"AI Upscaling" should be referred to as "AI Upsloping" #AI #AISlop

As someone who has worked retail as an IT person, I got to not only fantasize about point of sales systems and components, but also had to deal with the whole thing (and then some) 😂 1/2

@lukeburbank.bsky.social Just wait until you find out how Chiswick in West London is pronounced 😜

Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world

some news from the network: ari shapiro is leaving NPR

There is no insurrection. There is no threat to national security. There is no need or legal justification for military troops in our major city. www.klcc.org/politics-gov...

KC Shornima is the first panelist since June 1998 to answer all 8 Lightning Fill In The Blank questions correct on their first appearance on the panel. You can see how well each panelist did on their first appearance on the panel with the linked report. #WaitWaitDontTellMe #WaitWaitStats 1/2

@petersagal.bsky.social I haven't found the video in isolation, but it was aired as part of "Pablo Torre Finds Out" a while back. Found via searching the Internet Archives. Video + reactions starts at about 9:34 in. youtu.be/t72kT7h08EA?...

Need yet another reason to dump TikTok? Well, here it is times a million.

"...discover the next generation of YouTube." So, the next generation of YouTube will be even more of a slop machine. Good to know.

New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Paul F. Tompkins and Meklit Comedian and podcaster Paul F. Tompkins chats about taking his variety show Varietopia back on the r... Episode Download

We are burning our world with AI slop machines and AI slop bots like this. #SayNoToAI

It's nice to see the pricing for the 2026 Toyota bZ and Subaru Solterra are now available (Subaru trailing Toyota by a little bit). Now, I just need to wait for the bZ Woodland and Trailseeker pricing to come out, probably end of this year or early next year.

@lukeburbank.bsky.social Both KOMO and KATU are under the boots of Sinclair.

re @tbtl.net #4560, Just remember folks, there is CrankyAndy dot com and there is CrankyYandy dot com. One goes to a good place and one does not. You have been warned. #TBTL

"New Jersey PBS is expected to cease operations in July 2026." #DOGECuts newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

Say no to the AI bubble. Instead, say hello to Bubbles.

Shocking. Totally shocking.

@lukeburbank.bsky.social @davey-burbank.bsky.social Thanks for letting folks know that the Pham*****t nickname has been red carded.

After taking a quick break, I'm back at collecting, entering and correcting segment names for Wait Wait shows. I'm just about to listen to the show that aired exactly 17 years ago today with Leonard Nimoy as the Not My Job guest. 🖖🏼 #WaitWaitDontTellMe #StarTrek #IDIC #LLAP

I just posted a whole trove of photos from last night's #LiveWireRadio up on Flickr. It was a really great night with interviews with Mary Roach and River Selby, musical performances by Ann Millan, and comedian Janesh Rahlan #Portland #PDX #Oregon

Always interesting to see traffic spiking up when Wait Wait Don't Tell Me does a show outside of Chicago, their fair city. #WaitWaitDontTellMe #WaitWaitStats

Good luck with that. 🤪 #NoAI

You know what fits perfectly above the 3.5-inch hard drive in an HP xw4200 workstation mid-tower? A folding, battery-powered travel alarm clock. You also know what fits perfects below the two 3.5-inch bays (especially with a larger video card of the day installed)? One of two walkie-talkies. 1/4

"...and tinned fish lunatics." Is this going to be another case of "I don't want to yuck anyone's yum, but..." then continues with completely yucking people's yum times ten?

Flipping the script a little bit, but I learned how to spell "restaurant" correct each and every time after learning Spanish in high school... since the pronunciation of "restaurante" makes it much easier to remember the vowel ordering. On that tangent and back to the original topic: restaurateur.

There needs to be a proper term for the opposite of enshittified "smart" devices, because "dumb" devices are the new, true smart devices at this point.

Couldn't have happened to a better person or company.

Oppressive regimes need opposition to target. Just because you're on the winning side now, doesn't mean you won't be their next target.

Yet, nothing will make Meta look better.

I forgot to edit and upload photos from the #LiveWireRadio Speakeasy event at Kiln in Portland in July 17. #Portland #PDX #Oregon

#AI #Datacenters

If only This American Life episode 867 was 53 minutes and 9 seconds long...

Just rode by and saw a sign on the balcony of an apartment that said "Long Live Charlie" or "Live Free Charlie" and an American flag below it. 🤢🤮🖕🏼 #Oregon

New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Sam Sanders, Sandi DuBowski, and The Lowest Pair Radio host and podcaster Sam Sanders makes the case for the three TV shows that he believes changed... Episode Download

Also includes the Lexus RZ and Subaru Solterra

New video: No, Charlie Kirk Was Not a Good Man- the national gaslighting about Charlie Kirk. youtu.be/F8P4IRRJ328?...

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally

The Doctor, to PM Harriet Jones: "I gave them the wrong warning. I should've told them to run as fast as they can, run and hide because the monsters are coming. The human race." #DoctorWho

Attracted by cheap power, plentiful land and proximity to the Columbia River’s water supply, Amazon Web Services has built dozens of data centers in communities across Umatilla and Morrow counties. Hermiston is next.

I just published a post on my experience of doing the liquid metal to Honeywell PTM thermal interface swap on my Framework Laptop 16 and that it absolutely needed to be done. #Framework #FrameworkLaptop

Currently backing up files on my Framework Laptop 16 before I dive into replacing the liquid metal thermal interface with PTM. It's gonna be daunting and absolutely not looking foward to it. Thankfully, I have my second laptop at hand to have the guide open. #FrameworkLaptop

Cannot unsee... #Apple #Snifit

You don't need Ventoy just to load a Linux installer on to a USB stick and install #Linux. It adds needless complexity, especially on systems with Secure Boot enabled. Fedora Image Writer is available on the same page as the Workstation or KDE Plasma download page! Also, piss off Ventoy-bros!

I've uploaded a series of photos taken at yesterday's #LiveWireRadio Speakeasy event with @lukeburbank.bsky.social hosting and John Craigie as the guest. I had to be a bit creative with editing the photos since there was a beautiful, bright blue sky behind Luke and John the entire time.

@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social Texting and cell phone calls don't bounce from tower to tower in a lot of cases, instead they drop onto a copper or fiber connection on to the carrier's network and gets routed through to the appropriate endpoint. Texts have always been the high profit...

All I can say is that I'm pretty happy editing some photos of John Craigie that I took yesterday at a #LiveWireRadio event 😊

Yep, I've been pwned. 2FA reset email, looked very legitimate. Only NPM affected. I've sent an email off to @npmjs.bsky.social to see if I can get access again. Sorry everyone, I should have paid more attention. Not like me; have had a stressful week. Will work to get this cleaned up.