Reb Masel reading court transcripts has gotten so deep into my brain that I now read all court transcripts in her voice.

federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. it has been since 2009. In 2009, a new iPhone 3GS cost $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Today the new iPhone Air is $999, and the iPhone 17 Pro Max is $1099.

*white supremacy on the rise and all of a sudden there’s quarter zip propaganda*

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

Camden is an underfunded school in North Minneapolis, and they weren’t able to put on a fall play this year due to lack of funding. Camden Drama Club is a very important space for queer kids who don’t have a lot of safe spaces in their lives, and they need to raise funds to continue. Can you help?

“Pick out the pinpricks of light buried inside that encompass what humans find worth living and weave them together. That tapestry is the cloth, fixed atop your mast of conviction, that you will use to sail your way through the seas of entropy.” - @hazelweakly.me, poet.

just saw a cybertruck stuck behind a waymo. nature is healing.

there are more large scale internet incidents this time of year because engineering teams are getting changes in before the holidays, either for new features or to help manage holiday traffic. it’s not a conspiracy to take down the internet, it’s that maintaining the internet is hard actually.

it’s only “tech debt” if it comes from the tech region of business, otherwise it’s just sparkling cutting corners.

no you need to listen to the new ROSALÍA album right now. right now. no literally leave this app and open a music app the album is called LUX go no stop reading this go go what are you doing go right now

hey Jeff, real quick, who was the monster in Frankenstein?

listeria subluxed knee leaking roof kitchen plumbing nightmare no I’m loving November so far, why

fuck it, general strike when?

my horoscope mentioned cryptocurrency. so um I guess I’m just gonna walk into the ocean?

I can’t believe this is how I find out that the workplace was ruined.

note that there is basically no such thing as a widely-accepted and culturally-revered American image of a blue collar *woman*

HEY ITS HALLOWEEN AND THE WORLD IS ALREADY A TERRIFYING PLACE RIGHT NOW SO IF TEENAGERS WANT CANDY TONIGHT: GIVE IT TO THEM. I DONT EVEN CARE IF THEY WEAR A COSTUME. LET THE CHILDREN KNOW THERE IS STILL JOY AND KINDNESS YOU FUCKING MONSTERS.

for the folks jealous of Southern California weather: it is October 29th, the high today is 90 degrees and the low is 57.

If your company is a heavy Python user and has surplus budget to assign before EOY, now’s a great time for an unrestricted donation…

tell me again how AI is going to solve the incidents that humans can’t, when the knowledge you’d use to train the AI walked out the door two years ago in the head of human who wanted different working conditions?

I hate to tell you this, but it’s gonna take all week to feel rested again, my on call friends.

the amount of interdependency on each other’s services in tech, coupled with the fact that most people don’t change their default region in AWS from us-east-1, means that even if you don’t have a single service running in that region, someone in your engineering org still got paged last night.

hugops to uhhhhhhh everybody?

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

BIG BOAT STUCK

every time I go to a spa I feel like it’s only a matter of time before they’ll go “hey! who let you in here?” and fish me out with one of those pool skimmers an toss me over the fence like I’m a frog that found a jacuzzi.

hockey games, the only socially acceptable place to scream at a bunch of white guys to do a better job.

when I see pigeons in the city, they’re at work. when I see pigeons in my backyard or at the beach, those pigeons are on vacation.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

not to be a hobbit about this, but does it come in pints?

every day is somebody’s birthday. which means, on any given day, it makes sense to have a slice of cake to celebrate whoever’s birthday it definitely is. if you think about it, it’s really just common decency.

I had stuff I was gonna do this morning, but…

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

yeah that’s the intended result my guy

*clears throat* Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter in G major if you please, “baby, what’d you call it? stupid? or is it, slow? maybe it’s… useless? but there’s a cuter word for it! I know! AI (iiiiiIiiiIiiii) why’re you always usin’ ChatGPT? fuck my liiiiiiiiife, won’t you use your own brain for free?”

I wish I could clear my brain’s cache. I bet that’d feel so nice. tingly, probably.

I’ve never been disappointed with the inclusion of pineapple in/on any food I’ve ever eaten.

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌 This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite! The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

beautiful

I need a specific pillow I can scream into every time someone tries to suggest adding AI to whatever I’m talking about.

to the strong willed children who grew into adults who hate themselves: TODAY WE MUST BE DISOBEDIENT LOUD UNRULY CRY SCREAM RUN AROUND DESTROY SOMETHING DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO TAKE UP SPACE TAKE AS LONG AS YOU NEED BE TOO MUCH then have a little treat because you deserve it no matter what.

*realizing his death doesn’t change that I still have to keep going to therapy every week to undo all the shit James Dobson taught my parents.

JFC. They can’t provide “something like therapy.” They’re sycophantic. Therapists aren’t. It’s why they encourage delusional thinking. Even saying they can produce an experience that has therapeutic benefits is wild. It’s not therapeutic to have your bullshit reflected back to you and magnified.

_squints and reads a flowery LLM summary of a George RR Martin quote_ William is correct here, when you don’t understand what it’s working on, you don’t realize the LLM is just making up some plausible sounding bullshit.

to the patch of ragweed that must be blooming in close proximity to my home: I hope you die, bitch.

You can't be friends with the computer and seeing a homeless person is not a customer service issue for you

When I was a kid I didn’t know what the word “gullible” meant. People would ask me if I knew it wasn’t in the dictionary, I would respond “so what?” One day my brother hit me with a “go check and see.” And I saw. The definition, it was me. I was gullible. Made a fool, by the dictionary.

TIL that the iconic Morton Salt girl ad with the “when it rains, it pours” slogan was meant to convey that even when conditions are moist, their salt remains pourable and doesn’t clump up. when it rains, it [Morton salt still] pours. it has nothing to do with the horrors persisting.

If I look like I’m struggling to focus it’s because the Chappell Roan in my head is screaming “SHES GOT SHES GOT A WAYYYY SHES GOT A WAAAAAY SHES GAHT A WAAAYYAYYAYY AND SHE GOT SHE GOT AWAAAAAY SHE GOT AWAAAYYYYY SHE GAHT AAAWAAAAYYAYAY SHES GOT SHES GOT A WAYYYY SHES GOT A WAAAAAY SHES GAHT A WA—“

I might run in 2028. by which I mean if I start exercising now, maybe I’ll be someone who goes for runs in 2028. probably not, but I suppose there’s a non-zero chance.