Knocked pretty close to a minute a mile off my regular intervals pace. Turns out relentless discipline works given time. Yay! Also, uffda.

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

I spend a lot of time hoping I will be wrong about how primary/general election candidate selection will turn out. My record on that is heavy on the sorrow.

I have been happily married since the previous century, and am not looking, but, having actually talked with woman, it’s my sense that straight guys who like and respect women and treat them as friends and peers are not having any trouble at all in the dating market. Misogynist dickweeds, OTOH…

These people have gone so far beyond bananapants thinking that they can’t even see crackerbrained whackaloonism in the rearview. They are deep deep in the land of Doctor Strangelove was a documentary.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

People are engaging with AI in ways that imply it is highly addictive (interventions), and can induce mental health breaks (psychosis, etc.) and yet the media treats AI evangelists who sound exactly like cocaine freaks of the 80s like normal tech execs instead of pushers high on their own supply.1/2

The extent to which the audience for "They all laughed/scoffed/disagreed when (prominent liberal/science/arts) figure said XXX", is NOT BLUESKY would be difficult to overstate. This site is made up of the folks who DID NOT laugh/scoff/disagree, and posting that shit here is choir preaching. 1/2

The existence of the Collins schtick is an indictment of the American voter, because it strongly implies the existence of sufficient number of voters who fall for it to make it worth the effort. Also, this is why I constantly post about policy being, at best, insufficient to get people elected.

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Just tallied it up. I’ve run 65 miles since we got home on the 8th.

“Hey, you know what, let’s figure out how to alienate our core user base without any plan on what to do when they bail on us and our vague new hopes… That’d be a great business model, yeah?”

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

This cat is making bad life choices. . #ProofOfCat

Saw some new freshman taking a campus tour with their mom while out on my morning run.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I should just do every napkin cartoon from here on out about how AI sucks and no one will want to use a regurgitated version lol

Twin Cities friends, note that Earthbound Farms is a subsidiary of Taylor Farms, and their products are carried by the food co-ops.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

I just retrieved the mail. Look what I found! @alwayscoffee.bsky.social

I used to read every Important Book and see every Important film. These days, if I wish to experience grim hopelessness, I will simply interact with reality. The truth is, suffering is not the only profound human experience, and I'm tired of the only art that counts being the sad shit.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d ago

These days I google the end of every single movie before I watch it to see if it’s sad because I just can’t handle that shit anymore. Happy endings only the real world is sad enough.

Trump: I backed off my totally-not-a-bluff because we're close to a deal that will have the Strait of Hormuz totally open and Iran accepting nuclear restrictions. Iran: LOL, no. UK Maritime Trade Operations: Explosion near ship in Hormuz! Markets: Peace reigns! Supply and demand? Who cares!

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d ago

IRAN DENIES TRUMP'S CLAIM ON A STRAIT OF HORMUZ AGREEMENT AND REJECTS HIS ASSERTION THAT IRAN REQUESTED A HALT TO THE PLANNED ATTACK - TBS

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

The number of folks who have clearly never so much as attended a meeting in their whole lives who have loudly expressed opinions about how the people who are forced to run them ought to be doing government is a whole mood.

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.

Cat’s head says what? . #ProofOfCat

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Having gone back and forth a lot and indulged in conversations both ways, my entirely unoriginal observation is that Americans are not great at thinking in European time scales and Europeans are not great at thinking in American geographic scales.

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Did the thing. 5 miles of intervals at an average pace of 12 minutes 30.

Put my head on Spouse. Her innards are purring in a disturbingly predatory manner. Like an alligator thinking: cats purr and then people pet cats and…hands are delicious!…purr, purr, purr.

As a one hundred percent certified Wisconsin politics expert (see my CV), my verdict on the Governor's race is: shoot me now.