Jenny with the Axe

My favourite was the guy who installed our new geothermal heating. He told us that the pump "can connect to wifi but you need to use a cable"...

Just nu kommer det en kanonad av koncernfinansierade rapporter om marknadsskolan. Jag ska nu berätta om en rapport och en forskningsartikel om skillnaden mellan friskolors och kommunala skolors resultat som kommer från oberoende myndigheter/forskare. *tråd*

Anyway, in case you missed it, some wondering from me about whether Kemi Badenoch has ever actually read Terry Pratchett www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Samma fast hatade och nu sitter jag och ser på hur AI-hypen kommer leda till kraschad marknad

When I left Substack in 2024 I wrote: "For those who are staying because they think the Nazi problem is fake or overblown...just wait. Substack mgmt just put out the welcome mat for some pretty horrible people. Many will surely answer.” Surprise! A bunch did. New Racket w/ @marisakabas.bsky.social

Once I tried to get @tkingfisher.com to remove an em dash. She sent me a photo of STET THIS across her knuckles.

@annepmitchell.bsky.social this is why I'll read and interact here and on Facebook but not on Substack.

OK this killed me, I am now dead: youtu.be/xIk0_uFV-rU

When you've just read a very good book, what's the first thing you do? You create a WoW character with a name from that book. Obviously. Go read Katherine Addison's elf/goblin books, starting with "The Goblin Emperor". Then you too can get your very own ghost dragon! @pennyvixen.bsky.social

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

This reminded me of a few pieces of art I saw on DeviantArt maybe 20 years ago (yes I'm that old). They weren't technically accomplished masterpieces, but they were things a human being had imagined and put into the world, and they've stayed with me.

Bussen som BgB-grundaren Take Aanstoot fick i 50-årspresent och körde ner till Ukraina tjänstgör nu i Kharkiv Oblast hos 1st Mobile Border Guard Detachment "Hart". ”Thank you for this BIG and comfortable bus! Slava Ukraini!” Swish: 1236076665 paypal.me/blagulabilen Bg: 5899-3932

Why not sex-based rights? ANALOGY TIME! Imagine that instead of always having the right to humane imprisonment, should you be imprisoned, you instead gain those rights when you acquire the status of "an incarcerated person." 🧵1/X

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If you don't know what Roko's Basilisk is, it's basically Pascal's Wager for people who fall for online phishing scams

NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

One act of kindness a day.

Don't call it a Substack. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? java developer: oh, that's just when i was waiting for the jvm to start up

You can hate on “Baby it’s Cold Outside” all you want but my least favorite is “Rudolf.” It’s about an atypical being rejected by his peers until he is deemed a useful commodity by an authority figure and then lauded. Fuck you, reindeer.

I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Remember those who have been killed, injured, abused, tortured for being who they are. Remember those who have taken their own lives because they could not live in a world where they could not be themselves. Remember them. And make the world remember them.

trump is a poor person's idea of a rich person. jd vance is a rich person's idea of a poor person

They believe in a bastardized version of Christianity that’s reverse engineered from their biases. It does not teach compassion but gives them permission to judge people they don’t like and punish them for deviations from conservative norms. It has never been rooted in service to others

ME: "The sous vide didn't beep." SANDRA: "It's flaky that way" ME: "It does fine if the temp is set to 144.1, or 144.3, or 144.5. You set it for 144.2" SANDRA: "Oh. Okay." ME: "You know what this means, right?" SANDRA: "It's working now?" ME: "No, what it MEANS." SANDRA: ... ME: "IT CAN'T EVEN."

@sarahday.org this is for you

AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders

Reading T. Kingfisher horror is like being at a séance and not realizing your chair is a mimic. Like yes, there’s a spooky scary ghost but that’s not the scariest bit.