Customer service, even over the phone, is now actively getting shittier. I just hang up when a “digital assistant” answers instead of a voicemail Open web is mostly built by people who don’t actually want an open web. Pipe dream Critical thinking was already long dead though

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 26m ago

feels like the big AI impacts are: upending coding and the practice of law; making a terrible mess in healthcare; more algorithmic bias in government at every level; and it will also kill the open web, concept art, the take-home essay and possibly critical thinking any other impacts I'm missing?

My genuine reaction every time I get invited to a Black film festival. It’s incredibly flattering and validating but, uh

Jake McKnight@jake.sooscreek.productions · 44m ago

What the hell is happening at Martha’s Vineyard next week that I have people hitting me up two states away to go do video

What the hell is happening at Martha’s Vineyard next week that I have people hitting me up two states away to go do video

Either Gallagher brother being inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame is hilarious

Brett Hennrich lost because he ran a soft ass campaign that never built enthusiasm in his district. Most of his support is from out of district Not very useful in that sort of election 🤷‍♂️

If you’re reporting on Ben Tsai, he was never an executive at Pokemon and I’d expect outlets like IGN to get basic facts right

Wanting computer to be real is a red flag actually. This is one reason

Bailey McCann@baileymcc.bsky.social · 3h ago

I understand that people like computer and want computer to be real, but you cannot convince me that anything computer provides is worth submitting to fascism and a free flow of CSAM.

One of the few live vaccines still out there. Which means anyone immunocompromised or immunosuppressed is out of luck

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4h ago

Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever

Whidbey Island Ren Faire is offering pretty good $/acre for a new space for the faire 👀

This and every August 5th we celebrate Montgomery by smashing a racist with a chair

Every time a progressive wins media outlets publish ridiculous pieces about how they didn’t win convincingly enough and then a bunch of very silly people incredulously justify writing the articles by hate reading them

Vimeo collapse is actually gonna be a huge problem for indie filmmaking as a business

Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 16h ago

Greetings from the Yes Seattle Libraries election night party at Reuben's downtown, featuring CM Dionne Foster.

why don't gulls live by widow's bay? because then they'd be widow's bay gulls

OMFG Look, I blocked this doofus a *while* back, my timeline has been all the better for it, but this deliberate and willful misunderstanding of Boots Theory is going to turn me into the Joker.

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterday

okay now he's gone too far

Anyone playing Pokélden Ring? How is it?

“You’re tranaohobic!” vs “That’s a transphobic thing to say!” is a pretty simple difference I’d expect the host of Jeopardy to immediately understand @kenjennings.bsky.social “I’m not transphobic” is the most dipshit response you could have come up with

Some Mormons try harder to pretend they’re not Mormons but you can still tell

Katie Jercov@kate678.bsky.social · 23h ago

Hey btw, it turns out Ken Jennings is going hard in the paint against anyone even lightly suggesting he might have done a transphobia Make of that what you will Me, I think it’s pretty weird, guy of his stature going after trans women on this app and refusing to call off his brigade or apologize

People saying that Bluesky is a “leftist bubble” suggests that people don’t know what the word “leftist“ means.

I can't be everyone's Designated Service Extrovert (as much as I would weirdly enjoy that), so for you and the DSE in your life, you can grab shirts from the DSE Program Shop. Might add more stuff later, too. (Also, folks subscribed to my Twitch channel get discounts) shop.extrovert.services

DSE Program Shop

The official shop of the Designated Service Extrovert Program

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zunderscore@zunderscore.tv · 4d ago

For years, many of my friends and I have joked about me being their Designated Service Extrovert - a buffer between them and other humans. Y'all know I will run a joke WAY past its shelf life. So I'm very proud to announce the launch of the Designated Service Extrovert Program! 🧵 extrovert.services

City of Kent towing people en masse for being street parked in street parking all because the local residents don’t like that people park there to go to the lake Again, perfectly legal parking. City had three towing companies out clearing streets that don’t even have signage

We’ve finally hit the content creator business owners talking about flexible scheduling and how being open 8-12 hours a day is actually bad business and I’m so ready Retail real estate apocalypse is gonna be delicious

I feel like people forgot “it’s not a war crime the first time” is a Canadian proverb

It’s incredible what you can accomplish if you just keep trying in life. There will be failures and setbacks, but if you simply ATTEMPT to do things, it’s a net forward movement. Sitting and lamenting gets you nowhere. Just do.

The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing

ALT: The Simpsons: We've Tried Nothing

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There’s a reason traditional joinery techniques hold up the longest. Until like the last 20 years wood adhesives have largely been garbage. Still ass relative to competent joinery but light years better than even just 40 years ago let alone 140

Waffle 🧇@wafflecut.bsky.social · yesterday

Modern adhesives are underrated as great inventions of the 20th century. What woodworkers had to deal with before modern wood glue showed up sounds absolutely miserable. Smelly glue made from horses that had to be applied boiling hot, and didn’t even hold that well.

Do I know anyone with insight into current urban/suburban firefighter training in Washington state, particularly around fire containment and management for vegetation fires?

Banned and suspended mean different things no matter how many people incorrectly use “temporary ban”

Black users who accurately predicted that most of the site would forget they were here inviting people and building this place from day one, too A whole lot of the people who were here in that first March 23 wave that have totally disappeared

Adam P Knave@adampknave.com · 2d ago

Yes. Trans, queer, furry users totally 100% did a lot of work to help cement this place and its culture. But when day that and you don’t include the large number of black users who have since been run off even though they were just as important, you dishonor the start of this place further.

If you want to disable the “ask gemini” button in chrome

Andrew Henninger@databyss.com · yesterday

They hid it under flags with a non obvious name. If you go to chrome://flags and search for glic, you will want to disable that.