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Stuff I do: Microsoft Data & Azure, bicycle
Stuff I used to do: Network, airplane
I am: Aerospace, weather, radio nerd; Boilermaker
He/Him
One Billion Chicagoans™️ (build the Illinois, you cowards)
📍In the woods in WillCo (~BNA✈)
The year is no longer to be referred to as "The Year of Our Betty White", it is now "The Year of Our Jimmy Carter"
I do not make the rules, this is just how it is.
In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story:
www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...
Lol let's destroy the revenue models for actual humans creating actual information, not bother to give our customers proper tech support, and make our robots tell those customers to bother journalists so we don't have to listen to their problems. ONE TRILLION DOLLARS, please!
In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story:
www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...
What’s telling about Brent Taylor “addressing” the unsolicited nude texts one only talks about how this affects his family. Not how his actions affected the people he sent the photos to. wreg.com/news/your-lo...
This is a profoundly salacious story about the 21st century’s most notorious pedophile and this is the NBC headline, where the subhead is Trump’s denial
Send this to all your family outside DC who assume it’s just peachy.
Seen this repeated over and over with so many people, including ones who aren’t even specialized or former Feds/contractors.
NEW: "It’s been hell."
"I’m dead inside."
"I honestly don’t know if I will ever find work in the U.S. again, let alone D.C."
"It’s akin to screaming into a void."
What is going on with D.C.'s job market? Contributor Abi Newhouse investigated:
I literally work in the oil and gas industry now, but at least on the environmental health and safety aspects. Government work is dead. My wife is an empty shell.
Air to Ground Message:
CANT 380 WING TOO SMALL ENGINES TOO WEAK -SAD FACE-
Area: Blaine, MN, USA
Type: Boeing 737 MAX 9
A: #a897ef65fa4
F: #fe714edbf0b
Air to Ground Message:
ANY RIDE REPORTS GETTING BOUNCED AROUND LIKE A BEACH BALL AT A NICKLEBACK CONCERT
Area: Blaine, MN, USA
A: #a897ef65fa4
F: #fe714edbf0b
I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.
Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...
Like realizing your parents aren't infallible, political adulthood begins when you realize the "great minds" elites rely on are all dumb fucking propagandists that capitalism lifts through the system because they're shameless in their wrongness and are willing to serve as dull priests of whatever.
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center firms, and 200+ neoclouds face "death and consolidation" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
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Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.
The articles about people who voted for Trump two times now turning on him actually feels like a validation of the criticism of Democrats for pursuing these voters constantly since 2016. All of that time setting up a “permission structure” to break up MAGA was a fucking waste.