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I’m more like piss christ vibe coding over here

07.03.2026 07:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lol β€” man, they got us pinned down, sis

07.03.2026 07:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I gotta learn an instrument

07.03.2026 05:56 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Truly!! The worst medium

07.03.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hahah I do!

07.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bless you

06.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey Lover - 2026 Remastered

Help me. I’ve become physically addicted to this song and need similar garage rock recorded by 4 teens in the 1960s to wean myself off of it.

open.spotify.com/track/7n6FeT...

06.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, the campaign against electric vehicles is predicated on people never actually experiencing them. Because once you have… you know it’s rad on every level.

06.03.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love to follow you for things like this, which are beyond my range, but wildly interesting.

06.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kinda sad tbh

06.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hey, somebody has posted my niche position!

06.03.2026 06:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lol

06.03.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yesssssss

05.03.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just a bunch of normal medieval guys

05.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

YOU'VE DONE IT

05.03.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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If anyone has ever clicked this button, I would like to meet them. The freakiest of freaks.

05.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I do find it interesting how readily people chuck biological complexity. Maintaining homeostasis becomes equivalent to a thermostat's action. They think those levels of biological detail don't matter & can be abstracted. Buuut ... that's not my intuition! (I won't go harder than that. I'm not sure.)

05.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I tried this and it came back with a solid B+ poem. I think these have gotten way way less reproducible β€” the ending

05.03.2026 05:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œI should delete Instagram.” *deletes instagram*

β€œI should delete Instagram.” *deletes instagram*

04.03.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh god

04.03.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Agree

04.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think there’s also a self-fulfilling failure mode at play, too. When people who hate AI on principle try the new AI tools, they don’t try to make them work, have not learned how to prompt, don’t understand the domains where they work best, and interpret the results as what everyone gets.

04.03.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

man I love the Journal of Commerce

02.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sharp things

02.03.2026 04:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Kind of unfathomable to try to translate that into actual plant terms

01.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a really interesting question, though, about whether/how stations should be training and building local reporters into influencer-type journalists. I would hate it, but components of it may be necessary when broadcast radio eventually declines (which has not happened to us in the Bay yet)

27.02.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One partial answer is public media member stations. NPR, proper, has always been a smallish piece of the overall ecosystem relative to all the local stations.

We have dozens of young journalists at KQED. Though it’s not enough, it’s the most immediately useful network, I think.

27.02.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup, exactly, same ... but for the dumb microstereotypes that I find myself adjacent to. Even/especially when I'm in on the joke, I just find myself kind of disgusted with the whole tenerprise.

27.02.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Alice Wong's Celebration of life March 25th, 2026 11am PST
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Alice Wong's Celebration of life March 25th, 2026 11am PST This toolkit is an invitation and a resource for individuals and communities to participate in Alice Wong's Celebration of Life. Be it from bed, your living room, local community center, classroom, or in the streets... You can join Alice's Celebration of Life through: * The livestream + virtual reception: Join the livestream and gather for the virtual reception hosted by Calling UP Justice & San Francisco Disability Cultural Center. * In-person livestream watch + your own gathering: host an in-person gathering to join the livestream and connect in person to celebrate Alice. * Detailed Toolkit with links, photos, and resources to make your gathering accessible, plus ways to honor Alice Wong's legacy: https://bit.ly/aliceislove

27.02.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 246 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

It turns out that one of the most popular content types for humans right now is the micro-stereotype.

It kind of doesn’t matter if it is deployed as iykyk pride, as comedy, or as object of ridicule.

Such a strange, dehumanizing form!Maybe the spiritual opposite of a (good) novel?

27.02.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0