I was walking down the sidewalk when I heard a commotion behind me, it was Mohammed Ali riding by in a SUV and waving to folks.

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

It wasn't today, either.

Perhaps my longest pet peeve: my mom's lack of utensil hygeine wrt holiday leftovers. The same knife puts mayo on the bread for her turkey sandwich, and takes cuts of cranberry sauce. Leaving white slime on it. Not a fan.

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

Not sure if my parent's internet isn't up to snuff, or if the Netflix stream just sucks for sports. Love to watch this blocky, blurry, 720 at best junk.

The only ASMR I'll abide in my house: the hiss of scissors gliding through wrapping all paper silky smooth.

Ah yes, time for "Is this film just lit very brightly/dreamily/overexposed as hell or have my parents really jacked up their tv's settings"

I’ve started and deleted this rant many times tonight, but: Investor Owned Utilities should not be allowed to exist. Especially ones that have killed customers repeatedly, and only maintain infrastructure because they’ve lost lawsuits. The existence of IOU’s is another failing of society.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

This is the only time in my life that I do not regret learning something about Jake Paul.

Marketing a handheld console on the apparent sensorial pleasures of it being made from the same metal as an attack drone. Absolutely ghoulish

President of the US still doesn't know how "percent" works.

"It's just RAM, how expensive could it- JESUS fuck"

Friendly neighborhood squirrel, on watch

Absent more details my inclination is to think this was more an FBI entrapment operation than a genuine plot. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Its not that I want Rivers to be ground into dust on live tv but... I wouldn't be against him eating some huge sacks

If I had to ask the Louvre's permission it would 'kill' my high-end jewelry business!

"Due Process is good, actually" is a popular message.

I felt *extremely* violent the day I learned about how often "private collection" actually means "in a carefully temperature controlled storage hangar somewhere nobody, not even the owner, ever sees it, because Investment (TM)"

lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvLHp5/

Guess I can give you a hint👀 🪐🔹 Might it be for a @solarisbooks.bsky.social title?

GF sent me a video of a guy testing various thermal paste applications with a glass plate so we can actually see the spread. Which I found interesting and it proved me right in the method I used for my last build. But she knew I'd find it interesting. She knows how much of a nerd I am. I'm cooked.

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

It probably matters not-at-all to anything, but I do enjoy answering "None" to every single survey that YouTube serves me.

World demand for oil is dropping. PUTIN is losing his grip on power

Well that's cool, considering its a laptop with an AMD processor and integrated graphics. I just want to update my drivers, goddamnit!

Fundraising call from the "Police Officer's Association" eh? Stand up and defend the residents of this country from the masked kidnappers abducting people off of the street and maybe I'll consider donating. Until then, fuck off you dirty pigs.

The evening fog is moving into the valley.

Hey billy graham, get your stupid mug off of the tv, you fuckin ghoul.

I was taking college courses in CompSci and found myself unfulfilled, sitting under fluorescent lights to learn to sit under fluorescent lights for the rest of my working life, and made a switch. A couple weeks later I was helping build a large wind farm.

#TheBookOfSpores Kickstarter launches today!!! 👀 Will you help us make this pretty thing real and risk it coming into our world?🍄

I feel like John Wick went this direction as well, and kind of lost the plot in the process.

Now entering, honestly I have lost count, the 15th year? of begging my parents "for the love of god don't buy another HP all in one" when they complain about printer problems, only for them to buy another HP all in one.

Mercy rule at halftime? Holy smokes. #Seahawks #nfl

As I am officially in the Fusion age I felt it would be proper to use fusion power, as well. Generating an appreciable 16A of ZPM to feed my newly upgraded supercapacitor. It consumes more plasma (336l/s) than I generate (156/s) when charging, but so far my energy demand is low enough. #gtnh

Its the top of the ninth inning, Jays are holding on to a lead with white knuckles, and my dad has gotten up from the couch to check what latitude Toronto is at, cause that matters? #worldseries

The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten. Go look for them now.

Prop/rubber guns that are a solid block with no moving parts annoy the heck out of me.

Disillusioned with national politics? Understandable, but don't disengage entirely! Take this lady running, unopposed, for reelection to the School Board in my parent's area. Imagine if there was even one opposing voice running against her and pushing back on her lunacy.

Forget "Give a peasant a cellphone and a dorito", I want to expose a wax tablet and abacus era royal court clerk to spreadsheet software and watch them shit a brick in excitement.

Ah, travel anxiety. Setting several alarms to be sure you're up, taking the time to triple check that everything is packed even while lamenting that pushes you back to the next bus. Hustle to the bus stop, hustle across the airport. Sit in the bag drop line. Only to be told:

#TallPeopleThings I took an unnecessary shower simply because this hotel had a big rainfall showerhead mounted over 2m high. The pressure was great, it was hot and steamy, I didn't have to bend or stoop over, and I am gloriously relaxed and pruny.

Okay but why does Liam Hemsworth as Geralt look more like Ryan Gosling in a wig, for a skit making fun of the Witcher on SNL. Sorry Liam you just don't fit the role, in my mind. #witcher

Not seeing any chatter about it, so here goes! Frontline Logistics: Isarian Warfare is an intriguing little immersive sim focusing largely on the management of a series of bases on a contentious front line. Demo out now! #indiegaming store.steampowered.com/app/3738890/...

While I cannot endorse using instant crystals to make coffee, these boiling water taps in the kitchen do make it easy.

*slaps top* this bad boy can hold so much useless bullshit