Pizza is generally mid. Every "amazing" pizza recommendation I've received has been garbage. Also, I know Chicagoans believe ketchup on a hotdog is for children, but really hotdogs in general are for children. Brioche should never be used as a burger bun.

Formerly JawnTheDon@being-nosy.bsky.social · 2d ago

What’s your hottest food take???

Two nights ago, I was worried I wouldn't be able to get a good night's sleep because I had been sick in bed all day and slept most of it through. No no. That's fine. Just save it all up for tonight. Been lying in this damn bed for 4 hours now. Coulda gotten something done, god dammit.

Fuuuuck, I think I might have the flu

The sad part about the "we can always tell" transphobic bigots or fake allies is that when you think you can usually tell and you apply the same yardstick to all women, you start to see the infinite variety of cis women out there and how this yardstick could be used against everyone

I get a lot of software developers laughing at me for not using AI and I just don't think they know how much better at programming I am than them. What they find impressive, I find yawn worthy.

John Scary Name Cullen@nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 2w ago

A reminder for those at the back.

A reminder for those at the back.

When FrontPage came out, people told me writing HTML by hand was dead and I was going to get left behind. Turns out they were the ones who got left behind when their skills in some other companies' product didn't transfer through the years. And I still write HTML by hand.

The fact that shit like this still happens on live TV really torpedos the whole idea that the media is controlled by liberals. Shane Gillis exists, despite *numerous* "cancelable" (there's another myth for you) offenses, because someone else is putting in massive effort to keep him on TV.

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 2w ago

I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.

That’s the point behind every public execution - Roman crucifixions, Tudor beheadings, the guillotine of the French Revolution and the lynchings of the American South. It’s not about justice. It’s about fear.

Paul Marvin@paulmarvin.bsky.social · 2w ago

When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose

"AI is just a tool": then why are companies mandating it's use? If the company is so worried about my productivity, there were several opportunities for it to purchase me share licenses that would have helped with my job and they flat refused, saying tooling was my own responsibility.

Sad day news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3w ago

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 4w ago

It’s a very minor point amongst the far greater injustices of the situation, but the Cornell case has also just reminded me how much all of society seems to have just accepted the fact that big tech won’t allow people to use the word “rape”. (Or at least people *believe* so — nobody knows!)

I’m sorry but if there is no Kermit what stops me from murdering people? A genuine internal desire to not harm others? Uh keep dreaming aphibiests

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

The world is a vampire oyster in your hand and it's not enough.

Court docs show OpenAI and Microsoft knew book copying was illegal (This week in books) buff.ly/SL03AdA

Court docs show OpenAI and Microsoft knew book copying was illegal (This week in books)

This week! Books! Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors – Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly – Unsealed court documents show OpenAI and Microsoft employees…

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Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Someone at work whom I don't like asked me how I was doing at the elevator today. I replied, "my enemies persist, but so do I."

Aaaaw yeah! Looking forward to the 3am bloody-stool scare after I forget what I had for dinner.

The thing I love about British spy shows compared to ours, is that in every US spy show, you've got Jim from the office with a tale of how based the CIA is, and how muslims are going to blow you up, and every UK spy show is like 'yeh mi5/mi6 are all cold corrupt monsters'.

Had a moment at work where I realized I was waiting on the replicator to provide Coffee, Bold, Hot.

Jeff Hayes narrating Matt Dinniman's "Dungeon Crawler Carl" is an amazing example of combinatorial artistry.

(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important

"What? AI Slop ain't good enough for you?!"

Remember that time the whole world fell for a photoshopped picture of Teddy Roosevelt with Hugh Jackman hair? That was fun. youtu.be/b3jhGFTuTQY?...

Huge history account posting photoshopped fakes, Theodore Roosevelt's hair looks iffy...

YouTube video by Fake History Hunter

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