I have flown a mission in my airplane to transport an assembled Lego set from California to Washington. I support this endeavor.

Star Simpson@starstar.bsky.social · 6h ago

Alright-I’m at the point where I have to share this. I’m trying to pull of a special mission. I’m trying to buy the biggest LEGOs ever. But I might need help from the network to pull this off.

“Rather than paying a worker overtime to spend a weekend…”

You Guys Are Getting Paid?

Alt: You Guys Are Getting Paid?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3w ago

When an airline cranks up the price of an itinerary without a Saturday stay, they're using that fact as a proxy for "price-insensitive" business travelers whose bosses can afford to pay more for a ticket, rather than paying a worker overtime to spend a weekend away from home after a meeting.

I was in such an uber and immediately I noticed the camera was off center, so I looked closer. Then I thought “The zoom must be wrong there’s no way that Tesla is getting that close.” *crunch*

DilDog 🅅@dildog.l0pht.com · 3w ago

was in an uber recently with a digital rear view mirror and all i could think of was the failure modes

Why isn’t it called husbandry?

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · last mo.

Mankeeping--serving as a partner's sole emotional support--correlates with women's lower relationship satisfaction & higher relationship burden and burnout and depression, anxiety, and stress. Women with traditional gender role beliefs more likely to mankeep. www.psypost.org/mankeeping-t...

Pedro Pascal's lesser known sibling, Turbo,

Goddamn it.

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com · last mo.

Software dev is all the 2nd 80% now

Q. What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mount climber? A. Silly, you can’t cross a vector with a scaler.

apenwarr@apenwarr.ca · last mo.

I’ve made nerdy jokes before, but this might be my first one that is only funny to polymaths. My posting truly has a niche audience

I think by the time your polycule has 60 nodes you need to have some SREs. The target availability is, obviously, 6 9s

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2mo ago

60-person-polycules are basically just a very pure form of applied network theory

Amateurs study tactics. Fluffers study logistics.

Doug Simpkinson@douglips.com · 2mo ago

I can't believe there's more than one forbidden image that could be in this thread. I better change the subject. How about a recipe for paella?

This exists! manta5.com/collections

Cool Bike Art@coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's hot out, you might as well get wet Popular Mechanics July 1919

I had this exact experience, except it was after successfully finding usembassy dot de was the US Embassy in Germany, I went to usembassy dot ca to get to the US Embassy in Canada. After the twentieth porn popup in 10 seconds I pulled the plug on my Sun workstation in my cubicle at work.

Patrick Matthews@matthewsp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

True work story. A 🧵 It's Spring of 2000. I'm relatively new at my job (for an employer I've now been with an improbable 26 years), and at a customer site. As it happens I actually had my own office at the customer site for this gig, thank God, as it turns out in this incident. 1/4

If you put a flock camera into a Juicero it spits out a 1.7 pound ingot of copper and a 1 gram gold coin.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Juicero guys were actually also the designers of the Flock camera which is why each one is made with 2-3 lbs of copper and 1-2 grams of gold.

This looks like @astrokatie.com ’s favorite.

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 4mo ago

This one's all for @staybunn.bsky.social Not going near the Chandrasekhar blend again though. Made my whole face pucker. half the town too.

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

Reminder that 13 years ago today Google Reader was killed.

Goddammit, Boston.

I made him a hat. www.customink.com/designs/Make...

Custom Ink Design 'Make Algae Grow Again'

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dan sinker@dansinker.com · 4mo ago

Thanks to Trump's helpful infographic we know that the algae is taller than the Sears Tower.

Amazing things happening on the Bainbridge->Seattle ferry tonight.

🧵

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 5mo ago

I'm not voting for a candidate that wants fascism for trans kids, but safety for me. Don't try to sell me that you're worried about rising fascism, if you think there's enough of a safety margin to throw away the 5% to 10% of anti-fascist votes that you will lose by backing an anti-trans candidate.

You're just assuming that's true. Do you have any evidence that I misuse that phrase?

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Friends. You almost always mean it "raises the question." You do not mean it "begs the question." Please, for the sake of my sanity, never use "begs the question." It almost never does. Please.

Mad Max (1979)

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“Gas station signs go blank because there is no gas” a pretty bleak image

It would be hilarious if some state agency is able to do a bribery sting on him while he’s in Minnesota.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 9mo ago

in terms of violent confrontations, though, homan won’t be out on the streets stirring that up. he’ll be nestled safely in the whipple building. just as evil as bovino but a different energy.

Just another day in paradise.

a man in a suit and tie says sell it all in front of a woman

Alt: a man in a suit and tie says “sell it all” in front of a woman (from the movie Margin Call)

media.tenor.com

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9mo ago

* DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES * AKADEMIKERPENSION CIO SAYS US `IS BASICALLY NOT A GOOD CREDIT' @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, harpoon‘s heavy There’s vomit on his sweater already Spermaceti

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 10mo ago

reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti

I was wondering if someone might do this intentionally as a way to “accidentally“ leak it.

Liam Nissan™@theliamnissan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Fixed it.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 10mo ago

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

"As the server rebooted from a kernel upgrade, it found itself transformed in its rack into a gigantic insect."

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com · 10mo ago

We experienced catastrophic Kafka failure in @honeycomb.io's EU instance on 5 Dec, exacerbated by missing automation and safeguards. Recovery is now complete, and we have posted an outline of critical events during the incident. Fuller retro will follow in Jan. status.honeycomb.io/incidents/pj...

Hey, uh, so I know I said we should host our service in the L2 datacenter but I’m getting like 10000 ms latencies on all my requests. No matter how much I optimize the code it always takes 10 seconds. Any suggestions? Also: How much diesel do we have there and what’s the lead time to get more?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...

To put a finer point on it: LLMs are fundamentally incapable of making decisions but are being promoted as tools for tasks that require making innumerable decisions (writing, planning) because the LLM enthusiasts do not perform that kind of decisionmaking and so do not believe it exists