John Webb
@johnwebbb.bsky.social
Let’s stop being horrid to each other and the planet.
In case you need a documented proof that life is not fair. A young man who battled cancer, almost his entire life, has finally succumbed.
Amie Just@amiejust.com · 2y agoNEW | You, Jack Hoffman, are a hero. You didn't set out to be one, but because of your bravery, you've changed the world. My column on Jack Hoffman and the legacy he leaves with Team Jack + beyond: journalstar.com/sports/huske...
Why would we ever want to switch to another source of energy?!
The Moscow Times@themoscowtimes.com · 2y agoHealth officials said they set up six medical stations in cleanup zones, with mobile medical teams patrolling affected coastal areas.
I have some bad news for engineers: IT professionals would have needed to cheat off of your homework to get your degree if they even pursued one in the first place. Also, your employer has tasked them with deciding what tools you get to do your job.
Being a good boss should be easy: do the opposite of what your previous boss did poorly, do the same things your previous boss did well and do everything you can to give your employees the freedom to do their jobs excellently in as little time as possible so they can do other stuff or go home.
With respect to AI and tech workers: things are either going to become really bad, or really good. Given our free market corporate-overlord roots here in the US, you might want to bet on the prior.
Teaching neural networks and compsci topics pays better on PH. Who knew that? LOL.
Yes, this is an article centered around a couple who missed out on a $500 gift. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/y...
A Billionaire Gave $1,000 to UMass Dartmouth Graduates. Some Missed Out.
A billionaire gave $1,000 to University of Massachusetts Dartmouth graduates in May. You had to be there.
nytimes.com
Churches didn’t look like this when our nation was founded.
WuTangIsForTheChildren@wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2y agoSo apparently the mega churches in Texas put on some insane Christmas shows and that’s cool but can we at least get them to pay some taxes for crying out loud….who needs these monstrosities
Every day, I’m on that grind for the shareholders.
Viktor Winetrout@viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 2y ago[with dying breath] Tell my wife that I loved…the shareholders
Me when I wipe my ass and a synthetic Xmas tree needle appears.
How stupid do you have to be not understand that white privilege is a statement “on average?”
So interesting. Not sure if there is a political point here but I didn’t know this.
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2y agoFun polio fact: it is asymptomatic in 70% of cases. In 29.5% of the cases symptoms do appear, they are gastrointestinal distress, normal enterovirus stuff. Polio only displays neurological symptoms in 0.5% of cases. You don't remember polio, you only remember *longpolio*
Could be rage bait but there are actual names and towns in the story. We’re screwed until we lessen the profit incentive.
Interviewer: How long have you been using Linux? Me: *smugness face* 20 years Interviewer: So you must be good at it? Me:
Native Americans took great offense to Washington’s NFL team name but they never considered that he was just a dude who had a chemical peel.
Odd. Hopefully someone else can understand the context of whatever evidence he held.
nixCraft@cyberciti.biz · 2y agoWTF? 😳 OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment: Suchir Balaji, 26, claimed the company broke copyright law. Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the OpenAI www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...
New Law Requires SNAP Recipients To Balance Food On Nose Until Receiving Command To Eat It theonion.com/new-law-requ...
Should she be visited by the cops? Yes. Should she be lectured and looked into? Yes? Should she be arrested? No.
Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)@jphillll.bsky.social · 2y agoA Florida woman was charged Tuesday after police said she ended a call with BlueCross BlueShield with the words, “Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next.” She was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, and her bond was set at $100,000. www.wfla.com/news/polk-co...
These dudes just cannot STFU about Jan 6 conspiracies.
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2y agoThis guy is intentionally skewing words. A “source” is far different than an FBI agent, which was the accusation. The FBI had sources in Al Qaeda, Russia, the KKK, everywhere. A source is just that, a person who tells the FBI things.
Life in a cubicle: i just heard some guy get the phone call that he has MS.
Oh wow it turns out the eugenical selective and instrumentalist mentality that drives parents to have children through egg/sperm donor selection (and genetic embryo selection) is psychologically damaging to those children. Who'd have thought?
Designer Babies Are Teenagers Now—and Some of Them Need Therapy Because of It
“People don’t always realize they are creating a human being and not a piece of furniture.”
wired.com
Me when my boss tells me he noticed that I showed up at 8:15 instead of eight for two consecutive days in a row at my software engineering job.
