coworkers telling me they can't get chatgpt to work today. oh no. what do you do when you've outsourced your thinking and now your brain's gone offline.

I am merely a collection of stardust molded into a semiconscious bag of goo forced to make meaning out of existence while remembering to hydrate.

so for christmas this year, my employer is doing AI versions of our profile photos. for a few different reasons, i don't have a profile photo, so they let me know today that if i wanted to participate i'd need to supply a photo. thanks but no thanks, i do not want to participate. i want to scream.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

work meeting today was ...interesting. our team leader introduced a new CMS feature that had recently been tested by coworker D. coworker D then denied any knowledge of this feature and had no recollection of ever testing it.

buying household bleach from the online grocery store and at the top of the bleach related search results there's a large button daying "show all recipe search results" ie for the recipes with bleach. i clicked it and there weren't any recipes but idk, maybe that button shouldn't display for bleach

today i have done the christmas shopping. i can now ignore the whole thing for the next 5 weeks, then i'll get some wrapping paper and ribbons from the grocery store and make sure my dress is clean. maybe tweeze my eyebrows for the occasion if i'm feeling festive.

ok so i guess we're having another one of those weeks.

did i ever mention the time i saw when harry met sally with my grandma, who thought harry and sally were extremely fucking silly people taking 12 years to figure things out. my grandma married at age 19 and was, as far as i know, reasonably happily married for 72 years.

if you don't have a steam cleaner and a steam cleaner would not be too much of a strain on your budget, get yourself a steam cleaner, it makes a lot of the worst housecleaning tasks so much easier. especially if you're sensitive to detergents or don't have the strength or patience for scrubbing.

i have deep-cleaned behind the fridge, which is one of the worst places to clean. but now it is done.

i have spent too much of this week regretting that i ever learned to read. if people are going to insist on being this awful, can they at least please stop documenting it in writing?

coworker insists we must use an unidiomatic translation done by a chatbot "because that's what the law says." no. that's what *the chatbot's translation of the law* says, and it's a bad translation. did i mention my coworker is monolingual and knows fuck all about translation. and i'm a translator.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

> "41% of Millennial and Gen Z employees admit they’re sabotaging their company’s AI strategy, for example by refusing to use AI tools or outputs translation: workers who know how to do work correctly keep the business on rails in spite of the bosses who can't tell answer-shaped output from answers

do not COME FOR MY IBUPROFEN BITCH

if you're not norwegian, you probably don't know jagland. he was the chair of the nobel committee that awarded the peace prize to obama because jagland wanted to meet obama, who had been president for 11 days at the time of the nomination deadline.

jagland!

and once more, australia wins the most-ridiculously-over-the-top-hostile fauna awards. drop crocs. 5m (16ft) long tree-climbing crocs hunting like leopards. and they were plentiful, too.

i have done a nice thing for my allergies today and vacuumed everything and cleaned my air purifier filters and steam cleaned my bed and the entire bedroom and also ordered more allergy meds because it's somehow never enough.

can't spell rudy giuliani without urinal. i'm sorry. my brain just did this to me because a post about rudy showed up next to a post about that guy who doesn't wash his hands when he pees, and then my brain connected all the wrong dots.

jeg ORKER IKKE at våre skattepenger skal gå til generative svadamaskiner, bare fordi en digitaliseringsminister er verdens mest inkompetente person. hvor faen blir det av integriteten vår som mennesker oppi dette fordømte sirkuset?

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

It is somehow both “this has been the longest year in recorded history” and also “how is it the middle of November already” right now

fact-checking a story by a very recently former coworker, and apparently he's just been making stuff up! he's given his only source as wikipedia (!) and 12 of the 18 things i've checked so far are just plain wrong. not nuances or up to intepretation, but simply incorrect.

really quite impressed with the fates' determination to prove me wrong this week. monday: louvre password tuesday: cheney wednesday: mamdani (i know the election was tuesday, but by the time it was called it was wednesday in my timezone) thursday: sandwich not guilty exceptional streak, really.

