once again putting myself in bluesky timeout because this website makes me insane

Bold to be sending this to PG&E customers in SF today of all days

there's no way for this not to sound self-regarding when posted on bluesky, but that's really not what this is about for me... I don't see avoiding a blatant nazi skinner box as a sufficiently high bar to feel pride in clearing it

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

Quick quiz: how many people in S.F. were killed by Waymos this week? How many people in S.F. were killed by human drivers this week? (The answers are zero and two, but no one would know that from the reactions today.)

It's fascinating that "it's bad when a technology dramatically reduces the rate at which cars injure and kill people because uhhhhhhh 'AI'" is a mainstream opinion in the online left right now

Yeah instead of stopping in the middle I wish they'd just blown through them like the multiple human drivers who nearly hit me tonight

don't give up fat tanuki

play clap dorf clap fwartress clap

the libslop podcast empire is genuinely doing yoeman's work on the Epstein files lol

They are trying to cover it up.

"My catboy is 6'2"" You're a coward. Pathetic. Weak. He's a five foot king and you throw that away in pursuit of what? Traditional masculinity? Hes a catboy. You already lost. No matter how oily you make his skin, no matter how many solid black tattoos you add. He's still a fucking catboy.

look i'm not an "impeach the cheeto!!!!" guy but if this is in fact what happened I'm not really sure what other political response is more prudent

am playing the warhammer tw 3 prologue campaign and...did this mfer just pick up a goddamn Frostmourne lol

Every time you call Twitter "X" Elon experiences a little flash of satisfaction. Idk why so many of you seem to want to make Elon feel that

Famous women respecters...English men....................?

model where you randomly & permanently mutate some parameters slightly each time you use it, call that degenerative AI

I mean at least it would cure Labour of Starmerism for a couple generations I guess lol

Who wants to do the math for the radiator surface area & mass that would be required for 100GW in space lol

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

I have to say it's very funny to me that Serious Bluesky Economists keep going on about how individual economic sentiment is untethered from reality but not how visibly, obviously unmoored the markets are in the other direction

Change in Abstract

There's really only two reasons for Democrats to be going "hm...what if instead of less power, we gave Donald Trump MORE power to silence dissent wherever it occurs" and neither of them say anything good about the Democratic party

People talk about slop like it's an AI-created phenomenon but like, 9 of the top 10 (and 12 of the top 15) grossing-in-North-America Disney movies are remakes or sequels. Global is even worse: 14 of the top 15. Their godawful live action remakes are wildly successful. This shit already ate the world

OpenAI is an experiment to see just how much money you can transfer from investors to TSMC before anyone asks any questions

"the primary divide in contemporary politics is between civic nationalist liberals and ethnonationalist conservatives" is one of the most delusional, bluesky-brained things I've ever seen posted lol (And thank god for that, "civic nationalism" is extremely bad)

This one is actually such a fucking pain because the dipshits will just get more and more unhappy and there's nothing you can really do about it

this is just being a SRE

In some ways LLMs are like, the most postmodern thing imaginable, but somehow they're also basically the culmination of high modernism (derogatory) in other ways. wild

No real living human being can actually be this oblivious right

Startup idea: protracted people's war, but for forcing your partner dev teams to follow something at least sort of resembling best practices

ive said it before and i'll say it again: autoformatters should be called cispilers

Square Enix's contract with NTT must be either *bonkers* cheap or so terribly written they can't break it early over even egregious service issues, because I can't see any other reason you'd keep using a provider so completely incapable of managing their network & peering capacity properly

Similarly, qualified immunity has expanded so far that i think it more or less disproves the existence of ghosts, because the authors of the Constitution's angry revenants would be going around dropping heavy objects on judges' heads & collapsing court buildings over it if they existed

reiterating my desire for the next Democratic administration to wipe out American evangelical Christianity by having the IRS audit every megachurch and actually enforce the law

"mod was kind of a dick, annoyed the shit out of everyone" yes they're. discord mods. you could have skipped the entire thing and just told me an anthropic staffer was a discord mod, between anthropic and discord mod there's a 50% chance they're gay and given discord mod a 100% chance of drama

[smugly] you build prototypes during the "conceptual phase" of your projects? you must hate using your imagination

I'm a "managing a scuffed rotation is fun" and "swapping jobs within a role to match a particular fight's needs is great" sicko so man I hate the gnb changes SO MUCH

like, in most CS programs "dropped out after 2 semesters" means "took the first real class and dropped out *immediately*"

Today's incredibly goofy TikTok: guy trying to pitch people on Bitcoin by claiming inflation was invented by central banks to sell more... central banks, apparently?

running my desktop as a space heater again because I don't have any outlets available to plug in an actual space heater 😭

brain fully in holidays mode, absolutely fighting for my *life* trying to focus at work this morning

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of physics: why does 45°f feel 15 degrees colder in San Francisco

Has it been long enough yet for it to be safe to say that I thought Expedition 33's story was dragged down pretty severely by the tbph kinda mid writing of Generic Sad French Boy and Generic Sad French Boy (palette swap)

is this like poster homeopathy, where the more the openly-pro-neonazi recommendation algs hide everything you say, somehow the more it influences people?

A Frenchman saying this is so out of touch with reality that it genuinely, non-derogatorily, suggests psychiatric issues. If you've ever traveled in France at all you know that literally *every* French village has some kind of monument or memorial with the names of all its children killed in WW1

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