John Bowe
@johnbowethejoker.bsky.social
Creating dumb solutions to dumb problems.
The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
A company in Mexico hired a stray orange cat as its Emotional Support Director and named him “Miauricio.” Daily duties include roaming the workplace, delivering smiles & reducing stress levels. He has his own workspace and ID badge. #AGoodPlace
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
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Without going into detail. You have no idea how much of radiology is already AI tool driven, and you don’t want to know.
Hey remember that fun thread i wrote about how corporate lingo has infected casual vernacular and how language shapes our thinking and how companies always have to be showing profit and growth Excise the brand from your mind. Become human again
New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterdayOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
This has been studied quite a bit, the solar panels create a sort of greenhouse effect for the plants underneath them while also generating energy which feels like it should be cheating but is real and literally only has upsides.
Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · 3d agoMassachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...
Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w agoRemembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
Puma Sisters from Dominion Tank Police (1985). Art by Masamune Shirow.
I guess the Sinfest guy is completely broke. Unsurprising.
Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
A retired friend was remembering when there were departmental secretaries at universities who basically project managed the departments. You could give them handwritten documents, and they would type them up. He was shocked when I said it didn't work like that for female academics.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · yesterdayGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest
INFOWARS EXCLUSIVE: @grahamformaine.bsky.social announces his new series of Netflix comedy specials
He literally does not understand economics
katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterdayokay now he's gone too far
I'm starting to see the "this grown ass adult man got hopelessly addicted to GenAI it's not his fault" shit pop up and fuck all of that
Paramount execs bribed the FCC into giving approval for their acquisitions and megamergers? (And nobody was surprised, not even a little bit) www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoEvery now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
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Its autonomous test fleet in Houston were 24/7 "rolling hazards," he warned.
Tesla Whistleblower Describes Wildly Dangerous Safety Lapses While Developing Full Self-Driving
A former Tesla safety lead says he was fired after warning about the company's dangerous approach to testing its self-driving cars.
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i like ken but come on. glazing him and not even mentioning the fact that gwen's been dragged through the mud for the past few days? embarrassing for a publication that's supposed to be about LGBTQ perspectives
Them@them.us · 2d agoThe ‘Jeopardy!’ host made it absolutely clear where he stands once again.