hmm, where have i seen this graph before oh, that's right

patched my roof today and it was very empowering

this is the second service discord has attempted to use for age verification. the first also leaked user data it's almost as though they all eschew good engineering in a rush to profit from these new requirements (it's definitely that)

ripening coffee cherries

i love it when a contractor asks if i can pay in cash because it means i'm probably paying undocumented workers and depriving the federal government of tax revenue

the job of the businessman is to sell you something--to convince you that particular goods or services are worth your money these people have resoundingly failed to do so, but instead of accepting their failure, they lie, to you or themselves, about whose fault and problem that is

the title of this article is wishful thinking 'When asked for comment, Discord told Kotaku its work with Persona was part of a “limited test” which has since been concluded.' this is materially different from discord saying, "our bad, we will never work with these assholes"

"i've been training my whole life for this," i mumble to myself as i configure an IRC server for the first time in 20 years

amazing juxtapositions here

funny how executives say LLMs save them time, actual workers say it wastes their time, yet executives talk about replacing the workers instead of themselves www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

got him to use his bed again by moving it next to the radiator h/t @itsjoelle.bsky.social

"on the path to deploying super intelligence" after hundreds of billions of dollars, it cannot reliably draw a map or perform arithmetic. these people are lying to you or to themselves

real bad look if i see someone posting nobletofu emotes in a twitch stream, because it means they support this point of view, with their money

the cool thing about the LLM bubble is that it's looking increasingly likely that openAI will take down with it microsoft and oracle

i went on my roof to remove six inches of ice and snow so that i could then patch a leak because no roofer wanted to and it's one of the most precarious things i've ever done

abolishing ICE is the centrist compromise position the principled position is to make it so that their most appealing option is ratlines to russia or whoever else will take them

funny how the same people who want to ban trans women from women's bathrooms because they want "safe spaces for women" are defending a website which lets people make non-consensual porn of said women

i love that these are here every year

the CEO of microsoft won't see you calling him a slopper but-- nevermind, carry on

this is how he greets me when i come home

english ivy is built different

the first computer programmers were women. reclaim that shit

linkedin but for the polycule

gold star computer programmer (has never consulted an LLM)

so shayy for supreme court justice if thomas dies in the next three years right?

love that the pluribus hive mind is vegetarian. finally some representation

i'm gonna pick four idgaf

friend hitched a ride into the house with the coffee tree

asking a computer program what its favorite keyboard is is like asking elon musk was his favorite childhood memory is

hung this up by my desk at the office so i have a sign to tap

the very first thing you do during the NYC marathon is run over the verrazano bridge to get out of staten island

you're telling me last-minute endorsements for cuomo from the worst people in the world didn't push him over the top?

not a particularly good marathon time, but enough to get the trinket, of which i now have two

rate my marathon fit

god damnit

funny how it's the worst people in the world who have swiftly embraced generative AI says a lot about them, and the technology. none of it new or surprising, but a lot nevertheless