This court case guarantees an executive tantrum in the form of a war.

In UX, Philippino culture is famous for how it made classic identity forms so useless that current best global practice is an unstructured field labelled "What should we call you" and some fields for parts of the legal name you only use for legal validation if necessary. Miss me with True Name shit.

there is a funny divide between trans women smearing copious amounts of actual estrogen onto their arms every day and often being unsatisfied with how little it does, and then ppl worrying about the headphones that make you a girl

This was too niche, wasn't it

Ligt Suriname niet meer in Zuid Amerika?

I would like to point out signing bonuses alone in AI-world are enough for people to retire on (as long as they don't want penthouses in the marina).

("waarom voor de baan te gaan" lol mens ik wil in mijn woning bijven dat niet genoeg?) Juist de opsommingen zijn niet KI, want voor KI is niets makkelijker dan met euforisch gebazel te komen. Juist wanneer ik KI de brief laat schrijven moet ik de grootste rotzooi opruimen.

The quip that "well, one of them DID start out looking like Ricky Martin IS true. But as someone one year older, I can tell you what it takes to look like Mr. Martin at this age, and I'm telling you holding this joke up and ALSO worrying about boy's & men's body image issues does not track.

omg they already put the quidditch from Heated Rivalry in the Olympics?!!? 🏳️‍🌈😻🥰

Fleetwood Mac is everywhere on my reels algorithms, but no Reynold Girls.

Oh God, this summary has it all. vm.tiktok.com/ZGdmnB8Vy/

And every story of a land that permits it ends the same way. The destruction of the nation.

We all should be Pretti Good

Did @thatjohn.bsky.social neglect to tell BSky that Musk and O'Leary are feuding, or did I miss it? So is O'Leary saying the drag from the antenna would make the fuel costs rise and it is enough to pinch Ryanair's margins? Are all the carriers with free WiFi eating that cost?

And you can tell because if the police were the good guys, ICE would be getting arrested left and right.

Can anyone explain to me how the WTO suddenly disappeared? For 20 years I heard nothing but globalization through poenalties set by the WTO and then what happened? Where is it?

Sit down. Shut up. It's your first day in the mailroom. Act like it. Still have reach? Great. Start amplifying the voices that were correct while you were enabling fascism. Demonstrate a little growth. Sucks to have to work your way up again, but here you are.

Part of why we are here is that there WERE in fact millions of white people who took to the streets in 2020 after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and others were killed by the cops. So no it's not the case that white people are just out in the streets now. Fascist white people were ENRAGED by this.

I am on a mailing list that to connect people with new startups, which means I weekly get a list of startups are being built rn. All buit on AI of course. Sometimes one stands out: Neon — an app to record your calls and then gives you a cut from selling them to AI models. neonmoneytalks.com

OK, if we can't escape AI and the horrors of the world, we might have some fun. I am going to take this bland staged-to-sell interior from one of those Billionaire-row tall needle building penthouses and run it through Gemini.

I said what I said. The whole Venezuela mess loses money for oil companies if the price of oil keeps dropping. You have agency!👍🏿 Don't expect the oil execs to resist Trump on ethical reasons. They won't. Do expect them to resist him for financial reasons. Or at least to go down with their ship.🤷🏿‍♂️

Ik weet niet wie deze gast is maar denkt 'ie nou werkelijk dat homo's en transen en asielzoekers en KOZPers niet weten wat er in vijandige mensen omgaat? En dat we ons niet al aan duizenden als mensen hebben laten zien? En nou moeten wij ons weer in kringgesprekken aan dat gif openstellen?

The "standing up to tyranny" was always a fig leaf; in the next breath any 2Aer would always mention defending your wife against intruders (of a certain thug kind hint). The founding fathers knew 2A was about suppressing insurrection. The US sacrificed it kids for decades to white supremacy.

Thanks to redundancy, savings, and the German state I've lived this for 2 years. Aside from the deep anxiety LinkedIn, Indeed, et al gave me as I tried to get employed, rejecting grind has made me happier & stabler than ever. Yes, I know how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed.

You don't need to take my word for it. You can simply ask yourself what you would expect to see from an opposition party that was serious about abolishing ICE right now. Are you seeing these things from the Democratic party or from its voters?

I keep getting these spams that say “add soul to your photography!” It’s for an AI product.

The genius of Last Christmas is that the verses are constructed as bridges.

Oh holy fucking shout

So over on LinkedIn I talk about work as if I still am in the industry, but since no employers read me here, I can talk about this has not been a good year. I have no looked for 18 months, gotten some interviews, but nothing. And on the other hand...

My part of LA is expecting 5" of rain in the next 24 hours and my question is Will the delivery robots know not to try to navigate flooded streets?

Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com

Just a reminder that we are now at Mariah Carey Warning status, and the doors of Whamhallah are fully open.

OMG

Nederlanders zullen begrijpen waarom de eerste 7 woorden mij deden fronsen.

The number of cop + Black person interactions tends to go up, because the number of police officers tends to go up. If you are a Black man that lives in a town with 400 cops, and one year the city hires an additional 400 cops for an 800 cop workforce? Your chances of being pulled over just doubled

I often feel so bad for Americans.

I’m inside the bedroom and I can hear men chanting from a pub across the river… where an England flag is hanging outside. And I honestly don’t know if it’s a footie crowd or an EDL gathering.

Of all the ways German incorporates English words badly, I hate the most how the term photo shoot has become ein Shooting in German. "Mein Shooting ist morgen." And they then send that back to English: "My shooting yesterday went great! Thanks to the photographer!" It just looks SO wrong.

Except we do not know how to make a metric or any other kind of repeatable analysis for "quality" or "better" in any way, so getting there becomes another form of vibe, in product management.

happy International Male day to all who celebrate

Is het al ergens gemeld dat kiezers in het buitenland nauwelijks behoefte hadden aan de PVV en FL/PvdA bijna 29% van de stemmen kreeg, maaer dan de 16% van D66?

Our love of hoodies with pouches just shows the innate human desire to become a marsupial

After watching a genocide and a descent into global fascism for 2 years I have so disconnected from news media I found out about Cheney's death from watching a reel on my kinkstagram account that had this announcement superimposed over a guy in an orange jock lying back showing his hole off.

I'll be first in line for this serious, sensual, and informative piece of cinema. Especially these days, the Oxford comma is all that separates us from the beasts.

this La Más Draga S7 promo is what I needed Bayonetta 3 to be

You know how many LGBTs and Black people are making contingency plans to flee? Half my rolodex is asking em how hard it is to get to Berlin.

Harry Potter. No books, no movies. I was warned by my then house guest that the rules of that broom sport alone would enrage me.