At least for visual art, the existence of AI “art” has completely destroyed my imposter syndrome and the part of me that cringes. Is this a skillful illustration? No. Do I give a fuck? Also no. Cuz I made it with my hands and my brain and I had fun!

Ok. So it's going to be a "brew a pot of coffee but forget to put the grounds in the filter" sort of day. At least I know early enough

A show I've been following faithfully for four seasons shouldn't be able to throw a surprise terminal cancer plot the final episode

I don't know, I guess dangerous intersections represent Boston's "culture" as much as anything else. 😜

It was fascinating re-reading Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine a few years ago. What in the '80s I took in as a stream-of-consciousness slice-of-live had turned into nostalgia of tiny things that don't exist anymore (crisp white CVS bags stapled shut with the receipt, etc.)

Honesty, kind of surprised there's no prominent dystopian tech company named Omelas out there

"An argument for the sake of heaven" is a Jewish concept that deserves to be better known. Both because arguments can be good, and also because arguments can be pointless.

When I read this, the counterargument that came into my head was "but in The Wire, Snoop was able to just walk out of the hardware store with the Cadillac of nailguns"

I wish I had read this article a decade or so earlier in my pool ownership, and think I was just lucky my misunderstandings didn't lead to disaster

WE DID IT FRIENDS WE KILLED FLOCK FUNDING!!!!

Apparently for this site that wants me to change my password regularly to a complex password only !@#$%^&*-?are special and `~_+=[]{}\|'";:/.,<> are all perfectly ordinary

My summer residency begins! 2 shows a week! Family Friendly, Family Affordable 4:30 shows!

"Why is this any of the general public's business" he asked about a person operating heavy machinery on public roads while intoxicated.

Did the report happen to include the phrase "non-euclidian geometries"?

There is nothing like bringing out a pressure washer for one thing, to make you notice all the other things that need cleaning. (I need to clean off the deck, oh I forgot that I meant to do this section of the house, how did I not notice the shutters?)

I probably say too often "if you need anything else, you know where to find me" to people I meet with on MS-Teams

I just passed one of those "send a fake phishing message and see if the recipient flags it" tests. It pretended to be a user survey for Concur travel expense service that would pay with a gift card. After decades of dealing with Concur, I couldn't believe for a second they care about usability

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

This is not referring to a specific person or incident. It is just a blanket reminder that you can practice humility by leaning into your pettiness

The new, refreshed podcast website is now up at www.playeronepodcast.com.

I can see the point of a new Westworld today. We have stories on the effects of AI on people today we didn't a decade ago. I can see rebooting Westworld as a way of minimizing the amount of Worldbuilding needed,the way you don't need to explain Robin Hood. I can't imagine Hollywood doing it that way

It’s really a privilege to get to explore all that New England has to offer (beach ticks and also mountain ticks)

Tl;dr if anyone tells you that “actually” a bible story is about some specific thing, take that claim with a pillar of salt.

flip the coin, is this week's rightist culture trend a kink or simulacra?

"We built the Panopticon and somebody stole our keys."

"The Mediterranean is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to the Mediterranean." Works for me 😁

"Tyranny of townhouses." I love this man.

I see a lot of road safety messaging framing e-bikes as fun toys (okay, they *are* fun to ride), but that reinforces the misperception that e-bikers are kids ripping around on e-motos. The reality is that for many folks e-bikes are transportation, whether they're being used for commuting or work.

The technology already exists. It's called "a train". Oh, but this is the USA where trains don't run at 300km/h because it's a technological backwater where trains have gotten *slower* since the 1950s.

my mesorati does 185 (bum bum bum bum) i wrote responsas so now i can drive

So often the parentheticals tell the story. Man disappointed in his own experience has a thought. "(The motto splashed on all the brochures for my alma mater was “The Best Four Years of Your Life.” They were not, but I recall genuinely believing that they would be.)"

NO in fact I will work all night, create fire, lift heavy things and paint portraits of Hannah Arendt

Just want to confirm that we are voting on doing nuthin’

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

I asked an LLM chatbot and it agrees with me that "confabulation" is a better term than "hallucination", that I should use it in preference, and that the latter probably only became used because AI developers probably have more experience with drugs than with psychology research

When radio became popular, people worried children would sit around listening to it instead of playing outside. The same happened with TV, the internet and smartphones. But none of those stop children playing outside. Only cars do that.

Quick reminder for the many people who still don't understand this concept: If you pull this bullshit at bag claim — standing DIRECTLY in front of the belt, with your giant luggage cart, no less — everybody in the airport hates you. Stand 6' back until your bag is 6' from you. Thank you. 🛄

This isn't Airport Security— 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯

Its probably something I'll get used to, but i have never left my keys in my car out shopping this much before I got a push button start car

New achievement unlocked! Went to all 3 meetings I was triple booked in the same timeslot. I went to the first and my grand-boss said " If folks like Andrew and ... have other things to do, I don't think we need you here", so I went to the 2nd, which was just a checklist of status. Then the 3rd

Max. Erik. Mags. My guy.. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Making speeches is a good third to a half of what you do. You are constantly making speeches. It might be a secondary mutation.

What happened? The entire Whitehouse Press Corp is there…so we’ll never know.

"They were so lucky I was looking" Ummm no. Stopping in time for a child running onto the street is not heroic/lucky, it is your goddamn obligation as a driver. Cost of entry. Kids are allowed to be unpredictable, you are not.

Btw, I solved gerrymandering in 2013 www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-0... (in all seriousness, capping the ratio of perimeter to area seems pretty straightforward to me?)

(a co-worker talking about various estimation methods) "I don't care if they are using t-shirt size or jiffies to estimate..." I asked "what's the conversion factor of t-shirt to jiffies?" "eventually the conversion factor is dollars, but we can't figure that one out until the project is done"

it's hard to view a lot of the Democrats moves as a party as anything other than an attempt to fully divorce the left and to court any lingering white male populist types with squishy morals and values. they are not trying to appeal to the masses, they're trying to choose their own electorate.

In olden times, you'd walk into a shop and look at, say, a cake, decide not to buy it, and walk out of the shop safe in the knowledge that nobody would be following you around with the cake for the next 6 weeks just in case you change your mind.

Interesting illustration choice to go along with this headline. It's almost as if we need to talk about micro-mobility in the context of the danger posed by cars and unsafe infrastructure. The thing with e-bikes is that we should be comparing them to *cars* and not bikes. 1/ archive.ph/jUGba

It's a shame it broke, but I guess I got its use out of it