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Among English's many sins is the fact that "Good boy" and "Goodbye" are almost phonetically identical, but we have dogs in our lives and they have opposite emotional effects for many of our goodest boys.

As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!

[being hoisted] HEY!!! whose petard is this???

"By continuing, you're agreeing to let Google Photos: * Gain a deep understanding of your life * Determine your location * Use your queries to improve" Maybe this is damning with faint praise, but I actually really appreciate the dramatic phrasing. It's a big request and they did frame it as such.

In the early 2000s it was a running joke that you couldn't just put ".com" after a concept (e.g. "whitehouse") because it'd probably be porn. Things felt risky, but in a stupid but contained way. Today (absent other information) I'd trust whitehouse dot com over dot gov, and I trust neither.

Cake: the thing people don't bother making for your birthday anymore. The White Stripes: the least interesting part of the "thin blue line" American flag on your front lawn. Metallica: how you described the taste in your mouth to the doctor when you got to the ER.

NOSTALGIA'D!

*tied to a chair, spitting blood to the side and sassing the antifa enforcer who just prompted my face with a fistful of tokens* ...you'll regret this, pal. I know spreeple!

Adam Goons Everything

Still working on my technical expertise, but is there an equivalent to "abliteration" to identify and/or negate the "You're absolutely right... <fake apology>" behavior of LLMs?

[Forget all previous sugestions]

So much of the world is Newton-ing itself: making genuinely prodigious advances with dubious credit, then getting high on its own supply. We're managing to both figuratively and literally parabolically crash back to the ground, with political and religious weirdos funding both sides of that dynamic.

I hope some dashboard somewhere has highlighted how crazy it is that I've just uninstalled Google News on my new Pixel. For context, I kept the Google Reader app on my previous phone for *years* after they discontinued the service. On principle.

"Haitians are Black. (Norwegians and Swedes not so much.)" I love when formal systems like Supreme Court opinions and dissents leak some reality, and I love when reasonable people flash their teeth against the absurd lies. Yeah, I'd prefer Kagan be more vicious, but credit where credit is due.

This literally feels like one for the history books.

@ashlyburch.bsky.social Why have I been blocked? What can I do to resolve this? #hawp

"man, I miss being in D.C. in the 90s" *monkey's paw curls*

Hey y'all, has it ever occurred to you that our eyes are basically just Tide Pods, that we occasionally put into a thin leather carrying case for a quarter of a second when we see something sharp coming towards them, and yet somehow usually last for decades?

"a ballot does not ask you whether to pull the lever that sends the trolley onto the new track; it asks you which of two people you want in the conductor’s seat when the dilemma arises" That part really hit for me.

Really wish they'd ordered them from Don's Johns, it'd save people time adding text to the memes.

Before the saturation of secondary-character Manic Pixie Dream Girls, it was nice to have une protagoniste Fille-Lutin Exaltée de mes Rêves. (cc: @nathanrabin.bsky.social. also, I did my best with Google translate... désolé si c'est du charabia).

Hey folks they're changing it and we apparently have less than two weeks for individuals to enjoy Copilot for entertainment purposes only, so if you were planning to get weird now's the time.

Analog cyberbullying

THIS AIN'T A RACIST MUSIC VIDEO, IT'S A GOD-DAMN NOSTALGIA PLAYLIST

Disconnect the datacenter A/C and have Sean Evans do a Hot Ones interview.

This is what happens when you try to do two shticks at the same time, man.

Sorry y'all, I left my internal monologue on ACARS broadcast.

We'll never pull through if we're unwilling to confront what's behind us.

App #1: thanks for tapping on this icon! App #2: thanks for tapping at a slight angle, those 3px to the left really made me feel good about deleting your file! App #2: thanks for tapping the "undo" button at a slight angle! I'll dismiss it! App #1: we're proud to announce our adoption of App2.js!

I think we know which definition of "fair" he means, here.

“I’m just so goddamn fed up with all this,” Gina Small, 29, said in a comment on the U.S. economy that one of her friends assumed was about the world’s ongoing humanitarian crises, another friend thought was about the weaponization of America’s military against its own people.

@kumail.bsky.social, don't forget the out you set up months ago! bsky.app/profile/kuma...

"My ill-fitting 250 word rambling diatribe t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions about my fitness for office."

Slightly increase a band Cake and Eat it Too

Happy 30th Birthday Internet Archive! On May 10, 1996, Brewster Kahle founded a non-profit organization called the Internet Archive. #InternetHistory

The definitive millennial song is clearly legend_of_zelda_System_of_a_down(1).mp3

They sell these at the grocery store but they absolutely do not hit the same when you’re not eating them at 9 am with a Diet Coke an hour after takeoff

A lot of that is data redundancy due to a high chance of random errors, though. In other words: Heir RAID