I’m not there yet but we are very much on a journey from ”Linux might be fun, but probably not worth the hassle” to ”Linux certainly won’t be fun, but still worth the hassle”

Jms Dnns@jmsdnns.bsky.social · 2d ago

maybe copilot knows why www.techspot.com/news/113326-...

No no no it must be that you open a seemingly closed section and there’s a creepy guy just standing there

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterday

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Having just forced my way through another Faulkner novel, I’m not sure ”easier to read and digest” is always where the value lies

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 18h ago

Stunning opening sentence to this piece www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

*stares* like someone who has spent far too many hours lining up interest rate curves for pricing meeting-to-meeting swaps

Dom White@domw.bsky.social · 5d ago

Serious point is that he’s using up a lot of political capital on stuff that is of very little consequence.

If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

I was not really confident in anything before having them and it turns out I was correct

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?

And how much they smell. Being at a gas station after a year of EV ownership is like being in a smokers car a few years after quitting.

I’d be more interested in knowing the total amount of gold than the weight of the heaviest individual bar, but then English is not my first language

The Economist@economist.com · 2w ago

Police found gold bars weighing as much as 74kg stashed at the home of Indonesia’s most senior anti-corruption prosecutor. If authorities thought they could go after him with impunity, they were soon disabused of the idea

Weighing in with a: would you rather your broken car was fixed now, or roll the dice for a 50/50 it gets fixed and never breaks again?

Skriver i Aftonbladet idag, 15 år efter den högerextrema terrorn på Utøya. Om det som drev fram den och var Sverige är nu. Läs gärna! www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/vrx...

Utøya borde ha lärt oss att välja bort rasismen

Utøya borde ha lärt oss att välja bort rasismen

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People are not good at the difference between ”assets were overvalued” and ”we were living beyond our means”. All those kitchens really did get refurbished, even if it was off the back of inflated house prices. Like the man said: Anything we can do, we can afford.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Trashfuture guys are right: the entire message since at very least the financial crisis has been “It’s shit, it’s supposed to be shit and if you don’t like it, fuck off”.

Starmer’s legacy is every tatty England flag on a lamppost. Each one reminder that we ceded the street environment to the far right *and the government made encouraging noises while it happened*

President of Turkmenistan did childish wish-fulfilment about thousand times better. GIK

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump: "You're gonna see cars racing more than 190 miles [an hour], and even higher than that, down Pennsylvania Ave. It wasn't exactly designed for that ... and they're gonna go all around the National Mall ... it wasn't supposed to be that way."

It’s a serious subject, but I find it funny that working (or, especially, when not) in finance, LinkedIn kind of should do the same but is so comically bad that the punches to one’s self esteem just don’t land

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is extremely well expressed. I know musicians - people with a high profile who are outwardly massively successful - who have had to delete eg Instagram because the impression that everyone but you is busy and successful is so overwhelming. It’s a weird job, depression wise.

I’m always weirded out by this train because I think I went on it when my kids were toddlers, but it’s the kind of memory that could have been a dream, or made up… Have I taken the tiny post train? It feels like I have, but I honestly don’t know

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 3w ago

Sorta weird that I had never heard of the mail rail before visiting the museum. When I heard it had a little train inside it, I just assumed it was a recently built one as a kids ride. But no, it really transported post across London!

We’re going to have interviews with aggrieved bin men saying he is disrespecting their honest hard work before this is over. (assuming they can actually find a humourless binman, they all seem pretty chill to me)

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week

tories tried a guy in a ridiculous costume. didn't work.

From 2019, when the news was telling us that staring seagulls out had been proven to stop them eating your chips

In the passenger seat as my mate lightly bumped a shopping trolley when parking his dad’s car. He asked me to check there weren’t any scratches as I got out. Got out, duly checked the shopping trolley, turned around and reported no, no scratches. He just stared at me.

Joel@itsjoels.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean “cheating on your partner” stupid, I mean stupid stupid. Like, once, I had this bubble bath which smelled absolutely delicious, so I took a big glug of it. That kind of stupid. (It did not taste delicious.)

And they have never been wrong

Retro Computers@retrocomps.bsky.social · 4w ago

People have been complaining that "In my day, we had to OPTIMIZE our code" since the dawn of computing. Here's a pull quote from 1977. (Source.)

Can’t wait for the first politician to securitise their, uh, income stream

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4w ago

"... there are rules around transparency linked to MPs so we the public know who is giving MPs money so that we understand who is investing in them.." Mustn't call them bribes. Lets call them investments!

I haven’t seen any AI proponents suggest that they can do a better job with VAR Much like we never saw ICE go after actual hardened criminals

At least Sweden made their futile effort against France with some dignity

Hello, have you heard about our lord and saviour ISO 8601? I would go to war for them.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last mo.

discovered today that there is a splinter group from the Assyrian Church that broke off in 1968 because *they were mad about the adoption of the Gregorian calendar* which, well, you have to admire the dedication to principle I suppose, even really dumb principles.

You know who has sneakily stayed out of the Culture Wars? Anglers! I bet there is some A* grade shit to stir there what with the working class bait fishers and the posho fly fishers

I’m becoming a bit obsessed with the idea that we are manufacturing material scarcity as a way of controlling the distribution of things that are actually scarce (labour, land). This should be the political battle of my children’s generation.

Mikko Tuomi@mustapipa.bsky.social · last mo.

We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. Millions of people cannot afford food, housing or basic healthcare, while a tiny minority accumulates unprecedented wealth and power. These are symptoms of an economic model that has reached the end of the road. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Over the coming decades a whole lot of people with tremendous social capital are going to realise they have not saved enough to maintain the lifestyle they think they deserve when they retire. My prediction: huge swathes of professional services becoming low-productivity sinecure farms.

I bought my daughter a decent guitar the other day, and it was less then the grocery shop. And it just feels wrong, my mind isn’t calibrated to how cheap some goods are.

Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · last mo.

We live in a world where *things* are cheap and *people's labor* is expensive, but for all of human history it was the complete and total opposite. Like in the 17th century people really only had 2 sets of clothing.