Jared White

Howdy y'all, just a reminder that my primary presence on social media is in the fediverse. You can find and follow me using Mastodon or other fedi-compatible software at: indieweb.social/@jaredwhite Thank you! (FYI, I encourage you to DM me if you'd like assistance joining the fediverse! ✌️)

I, for one, would *love* weirdo furry Socialists to pick our leaders! 😁

Good morning! We're suing Meta for stealing our shit 😎 let's goooo

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Dating in your 40s is so much better Watch my stand up special Big Divorce Energy on Youtube October 23!

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

This is all just rotten to the core. All just a big sales exercise with government officials kissing AI arse.

I don't want any "smart" anything. I'm quite happy with dumb appliances which just do their job and work year in and year out. In other words, y'all ain't gonna hack into my toilet! Or my coffee grinder! Or my, um, fridge! 😂 (I'm actually quite thankful my […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

So maybe this guy doesn't want to be president? Surely he's smart enough to know that the center-left electorate in this country HATES billionaires with a passion fueled by the fire of a thousand burning suns, and even some of the MAGA types are headed in that direction now. And yet… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Trump really goes for that yassified tabloids look huh. His new press secretary, Katie Zacharia. 🙃

Good stuff. Now let's do no AI for adults either. =)

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

While I admit that the way we measure tech's economic impact leaves room for improvement, I must admit, the fact that AI sales have been an economic nothingburger makes sense when you recognize that it came from a tech industry that's run out of ideas. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

Fantastic new café/workspace/hangout spot dropped in the Richmond District (SE Division St.) called Modhaus. It's co-located with a bunch of awesome food carts including Jojo (which makes the best fried chicken in #Portland. There, I said it). And because I can […] [Original post on pdx.social]

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

I'm not going to complain about this list, and I'll shock some people by saying I have not seen Breaking Bad, nor have I seen The Wire. So I'm happy that the first show at the top I've seen, Mad Men, is at number three. I would personally put it at number one. It is perfection. 🧑🏽‍🍳💋

My 15 Minute City conspiracy is that I'm a lazy SOB and don't wanna walk far to get all my stuff. That's it. That's the conspiracy.

Michigan. Thanks to Donald Trump’s outrageous war in Iran, cosigned by Mike Rogers.

School’s back — and neighborhood greenways are helping kids and families get to class safely and on time Driving towards kids on a neighborhood greenway? Pull over so they can pass safely.

Get your Linking Books ready, as the Myst and Riven Big Box Editions are now available to for pre-order from @limitedrungames.com! Each set will contain: 🎮 Standard Edition Game (PC Edition includes Digital Steam Code) 💿 CD Soundtrack 🖼️ 2-Sided Poster limitedrungames.com/collections/...

I plan to give Apple’s new CEO nine months. That gets us from the #Apple iPhone event which is imminent to next summer’s WWDC, which is the bulk of the Apple product calendar. Only then do I believe we’ll have enough data to analyze in order to say here’s […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

“It was frightening and physically degrading when the leopards were eating my face! I didn't really understand the physical reality of how brutal it is when one's face gets eaten by leopards!”

Oh...you don't know do you? 😅 VP of product at 1password (Jason Meller) is a massive DHH fan 😅

Hey @1password.bsky.social, longtime customer here: stop giving your money to fascists.

Oh great so the scary robot dogs from Black Mirror are gonna be used for the same thing that they're used for in Black Mirror. This is fine! 🔥

This is very bad. We use #XCancel, #Nitter, etc. to access and expose bad actors on the Nazi bar network as a journalistic exercise. Forcing people to sign in with accounts to access and record these ostensibly "public" posts is a horrifying prospect. I […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

They're the same picture.

They're the same picture.

Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.

Oy vey! "Writing and expertise are not the same thing" Sorry, your expertise means *nothing* if you are unable to pass it along to others. If I can't benefit from your expertise without a "middle-bot" word extruder in the way, I'll go find an expert *who can actually communicate.*

I have also seen the statement Stella refers to, and I believe Karch has just destroyed any chance of financial success for that game…which kinda makes wonder if he's up for the job of CEO. 🤣

These billionaires disgust me. Truly. If I found a billionaire in the desert begging for a mere teaspoon of water, and I was driving a literal water delivery truck, I would think long and hard before giving them a single drop.

The best antidote to toxic masculinity is… …non-toxic masculinity. These days, I'm the most fit & sporty I've ever been in my entire life…able to ride miles and miles up and down hills on my bike on the regular. I've also stopped caring about "manliness" altogether. Coincidence? Uh, nope. 😅

Mark, hundreds of millions of people are trying to survive on $3 a day & you are hawking this like data centers aren’t taking food out of their very mouths?!

Sailboats on the Willamette. This was right before all the wildfire smoke rolled into the region, and I'm so thankful we're having clear and cooler weather once more. 😌 #SilentSunday #Portland #PDX #PNW #river

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

Saw this hat at the always delightful Memory Den Vintage Mall. Anybody know something about the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival? This design is so-o-o 90s! 😂

I generally agree…virtually all my podcast listening is just that: listening. However, I might tune into YouTube from time to time for this podcast which just started. It's not hyperbole when I say Portlandia remains my all-time FAVORITE comedy show! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIkr...

Dude with legs of steel and sweat on his brow pushing an pure mechanical device uphill on nothing but his own grit and power: woke libtard Beer-bellied lazy ass with AC on letting cruise control handle the drivetrain of his overly-priced mancave-on-wheels: tough sex machine Make it make sense!! 🤪

OK I'm trying out the witchsky.app frontend now for Bluesky. Seems pretty nice so far…especially the choice of color themes!

I asked this on Mastodon, but it's only fair I ask here too. Since I am told ATProto is decentralized, how do I migrate my account & posts & everything to another service not controlled in any way by Bluesky corp? The only alternative I'm aware of is Blacksky, but are there any others I've missed?

Yesterday, a glorious moment walking along the north end of the #Portland riverfront, and signs that spring has well and truly arrived. 🙌 #PDX #Bridge #SilentSunday

Welp, now blocking the CTO of Bluesky for promoting slopaganda. Folks, if you don't want to spend all your time on a social network being coded by slopagandists and prompt junkies (via “Claude Code” etc.), can I highly recommend joining a *far* better social network? ☺️ https://jointhefediverse.net

No one wants to use AI—we know that this is a technology in search of an actual use or a "killer app," as they used to say in Silicon Valley, that will attract users to their platform. AI finally found their user base: fascist governments. And this time, the killer app actually kills.

Tech companies: We're going to spend billions of dollars on "AI" datacenters. Real people: And our kids can still walk to school safely, right? Tech companies: No. This is the reality of today's U.S. politics. It makes my brain bleed… 😵‍💫

And a new game emerges! I'll get things started: * Journalism is better when it's backed by live banjo. * Journalism is better when it's backed by live eels. Now it's your turn! Journalism is better when it's backed by live __________.