meme: "this little manuever is gonna cost us 1 million gallons of water"
god damnit I just accidentally clicked on grok on a tweet and it ran automatically
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meme: "this little manuever is gonna cost us 1 million gallons of water"
god damnit I just accidentally clicked on grok on a tweet and it ran automatically
This is gutting.
Pocket has been a crucial part of my strategy for digital sanity for so long, using it is a reflex.
I’d say something about looking for a Pocket alternative, but I still remember the heartbreak of Google Reader’s loss, and how that void didn’t fill.
Donald Trump‘s insane and inaccurate rant about the deaths of white South Africans renews questions about Biden’s mental state
White Afrikaners say the tombstones they erected were protest symbols. Tucker Carlson says they were headstones on mass graves. For busy United States presidents, it can be hard to know who to believe.
Huh.
The new Pope seems to have the right enemies.
The most likely place one of the US scientists fired by a 19 year old will end up isn't in some other country's version of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but like, McDonalds or Doordash.
The brain drain will be mostly into shitty gig jobs, not picking up that research elsewhere.
That just looks like a Red Queen race with extra civilization-imperiling emissions…
Playmobil riot police. Lego border guards. Toy body scanners. Today’s playthings are training kids to accept surveillance and state control as normal parts of life.
www.codastory.com/surveillance...
As you can see, this 53-year-old’s fake badge is numbered 69420
Imagine sucking so much that countries where you’re not on the ballot vote against you
Forget Canada — I don't think I've ever seen a poll shift this dramatic in *any* modern democracy. One of the most remarkable elections of my lifetime.
Hitler has been bad for free speech. The woke Weimarians were worse.
If you wanted people to be less hostile to "AI" then you should have had a different group of liars trying to push it than the ones behind the metaverse, crypto, driverless cars, NFTs etc.
"Sorry but we're only so gullible!"
"Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month" is factually true but leaves out the true story. It's not that people _want_ false AI summaries, it's just that a monopolist can do whatever.
Dude.
Google is what happens when a system forgets why it was built but remembers how.
Biological Sex is chromosomes, hormones, gametes, gonads, a whole load of epigenetic stuff, various organs like breasts etc
The only reason transphobes go on and on about chromosomes is because they are the only part you can't change with transition, not because they're important. They aren't
…dusted-off fashion affectation realised with upcycled wrist bands, custom-printed cases (maybe charging/storage for earpods), and a whole different embodied relationship to a screen you look down at occasionally because it isn’t your life, rather than hunching over.
Anyway, that’s the dream.
…for pocket-sized computers in the 80s and 90s: wristpads.
Following this thought, what I want is *not* for some dipshit Jonny Ive to make an Apple version of the wristpad like when Star Trek PADDs became iPads. No, I want the idea to become a solarpunk version of fob watches for steampunk: a…
Since I’m 40s enough to be thinking about the value of smart watches/wearables for picking up on irregular heart rhythms and falls (yes, I know it’s hyperbole, but only a bit), I’ve been looking at wearables wondering why nobody is using the form factor Kim Stanley Robinson thought would be obvious
of parenting is there: picking up on her authentic interest, augmenting it with my own, reflecting on how ubiquitous backgrounds to my life are discrete components to be added to hers. The absolute responsibility to pass on the good, vulnerability to being remembered, inevitably, as a dork.
…breadcrumbs to “Stand,” and I know I have the catchiest songs hooked in.
Then it’s just a slippery slope to “Fall on Me” and “Now this is a cover of that from Daddy’s favourite band.”
[Death Cab’s cover is just slightly better than the original in every detail, IMHO.]
The whole reflective project
Here’s how I see culture being passed down in front of my eyes.
My daughter asks if I can help her find “That song from the Daffy and Porky movie. The one about the end of the world.”
This is her introduction to R.E.M.
Now she’s reading the lyrics onscreen while listening (enviable), then I lay…
As such, I’m going to post a couple of actual contributions from my end, not just nailbitten reposts about the horrors.
Not threading this: just a couple of bubbles pushed out into the stream on their own…
I joined Bluesky [and then, 7-9 months later, got active] to keep informed about things that matter to me in the world and… well that worked too well, because now it’s mostly a live scroll of the horrors as the persist.
As with most media, that’s valuable and exhausting, so I haven’t posted much.
Assorted Haiku Haiku #2511 Tourists wait in line to enter Machu Picchu. Oh, look! A high queue. Haiku #564127 how dare you suggest I have a short attention spanish omelette Limeraiku There once was a young limerick from Kew who turned into a haiku. The Constraints of Haiku Tied up all night with a haiku dominatrix and her three-line whip. Shakespearean Haiku Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art pretty hot. How to Write a Haiku The last line should flow seamlessly from the first two – hippopotamus. Brian Bilston
It’s International Haiku Poetry Day today apparently so here are a few haiku with which to start the day.
A plank of wood is practically worthless to me, I should get it for free. And the next plank is too. As is the next. I’m just gonna take it, and you shouldn’t object.
Now, pay me for this house I built. Actually, have the government subsidize my house building. And you better praise me for it too.
Things are not going well: The EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones and barebones laptops over spying fears. This precaution used to only apply to visits to places like China and North Korea. www.ft.com/content/20d0...