"the AI agent can make restaurant reservations" is a really weird use case I always see pop up in writing about the personal assistant programs because this is something already very easily solved by "a website". why does it need to call anyone. all the restaurants are already on the website
these are my only feelings about generative "AI." i do not care how much it "works," ever. i'll be over here scraping charcoal and ochre on the cave wall until they kill me
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
forbes.com
This fall, we're Eelmaxxing™️! Burrow in the silt and mud! Eating beige slime. We are slithering! Eat worms! Sliming around with your 700 closest friends eating mud. Everyone is Eelmaxxing™️ this fall!
I'll admit that I don't keep up with AI progress, and that's because I believe it is unethical to use. Even if genAI was as amazing as proponents say, it wouldn't be worth using this resource-guzzling psychosis-inducing plagiarism machine. It is literally killing people ffs
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last wk.feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does
Proud of this one: Catalogues - Friday, October 2, 2026 1 guess 😻 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
Play Catalogues: Friday, October 2, 2026
Can you sort the items into the correct order?
newyorker.com
My emotional state is such that this brought me to tears
hammancheez but spooky@hammancheez.bsky.social · 2w agoYall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
I read this book when it came out and HIGHLY recommend if you want to understand what's going on in America right now (along with his other book Culture Warlords). It's a very beautifully written book on a very dark subject. $3 is a steal!
Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨my book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America is on sale today on the Kindle store for $2.99! Sorry to link to Amazon but $3 is a solid price for a book that took me three years to write www.amazon.com/Wild-Faith-C...
your average Bluesky adventuring party has: - 1 sports person who is also a political sicko - 1 adhd chaos crafter who is also a political sicko - 1 sff writer who is also a political sicko - 1 romance author who is also a lawyer who is also a political sicko - 1 gardener recovering from being a po
MY FORTUNE COOKIE: “You will soon experience a great transformation.” MY BRAIN:
You have your ducks in a ROW? Just one row? I have my ducks in a bunch of rows and columns. A whole excel spreadsheet of ducks. Grow up. Get it together.
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
Interesting that BS thinks the two categories are: straight white men and everyone else.
Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 3w agoLOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?
Impressed by some things, disappointed by others ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Beaux 🕋@obsidian.blacksky.app · 4w agoWould 20 y/o you be impressed or disappointed by you today?
there is nothing wrong with being lame and boring. i am lame and boring and i love my life. please stop gussying it up and making it my problem
Gonna start pissing off my colleagues in the IT department by saying I don't use AI because I'm too competent
Dr. SkySkull@drskyskull.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
This morning in a work meeting I heard about a medication that increased in cost from $3,000 to $41,000.
My cat got herself into A Situation this morning, and the vet said to call ASPCA poison control. So I do, and there's a recording saying they'll charge me $110 for a consultation. I agree, and now I've been on hold for 18 minutes. My cat is acting like nothing is wrong, and I am l o s i n g i t
I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response
There was a small video store that happened to be next to the only restaurant that would deliver food to our house. You could call and tell them you were ordering food and wanted a movie; the delivery guy would bring both. I am still bitter about the building being torn down for a new development.
Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · last mo.Tell me about the video store of your past please
But also feminism is not a thing that happened and then got reversed; it's a thing that is happening, because you don't overturn three millennia of patriarchy in one lifetime.
It seems like a large part of the medical community - and the general public - wants long covid to be a psychological condition, partially because they don’t like medical conditions they can’t solve, and partially because they’d prefer if they could just blame us for being nuts.
