airports and other civilian infrastructure. (1/2) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate10...
Nothing like losing a day off and two days of work to a migraine when I'm out of sick time for the year, yayyyy
no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt
Politico@politico.com · 2d agoHouse Democratic campaign arm says it needs $17 million, and fast politi.co/3Wh1xra
i probably shouldn’t admit how much i gasped when i saw this
with rates like this nobody is going to be able to afford their 6090rtx mortgage
I'm so very sorry but at first glance the glasses registered as this
QT 🔞@forbiddenqt.bsky.social · yesterday
re-uploading because I misspelled their name. I'm sorry Biddy Blas, you deserve so much better.
"two-term Democratic governor of Kentucky who is skeptical of Democrats' ability to win less red Southern states" is admittedly a great bit but now is really not the time
Candidate for Bogomil Pope@yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · yesterday“You know…I’m not so sure about some of these states, seems awful hard to win” Like motherfucker you’re from KENTUCKY! I don’t wanna hear you say some race is too hard or too red
this is definitely on the "I hit it even moderately rich and go all World Traveler" destination list
Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · yesterdayMuseo Nacional de Antropologia: insanely cool
