i can’t unhear the _influencer accent_. the strong upward lilt at the end of a phrase, like they’re asking a question instead of making a statement. it’s most prevalent in gen z influencers, but also can be heard in many millenial content creators.

If “AI” did the thing, organizations would be bragging about the outcomes instead of jawing endlessly about the tools.

every democrat fighting for a seat in next year’s election should include ‘publishing the names and photos of every ICE agent’ in their pitch

felt necessary to share this with otter people

This is legit why exec level in a lot of places are obsessed with copilot. It takes their word salad and turns it into a word salad that sounds smarter (but isn't).

can anyone point me toward a `core.async.flow` example that’s nontrivial? what lit the light bulb for you? #clojure

hey folks: take care of your people. if you’re in a position of influence or leadership, take care of your people. if they look up to you, take care of your people. even if you think maybe they need to have some sense slapped into them from time to time, take care of your people.

can someone please tell me how i can both: - make the world a better place - continue be secure in my ability to eat and sleep under cover given: - not born/already rich chatGPT has been no help

It's official! The beta release of Eloquent Ruby, 2nd edition is now on sale! pragprog.com/titles/eruby...

on a woodworking forum i frequent: “good enough” is the difference between fine woodworking and “it’s fine” woodworking. the same is true for software. shop shelves don’t have the same rules as kitchen cabinets.

the end of SNAP benefits, if prolonged, will risk the existence of independent grocers in rural areas, and the big chains move in. just like smaller farms will be forced to sell to bigger companies because of the tarriffs. and that smaller hospitals will just vanish with the changes to medicare.

now would be a good time to read up on Ferdinand Marcos and the ‘communist threat’ in the Philipines in 1972.

Never forget and never forgive the people who voted for him. They did this to us, and they must be forced to carry the shame for the rest of their miserable lives. We warned them, and they made fun of us. They own this. They own this forever, and I will never let them forget it.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

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in case you’d like to see what i do with my free time, @creekshanty.us occasionally updates with some garden stuff.

don’t let the censoring of Kimmel and the obvious corruption of the associated merger distract you from Epstein.

there’s this joke whose punchline—“a good start”—keeps running through my head, for some reason. i can’t remember the rest of the joke, but it doesn’t seem important.

new garden space, first year question: if i’m producing as much as i can, how much can i grow? (obviously, four beds are dedicated to flowers but _other than that_) answer: enough that now i find myself with a freezer and pantry full of food and a weight problem

from a list of advice for pilots, but generally applicable: “you start with two bags: a full bag of luck, and an empty bag to put your experience in. the goal is to fill up your bag with experience before you run out of luck.”

me: “i’m not saying LLMs should have rights—“ her: ‘they’ll probably have rights before we do.’ and i just -

Child abuse aficionado James Dobson dead at the tragically advanced age of 89.

“i knew this day was inevitable—it just happens to be today” is a strong line. _the apothecary diaries_ doesn’t disappoint.

wild. newrelic sold my email address to some biz loan folks.

something that should really be bothering you: every administration official knows they are committing crimes. they suspect that the minute they are out of office they will be prosecuted for these crimes. it is in their best interest to never leave office.

the imperial boomerang, worth a read: zeteo.com/p/the-imperi...

one night in des moines

Prediction: ten years from now there will be a lot fewer people learning English as an additional language

Not now, plague of atomic rats.

hello NC voters. if your name is on this list, you have two weeks to rectify your voter registration, or your vote in the supreme court election will be tossed: thegriffinlist.com

anyone setting a meeting start time for something like 09:17 deserves the anxious mess i’m going to be when i get there

anyone else expecting schumer’s next financial disclosure to be illuminating?

open question: i am considering emigrating from the US. europe is potentially faced with a two-front conflict with the US west and Russia east, so that’s not really a safety improvement. i’m leaning heavily toward #Uruguay. is there anyone who has made this move and/or can offer some insights?

tfg helping leon hawk teslas on the white-house lawn is going to be the visual for this administration for every history textbook in the future. assuming there is a future that includes history textbooks.

my fave film genres: 5. love is complicated, fantasy or sf edition 4. it’s not what you think it is, macro scale 3. bad things happen to bad people 2. turns out we’re all a little weird 1. unlikely heroes overthrow the evil status quo bonus: person gets into trouble, then gets out of trouble

oh: “she’s the kind of person that tells her restaurant employees to check with their accountant”

sometimes i scroll too fast—kinda playing bluesky roulette—and the hashtags start to blend together with other words anyway, happy #worldherringday if you celebrate

you would not believe how much time & money some companies could save by teaching their engineers to 1: BUY good services, instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars writing poor copies of them 2: put those services behind a simple adapter instead of hardwiring them into code

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i didn’t watch the speech or response because i value my sanity, but i was expecting one or the other to close with “hail hydra”. since it hasn’t been in the news, that didn’t happen… …right?

somebody help me out here because i am not a lawperson: when a federal judge orders a thing to be done that is not subsequently done by the person who is supposed to be doing it, does that judge have the power to incarcerate the person in contempt? for how long? if so, why isn’t this happening?

take a second to remind yourself that TFG didn’t do this to america. the american voters did this to america.

as of this moment, the dow jones industrial average has fallen below its jan 20, 2025 value.

This is clearly a dark wave group that broke up in 1988 shortly after releasing their third LP. This photo is from their reunion album that came out in 2004.

i haven’t been paying attention to the state of the art in single-page app frameworks for clojurescript for a few years and now i need to and *looks* the landscape is exactly the same. not sure if that’s good or bad.

if you’ve never been to washington dc and seen the monuments and museums, now might be a good time to go likely they won’t be there in the future i wouldn’t fly, though.