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i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job

Retirement age should decline with every increase in worker productivity. It should be reset to 50 and then decline from there. Enough of this crap about "people are living longer so they need to work longer."

Nice algorithm here 🙄

A house needs cable runs, like old houses had floor air vents. Just the times we live in

Did anyone else miss this when it came out in 2020?

There's a spectrum with "AI denialism" on one end, "AI fanaticism" on the other end, and "AI scepticism" around the middle. A lot of smart people I respect are too far on the denialism end due to social and political reasons and don't take a realistic objective look at what these tools can do.

Oh! Thou who burn'st in heart for those who burn In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn; How long be crying, 'Mercy on them, God!' Why, who are thou to teach and He to learn?

It seems weird that Wikipedia has retroactively made the US Space Force decades old and responsible for GPS, considering that the Space Force was created in Trump's first term

Very strange that Outlook defaults to tiny fonts for out of office emails. Why?? 🔍

US Military intelligence hasn't been pushing the UFO nonsense on americans recently... guess they're waiting for the next bout of serious civil unrest to jangle the keys again

I've only played a quarter of the games in UFO 50 but I don't like any of them. Are there any good ones? RPGs, tight side scrollers, card games?

Really wish BlueSky didn't have the terrible UI issue of blocking the back arrow with "Reply Posted" notification. When I post a reply I want to hit the back button immediately! Don't cover the damn thing up! @bsky.app

Trump is finishing his second full month in office. Only 46 more to go! How time flies eh?

The IEEE ( @ieeespectrum.bsky.social ) should have a presence at the various Open Source Hardware events around the world, like the Hackaday Conference ( @hackaday-feed.bsky.social ) and the OSHW Summit ( @oshwassociation.bsky.social ). IEEE Spectrum is a great way to keep up to date.

Ozymandias

"Boring but important" documents are the most dangerous and easiest to procrastinate with.

In the United States any history of life in communist countries is like, "People were only allowed to use the toilet one day a week!" or "The citizens were required to walk backwards because communism is evil!" Totally worthless propaganda.

According to Bloomberg, many of the weather service people in the US who lost their jobs now work at hedge funds. So weather prediction has been privatized by wall street. They'll get the most accurate weather forecasts first so they can trade on it.

Berlin ist wunderbar und hat so viel zu bieten, aber oh mein Gott, warum haben die Grünen die Kohle so sehr geliebt? "Lasst die Kirche im Dorf" ➡️ "Lasst die Kohleschlote in der Innenstadt", war das ihr Motto?

Open source hardware and software turns tinkering into a social activity. It links the maker with others and brings a social aspect into hobbyist engineering.

How cool would it be if the US had an opposition party? Rather than two far right parties who ride on each other's yachts and vacation at each other's chalêts?

Replaying Ixion. Such an amazing soundtrack and sound design. The audio logs play differently if you're inside with acoustic echos, or outside over radio. Plus, if Starship is gonna keep blowing up at least I can pretend we have working interplanetary crewed spaceships.

We are long past due for someone (more skilled than me) to make a web app that takes an image from the user and applies the "Computer, zoom and enhance" effect from Blade Runner to it as an animated gif.

The first time I used a UK phone, I was so excited when I heard the dial tone because I thought, "Wow! The dial tone from that Pink Floyd song! Cool!" Always thought it was just some weird affect of the song, but nope- they were just using a UK phone.

No matter how many sports posts I mark as "Show me less like this" I still get 1 out of 10 posts being sports chat. They might be too varied to be caught by BlueSky's algorithm.

This second season of Severance is so boring. I liked the first season a lot though.

At this point I assume Elon Musk hasn't walked on a city sidewalk in years or been anywhere near regular people since that Chapelle Show stage where he got booed.

Every haunted house just needs a few cats in it. Boom, problem solved.

Now that every piece of data from the US Treasury and other federal departments, including their COBOL source code, is getting vacuumed up by Musk, future versions of Grok will be able to accidentally spit out training data chunks including people's SSNs and tax info and the source code.

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time"

Sometimes you have to unionize your five fingers into a fist and negotiate for your rights with that instead.

The future must be more open source- for everything, including government

YES this is what bugs me- many of these universities have endowments that are so big they're like a nation's sovereign wealth fund. They could easily pay the pitifully low salaries of their students and researchers while they push to reinstate the federal funding.

The patriotic, america loving liberals on here need to figure this out. But they won't, because they are wealthy and own their homes and are probably landlords themselves.

Lifehack- you can just grow rhizomes like ginger and turmeric. Just lay it on dirt and the plant knows what to do! (Shown here sharing the pot of another bush)

For the past week English language twitter has literally only two topics: DeepSeek and birth control. What a dead, abandoned-but-noisy haunted house that place is.

Putting hundreds of doorknobs on my door so neither thieves nor cops can figure out which one to use 😈

Cuba and North Korea should each offer Trump some prime real estate on which he could build a hotel in exchange for thawing relations. Would be a massive net gain for world peace in exchange for one garish building in each country.

Dem BlueMAGA Resist people are gonna have their own QAnon these next four years. They'll be looking for codes in Obama's Netflix specials and in George Clooney's utterances

Microsoft Outlook 2024 sucks so bad. The UI isn't just garbage and antagonistic obfuscation, the whole philosophy behind it is anti-user

What do we think the arts are gonna be like over the next four years? I think movies and tv are all gonna be garbage, even moreso than the last 5 years. Ofc there will be an occasional gem of something well made and/or at least NEW. But defunding plus AI plus fear of anything different ain't good