Sam W

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Absolutely here for the selfie/portrait culture in Hanoi/Vietnam. Seeing people dress up and take photos in front of nice backdrops? Joyful stuff

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Hello from a man who enjoyed 2 lunches while waiting out the afternoon storm

Turns out a great way to best work related burnout/anxiety is to not work and walk around a park on an autumn morning with no plans

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.

Vele showing out again

If the saints get a stop on the next drive, the Superdome will start to go off

DPI on an overthrow? Imagine

Eh I think it’s a pretty accurate mirror for how much of society thinks about violence and SA against women

Had to explain to my mom today why I didn’t want to watch Deshaun Watson. Having to have that conversation because a person like that is somehow still playing in the NFL is exhausting and I really, really wish it wasn’t necessary.

Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.

Unfortunate picture of Joe Alt used for the most penalties stat

Gibbs is something else

Bengals WR love to catch TDs falling down

Brutal penalty there by Moss

Metcalf has seemingly fallen off a cliff

Seems like a bad move to leave Brown one on one with either of the Texans ends at this point

How the hell did Chase catch that and keep his feet in!?

Labor: Let’s tell Australians that we’re cracking down on intl students, but tell intl students that Australia is wonderful and welcoming. And the whole university funding model will be based on their fees. Yes that’ll work.

The anthropic whistleblower is like "no other activity has the potential to create human extinction." Well, speaking as someone who works for a climate think tank, I can think of one

Rodgers is looking OLD

Zay Flowers 👀

Superb Fairy-wren in our Persoonia. #birds

personally, I questions her racist and bigoted views and policies

what i'd like to contribute to the ongoing masculinity discourse is that the truest sign of a fella's manfulness isn't his strength or his height or his successes with women. it's not about his job or how he dresses. it's about whether he has a cell-level desire to dig a big hole at the beach

I keep thinking about this Alex Ross painting of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that is, for some reason, also the cast of 30 Rock

may have hit on how much a like porridge too hard on hinge today. ended with recommending the Golden Spurtle doco

lisa salters is a pro’s pro

> be apple > give up on in-house AI ambitions immediately > win

loved talking to Nathaniel Butler, a photographer who has been shooting the NBA for over four decades, about how he sees basketball defector.com/nathaniel-bu...

Oh no, my kettle died. I guess I'll spend the afternoon looking into which kettle is best instead of tidying my home 🤷

remember that dumb time in the aughts when richard dawkins was like, The Smart Guy

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

why oh why is it necessary to explain what’s bad about pushing to *replace* income tax with wealth tax, instead of y’know, expanding the tax base so everyone feels invested in society. “tax wealth NOT work” is a perversion of progressive taxation + frames tax as a penalty rather than a contribution.

asked the boss to read over a technical response to a client, came back with "minor" edits. he had run my email through chapgpt. feeling fine about being late with my timesheets now

While you're dealing with sky high fuel prices, I'm dealing with new ev owners who don't know the basic public charging etiquette eg being plugged in while fully charged for longer than 5 mins