it must be terrifying and confusing to all the other drivers in Seattle when they see me change lanes by using the seemingly unimaginable technique of "accelerating to match the speed of traffic in the other lane" rather than the local tradition, "slowing to a near halt in the middle of I-5"

I like how the PVP vendors in Silvermoon City will sell stuff to me, even though I'm with the Alliance "so who are you planning on fighting with this?" "uh... don't worry about it" #WorldOfWarcraft #Midnight

dear Adams County Sheriff: can I offer you a lemon pound cake in this trying time?

while it remains a problem that LLMs have a natural tendency to agree with their user: somewhat to my surprise, yesterday I asked Claude Opus to make a potential code change, and it said (direct quote) "I'd push back on that..." then provided a solid reason to take a different approach

I'm not sure if this is my electrician's name, or a boolean/string casting error

I was watching the Waco documentary on Netflix earlier and it made me realize how far we've fallen, seeing Democratic Congressmen criticize Clinton's ATF, and Janet Reno taking responsibility ... instead of, y'know, doubling down on how the people in the compound actually deserved to die in a fire

I do not have words to express my shame for my country.

I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training for three years before the office was disestablished last year. I owned the policy on professional military education for all five services. I have listened to Secretary Hegseth's announcement. I have thoughts. 🧵

www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/jf... Mega thread on who is behind these age verification laws, spoiler alert it’s Meta.

well, my takeaway from that particular thread: don't engage with anti-AI zealots (not to be confused with people who have valid ethical concerns about AI) - they don't want a discussion, they want the moral high of shitting on your work [that you're literally doing to try and help people]

judging by the wind all evening, followed by the boom a minute ago and now generator noises, I'd say it's 50/50 whether I have power when I wake up in the morning ... though, whatever, as long as I don't get another tree coming in for a surprise visit like I did during the "bomb cyclone"

I decided I should try and catch up on pop culture references by watching some of the movies that I didn't get to watch growing up in a sheltered household, and having just finished Austin Powers, maybe my parents were onto something 'cause I'm not sure I would've found this funny even at 14

every so often, I think back to that bullshit "second American Revolution, which will be bloodless if the left allows it" quote, and it pisses me off anew because of the implied assertion that the GOP has the right to force that on the US public whether we want it or not

Pain at the pump 🎶 Feel like a chump 🎶 Just checked the news 🎶 Outbreak of Mumps 🎶

every time I go visit Astalor Bloodsworn, I feel like he's going to drug my character and harvest my organs #WoWMidnight

Noem is out largely due to massive public activism, especially in MN, Democrats expressing increasing interest in impeachment and investigations, and resulting media coverage. Keep pushing. These people are not invincible or immune from public opinion.

pretty much every state has a legislative branch modeled after the federal legislative branch, but I think we should branch out and start getting creative with it time for state parliaments and whatnot

This is a policy of genocide.

I lol'ed

again, I have zero clue how anyone old enough to remember the Iraq War lead-up can think this is a good idea

The problem with the war in Iraq was that George Bush was an idiot. With the Iran situation, we've got... [checks notes]... oh jesus christ

in conclusion, every time I let my guard down and let someone get close enough that I open up and start sharing things with them - they do some shit like this so my theory that I should just stop trying continues to strengthen

as a follow-up, I asked "did you even look at the screenshot I sent you?" and he hasn't responded so now the dramatic bitchy part of me wants to be like "oh okay, I'll just go fuck myself" but that wouldn't accomplish anything so I'm just venting about it here instead

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

blah. my new organization system I'm building (which is actually helping me a lot) now has a custom Android app I built, which I think is pretty damn cool. I showed it to a friend (?) and he told me to stop spending so much time on the computer and go outside thanks bro, appreciate the support

prevailing feeling in WoW: Midnight so far: "shut up, Turalyon, nobody asked you"

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

yeah, sex is great, but what about the completely unjustified rush of moral superiority you feel when you pass all the cars stuck in heavy traffic because you're going somewhere different?

I'm continuing to work on my project for AI-assisted to-do list management to help my ADHD, and periodically I have to go look at example workflows - and not gonna lie, it's pretty fucking bleak how many of them are workflows for auto-generating AI slop and posting it to social media

Facebook keeps showing me posts from GOP politicians (because I keep making sarcastic comments on their posts, perpetuating the cycle) and it's depressing/disturbing how many of them offer no platform or reasons to vote for them besides "I HAVE PLEDGED UNDYING FEALTY TO DONALD TRUMP"

I have been working on a project for the last couple weeks trying to use n8n.io to manage my daily to-do lists in ClickUp with AI, to help my ADHD. it is honestly coming along amazingly, and my only concern is how I can make this available for other people to run themselves

w... wow

I randomly remembered just now, that when I was a kid in the early '90s, Simcity Classic got me interested in how electrical power is built - so my mom wrote to Puget Power and asked them for information on the electrical power grid, and they responded with a whole packet of maps and stuff

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

People need to realize that, along with citizens swept up in immigration raids, they have also detained citizens for being involved in activism.

y'know, as someone who likes artists that are both more and less mainstream, and is aware of when I'm in the minority: there's some amount of delusion or blissful ignorance involved when people think that Kid Rock has any significant amount of popularity with the general public

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

as if I didn't have enough reason to think Trump was in the Epstein files, all the content farm pages on Facebook are now declaring that he's not

... do you ever look at a date and realize you know exactly where you were on that date? 12/25/2013: as I sit eighty feet underground on ICBM alert, Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein casually discuss Musk coming to visit Epstein's island

when my senator says she won't vote for "additional" ICE/DHS funding "this week"

most of my team at work is based out of Minneapolis and our team chat this morning is... saddening

stating the obvious, somewhat, but: there's no systemic deterrent for someone not to abuse their badge when the consistent message from the top down is that they'll automatically defend your actions and block any independent investigation

"fired defensive shots [into the guy pinned down by six men and being beaten]"

by hilarious coincidence, following last night's discourse about "do you want to be woken up when It Happens, or see it in the morning," I got paged by work at about 4AM

my "For You" feed is about exactly one topic right now, and I love it

it's really discouraging seeing every Republican representative/senator falling over themselves to praise Trump for the one-year mark as if we aren't currently threatening to invade Greenland

If anyone works at major HR firms and platforms (Salesforce, Workday, etc.) and has info about what drove adding these questions to job applications in the last few months my DMs are open and my Signal is SydneyBauer.30 You will have anonymity.

once again trying to figure out which category "the president is insane and you need to do something about it" falls under on my representative's/senators' contact forms

/7 Of course, there is no investigative strategy or legitimate law enforcement goal. The goal is thuggery. The goal is intimidation and harassment. The goal is “we have a monopoly on force and can hurt you with almost complete impunity so you better shut up.”

I can always tell when it's Sunday, Christmas, or Easter, because everyone feverishly working to oppress the marginalized takes a break to post Bible verses to Facebook