William McKinnerney

@williammck.net

constantly online. he/him/his. 🏳️‍🌈 (posts are mine and may not reflect employers’ views)

we live in hell part 1000: my high school friend's mom died so I sent flowers for the funeral and now the obituary website is emailing me about their AI obituary tool

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[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

I also think the closure of liberal arts schools and the constant attacks on wide-ranging humanist educations are part of a push against the masses being taught critical thinking. Which sounds conspiratorial, but come on, this is getting real blatant.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thinking about how many kids I went to the now-closing Simon’s Rock with-a weird school stressing critical thinking, love of knowledge, and liberal arts - *weren’t* rich. Brilliant people with scholarships. Feels like the end of an era where you didn’t need independent wealth to study like that.

got into a huge fight with my friend over not using alt text on images and, well, i’ll spare you the graphic details

people just showing up to bluesky: there's not enough political conflict here bluesky, for the entire first year and a half of its existence:

meme of two lobsters fighting while three college kids excitedly throw money to bet on it

everyone - the fighting lobsters and the depraved kids cheering them on - is labeled 'leftists'

Hi friends! I just wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest website on the internet. The long and short of it: We won the auction and — you're not going to believe this — the previous InfoWars folks aren't taking it well.