“Help” “quit”? Does he think this is some sort of substance abuse? A recreational good time? Antidepressants are a life-saving intervention and people will die from refusing them due to the stigma of language like this

I always get exited when taking off from or landing at the south runway at Heathrow bc it means I get to see the BOAB Concorde.

AirCanada’s (new?) baby blue livery is gorgeous. As is the sort of mosaic treatment of the logo.

Honestly apple shouldn’t require any form of age verification from me as my account is old enough to drink in the US.

Tfw the cold emails get upgraded from “recruiter” to “headhunter”

There are few things I trust less than groups of normies wandering airports or old towns in matching t-shirts.

At the risk of making the same joke everyone else is probably making… this is some peak Weekend at Bernie’s shit

Bless every single person working at Belfast City Airport who made sure I didn’t miss my flight and the British Airways flight attendants who gave me a bottle of water and a moment to catch my breath once I got to the door. ♥️♥️♥️

Popped off to Dublin for the day to drop in on EuroLLVM and talk to anyone who is interested about, well, all sorts of things. But especially Shader Languages after yesterday’s panel about Clang & LLVM in gaming platforms. Come find me! Bright pink tights, deep blue hair.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it’s gonna meet a predicable end regardless

Keep drafting and tossing a skeet that basically communicates: colleagues who aren’t beholden to one of the governments belligerent of this conflict, please give a little grace. No normal person from anywhere wants this.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

As I said

It’s unjust that it will Happen before the regime is held to account for their actions.

I don’t fault anyone for disabling quotes. But a quote post is the best opportunity I have to be incredibly explicit about my endorsement of that post I just reskeeted. UBI now. Welfare for anyone who needs it. 100% tax over $10M. Stop dating we can’t support our people because we can’t afford it.

Reparations now. UBI. No means testing. Just checks. Emergency welfare available to all on request as cash payments & OPTIONAL counselling. Nationalize the internet. Categorize internet access as a basic utility, like water. Free college. Forgive all student debt. 100% tax rate above $10 mil.

I think maybe the best part about freelancing is not having Slack? The guy next to me at the airport keeps getting Slack notifications and every time I hear the sound my body tenses up.

I have two core i7 ca 2014 macs about to recycled unless any of you US-based weirdos want the hardware for some bizarre reason. A MacBook Pro 15" that doesn't boot and a MacBook Air 13".

The English men behind me on my flight to London sure are marveling at the association between “tyrant” and “king” as though they have never cracked a history book or reckoned with their country’s colonial past.

Today in Aki flips bits: somehow managed to knock out both projectors mid-talk and had to give the second half without slides.

I’m finding the phrase “we have guardrails in place” to be less and less convincing, coming from all organizations and levels, not just the OpenAIs and Anthropics of the world.

⌘ Q more.

It’s been a full day and I cannot stop fucking thinking about this post.

Tfw your watch tells you it’s time to stand up and you haven’t even pushed back from the gate yet

To whom it may concern: white Zinfandel is not the same thing as rosé. Even if you have two different brands.

If Meta’s platforms are harmful to children’s health they’re also harmful to adults. The solution to protect children is not to amplify their ability to harm adults by tracking all of us, it’s to force them to not make harmful platforms.

The kitten has been reunited with its proper family ♥️

feeling weirdly nostalgic for early 2000s System of a Down and Jello Biafra, for some strange reason.

Hmm maybe that is why I keep struggling to wake up, and having intense headaches and body arches when I finally do

This kitten is extremely not what I planned on doing with my evening but she came out of nowhere and then followed me to the median of a super busy street so wtf was I gonna do.

Remember the Human Shield Action to Iraq? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_s...

Holy shit they did it. (And then they had cake)

Setting aside for a moment the general 🙄🙄🙄 of her point, also? Also?? Of course you wouldn’t fucking ask someone visiting your country who they voted for. THEIR elected leadership isn’t fucking up the day of *everyone else on the planet*. Come collect your boy and maybe everyone will stop asking.

Grogu levels of perfectly executed adorable

as not-a-rust-developer, seeing "warning: hiding a lifetime that's elided elsewhere is confusing" is quite the message to pop up in my console without context

you can tell a feature is really good and what your users want when you force new and interesting ways to put it front of the features they were actually using with every new login and no way to disable.

For well over a decade I find myself thinking "when did we forget to dream?" every time I see a grandiose bridge or like the Hoover Dam. Virtually all of US infrastructure is crumbling because "there's no money" despite the endless budget for cops and wars. It's… disheartening.

If I'm being charitable, I'd say I don't think the goal is to build suicide machines, but suicide machines is definitely on the far side of the spectrum of what they *are* trying to build: something so alluring that you never want to use anything else.

"But Claude is good at code!" is a "Mussolini made the trains run on time" argument. Idgaf if it's good at code bc it's bad for humanity and is being sold by unscrupulous billionaires who are destroying the planet and democracy.

My friend wrote a song that's catchy as hell and also has been stuck in my head (laudatory) for nearly three weeks. Everyone must listen to it and sing it to their friends and children and play it whenever they're feeling bad instead of great about shitty art. 🎶 you don't have to be so perfect 🎶

…muttering to myself “this is why the luddites went after the machines”

If it really is true—if Block really only needs 60% of its workforce to complete the work they’ve been doing previously—they could have just as easily given everyone a three-day workweek.

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Downside of dog-friendly ferry cabin: twin beds. Upside of dog-friendly ferry cabin: I got the top bunk.

This wording implies the tech industry is working on their tools ("AI", search, etc) to not repeat disinformation and bullshit, and I am having a really hard time believing that to be true. The arms race against spam is not the same as the arms race against lies. The latter doesn't seem to exist.

The Wisconsin Senate is voting on S.B. 130/A.B. 105, a problematic age verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites. If you live in Wisconsin, now is the time for you to contact your State Senator and urge them to vote down this bill. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"the left is ignoring the usefulness of AI" no it's more like it is kind of central to left leaning politics that causing massive negative externalities for your own personal convenience is a shitty way to live. you're just saying you do not like the implications of this position

I gasped

“Happy Valentine’s Day” the acute sinus infection said to the flu. At least that’s how it’s gonna go in my house.