imagine spending five figures on a piece of tech and its defective. honestly kind of scared to go back to the shop to ask for an exchange but aint no way i'm not doing that asap tomorrow

feeling dread because i really want some sort of knowledge management/task management system for myself. i've lightly used obsidian for a while, but something about it deeply doesn't click for me

WAIT THIS IS SICK. Thank you so much Tom!

anyway, if you want gpus, i am selling gpus. unfortunately, not for reasonable prices because i had to pay unreasonable prices too. please understand. - 5090FE New: yardsale.atelier.house/sale/ry56r327 - 3090FE 1: yardsale.atelier.house/sale/fx9qumy4 - 3090FE 2: yardsale.atelier.house/sale/kvatny8w

why would anyone ever pay taxes again if they're immune from audits?

revolution when

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

today i technically made $2000 doing absolutely nothing by buying a gpu on thursday that is inexplicably more expensive than it was 4 days ago

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

i don't want to get out of bed

the future of work

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

anyway i tried cmux ( ) for a few days because i do love me some vertical tabs but couldn't find a reason why i'd use it over iterm

This reporting didn’t get enough attention at the time & still doesn’t, imho

The United States is ABSOLUTELY in RAPID decline thanks to Trump and his many awful enablers. My only continuing question is, is Trump doing it on purpose, or is it a side effect of his corrupt and moronic indifference, or both?

Here's a fun vacuuming-my-rug thought: Perhaps in order to succeed financially in the tech industry, you must be willing to step on others, or be willing to let others step on you and those around you.

i should have bought more 3090s

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

Let this radicalize you

unfortunately i literally set up gitlab on my homelab on sunday moving from forgejo. do i just... abort? but forgejo is... bad...

in unrelated news, a guy started renting a room a few houses down and he keeps parking his car in front of my house when i rarely go to the office this sounds like me being a baby, and i am, but everyone on my very small block parks on the street in front of their house. he's violating code.

as a former gitlabber, this is absolutely the wrong move, and i have some pretty strong feelings for the folks who decided it. i know you guys are yc, but like, dang. about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-...

got a great tip for a lunch place from a coworker and then looked at the time and realized i’d chatted away my time to get anything

the way i shouted in this (solo) meeting room opening youtube and seeing this. holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF5V...

wait you can make a future of post without laying off 10-30% of your staff? obsidian.md/blog/future-...

not me working 14 hours for the second business day in a row to ensure we are asking the right questions after having to take a mental health break thursday because i worked too much out of an obligation to try to make the design ICs lives easier guess what happened the last time i pulled this

being afflicted with adhd is a duality between forgetting to eat for so long you cry because you can't fathom eating anything, and having a hunger so deep that even a full meal does not satisfy you (both of these things happened in the last 7 days)

designing in this era is hard. usually problems are clearly solved in my head, i'm just sitting in front of a computer to get it out unfortunately that gives my brain tons of time to think, and the more i think about the devolution of design and tech due to ai, the less i want to do the work

every silicon valley tech company should be doing this with an audience of their users lol

"i wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo "lmao" said Gandalf, "well it has"

all of this ending in a second civil war is the one thing i deeply hope i’m not right about

We really need to normalize loudly saying that these people want to bring back chattel slavery and very specifically the slavery of Black people. Which will sound weird and extreme to the vast majority of less clued-in people but it’s just plainly true at this point

Turns out, no, chat. It is not good. Gas is now about $1.55 higher, on average, than it was in Feb. The US burns through around 375M gallons of gas a day. That's.... ballpark $17.4 billion more US people are spending on gas per month than they were just a few months ago.

🗣️ The layoffs will continue until morale improves

whenever someone asks me to give a presentation, my goal first and foremost is always to make them immediately regret that choice

Coolest guy in the world.

one day I hope to frighten all my competitors as much as demis hassabis appears to have freaked out openai www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

i cannot understand people who go on cruises willingly

i’m so tired

If you're looking at this going "Anna you work on tech, why don't you fix it." I think the majority of people who actually work on tech want to fix this, but we aren't being allowed to. And that's a huge reason tech workers are burning out so hard. We see the problems, but we don't get a say in it

I'm not at all afraid of AI being "superintelligent." AI doomerism is the same as hype. I am afraid of the way it's designed to learn about people, pin pointing weak spots, and focusing them until people spiral into dependence and psychosis. It's the same tech problem as before, just a new thing.

I am terrified for people who are not aware of how AI is designed, in how it manipulates people, preys on insecurities and fears and isolates us. Since regulations will take too long, the second best thing to do is protect ourselves and our families with awareness. joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis

wow staying up all night to _not_ do the presentation that i needed to do was not a good idea i really dont want to make this presentation, if you can't tell

My homelab is sprawling. While some parts are well-adopted by others, @vusniere.bsky.social isn't using nearly enough of it. Most dashboard packages are single-user only, so everyone has to have the same start screen. Or they're ugly. Instead of writing an HTML file, I burned trees to make my own.

In other cool stuff I've done today. I got SICK and TIRED of cleaning out artifacts with the ingame UI. So, the Artifact Sorter now lets you mark them for deletion in the app. Sync it with your game collection using a bookmarklet that highlights them in red. Available at slimegirls.club/artifacts/

Whenever someone talks to me about AI and I blow up, it may look too them like I’m over sensitive, freaking out whenever AI is mentioned. But the fact is that I spend every single day seeing those micro-aggressions wherever I go!

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