I should get a job at Apple and push an Airpods feature that disables Conversation Awareness when it detects you're singing along to music, except if you're out of tune in which case it should turn the volume down and enable transparency mode.

I used to work in executive tech support for T-Mobile in the early 2000s and I once helped Tom Cruise with a cell phone problem by which I mean I spoke to his personal assistant while he screamed at him from across the room

god fucking damnit I thought you all were joking about LinkedIn Wrapped, I didn't realize IT WAS REAL FFS

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well I asked Patches and he said "There, that hole. Take a closer look."

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Philip K. Dick would have had a field day with this. People gambling on everyday things, trying to influence them in order to win, while the sitting president puts his thumb on and off scales to fuck everyone over and mint more money for himself, chaos ensues. The Running Man but everyone plays.

Question, is Violent J available to run for Senator of Maine

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

After 3D printing my first file handle, I realized my missed opportunity and bought a second file so that I could correct my error

TIL there's a huge major comedy show in Saudi Arabia happening and also that Zach Woods remains a king

Being in office is a mixed bag but at least I get to repair my vintage eggbeater drill chuck with springs scavenged from BIC mechanical pencils stolen from the supply cabinet

just found a bullet casing with the entire bee movie script on it

buying my soul back from the devil in four easy installments through klarna

actually the FCC maintains a list of 70 year men with autism! they’re called amateur radio operators

Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.

[if Kentucky Route Zero had Waze]: “the faint specter of a deer reported ahead, one that recalls the wildness of the path not taken, a slightly fearful melancholy that you can chase it but never know for how long. Still there?” [clicks yes] “+2 Waze points!”

Rosanna is the best Toto song and it’s not even close

🚨🚨🚨 LISTEN UP, something is afoot NOW. Call your US Representatives. Ask them to OPPOSE the motion to table (kill) the articles, and, when the articles come to the floor, to vote YES to impeach US Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Local offices: www.house.gov/representati... RT's appreciated!

Pedro Pascal in Turbo Pascal

watching other anglosphere nations elect uninspiring technocrats

RIP Francis. American trad-cath converts are going to 100% convince themselves that some guy named Fr. Terry Dallas "the January 6th Padre" is going to be pope and they're going to absolutely lose their shit when it's a European they've never heard of

this apple tv+ ad encouraging me to spend my time wisely does not especially make me want to spend the precious time i have remaining on apple tv+ shows

It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)

amazing

the failsons never set on the American empire

"Those folks did not have notice or an opportunity to challenge things at all," Millett says. "Nazis got better treatment" in removals under the AEA — with review boards — than Trump has laid out here. Ensign argues that, because the five initial plaintiffs got their TRO, anyone could have done so.

happy birthday @hellosami.bsky.social!

Yeah I have a caucus, you wouldn't know her, she goes to a different school

Think about as all those polls that ask people what percent of the federal budget goes to NASA or welfare, what percent of the US population is Jewish or trans, etc People off by *orders of magnitude* from reality.

is there a polymarket for betting on whether Zuck announces a divorce within a year or something tho cause I might take that

there does not exist a recipe involving walnuts that cannot be improved by substituting pecans

i'm not going to laugh about the CEO Of Human Suffering getting assassinated, but i think it's because i've been trying to get medical treatment for years to treat being unable to laugh and my claims keep getting denied

my local astronomy club mailing list going buck wild with comet photography, you love to see it

I made this today for people who are on a Mac in meetings all day and have a BBC Microbit lying around that they would like to plug into their computer and visually indicate whether you're currently in a meeting or not. https://github.com/signalnine/meeting_indicator/

tech is back baby. its good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)

@pts.bsky.social happy birthday!

what up fellow kids

saw this in Philly last week

I feel like some of you ppl could benefit from this

mildly obsessed with mala barbecue lays lately

I did a digital secret santa for a small community I'm part of, the constraint was "a gift that will fit in an email" so I wrote a glitch art tool that does beat detection in python and then uses ffmpeg's cellular automata filter and some bitstream manipulation, the video is a timelapse I shot.

the pants cycle

as far as I can tell, every radio station in Costa Rica’s format is someone’s old Kazaa download folder on shuffle

friday vibes www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmmH...

@pts.bsky.social hey, happy birthday

Ben Hawkes on Phineas Fisher, hacktivism, and magic tricks is very much worth reading: blog.isosceles.com/phineas-fish...

Putting a bumper sticker on my Redis server that reads “this machine fills cache hits”