Status update

How will I possibly trust any other site now that I've seen this?

Insurance companies acting like mafia mob bosses if you don’t follow through after getting a quote

Newest member of the family, rescued from my dad before he could send it off to the monsters at carvana.

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DMV graffiti :blobcatsweat:

The world is complicated and frustrating, and there's quite a few things my employer did that I don't agree with (and I let them know!) but honestly, this is one thing I really, really appreciate about Meta. It's why I work there. It is unmitigated good […]

This is America

#FuckAI #NoAI

there is a temptation to simply "fight the evil organization", and there are definitely times that you need to do that. but those fights are always short-term. most fights, and _all_ of the long-term fights, are fights to change the rules that the organization operates under so that the good […]

China's single time zone demonstrates that people will adapt to whatever numbers are on the clock. I mildly prefer year round Standard Time just because it's closer to Solar Time, but that's because of my niche interests. Most people do not care about that. They very much do care about not […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116926043515471504 This is the beginning of a thread. And you should read the whole thing.

Reviewing conference talk proposals is wild in the age of LLMs, and exhausting in ways that it never was in the past. Never knowing if what you read was directly from the mind of a human, “touched up” by an LLM, or fabricated whole cloth by a stochastic lying machine. Low effort proposals in […]

Worst day of the year to have to wake up early the next morning

Jump Scare, Holiday Edition

The thing about training an #LLM on human culture and then renting that culture back isn't that it's "Intellectual Property Theft." There's nothing wrong with sharing. There is something wrong with framing LLMs as piracy. That's a completely different concept. When a powerful group of people […]

Ofc the only lottery I ever win is the one where the prize is spending more money 😹

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I guess I’ll be sticking with my M1 Macs a little bit longer now 🫠

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jalefkowit/116806769305794831 They want to literally steal the election.

lol, lmao even

Interesting^W Depressing new daily game to play https://gerrymandle.cc/day/39 Day 39 - Won the election! 💎 Flawless victory · 🏆 Optimal map

Gerrymandle

Draw districts and win the election. A new puzzle every day.

gerrymandle.cc

I clearly chose the correct video to start my morning with.

A big new release after months of work is a good time to mention that #Mastodon is crowdfunded. Unlike many other platforms out there, we don’t take venture capital, we don’t sell ads, and we don’t sell your data. We rely on your donations to pay our team. Please consider chipping in […]

My weekly New Music playlist has tracks from Evanescence, Smash Mouth, Sublime, Smashing Pumpkins, and Marilyn Manson. What year is it?

Believe it or not, June marks the Iconfactory's 30th year in business. To help celebrate the occasion we're kicking things off with a sale of some of our most popular apps, plus other surprises. 🤓🎉 We hope you'll join us and thanks to all our fans, clients […] [Original post on iconfactory.world]

Apple finally knows who the hell is @caseyliss Congrats! 🙌

Procrastinators rejoice! Last year, @pybeach CFP closed AoE (don't you love acronyms?) as opposed to PT. In other words, proposals for October's PyBeach conference could be submitted till the (literal) last minute, as opposed to the (California-centric) last minute. Due to the slight […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/116712842081847263 One hour! *taps wrist again* 👏

Mario Munoz@pythonbynight.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/116705635489629060 One hour and a half till the CFP closes for @pybeach You might be thinking to yourself... Surely, that isn't long enough to submit a proposal. Prove me wrong! Come on, you know you want to!

Chicken soup for this elder millennial’s soul https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/116711332505710610