Slapping this here for yall bsky.app/profile/mary...

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wonder if there's some poor soul out there who's the poison taster of presidential bronzer. macabre fordite buildup staring back at them in the mirror.

The essential failure of LLMs in the smart home - where natural language processing should shine - is the best evidence that LLMs as a technology simply may not be able to do the things they’re promised www.theverge.com/report/78717...

I really do hope the phrase “Kavanaugh Stop” or “Kavanaugh Encounter” sticks.

word of warning to those interested in zen browser: it seems to have totally hosed my multi account container setup on my firefox account. lost the containers and lost the tabs assigned to non-default containers.

If you have an Android tv box in your home. Disconnect that shit yesterday.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

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They've lost the 9yos

The space elevator project was founded by the world's billionaires, who were offered exclusive luxury tickets on the first ride up into space. After the launch, the project announced a second funding round, to start looking into the feasibility and advisability of installing a "down" button.

I promise you don't have to show your network or friends everything the right wing has to say.

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bulletproof shoe vendor to protect against footgun scenarios

i know antifa isn't a real organization because antifa.onmicrosoft.com doesn't show in tenant id lookup tools.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

You can tell LinkedIn not to train their GenAI/LLMs on your profile data - you have to be signed in for this link to work. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Alaa will be free!!!!

ay gmorning quake bsky

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

I don't understand how I'm supposed to boycott Disney when all their shit sucks so much

sometimes i wonder if the amount of wasabi served is a tacit admission of the quality of the fish

never change, bay area

Picard engineering tip: Maintenance of existing systems is just as important as building new capabilities.

TIL not only is my typepad blog still there, with a last post about 20 years ago, but the tipjar widget i wrote for typepad is apparently still there and functioning (though i imagine there have been numerous paypal api changes in the intervening years!).

a conspiracy theory i believe in based on anecdotal evidence: apart from surveillance, sfpd is probably using waymo for traffic calming. no other reasonable explanation for their cars blocking both northbound lanes going 5 miles under the speed limit day in and out.

Calls are a security vulnerability.

i have tried the "sunshine" la croix and it's as indescribable as everyone promised it would be. the best i can say of it is that it's an exemplar of "naturally flavored with other natural flavors." it is acceptable, nothing more or less.

VERY IMPORTANT NEWS iykyk!

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

N42SL what could you possibly be up to on that flight path with an expired FAA registration? 🤔

love how "air" means different things depending on if you're talking about a laptop, tablet, or phone. good job, no notes.

Wong Kar-Wai's Caddyshack

Too many people in resource-strapped environments spend their time solving already-solved problems.

this incredible ensemble performance has been on youtube for 17 years and has under 7k views. go on, treat yourself. youtu.be/engNqMC7HHI

i thought blueskyism was something to do with alf and the what's hot classic tab, but i apparently misheard

hear me out: labor week

checking in on The Eventuality has become the reason i open social media apps

earnestly asking the sales droid why their company isn't a public benefit corporation. no, not a rhetorical question, please answer, I'll wait.

exasperated at a world where someone watches koyaanisqatsi and scrawls the word on a gun for a mass shooting. though i guess in a very sad way it's true to the nature of the film. imbalance, humans doing human shit.

your irb could never

Art of the Day - Bus to BART! 🚌🚃 I'll be at the BART anime festival on September 6! www.bart.gov/news/article...

viscerally dislike the photo mode picker in ios 26's camera app.

there's a young black woman on tiktok who's discovered bjork and is doing first listen reaction vids and im loving it. she called it white people r&b and, welp, yeah.

While Elon Musk prepares to sue Apple because he says it’s impossible to get Grok to #1 on the App Store, here’s a picture of me with @bobabria.bsky.social, the sole developer of the app that hit #1 on the App Store yesterday.

Counterpoint: NO