When I worked in Health IT, we had a company presentation on end-of-life care, like when to stop life support. The same conversations are soon going to be necessary at the beginning of life. It's harder than you think to determine when it's a miracle and when it's unnecessary burden. a-le.xyz/artinc

This is not what you expect to have happen in your neighborhood when you live in a tiny, rural Wisconsin town. a-le.xyz/n25acc

What’s missing here is that they *aren’t* offering a modified price to SNAP customers, because there are no SNAP customers right now. You’re offering a discount to customers who happen to be in possession of a particular worthless plastic coupon.

Love seeing @droobiee.bsky.social back on Bsky! And go feed some people if you can!!

We’re going to have a 2nd table with bags of pantry staples available on trick-or-treat night in our tiny, northern Wisconsin town. It’s not that we’re doing great, but we’re doing well enough we can help others.

Problem solved 🤝 Tickets at charlieberens.com/tour

Idolizing Trump is like thinking the stripper really loves you. Change my mind 🤣

Saw this tonight and, while I am not a pilot, this seems like one of those things that might be a little *too* true: The three most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you, runway behind you, and a tenth of a second ago.

Within a week we've had a major jewel heist at the Louvre, a mafia-involved poker ring and sports gambling corruption. We're living in the 1920s.

Tracks. End of October so it’s cool, damp, and windy. But gorgeous.

Destroy every Ring camera. Straight into the fires of Mount Doom. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Cool to see the new #PokemonGo level system is live. Got a nice boost!

Fall up north is weird. The lilac is bare, but the maple tree is just starting to turn.

One of the kids joined us enjoying the first grainy live stream of the #twentyonepilots #Breach tour. Can’t wait to see it live on Tuesday!

Pirate Training. www.patreon.com/posts/pirate...

Left Behind. www.patreon.com/posts/left-b...

I think the owner of the IP address 123.45.67.89 (which is apparently the Seoul, South Korea branch of not-active-on-Bluesky Samsung) should really have the sense of whimsy to do something fun with it? What exactly, I don't know, but *something*.

I’m nothing if not resourceful. Sheet pan only holds 38 of the 40 taquitos I’m making for dinner? We’re not getting another pan dirty, we’re making our own pan.

Modern newspaper makes very lovely smoke when burned. This is about 60 seconds after lighting up untreated advertising flyers under the natural lump charcoal in the chimney starter.

Just in time!

I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

Denmark is leading the way to detach itself from US tech giants. The tensions between the US and EU are longstanding over data privacy, but Trump and the techbros have accelerated a whole series of European conversations about breaking free of US control across the board.

Excited to interview @jiwonjung.bsky.social from Reclaim Canada’s NDP next Tuesday August 19th at 7:30 PM CDT! #CanadianPolitics #Politics #NDP #ReclaimCanadasNDP #PoliticalCommentary #PoliticsNews #CanadianNews #CanadianCreator #Canada #Pokemon #Vtuber #EnVtuber #PokemonCommunity #IndieVtuber

Protesting. www.patreon.com/posts/protes...

The Future of A.I. - www.patreon.com/posts/future...

The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

Boldly growing where no spore has grown before.

Go ahead Republicans, keep calling Mamdani a terrorist sympathizer with questionable citizenship. Last time you tried that, Obama won twice.

oh no

This is both very important and very misunderstood about LLMs. They aren’t smart at all but are very good at guessing, which is very much not the same thing. Not that they aren’t useful, but this is why you should verify important things independent of the LLM.

Want to test your ad blocker? "Can You Block It?" has 3 levels of testing. My Pi-hole installation did ok with the Simple test, but failed basically all of the eXtreme test. Looks like I have some work to do… a-le.xyz/adbtest #pihole #canyoublockit

This is a 🤯 article. Optimizing leap year finding is very advantageous for some, e.g., financial operations. And taking it from 60+ instructions to 3 is significantly faster. I technically understand this math, but boy would it take me a while to prove to myself it works. a-le.xyz/leap

I.D.I.C. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.

Now I know that for language learning, sentences don’t necessarily have to be logical as long as they’re grammatically correct. But I heard recently that Duolingo is using AI for content creation, and this sentence makes me wonder if this one might be missing the human factor.

Speaking as a male: girl, if it’s working you’re probably doing everyone else he interacts with a favor. 🤣

First #grill of 2025. Lovely 18oz ribeye from @kwiktrip.bsky.social with garlic smashed baby reds by @mrzhyde.bsky.social. Delicious! 🤤

Q: Do you run? A: I run out of fucks all. the. time. a-le.xyz/nofu

“Hit Enter to continue.”

Look out for a new phishing scam targeting your Google account. Article linked, but the TLDR is that Google will never ask for your credentials on *sites.google.com*. Never enter your Google credentials unless the URL is *accounts.google.com*. a-le.xyz/gdphish

Repost for the pun. 🤣

He is risen indeed! Alleluia! A blessed Easter for all those who celebrate. My office for the morning:

An auspicious anniversary is upon us... www.letfreedomring.live

I started using Duolingo kind of on a whim, but it’s been fun getting better at German again. 😁 🇩🇪

Pretty sure our modern Christian Nationalists would just insist that the plagues are because we aren’t deporting enough non-white U.S. citizens to foreign torture camps and redouble their commitment to evil.

If you haven't started your taxes yet (they're due Tuesday!) I just used FreeTaxUSA for the first time, and thought it was easily better, especially for state taxes, than TurboTax for my moderately complicated taxes and it's 1/10th the price. www.freetaxusa.com?share=P9VVPv