I think I may have posted this before but I ended up using Claude to automate pulling down receipts for my monthly expense report because manually tracking them down was a PITA. This, not trying to replace artists, is the real kind of stuff LLMs are useful for.

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 4h ago

this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"

the national nature of Flock as a vendor also opens up for these kinds of abuses

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8h ago

New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

how much of the On Here animosity to Stevens is people confusing McMorrow's ads for hers?

this is the reason schumer, gillibrand, and stevens have all endorsed el-sayed so quickly Google's preview news cache hasn't caught up

Micah@rincewind.run · 8h ago

correct are you serious about beating fascism or not? get in, we’re beating them in november you can be mad, you can be disappointed, but at the end of the day having someone with D in any and all seats is better than having someone with an R in them

How it's stupposed to work: Primary: fight for your chosen candidate to get the nom General: Back your party to move things towards your political tendency. How SM thinks it works: Primary: fight for your chosen candidate to get the nom General: if your candidate didn't win, try to wreck

chuck schumer has endorsed abdul el-sayed

Another Josh Smith@jcsmith55.bsky.social · 9h ago

It's pretty clear that, for centrist/establishment Dems, "Blue No Matter Who" applies only to progressive voters whose preferred candidate lost The establishment has cooked their brains into thinking winning over moderate GOP voters is a winning strategy

i enjoy that horses have a model year due to their shared birthdate

i dreamed i went to the least night club industrial night club, caught the front half of a badly worded seminar about electronic music production, and got annoyed enough i woke up at 4am with the words "ATTACK, DELAY, SUSTAIN, RELEASE" ringing in my ears

And now it's up to 5,000+ likes. SIGH. That second paragraph is ridiculous. The GPS being unavailable was in a NOTAM which they would have gotten on the ground. They were unable to hold an altitude which has nothing to do with GPS. All pilots must fly & land without GPS. If you can't, do not fly.

Justin Ling@justinling.ca · yesterday

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.

lmao i was kind of wondering when she showed up on my ballot

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 18h ago

Leave it to Sawant to be the sorest loser tonight in a crowded field. I give her four Brianna Wus out of four for her dismal matching of campaign and constituency; just a disaster waiting to happen, ready to blame everyone but herself.

do y'all not have friends worth meaningful experiences

Erik Istre@eistre91.bsky.social · yesterday

I've grown to be fond of the term myself. "co-op" is far too broad, not much better than just saying "multiplayer". "friend-slop" indicating "play with your friends" and "we're just sort of having fun with it and not making high art". I like that it signals it's not something to take seriously.

somebody has a big presentation at defcon this week about clothing that allegedly defeats person detection in flock cameras (and they're selling it) which means I suppose it's time to drag this out again. tl;dr that kinda shit is pretty well guaranteed to work in a brief and limited way if at all

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 7mo ago

Since people are talking about dazzle camo for foiling face recognition (which doesn’t work unless you pretty much cover your entire face, at which point just wear a mask?) here’s a thing I wrote abbot why training data poisoning doesn’t work; it is the same problem.

vhb tape: you mean I can affix a smooth piece of aluminum to glass and have it hold reliably for a decade, and I can just buy rolls of this shit?

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · yesterday

this is specifically about wood glue in its details but modern adhesives more broadly are absolutely WILD, like often the best choice for permanently affixing heavy masonry and so on

it seems... interesting that the two stories I have seen the most in my feed this morning are this (along with more on how ICE et al. have been abusing them) and an article suggesting that it is impossible for people to drive the speed limit if there are not a large number of ALPRs monitoring them

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterday

is this good:

to get good durability prior to the goodyear welt, you'd need to shell out extra for a good pair with a norwegian welt. so now with modern adhesives you can get something just as waterproof for waaaay less money

John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · yesterday

The other thing about "boots theory" is that Vimes is talking about boots that phyiscally fall apart - as in the leather seams collapse completely, which was *Very common* until plastics and the spread of goodyear welts iirc...and doesn't happen much anymore!

“The universe is a simulation“ is a high-brow version of the classic dorm room stoner epiphany “Whoa, what if the solar system is just, like, an atom in a giant’s toenail?”

Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · yesterday

continental philosophers most vindicated people in existence for having the basic decency to abide by the "we're not discussing made up questions" rule (phenomenology)

to be honest i thought it was better as an operating system

JDKessey@jdkessey.bsky.social · yesterday

Watching PLAN 9 FROM OUT OF SPACE for the first time. There are story and director decisions being made. They are decisions to say the least.

Sinners In the Hands of Abandonware

hypoallergenic bobcat alternative@noghiri.bsky.social · yesterday

alternate synthesis: the bugs are because our universe was created as a 7 day roguelike game jam challenge and as such it's actually very impressive how well everything works

yeah my wife decided to go for a mail order bobcat knowing i was going to come out of the package a little scrungly, i do not get the point of trying to look more chiseled than a Tom of Finland leather daddy

Connor@roxconn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Looksmaxxers: I need to hammer my jaw until it’s shaped like finely-sculpted clay and have a hairline straighter than the borders of Utah. It’s the only way to attract a woman Women: I would destroy ten galaxies for a night with James Gandolfini

The original failure of analysis is that people thought hippies were progressive liberals. The entire point of hippydom was self-indulgence to the disregard of everyone else. Hippies were reactionaries: “back to the land, recover the ancient ways, be self-sufficient.” American Wandervogel.

hypoallergenic bobcat alternative@noghiri.bsky.social · 2d ago

post scriptum: also this, like, we don't need the crunchy assholes, they can only hurt us

my only beef is i believe that Seattle should beat Cali to the punch here instead of being hippie-reactionary about everything (my hometown will instead be hippie-reactionary about everything)

a very good ren@lathrys.at · 2d ago

LA and the SF bay area should be the world’s next Tokyos and i will not shut up until it happens

of course at the time it was clear that the stuff with Liz Cheney was trying to ensure said defectors would vote for the anti-trump project instead of merely staying home, and of course the reward for giving MAHA any power is plainly visible this very month in the form of plagues and diseases

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 2d ago

people comparing courting MAHA to Liz Cheney are very close, except for the part that MAHA is a significant sliver of the electorate and every never trump republican worth having has already defected

i wonder how much baumol impacts our ability to build new housing

explaining to a machine how i want a recipe database to look is reminding me that recipe conventions are unintuitive to anyone who hasn't been using them their whole life

it is imperative that i must never know the politics of any sports player I enjoy watching

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

i'm relistening to this year's Metric album and yeah this is a Metric album i like it better than Formentera I/II, but not as much as Fantasies

There are two wolves inside of you. A fantastic result for the rewilding project you've been developing in your chest for the last few years.