Incredible that you can get your kid a decent phone and laptop for school for about $1100 combined

salma kayak: thread

Celebrating Asian Australian excellence www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...

It’s not just that the actor who played the Cigarette Smoking Man is a competitive water skier, but it’s important to realize there’s a three minute video of him water skiing that you can watch. youtu.be/8Zgys8Vn-4Y?...

the jump to daylight saving has fucked me up because i'm waking at the same solar time but going to bed at the same clock time

the little tool-tip on the Civ VI menu when you decide not to quit :)

Psychologically, where I'm at is I had a dream last night where I begged the grocer for any and all mandarins, so I'm definitely on some memento mori shit

Met my wife on orkut.com so I guess that counts

Undefeated; the best of social media.

No Yanks on the thread!

In Australia you can write yourself a sick note, it's called a Commonwealth Statutory Declaration and I can't believe business groups haven't raised a stink about it yet

now it's low Vitamin D kicking my ass I swear after 40 it's like trying to do a no-hit Dark Souls run with how perfectly you have to look after your body

Dances With Pequod's

Well, it's that time of year again

AI overviews are hurting newsrooms, but they're killing the Daily Mail, so who's to say whether they're bad or not? (also I don't love this being laid out like a scatter-plot even though the X-axis is categorical)

I pledge my support for a thousand year Pax Australis for whichever NSW Premier brings in permanent UTC +11

you've still got ten years to sort most of it our not all of it but the fun* part is finding out what

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

so I think there're distinct categories of AI slurs? where on one hand you've got "slurs implying it's a poor-quality machine" - seems fine? and then on the other you've got "slurs created by modifying an existing racial/etc slur" - seems gross

re: "are computers people" discourse, i would wipe every AI on the planet in exchange for a working copy of this disk

For anyone with the Ikea Skadis pegboard system, it looks like Kmart's new pegboard and accessories use compatible hole spacing. The Ikea version is more robust, but the Kmart cups are cheaper.

check out "the other side of online age verification" thanks albo can't wait

huge notice that pops up if you try to edit the cat article

an unexamined life is fuckn sweet bro

Hypothesis about why the English are 'like that': ate too much bone dust

my dog is an AT-AT walker

me on Discord weeks ago:

The price is going up but I'm not cancelling my Game Pass subscription because I already did it when BDS asked me to

Jeremy Bentham:

Sam Altman:

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

happy october to all who celebrate

haven't won trivia in over a month, same length of time i haven't had depression, suggesting a horrible correlation

At work I'm researching the training of surveyors and boy, is that a microcosm of professional training issues in Australia. Industry needs a bunch of workers but the income from training them is marginal (benefits accrue to private sector and employees) meanwhile the gov won't approve migrant visas

Tithing. If it looks different than the last time I posted, that's cos a) scanned and b) some of the ink smudged and needed repainting (I use ink for fine lines sometimes and then forget not to paint over it)

I watched Burr's special "Drop Dead Years" and maybe it was the depression at the time but I was super bummed about how he talked about his wife being afraid to ask him to do things with her

Years ago I fed 100,000 real estate listings into a recurrent neural network to make a fun little listing generator. This is, of course, now a multi-million dollar industry.

my family thinks it's funny, but this is one of my preferred white noise sources mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...

90% of Youtube is just the Wiggles for adults

Niche complaint: Windows keeps resetting my headphone output to 24bit instead of 16bit, which my USB hub can't handle, resulting in ȩ̴̀͜x̸̺͎̅t̸̮͝r̸̲̟̔́e̵̲͓̍m̷̜̉e̵͕̣͐ ̶̯͂͝s̸͔͊͂t̴̜̦̆a̵̙̹̓̈t̶̙͌͘ỉ̴̡̼̆c̴͉͉͆̊

Rowan Atkinson once said "Every joke has a victim" and I think the Saudis agree but possibly not in the same way he meant it

Had insomnia so I listened to some ABC Radio Overnights, and that's a whole other world isn't it? So many callers and the host apparently knew half of them already.

otoh this is why people like her partner get extremely mad at Mulholland Drive

this book has mislead generations of children about root cause analysis

computer, generate a picture of American exceptionalism

I figured out why I don't like this game: it's laid out like every matter is my business and I should involve myself in it. Errand Simulator! Solve your own problems! I have enough of my own and just want to nuke goblins.

Wife and I are playing Babble Royale which you could describe as 'Scrabble with fatalities' store.steampowered.com/app/1759440/...

every single time i think this is David Schwimmer

Daughter lost a necklace at the party last night so I've got out the metal detector and am rediscovering the horrors hidden three inches below the soil in a town with a strong industrial history