Fuglane veit, men ein kan jo av og til lure litt på desse USA-korrespondentane til NRK.

og hvis ap tror at den underklassen vil stemme på dem og at dette er en utvikling som vil gagne deres parti på lang sikt, tar de feil.

det er flott om studenter har overskudd til å jobbe og få mer eller mindre relevant arbeidserfaring før de er ferdige med å studere, men hvis det er et krav at alle studenter skal klare å arbeide ved siden av studiene hvis de ikke finansieres av sine foreldre, velger vi å opprettholde en underklasse

samme. det gikk bare rundt fordi jeg kunne bo gratis og foreldrene mine sendte med meg en pose basismatvarer når jeg kom på middag en gang i uka. og uten den graden hadde jeg vært ufør nå, for kroppen min klarer ikke lenger å gjøre de jobbene jeg hadde vært kvalifisert til uten høyere utdannelse.

det er jo ikke bare 100 % heller, her er forventningen at alle skal yte 120 % og i tillegg ha overskudd til familie, venner, hobbyer, trening, frivillighet, omsorg for barn og for gamle foreldre som skal bo hjemme lengst mulig og få all nødvendig hjelp fra sin familie, og aldri bli syke heller.

nei, ikke alle klarer en vakt i uka i tillegg til å studere på fulltid (jeg var en av dem), og vi som samfunn tjener på at folk som ikke har den kapasiteten du og partiet ditt krever at alle skal ha, også har mulighet til å fullføre høyere utdanning. det du sier, er at folk som meg ikke får studere.

Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed. Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?" Hewson: "Yes."

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

"wheelie suitcases that are small enough to be carried" fuck off, kid. you're 21 and i can tell you have no idea what it's like to live with scoliosis and a permanent back injury. you don't know what i can carry. you don't know who's "less abled"

lmao they published it and our editor did a presentation of the updated bios and showed the entire company mine and said it was his favourite and i am literally laughing my ass off here.

Congratulations, you have outlived Dick Cheney!

It's election day! To all my fellow US folks: make sure you get out & vote. The eels demand it of you. Eels, of course, are citizens of the world. So they can't vote in local elections, and they have to rely on you to do it for them. Even if you won't vote for you, be a proxy vote for an eel! 🗃️🧪

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

oops i jinxed it. anyway, if the fates decide to prove me wrong every day this week i won't complain. bring it on, fates. keep it coming. show me the funniest thing you've got.

AMERICA WAKE UP CHENEY IS DEAD

VG prøver seg på prosentregning. "Hittil i år ligger middeltemperaturen for Norge som helhet 1,6 grader over normalen. Det høres lite ut, men når du vet at middeltemperaturen for Norge et helt år er snaue 3,1 grader, er dette en økning på 51 prosent!".

thread. all of it. (it's not that long)

if this is true it's the funniest news this week and i'm saying that with certainty even though it's only monday.

user of the day first asked for more detailed weather data than we could provide. next thing he informed us he's 100% certain the CIA controls the weather via satellites. and we get a lot of both kinds of message, but it's more unusual to get both from the same user. like part 1 seemed normal.

so, a couple of years ago i was upset because my electricity provider demanded access to my house to inspect the wiring for preventative safety reasons. my counterdemand was that the inspector had to wear an N95 and present a negative covid test. they never responded.

somebody at my job set AI to optimize headline wording for SEO purposes, allowing it to override existing wording that had been reviewed by humans. so we now have an article titled "XYZ is incorrect wording" with a big, illustrated link to an article with the headline "XYZ"

when you see there's a message from HR and you have an anxiety disorder so naturally you assume the worst, but HR just wanted to let you know you have 3 more paid vacation days to use by the end of the year that you had forgotten about.

If I had lost £90m of uninsured jewels I would at least be talking up the credentials of the people who had done it. Though maybe they have sold the film rights and it is more bankable with a bunch of eccentric amateurs in the role.