[destroying the east wing to build golden ballroom]: Clearly I am the best possible allegory for Donald Trump's presidency [a half-finished ballroom that ran into legal issues and had to shut down construction]: Hold my beer www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

(handing a bag of red ants to the photographer as he boards the elevator up to this photo shoot) You know what to do.

TIL Q-tips were originally called "Baby Gays" www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/b...

careful what you wish for, Joe

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

mom: We have Game of Thrones at home [the Game of Thrones at home]:

Just posted my first Kalshi market idea - here's hoping it gets picked up! 🙏🙏 kalshi.com/ideas/posts/...

It looks like you're trying to listen to a podcast. Would you like some help with that? On episode 8, find out why Microsoft ditched the idea of Clippy ever shutting the fuck up techblows.net/8 #technology #microsoft #msoffice #podcast

It's extremely funny that RFC 2964, the IETF's Best Current Practice on the use of cookies, lists exactly 2 things you shouldn't do with cookies, and they are literally the 2 most common things we do with cookies #security #networking #browsers

Move fast and break civil society

Why did we give up on "402 Payment Required"? Having it in the response code means you can do the whole financial transaction in one HTTP request. Isn't this better in many ways than all this bullshit with the goddamn cookies?

Just watched Zootopia 2 and I have a LOT of issues with it, but here is the biggest one: #zootopia #zootopia2 #animation #cloacas

hi it's me your vanilla indie rock dad who has never heard of sex. rfk is not talking about cum he's talking about piss. have a great Saturday

(seen on r/lotrmemes)

At Nalgene, we believe representation matters. 👨🏾‍🦽🚴🏻🧗🏿‍♀️💖 And that's why all of our models are members of the Moonwalking American community

You know what I hate? These fuckin things I just tie a few bags to the loop on the leash. Pros: (1) You can see how many bags you have (2) There's nothing for the bags to roll up and get stuck in(3) You never accidentally pull out 2 bags and have to try to shove the second bag back in the tiny hole

Fish knowers: help me out. what kind of fish is this woman holding? And does it look especially large for a fish of this kind?

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at GU Politics: "the struggle is not whether AI is good or bad. It's who controls it and who benefits from it." #bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown

SO WHAT - dashare.zone ADMIN

"You used to make 30, 40 posts a day. Now look at you! You haven't made a hit meme in years" *punches mirror*

Nothing says "I'm ICE!" like getting arrested for sex trafficking minors www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Technology Blows: Episode 7: Washing Machines. techblows.net/7 Learn: - What fluid the ancient Romans used instead of detergent - What your washing machine's onboard computer is for - Why washing machines have gotten so much more efficient in the last half century #technology #smarthome #podcast

"Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. (...) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios."

So when big industry reports say: this is the factor that matters, this is the construct that matters we are allowed to say: why? What's your proof? Why this and not others? And "it's what we did for the past x years" isn't a persuasive form of evidence. At all. It's just proof of convention.

uh… no?

ancient roman water politics… makes you think #technology #classics #water

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

I don't think you can stack nothingburgers like that. If you try, the top and bottom components implicitly form a new burger of their own, with the others as its contents. This would be a bunburger at the very least, which I wouldn't particularly want to eat, but it's not nothing.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

please inject this video directly into my veins. perfection

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

This week, we wrap up our 2-parter on Jira! (Part 1: techblows.net/5; Part 2: techblows.net/6) Hear about: - The Atlassian founders' matching $100M houses - How Jira turns its own failures into more sales - Jira's special way of alienating us from our creativity and initiative

Those petty bitches in Greenwich Village were so jealous of Flattron that they renamed themselves "Flatirtron"

Thank God we invented all these labor-saving technologies! Now we have so much more time for the work we REALLY hate

obviously you only sell almost $6 billion in stock when you're certain a company is going to get even more valuable

Watching Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" (1944). Everybody's speaking in the mid-Atlantic accent, but they're in the middle of the Atlantic so it's appropriate

that's right ironically i've said this since the beginning bc my early career was 100% consulting and THIS IS HOW MOST LARGE COMPANIES USE CONSULTANTS if you are at *all* savvy, you will realize that many so-called engagements are using you as a handy, deniable loincloth to cover their ass

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

bingo

your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court

Just finished reading this fascinating Microsoft Research paper from 1998 about "Lumière," a project which directly informed Clippy. It presages many modern difficulties with automated help agents and AI systems arxiv.org/pdf/1301.7385

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

Fantastic news: the tech industry has reinvented "quietly succumbing to censorship," with the modern twist that now you get to pay a fee to them

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

In the last 30 years, digital technology ran out of ways to make people's lives substantively better. Now it's just a market where we can trade our old problems for newer problems at a terrible exchange rate

Is the world ready for an Internet-connected mattress that roasts you whenever AWS goes down, and also sometimes pisses itself? WE DECIDE! On this ep, learn about: - The Bourbons: France's sleepiest monarchs - What kind of animal Peter Thiel sleeps inside - The $5000 AI-powered bed that saved DOGE

Dog got my 5-year-old's toy. Had to tell her, "It's okay, the giraffe is just shedding its neck"

Energizer: We have an incredible new feature that's going to change the way you use batteries! Duracell: No, WE have an incredible new feature! The public: (visibly not listening)