Solid advice from today's engineering meeting: "Don't put your hand in the beam path. That hurts."

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Absolutely the fuck not. Incredible way to rally every “I’m not that into politics” parent out there.

Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.

'If you don't use this snake oil we've poured billions into, the line won't go up!' is a hell of take. I see we're getting desperate and pivoting to victim blaming.

It's almost like nobody wants AI except capitalist ghouls!

Making fun of AI like this is making executives and billionaires sad, you meanies

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If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

lol lmao even.

Continuing with the weekend computer repairs. The Commodore Plus/4 seems completely dead, likely a bad CPU or TED chip, but it was the least valuable machine in the lot so it's no big loss.

The Commodore 128 I'm repairing today has a bit of a surprise once I managed to get it to power up. Free Spirit Software seems to have been quite prolific at making software for the C64 and C128, but I haven't been able to find anything about this custom OS. I might need to dump the ROMs.

Oh boy! A new iPad software update that changes how all the buttons look! ... said no one ever.

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It looks like SDCC updated their terms on the art show! shaming works! (and thank you @senguie.bsky.social for posting this screenshot)

I will never in my life do this

Bandcamp is announcing that they're prohibiting music created wholly or with subtantial use of AI

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

This really is the test of this moment and I think it's time we speak with clarity and demand our leaders do the same.

BROTHER DO NOT PERMIT THE BLASPHEMY OF THE OMNISSIAH TO TAKE ROOT IN THE HEART OF THE IMPERIUM SMASH THE IMPIOUS, THE CLANKING WORSHIPPERS OF THE MACHINE GOD

This is how I found out. This is how it should be.

I choose to believe that Scott Adams is in hell and it is just an endless expanse of office backrooms where no one, not a single soul, is around to care about your Takes and Observations

He went from ostensibly supporting the workers against the Pointy-Haired Boss to being the biggest bootlicker of that boss, and that’s all people will really remember.

This is the first time Scott Adams made me laugh.

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The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges. Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Just saw the latest Knives Out movie. It was excellent. I'm amazed at how they've managed to keep the writing quality high for all three of them. You'd expect the series to drop off after a few movies, but there's no sign of that so far.

Today's #birds: Our local immature Cooper's Hawk, immediately following an unsuccessful attempt to catch one of the neighborhood squirrels.

A nice project to keep me busy on my Christmas day off: cleaning and repairing my wife's 40 year old Korg Poly 800 keyboard. Took everything apart, removed decades of dust and debris, cleaned all the contacts, and got it all working again like new.

Learning to use the finite element analysis tools in Solidworks so I can prove that this desk will safely hold the aquarium that I want to put on it. Assuming I've done this properly, we seem to be well within safe limits.

This is a phenomenal video and I encourage everyone to watch it. It is 2 hours long, but absolutely worth it.

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

it's kind of a moral obligation to bully harry potter fans into making them feel insecure with themselves. you don't even have to mention rowling being a snivelling fascist. you can just point out every harry potter fan is a 12 year old who never grew up with poorly developed taste

as always, transphobia consumes your entire personality until there is nothing left but deeply offputting garbage

You can’t fake honesty. You can’t automate honesty. You have something the fascist slop machines will never have. You have humanity. You have a point of view. You have a heart.

Telling you these low poly models have some jank physics interactions with roadside terrain.

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“We joke that [chatbots] would be great if we could get them to stop lying,” said one AI tutor who has worked with Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok,” And…

AI is like this giant fucking boat we all were forced to get on, and it's a boat they stole, and also it barely floats, and also it's not going anywhere good. So it either takes us somewhere we hate, or it fucking sinks, so either way, fuck AI.

Rebecca Heineman passed today. She was a unique talent, to understate things. Anyone could see that in her long list of accomplishments. But we are not just our catalogs of retail products. She was a force of nature, a light in the darkness. This is an unimaginable sadness.

FUCK CANCER

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

The fun things you can unleash on your players when you are a DM with a 3D printer.

Last night I dreamed that I was working on some complex project, using a really nifty project organizing program on my computer. On waking up, I had to wonder if this kind of software actually existed, and if not, could I create it?

Today's neighborhood #birds: A flock of wild turkeys encountered in the woods on my daily walk.

Have I mentioned how much I love Trilobites? Let me know which of these cutie crawlers are your favorite! Art from my new book: DINOSAURS exploring prehistoric life and geological time buy book here: a.co/d/0BJZbR4 #prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #sciart #paleoart #fossil