They stole ALL the Flock cameras in Winona.

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 14h ago

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/

part of why the AI market is pushing "everybody is using it, it's inevitable" narrative: I've seen with people in my life the more you lean on it (and a lil bit slippery slopes towards more) it will make you worse at what you're doing until your output is as mediocre as anyone only using AI to do it

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 20h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

KFC announces their frontier-class model briefly escaped its sandbox and attempted to exfiltrate the 27 herbs and spices

This is worth amplifying (also this podcast is rad), that Roman slavery was, y'know, slavery. In fact, all slavery is horrifying, but the broader 'Mediterranean' slavery tradition (which is also, by the by, the ancestor of Atlantic slavery) is one of the *more extreme* such traditions.

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last wk.

Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.

A very good thread. Read up and down. Loss aversion is one of the most powerful forces in human psychology

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · yesterday

Last thing: It's not enough for residents to get an improved tax base or even direct payments. This is a unique situation where folks specifically disapprove of the product. They want to be proud of the product.

I thought this was an anachronistic and slightly redneck-y turn of phrase, and then I lived in Boulder in September 2013 and let me tell you, it's a good saying.

2013 Colorado floods - Wikipedia

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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 10h ago

No, the term is not actually a racist reference to indigenous people per all expert sources I’ve seen - creeks rising when you’re dealing with dirt roads was just a very real issue in the 1800s: www.worldwidewords.org/qa-god1.htmllo

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

Wild what powerful people will just straight-up say on the record.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

funniest possible way to handle this scenario

dudes pouring out the woodwork asking if I can manage without AI as though I haven't been cocking up things for myself my whole life without help

This thread is such a journey

qdot@buttplug.engineer · 2y ago

Ok, it's friday night and thanks to @defaultfriend.bsky.social's cursed Gorean Culture class idea that very much needs to happen, I will use this prompt to repost my story of having to be tech support for Goreans when I was at Linden Lab as a developer of Second Life. 🧵 follows

Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w ago

A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

...this is such a hilarious send up of all of the baroque stratagems and tricks that show up in ancient military literature (thinking both Mediterranean and China), I love it.

Brian O'Connor@johnnybesad.bsky.social · 2d ago

youtu.be/7_ktnQAC3TQ?...

One day left until Fields of Mistria 1.0! ✨

"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe," @sandyernestallen.bsky.social writes. "By now, I think I know." www.welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-tra...

Who goes transphobe?

by Sandy Ernest Allen It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I ...

welcometohellworld.com

a real fact that sounds fake is that pilates were invented by Joe Pilates

i started this train of thought as a joke but now i do think there's something to the idea that the way to sell the green revolution to the US public is that we're being denied Good Deals on cheap chinese cars and solar panels and there's nothing more unamerican than saying we can't have a good deal

🚨FOR PETE’S SAKE PEOPLE, DO NOT EAT THINGS YOU THINK MIGHT BE WILD CARROT/QUEEN ANNE’S LACE UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE WILD HEMLOCK LOOKS A LOT LIKE WILD CARROT AND IS BAD NEWS FOR THE HUMAN BODY www.dcmga.com/wp-content/u...

Alan@gammacounter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Only learned recently that this thing I’ve been calling Queen Anne’s Lace for most of my life is actually also called a “wild carrot.” Totally blew my mind. I didn’t eat it, but it *smells like a carrot*. There were hundreds, so I pulled one and washed off the dirt at the riverbank.  

this was the peak of woke 1 and the only thing I've ever thought when I hear 'wework'

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 2d ago

i'm just in a really bad place right now (a wework)

remember to always say OH BIG STRETCH

It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.

Italic is not the slant, it is the letter shape. True cursed font knowledge begins with CMU Serif Upright Italic.

As usual, he has none

This is an early Bsky thread and very insightful three years later.

Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס@tikkunolamunist.bsky.social · 3y ago

During the first dotcom boom, there was a website called Jewhoo (after Yahoo) where you could type in someone's name and the website would tell you if they were Jewish. The tone was affectionate and celebratory of Jewish successes. Then the Nazis started using the website, and they shut it down.

Sports gambling too. Eg: NY should require one thing that CA forbids, creating friction and compliance cots

one aggressive hardball thing I would like to see happen is blue states coordinating to have deliberately contradictory and difficult to navigate regulatory environments for hostile regime-aligned businesses such as X. what red states did with abortion pre dobbs.