Steve Buchheit
@stevebuchheit.bsky.social
Writer, reader, t-shirt artist (CoyoteShirts.com), radiographer, reformed politician, maker of charred meats, odd ball, usually full of piss and vinegar, a fool for you, happily punching Nazis since Castle Wolfenstein, all that and a bag of chips.
Have a friend who does gig work. Recently the company switched to mostly AI for the coordination, scheduling, support, etc. It's been dropping clients, mangling assignments & there is no one/human to contact to correct its mistakes (which the AI can't do). So, that'll be good for business. Right?
So is it just me, or is Amazon doing the "the cat is on the roof and we can't get her down" routine a lot these days? Oh, the shipping is delayed? Look, is it in stock or not? Did it go missing? Did your fantastic futuristic automation fuck up? Did your overworked employee use it as a pee bottle?
It says something that my first thought was, "Oh look, I giant spider eating an entire town, 🤷♂️." In this political economy? Sure, why the fuck not. Same, Ludington. Same.
Lake Michigan! Live!@lake-michigan.live · 22h agoCurrent* conditions near Ludington, MI:
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Is it wrong of me to shout “fight fight fight” as I go and make some more popcorn?
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · yesterdaygood times for the Ohio GOP
I mean, it's the goblin market, what problems could eating one pine nut really cause?
Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · 2d ago"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
Increasingly, patients are showing up to hospitals in ICE or CBP custody. NILC staff and Dr. Theresa Cheng spoke with @austinkocher.com about how medical professionals can care for their patients — and protect their rights — when this happens.
Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · 2w agoA patient in ICE custody is brought to the hospital with a guard in the room during care. The National Immigration Law Center wrote a guide on what doctors can do in that moment. I sat down with three of its authors. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/hospitals-...
And that's why, my friends, most of my money is in government backed bond vehicles. Yes, I was early to this position so have missed out on last year's celebratory run up. While I am not your financial advisor (legal disclaimer, talk to your own before making a move), I suggest going to a
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 3d agoAnd if you believe Pape, Iran gets stronger each time.
Ah, we have arrived at the Entartete Kunst (or Degenerate art exhibition) milestone
Emily Wood@ebwood.bsky.social · 5d ago“According to four people involved in the show, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions from the administration, no historians or professional curators collaborated on the exhibition…” [gift link]
Every time we insist on this distinction, we hasten the day that the AI bubble pops, thus sparing a few more everyday savers and innocent bystanders from being wiped out in the crash we can all see on the horizon: www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r.... 50/
Monopoly Round-Up: Are Big AI Firms Cooking the Books?
If we're going to dump trillions into AI, it's time to audit the books of the big AI companies to see how the business actually works. That's how New Dealers would have done it.
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I remember when it was declared that a chat bot had passed the Turing Test. And that was fantastic until you read the full article that explained that the chat bot was presented as a child to whom English was a second language. Also several humans were labeled as chat bots in that test.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d ago"I mistook a chatbot for a human" and "I took a human for a human" arrive at near-identical places, but they are subtly and importantly different. 23/
There's an old saying that goes something like "the apprentice worries that things will go wrong, the master knows things will go wrong but knows how to adapt and fix those mistakes."
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d agoBut often, those end-points have subtle differences that are only revealed when things go wrong. If all you care about is how things work, chances are good that you're in for an unpleasant surprise when things *fail*. 7/
It's that time of year that if you want a 12' Skeleton or Zombie, or whatever, NOW is the time to make your purchase or be relegated to another year of teeth gnashing and garment rending.
James Carville was relevant, barely, back in the 90s. Hasn't been much since then. This isn't the first time he's threatened to leave, but really, just go already, Jimmy.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d ago81-year-old demands political party accomodate him and him alone. www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
"That's not true" that ICUs were overrun? Fuck that guy. It is still weird to me when the ICU & our inpatient floors are not filled to the brim, with people in our "step-down" unit waiting for an open bed in ICU, with every 2 patient room fully occupied with spill over into our post surgery wing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true
I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
(Does my Carnac the Magnificent impression holding an envelope to my be-turbaned head) “what do ya call a saltine, a scraping knife, and a power washer?”
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d agoIt's a small thing, I know, but there really is a difference between "palate cleanser" and "palette cleanser," and also, while we are on the subject, "pallet cleanser," and it is worth making the distinction
Okay, appreciate the call back to Sound of Thunder in the first episode of season 4 of Strange New Worlds, but just by landing, or taking iridium from the past will have already have changed the future.
And let’s not mention the expensive “security theater” of the Nat Guard, fencing, ai video surveillance, police presence, harassment of civilians, etc…
Christopher Moore@theauthorguy.bsky.social · 5d agoAnd not a goddamn person will ask why the President yammered on like a fucking lunatic about vandals for a month and half WHEN THERE WERE NONE.
Wouldn’t this then be a tacit admission that public funding of private schools is fundamentally an idiotic idea? Oh, and to those private schools, you invited this government interference into your businesses. While I think it’s all stupid, I’m taking the “let you and him fight” stance.
Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · 5d agoThis sets up a clash: schools can claim this violates their religious freedom. "Florida [AG] is telling Catholic schools to allow students to opt out of mandated vaccine requirements on religious grounds, or they may lose state voucher funding." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e... 1/2
There are some days I miss blogging, but then I work on my website. I did one general, “hi, I’m here” post to check out how and where my website (www.coyoteshirts.com) would post it (and to see if I could make the blog the home page and highlight my recent works).
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A game I played helped make my decision to stop. It was something I could do for a little bit of time, kill zombies, advance in level. And then it morphed into a base builder campaign. Okay. I can do that. Accumulate experience and resources, build better, etc. But there were updates to download
Who's going to prescribe his ketamine then?
Taylor Noakes@taylornoakes.com · last wk.Words cannot describe how much I despise this person’s contempt for how hard real scientists work It’s the kind of attitude you can only get from inheriting a fortune from an Apartheid era emerald mine finance.yahoo.com/sectors/heal...
Wait, was the end credit scene from Deadpool I an homage to Ferris Bueller? Completely missed that the first few hundred times I’ve seen it.
