#NeedsMoreLikes

[smulder]

@fuzzyfungus

It’s like the story about the drunk searching for his car keys under a streetlight because that’s where the light is; except that the drunk punches you and screams “I’m not in the business of giving away my car keys!” in order to demonstrate his commitment to the search process.

[gero]

An homage to Gjon Mili \ Pablo Picasso - Centaur light painting homage

Here’s my entry in the “using a robot to plot a light drawing” sweepstakes. Used a hanging wall plotter against the night sky as seen off my front porch: [Imgur] Here’s the rig, duck tap and all: [Imgur]

[Sally_Mahoney]

Maryland Supreme Court makes it illegal to say which gun shot a bullet in ballistic testimonies

This is a straw man and a false dichotomy. There’s a huge middle ground between flawless science and total bullshit. Plenty of room in there to draw a reasonable line. Sending someone to death row because some guy wrote a book full of nonsense he made up about blood spatter (which has literally happened) is well over that line. Climate change denialists make the same arguments for doing nothing because making things better won’t make them perfect. If the only way we have to convict someone i…

[milliefink]

Evictions soar as landlords hike rents

Oh no, maximizing short term stockholder value doesn’t provide food or homes for everyone! I guess there are just too many people. Oh no, maximizing short term stockholder value takes a dip if we promote social distancing! I guess we should just accept that this new deadly disease is here to stay forever. Oh no, maximizing short term stockholder value is incapable of not burning resources even though doing so is destroying the very climate we depend on! I guess we need to just hope that future…

[smulder]

@phuzz

Salient advice from a vet text book:

[gero]

Sweary source code comments a sign of competence

10 years ago? Try 10 days ago. 10 days ago me was an IDIOT

[Sally_Mahoney]

Donald Trump squirms out of a question he can't answer with MAGA-proof stock answer (video)

Here’s the thing - they’re not paying any attention to his lies or bloviation. They’re being heard. To directly quote Ravelry user Nator: "He has validated and legitimized their racism, xenophobia, religious bigotry, antisemitism, sexism, homophobia, and their culture of white supremacy, and resentment, fear, and grievance of the Other. He communicated to them that they were right all along to blame other groups for everything wrong in the world and their lives. They will remain loyal to him t…

[smulder]

@catsidhe

Libra The sun is in trine with Mercury, and Venus is traversing Ophiuchus, which means the signs are favourable that you will find luck and good fortune if you read the King in Yellow in full at a Drag Story Hour.

Gemini Mars is the planet of blood blood blood IÄ IÄ IÄ Shub-Niggurath blood blood blood blood.

Scorpio Be nice to your mother. Jupiter.

[Sally_Mahoney]

CEO of struggling company replaces support staff with AI chatbot

In my experience of using AI driven chatbot customer service, my issue gets resolved once I’ve fucked around for 5 minutes to get the AI to route me through to a human who can actually deal with the problem.

[anon33932455]

Needs to be emblazoned on the walls. But likes are fine too.

Trump and his allies plan to make him a dictator, reports NY Times

And this where we disagree. The implication is that the differences are for show, and functionally without meaning. Except if one is trans, then the differences are literally life and death. Or a woman, whose rights to her own body are apparently up for debate. Or Black, LGBTQ, immigrant, poor and so on. For straight, cis, white guys with money in the bank, i might agree, it doesn’t matter much who is in power. Thing is, that is said from a position of extreme privilege, so much so that i…

[Tamsin_Bailey]

I was just coming here to repost that myself

[docosc]

[anon33932455]

Great minds think alike. Psychopaths too, though. So there’s that.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Fools seldom differ, let’s go with that.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Google shows off AI "news article" writer to newspapers, leaving newspapers to wonder who did the fact-finding, investigating and reporting

Jebus Christ, the AI people are astoundingly clueless. It’s one thing to pitch something without fully understanding their business, but it’s something else entirely to just pretend their basic business doesn’t even exist, as if journalism comes into being through spontaneous generation. I have to say, if I had been a journalist hearing that presentation, I’d be moved to (verbal) violence, loudly questioning the basic intelligence of the presenters and strongly suggesting that perhaps their jo…

[Mindysan33]

Trump and his allies plan to make him a dictator, reports NY Times

I think it is safe to say this is a statement no ally of mine would make. We have an openly fascist party, bent on dehumanizing and othering anyone not staight, white, cis, wealthy men, and we have a center-right party which will actually defend the rights of people other than straight, white, cis, wealthy men. Opting out, in the face of no viable alternative, is consigning these folks, folks we cannot and should not (and i will not) to the whims of the fascist extreme right. What is to be g…

[chenille]

For a moment I thought that was a double, but no, just more of docosc being great on that thread.

[mallyboon]

San Diego turns Pride library book protest into a win

Try That In A Small Town

[gero]

OpenBenches is an interactive map of park benches

notably missing: any reference to OSM of the fact you can create an account and add any missing benches you might find in the while. and while you’re at it, add anything else you find

[Sally_Mahoney]

Disney, Netflix aggressively hiring AI Content Scabs amid writer/actor strike

Problem: People are tired of sequels, reboots, rehashes and remakes. Solution: Get rid of all the writers and replace them with a mindless program that’s only capable of taking already-existing material and smashing it together in new configurations. Genius, truly. This can only end well for them.