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Let’s all try something different here on bsky: pretend the heart button doesn’t exist, and instead let’s *talk* with each other. I’d much rather have a conversation about how something is important to you or me, than get a million hearts from faceless people.

#ivoted

#transitthoughts Do at-grade CTA tracks need snow management, or do the trains run often enough that they keep the tracks clear on their own?

Wow

PSA: Listen to your body.

New transit card for my collection. I think I'm up to 7 now?

#mynextbandname Corporate Pony

#mynextbandname Artisanal Cheese

#onmyturntable The Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard In My Backyard (2014 reissue). Classic debut album, with the awesome "Bitchin' Camaro". Spent hours listening to this in my youth, super stoked to get hold of this cool reissue. Still even remember most of the lyrics. ❤️❤️ #vinylsky

Today's jam: Sniff 'n' The Tears, "Driver's Seat" (1979). The drum part is relentless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCz...

#onmyturntable Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (2013). "Doin' It Right" got itself stuck in my head, so I figured why not throw it on the deck. Always a good listen. I always forget that the drums on "Contact" are 🔥 #vinylsky

Free newsletter: We have entered an era of technological hypernormalization, where the tech industry does everything it can to twist our sense of reality to make us ignore the very simple economic problems they're unable to solve. www.wheresyoured.at/hyperscale-n...

#mynextbandname One And A Half Hotdogs

Make a band bigger: Skyscraper Of Power

We're a little past halfway through season 5 of The Bear, and Hans Zimmer's soundtrack is. The. Best. Plus, y'know, the show is really good so far too. Just as an added bonus.

He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Forever Iran War

Without saying your age, what's your favorite movie that came out when you were 18? A few strong contenders, but this remains one of my favorites to this day.

#mynextbandname Medium-Mouth Bass

the *appearance* of LLM code LOOKING like good code is the corrupt subchannel expressing itself I think; the subchanel manages to *advertise* its appearance in the form of the text, but when you (unconsciously) parse the channel you just get garbage, which feels like icepicks in your eyes

The title is a little clickbait-y, but the topic is solid: let's do more co-ops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6x...

SLUGGO’S BEATNIK THURSDAY

Remember, bike lanes are *car* infrastructure. If we didn't have cars, we wouldn't need bike lanes. www.jalopnik.com/its-not-the-...

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

"The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club."

you don't have to use an extension to do this on Firefox • open settings > search • scroll down to search shortcuts and click add • fill out according to the image below (text in alt text) • click add engine • scroll back up and select "DuckDuckGo No Ai" under "default search engine"

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

First look at the Cypher game system today. The books are not the best-arranged things I've ever looked through, but with some persistence, you can emerge with an apparently-functional character. We'll see how it plays at the next session.

F-Droid installer just won me over - apps with ads are marked with "Anti-feature". Finally an app store that cares about its users.

Today's random nerd fact: `less -R` preserves ANSI color escape sequences. A boon to captured log files everywhere.

Best Joy Division track: She's Lost Control www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pr...

And much relief was had...

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Why do we have a government? What is their actual job description? What are they doing instead?

Artemis II has achieved liftoff from Kennedy Space Center. To infinity and beyond 🚀 📷 Reuters

Please enjoy this video of penguins going down the stairs 🐧

Today, we are returning to the Moon

Today was a good day. Learned a whole bunch about std::thread and friends. Also simplified the heck out of some existing pthreads code.

Nobody is interested when a manager brags about some project that they managed, so why are we supposed to be excited about some vibe-coded project somebody did?

Wage theft is the largest form of theft in the United States, dwarfing other kinds of theft. Companies steal up to $50 billion or more from workers annually, with only a tiny fraction ever recovered and paid to employees. This perpetuates income and wealth inequalities. www.epi.org/publication/...

I'm not necessarily a guitar person, but this list is fully legit. www.pastemagazine.com/music/greate...

#onmyturntable Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (1973). It's a gloomy day here in the PNW, seems ideal to get my prog on. It took me a long time to get the pun from "Karn Evil 9". #vinylsky