Vicky Harp

I unironically love how much faith Claude has in me

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

You just don't get it. The technology is always improving - pouring river water in your socks is getting easier and faster and cheaper every year.

In NYC for a brief trip. Ads in the subway: AI Ads in a taxi: lawyers Ads on the bus: medicare supplemental plans

If Mistral thought naming their new model Le Chonk would make people like me read their press release, they were correct

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

Last night I was using Opus 5.5 to help me fill out a grant application for our community orchestra and - I shit you not - it started playing one of our performances in the background

Every even marginally fun-to-browse retailer is closed now, it seems Radio Shack Papyrus Toys R Us Sam Goody B Dalton Joann Fry's Sharper Image Waldenbooks Discovery Store Circuit City Tuesday Morning Borders Pier1 Brookstone Shopping centers are so dull these days.

Bought an "erasure poem" last night at the Punk Rock Flea Market Artist is Janessa Wight www.instagram.com/jenessaliz1

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

You can spot AI autodialers because they sound so chirpy. Every human making a phone call in 2026 sounds exhausted.

Made a little site to help with musical instrument transposition: changekey.to Give it a look if you play a transposing instrument like a clarinet, sax, or trumpet. :)

I have quoted this film at least monthly for a quarter of a century now.

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

Sentience does not reliably protect humans from being exploited or killed, and it does not prevent animals from being eaten or killed for sport. Just a reminder as we debate AI sentience.

While you were partying I studied the blade When you were having premarital sex I visited the blade archives in the Vatican to do primary research on 14th century blades While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity I completed my dissertation on Oakeshott type XIIIa German longswords

Watched Train Dreams. Stunningly beautiful. That one is going to stick with me.

The End of Oak Street 👍🏼

We were remembering an interesting space documentary we watched a while back and decided to look it up to watch with kiddo and it turns out Disney+ purged it and you just can't watch it anymore, the end.

I did a lot of interviewing when I was at Microsoft, sometimes 5-10 ppl a week. I didn't find out until much later that some candidates were ghosted by the process. It shakes me to the core to know I was part of this and I apologize unreservedly to anyone who experienced it. Those are not my values.

The algorithm just served me up a teaser video to let me know that a trailer is coming out tomorrow for a show entitled "Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi" and I need everyone involved in that GTM to, like, watch a sunset or something.

One of my favorite work from home things is when I go to close my office door and the dog is right outside, I ask him if he wants to join the upcoming meeting or not. It amuses me to no end. "Hey buddy, do you want to join the geospatial sync?"

I used to eat a spoonful of peanut butter around 3 pm for a snack, but I knew that was pretty childish. So now I eat a spoonful of Nutella.

I can't pick a favorite line from this youtu.be/5KyfW79Ld4g?... But I do like "When MySQL has a good day, I wait for Ops to fix the monitoring"

This was Microsoft life every day, it is such a bizarre dynamic

Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh. Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.

Life pro tip: toast your oats in browned butter before making oatmeal. It makes a bigger difference than you might expect.

NASA’s mission to orbit the Moon is being interrupted by Outlook (New) and Outlook (classic) both refusing to open 😂

You sure about that, Amazon?

Joy is an act of resistance. And this is that:

Browsing Google groups at work and finding one that shows activity of "less than 280 messages per day"

Watch as Gemini adds more and more commas as it progresses through this answer

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

A career update! This week I joined @yugabytedb.bsky.social as Sr Dir of PM for the Core Database. Happy to be working on OSS and data again :)

Macbeth: SHIT

Seahawks 🏈

Ok well.played Life360