Almost everything I read on line sounds dehydrated. And everything ends with a question. Have y'all noticed this?

no one is happy and everyone is mad

Remember when companies used to pivot? I could go for a good pivot right about now. A really good pivot.

Weird rabbit hole. I can't find a path from UEFA.com that says what the acronym stands for. The meta tag description has it, but I can't find it in the actual human-visible content.

The official website for European football

UEFA.com is the official site of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, and the governing body of football in Europe. UEFA works to promote, protect and develop European football across it...

uefa.com

Things my 1992 self would think are hilarious: I have to update the firmware on my lightbulbs -- one by one

I'd like to teach the world the difference between USE and MENTION

1966: Did you actually code this? Cuz it smells like FORTRAN IV slop

When I think about the impact of new technologies on art: Without photography, there is no Rothko

Bourne looser = spy spawner

I saw a cool sportscar yesterday, and my first thought was not how much fun it would be to drive, but how hard it would be to climb out of it.

I've been using Unix for over 40 years and I still always have to look up "2>&1"

Even the people who use LLMs to write are getting fed up and going back to the old ways.

I used to wonder: Why did you bother writing this? Now: You really paid money to make this?

It's hard to believe, but even before 2023 most user-generated content was pretty bad, even sloppy. Not yours, of course.

I am, indeed, the king of the divan

I used to keep some Tang around just too toast today. apolloinrealtime.org/11/mobile/

I never repost, so you know this is good.

Caliban Darklock@darklock.com · 2w ago

Early in my career I was called on to figure out what the hell was wrong with a FORTRAN program which had worked just fine for years, but when a contractor updated some formulas, it stopped working.

It's strange to me that no one seems to have any problem with the awful Russian accents in "Star City"

Happy Moon Landing Day to all who observe commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ap...

it's giving bleak

A lack of testosterone isn't the problem. What you lack is panache. And without panache, there is no duende.

If the LLM runs on my phone, why does the app need a monthly subscription?

Like "just drop a shit-ton of bombs", "build a wall", "paint it blue", permanent DST is the obvious (but wrong) solution

there has never been a better time

If you live in New England: Red sky at night Sailor's delight Yellow-ochre sky in the afternoon A harbinger of doom!

if there's one thing we've learned from LLMs and NYC skyscrapers, it's that "load-bearing" is doing a lot of heavy lifting these days

Me reading Democratic pols' tweets about Lindsey Graham.

This is a great time to find out which US politicians would make good volunteer kapos

Memo to Democratic incumbents and hopefuls: It's better you not say anything about Lindsey Graham than to say anything nice. The people who would vote for you are very angry. Encomiums for fascists will make them angry at you. @chrispappasnh.bsky.social @repchrispappas.bsky.social

As Rummy might have said: you read the obits with the subjects you have, not the subjects you might want or wish to have at a later time