Build the spider

Build the dang spider.

The DK Rap is still missing a verse about the lesser known cousin Viet Kong. "This guerrilla is a killa in more ways than one," "He hides in the trees with his coconut gun!" "Every vine in the jungle knows where you go," "He's already there before ya even know!"

I escaped rural poverty to a very privileged position in life, and somehow the things I complain about have become privileged/socialist/whatever ramblings, but were somehow totally real when I was living in a town actively decomposing around me. They don't give a fuck about us.

And of course he's got the fucking supremely racist caricature on his shirt. Man this guy is just the fucking worst.

AHH ≠ Ass AHH = Opossum

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

she's so very round today

I literally just got back from a conference about the *bleeding edge* of ai agents. There is no fundamental difference between an agent and three LLMs in a trench coat. I'm not joking. There's some limited use I can see, but most stuff, especially academia? Overblown hype from snake oil salesmen

One of the greatest headlines ever made

new tone!

When I bet wrong on kalshi

So @merriam-webster.com has a new game on their shared site with Brittanica - The Loop. Which is a fun concept. But which, instead of using publicly available art, or hiring an artist, runs entirely on AI art. Which feels like such a fucking betrayal. You're the *dictionary*.

you guys actually believe this shit?

Submitted: the White House press corps is bad for the Republic.

Happy Miss Congeniality Day to all who celebrate!

I learned of this today. I generated a class about digital media studies. Myself and 3 of my colleagues had 30 second to 2 minute clips taken from the video lectures from our online classes. The clips are interspersed with text that appears to be generated by ChatGPT (stupid emoji and all).

As an infectious disease specialist, I’d urge @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social to listen the experts, and in this case, the majority of the council. Decriminalizing possession of clean needles and syringes helps us prevent incurable diseases. You have experts you can turn to. Listen to them. Don’t veto.

Didn't bend, didn't cower, didn't even feel the need to stand next to Trump grinning awkwardly like it was normal. And now he's emerged unscathed with his job and his dignity intact and his reputation even stronger than before. Huh. Seems like this could be a model for others in power.

The funny thing is, as someone who has gone to developer conferences heavily focusing on enterprise agentic AI, it's 100% true it's difficult to code with. One of the most glaring and consistent features of every single demo and lecture is the deliberate ignoring of how much handholding is required.

ur not gonna believe who just blocked me lol

When the devs pipe up

What the fffffuuuuuuccccckkkkkk

Ah I see the Times has fired up the ol' conservative commentator is sorry generator again.

it will never not be funny how they thought bsky was going to be a google campus and instead they got tumblr and they absolutely h a t e it

In recent weeks, various alleged firefighters and home inspectors have been running fearmongering Facebook ads for carbon monoxide detectors sold by dubious websites. There are, however, multiple problems; for example, many of the pages running the ads are renamed accounts with AI-generated avatars.

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Jason let the new boy free roam the condo downstairs today while he was at work (I stopped by & took pics of him earlier.) When Jason got back tonight, he called me sounding a little panicked because he couldn't find him, and was frantically looking looking everywhere. He was sleeping on the couch.

My wee chub

Mango 🥭

I literally groaned in relief hearing someone speak some god damn sense for 60 seconds.

do you miss when you enjoyed being on websites? introducing killthecomputer.com

Connecting some dots here: the Associated Press offered buyouts to ~120 US journalists this month, and among the reasons is that McClatchy dropped AP in 2024. This is a piece of what McClatchy is doing instead.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Gonna have nightmares about this and it didn't even happen to me. What the fuck.

What do you expect from smol bean indie journalists such as these? What kind of influence do you think these guys *really* have?

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:')

Current* conditions near Gary, IN:

So we've amphetamines, a dissociative, another dissociative/sedative, a sedative and an anticonvulsant. What the fuck was this dude trying to do?

I'm a principal full stack developer and I give this person my full endorsement.