WRONG HOME ALONE 2 ACTOR

Yesterday, I found out that there is an Edinburgh riot grrl band called “Fistymuffs”, and tbh, I don’t think I’ve fallen in love with a band without hearing their music as quickly before. (And it t turns out their music is pretty great. fistymuffs.bandcamp.com/album/we-fight)

We Fight, by Fistymuffs

5 track album

fistymuffs.bandcamp.com

My wife keeps getting We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel stuck in head. I deliberately write shopping lists, text messages, etc. in the same meter and it drives her insane. I've denied it so far.

"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:

I’ve just realised that I’ve come to Scotland in August… but my raincoat never made it into my suitcase. #rookiemistake

You should be out making friends in the park or grocery store. But meeting people is hard, especially when the world’s most unfriended nerds want you to use slop machines to make slop friends. This Friday, @erikahall.bsky.social and @kiostark.bsky.social will teach you How to Talk to Strangers!

How to Talk to Strangers

There are 8 billion new friends out there. Or at least encounters that can make memories and good stories. And that’s all life is, really.

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this has been stuck in my head for days since I first read it.

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage.bsky.social · last mo.

[Ducktales theme] 🎵When shall we three meet again 🎵Here in 🎵Scot-land

ngl, it amuses me greatly to see “pervert glasses” enter the mainstream as short-hand for Meta’s… um… pervert glasses. The Guardian’s running this headline and not feeling the need to add any context.

have you ever wondered what it would be like to read cocaine

Paul Ford@ftrain.bsky.social · 3w ago

oh gas town didn't work you say yegge.ai/essays/the-s...

some days I just feel so alive www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Maybe we shouldn’t give 24 year olds billions of dollars to bet on AI

We deserve a better class of AI booster.

theverge.com

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

I am amazed that people walk into discussions among knowledgeable human experts and say “ChatGPT says…” It’s very insulting to do that, and it makes you look ridiculous. Everybody has seen LLMs spit out wrong information about *extremely* simple things. Don’t make a fool of yourself!

@dirtyfeed.org Finally caught up with your “Mary” posts. Great stuff! Maybe an investigative path you’ve considered, but if you have a friend in NYC/LA, you could ask them to pop into the Paley Center? It looks like they’ve got two or three episodes in their collection that are viewable in-person.

This is one of the best papers I’ve read recently. Benchmarking coding LLMs with a view to *long-term* development, not just short-term creation: arxiv.org/html/2603.2475… @simonwillison.net Have you poked at SlopCodeBench? Curious if it matches your experience with continual iteration on projects.

This has been the stupidest technology cycle in my adult life. Somehow stupider than NFTs because so many people I thought were smart got roped into the hype. www.wsj.com/business/chi...

Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI

Companies big and small are mixing models, and it’s changing the economics and power players of the industry.

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I got a nice write-up from KQED! “Colored drips pour down the sides of his panels, but the surfaces are carved smooth with razor blades. The effect is gauzy, dreamy, even as the images he depicts and the language he deploys evoke violence—state sanctioned and otherwise.” YUM.

We’ve Been Lookin’ for Art in All the Wrong Places

It’s not easy to visit Mike Monteiro’s anti-capitalist paintings, but not all art-viewing should be easy.

kqed.org

I have a theory on why she has so many first dates

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · last mo.

we're so cooked www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

Saw Ladytron live in Berkeley in May and they are still phenomenal.

metal dot txt@metaltxt.bsky.social · last mo.

Man this song still whips youtu.be/7heLwuTa08o

Very exciting to see @coyotemedia.org in CJR! I love this direction for local reporting: www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

Coyote Media: They’ve got bite.

Coyote, a new media collective in the Bay Area, is irreverent, human, and unabashedly political.

cjr.org

If you don’t feel like celebrating America today, celebrate Peach, who was born on the farm on this day in 2017. Her full name is Impeachment.

this is also how maintaining software works

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Also something oddly relatable about a succession of contractors working on the reflecting pool being like "the last guy really screwed it up." The three certainties in life are death, taxes, and the contractor you hired for a project telling you that whoever did it the first time messed it up

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

This butthole doesn’t run.

rstevens 🦆💨@rstevens.bsky.social · 3mo ago

i feel like they were going for something different than why i took the photo

Got my Poem/1, and wrestling with the moral dilemma that I’m using AI to replace the work traditionally performed by our nation’s minute-by-minute-time-telling poets.

There is no price they wouldn't pay for half a chance at not paying you. isaiprofitable.com

This reminds me of the discussion I had with a coworker last week that I don’t want to do code reviews of AI-written code any more — I want to review the conversations engineers are having with their bots so I can give feedback on THAT.

Camille Fournier@skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 3mo ago

Read a bunch of random tech blogs etc today and man, the AI writing is out of control. I'd almost rather you give me the bullet points you fed into the machine because it's so tedious to wade through the bland prose.

Fantastic! Helps you avoid accidentally walking into the Nazi Bar that is Substack.

Kill Yr Substack@kys.makersfield.co · 3mo ago

Hi there! I label Substack posts. I know that there's another labeler that already does this. But I publish what I catch as filter lists. Point uBlock Origin or your Pi-hole at these and (hopefully) never look at Substack again: kys.makersfield.co/substack-fil... kys.makersfield.co/substack-hos...

@profanity.accountant c’mon you cunt

Now feeling old because I searched my Twitter archive file and found out that it’s *15 years* since I observed “Glanced at BitCoin forums. Nothing inspires faith in a currency like realising it’s run by the kinds of folks who argue on Debian listservs.”

Kelly@justkelly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm studying property law around blockchain assets and basically, Crypto bros: “We want to be outside of the centralized legal and banking systems because we don’t trust governments! Hardcore libertarians over here!” Also crypto bros when they screw up: “Wahh why won’t the legal system rescue me”

Only just noticed the irrational approach @iconfactory.com have been taking to incrementing the version number of iPulse in the App Store over the past few years. 🥧