This is a great time to buy any of my books. Not only are two of them Olympic skating relevant, a pipe burst in my bathroom wall and flooded my basement today.

This was my question for every candidate for our university library AI position: how does this save time/steps? It was always, "there's a tradeoff sure but..." but nothing! You have to pre-verify the input data, check the output for accuracy so it's just an unnecessary middle step!

SLUGGO’S NO DRAB GAB TUESDAY

Gather 'round, warriors as I relate to you the Saga of the Crappy Minivan and the Car Repair shop that Sucks Ass! a🧵 0/11

Post a banger not in English: “Ça plane pour moi" (Plastic Bertrand) youtu.be/Ln31raI2ezY?...

Youngest son: what’s a black hole? Me: uh… can I explain homosexuality instead?

Hey folks! Street Medics in Minneapolis have reached out to us asking for help boosting another wishlist! Everything on this list is going straight to Columbia Heights. (If you hate amazon, please visit www.standwithminnesota.com and find a different way to help! just help, that is what matters)

On the one hand: I have the house to myself. No wife, kids, Super Bowl, or mother in Law. But they have all the snacks. On the other hand: I’m alone but have no snacks.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Today is the pinewood derby for my son’s scout troop, which is hosted by a predominantly Hispanic church in San Antonio and I just heard a cheerful middle aged dude say, ”we’re having a bad bunny party, not a super bowl party.” In case you’re wondering where the culture is actually at right now.

Not only should they be allowed to read bad sf/f but encouraged to read indiscriminately so they learn to asses quality themselves.

It’s fun watching Republican political commercial because the talking points (stope the cartels! Secure the boarder!) are like 6 news cycles out of date, and almost quaint. By May we’ll get commercials about how shooting protestors is good, actually. Just deranged morons all the way down.

go off jack white

"LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability." This is an academic paper against AI, so caveat emptor, but it lays out the reasons against adopting AI as inevitable or even desirable, and pulls no punches. zenodo.org/records/1706...

The boys are watching Ducktales and it occurred to me that HDL being triplets would not be out of the ordinary in Duckburg. They're all water foul, who lay clutches of eggs, so so almost everyone would be a twin, tripplet or quad, and individuals without siblings would be the outlier.

Today I'm waiting to hear back about a car repair update, a dryer repair update, and a prescription refill request, and the combined anxiety this is producing is no fun.

The Taschen sale is now on. Adjust your budgets accordingly.

The Muppet Show was everything I wanted it to be. Though it is funny that this is the 2nd special Disney has produced where performers sing "Don't Stop Me Now," by Queen and awkwardly edit around the lines, "I'm a sex machine ready to reload / Like an atom bomb about to-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh explode."

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

"Will not pass on their genes," is a wild way of saying these young men are unsociable freaks. Part of finding a partner* is doing the personal work to make oneself attractive to other humans, so they want to spend time with you. *I know they don't want partners, they want breeding stock. Freaks.

Never have parents. It’s just too big a hassle.

Now watching my favorite Bond movie, The Man With The Golden Gun. I love this one because if you don’t know anything about Bond or the previous movies, it turns into a weird campy cold-war pop art self parody.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Watching Goldfinger and they use a nerve gas called Delta 9 to knock out all the soldiers at Fort Knox. At least they went with the organic stuff and not that synthetic Delta 8 crap.

So... we're just going to bomb/threaten to invade/kidnap the leaders of random countries now? And we're cool with this, Congress, are we?

Remember O Most Gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored they help, or sought they intercession was left unaided. Love, defend, rejoice in thy neighbor. Welcome the traveler. Crush evil under your feet. Art: @kibbyer.bsky.social

Pinto bean soup!

Hearing folks are bummed they missed the Eyes on ICE training - but good news, it's all recorded and public! We'll be holding more live trainings soon, but if you aren't one of 200,000 who already watched it, find it here: www.youtube.com/live/zqka9fU...

Yourself, but as a cartoon.

Did you know the high-five was invented on October 2, 1977? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fi...

Had a rare bowl of ice-cream and it tasted awful. For a moment, I thought my tastebuds were going, or I had covid, but it turns out my parents just bought really shitty, zero sugar ice-cream.

You can see by how much they have to lie and equivocate at every press conference that they didn’t expect to have to explain why they’re shooting white people. They thought everyone would just quietly go along with the ethnic cleansing.

I heard folks are wondering about the shadowy cabal of billionaires who have been funding handwarmers in the Twin Cities. Stay tuned, we have a new Twin Cities supplies wishlist dropping after dinner! Be the shadowy cabal you want to see in the world. 💓

Go home, Weather App, you’re drunk.

Oldest son just trounced me and my legion of vampires with 37 2/2 flying Pegasuses. Pegasi? Ouchie. #MTG

It’s currently 75 degrees here in southern Texas and over the next 40 hours it’s going to just slowly get colder until by Sunday morning I’ll be 27. We’re expecting some icey rain and maybe some wind but that’s about it.

First Strike Friday! Support your fellow humans and Fuck ICE.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Woke from a dream where I was simultaneously watching and staring in a Monkey’s-style sitcom about a 60s band trying to break in while living in a house in LA with a wacky next door neighbor who was Charles Manson. I’ve clearly been listening to too may episodes of @andrewhickey.500songs.com

The picture of that little boy with his little hat is like a sleeper cell activation for any parent worth their salt in this country.

And it deserves every single one.

Oh the fun we had in art school with this picture!

An important message from Greenland about sad Americans:

Yo! I'm printing around 120 / day. Can actually manage 155 or so a day at capacity. Let me know and I'll get you some!

AIM are the good guys. If you see folks sporting this flag, you can relax knowing they're here to help us get ICE off our backs.

episode 165 of @500songspodcast.bsky.social is phenomenal. The first hour stands apart as one of the more informative and comprehensive introductions to early 20th century avant guard music *and then* it becomes one of the best documents about the Velvet Underground I've ever heard.

I got into so many arguments in the 90s--yes, the 90s!--when I said the gun humping 2nd Amendment freaks would be the foot soldiers of fascism in America. "No!" the libertarians told me, "They're the ones who will fight against the tyrants!"

I keep forgetting I wrote a novel! And it's for sale! In print and ebook! (It's got a talking horsey in it! And I don't know why every sentence in this post has an exclamation point! It might be from too much coffee!)

I watched the premier of Starfleet Academy. Holly Hunter is great, and I like the emo Klingon. 32nd century aesthetics are growing on me and Robert Picardo is of course a delight.