“No one needed all these fidget toys back in our day!” Explain these then:

Hey if this is the only thing that goes wrong with these new earbuds, I won't complain. They've been fantastic otherwise.

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

How white am I? I'm "Ask for the salsa picante as many times as you want, they will never believe you're serious" white.

It's that time of year: check out the new iOS UI features, then go right back to Accessibility to disable as many as possible.

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/

unmasked scooby-doo villain: AND I'VE WOULD'VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TOO!! IF IT WEREN'T FOR MY OWN LACK OF FORESIGHT AND PLANNING FOR VARIOUS CONTINGENCIES! fred: wow unmasked scooby-doo villain: what? fred: nothing, we've just never had someone take accountability like that

And the Slap Chop guy said it was "gonna make America skinny again."[*] Conman gonna con. [*] No, really: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxGn...

And I'm sure it's almost as powerful as the many variations on `:%!uniq ...` many of us already use. ... Is this a concession for Windows folk?

realizing I could probably write a whole essay about how social media decentralization is a reification of neoliberal ideology rather than an attempt to solve any actual technical problems

Still my very favorite Esperanto joke of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=psid...

Imagine expecting Americans to know their GMT-relative time offset

Not sure how I've only just found out about DBZ Abridged, but I immediately skimmed the entire catalog to make sure they captured the spirit of my favorite scene of the entire series... and they did.

Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

The greatest irony of the AI booster is they're oftentimes not actually fans of AI. Boosterism is a kind of religion, where technology is a means of proving intellectual and philosophical superiority by telling half-truths about software sold by billionaires. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

Meanwhile, adults still have the Star Trek franchise.

Everything We Know About ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 So Far https://theonion.com/everything-we-know-about-euphoria-season-3-so-far/

silk song

From a coworker: Thought of a new pebkac definition Problem Exists Between Kubernetes And ~~Controller~~ Crying inner Child

This is awesome

Was going to blind repost this, but couldn't trust anyone to realize I wasn't serious. Rule 1: never write your own crypto. Rule 2: if you HAVE to write your own crypto, you're wrong. Rule 3: if an LLM wrote any of your crypto, THROW IT AWAY and start over.

Say there's a member of the community who you respect and admire, and you enjoy their talks, their work, and the many resources they provide to you and many, many others. Then say you find a problem in something they've said. Don't do what Conor did. x.com/code_report/...

This photo of a Bodoni in a small size serves as a reminder that the modern image of Bodoni, characterised by its strong contrast and ultra-rigorous style, is not the historical reality. History, even in typography, allows us to maintain a critical sense, useful to stay creative.

It's a little cathartic to witness that the only thing less effective than the government is the oversight group in charge of government efficiency.

Introducing my new Japanese-Irish fusion restaurant Sushi and the Banshees.

Hot take: I like that Mastodon doesn’t have proper DMs. Bluesky does, but I keep moving the conversations I care about to Signal. I don’t want Bluesky to become a message app, but the improve the screaming to the void experience

SportsNight was an underrated sitcom that had very little to do with sports.

Me: absolutely nothing My body: ok I’m just going to jam a serrated breadknife deep into your most sensitive parts and wiggle it round a bit ok? Me: I’m trying to get to sleep here My body: oh that’s ok you won’t even know I’m here Me: except for the knives bit My body: OK BUT apart from that.

The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

Ben Folds Four

Opening Staff Rails Against Incompetence Of Closing Staff theonion.com/opening...

Slightly diminish a band: Blink 168

There are gnomes that keep sneaking into my office and putting finger smudges on my eyeglass lenses whenever I take them off.

Open this video to 3m50s (already cued), turn down the audio, and tell me Phil doesn't look like he's gonna tell you about all the great new features in Microsoft Visual Sussudio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYV6...

There is a high-profile YouTube poster that I simply can't stand. That YouTube won't let me prevent them from being recommended in my feed _daily_ is an enormous UI/UX failure. So, I guess I'll just go thumbs-down every one of their posts, in hopes that YT stops thinking I want to hear from them?

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood

Looking forward to the day we realize that Python was a mistake.[*] * The implementation, not the syntax.

a text generator, prompted to generate text shaped like an apology, produced text shaped like an apology

Love Lex Luthor's Evangelion robot

I wanna go back to the time when understanding what I read + the joy for computing had value

Inspired by actual events

@matt-y.bsky.social "Social media doxing is bad!" screams tabloid-level internet rag, as it lists every participants name, job, and employer at least twice

i couldn't help myself. i wrote about flywheels again. graydon2.dreamwidth.org/318392.html

Why does iTunes deny the mere existence of the soundtrack to the 1995 film "Mortal Kombat"?