In 2000, I was at a mobile software startup. The founders built a (flip phone) mobile UI for Kozmo.com as a demo and got turned down because they couldn’t afford to make ordering easier.

What if they rebranded reading as “booksmaxxing”?

If hyperpersonalized telecasts mean that I never hear another reference to sports gambling again, bring it on

This week’s Torah portion is about a ruler oppressing outsiders and seeing them as sub-human, and also about citizens who choose not to obey orders from the ruler.

Don’t leave us hanging, did they provide alt text or does nobody have any standards anymore?

What could go wrong?

I was flabbergasted when someone I dated in college told me they went to the movies on Christmas. Like you shut everything down for this holiday and you’re not even going to church? (I had not hung out with very many non-Jews growing up)

The goyim go to the movies on Christmas too. In the afternoon/evening when they are tired of dealing with their families.

I would vote for her twice if she did that

OMG, that is insane.

The PR/FAQ is great for figuring out what you want and getting feedback from customer-facing folks, but when I’ve tried it with engineering teams they struggled to extrapolate requirements from it. How do folks get dev teams comfortable with that?

After reading this chilling horror-show of a story, I told my kids they’re not allowed to use ChatGPT. If they want to cheat on their homework, they’ll need to do it the old-fashioned way.

I (a big dyke) coached youth soccer when my kids were that age and one of the other moms told me that her kid thought having two moms was a great idea and asked why they only had one.

It’s been a while since I read an IDC report but they are generally known for being solid on market size and spend data. I would take a closer look at the criteria they used, which are probably spelled out in some detail in the report.

IBM’s AI coding technology has focused on helping folks migrate mainframe code to
Java. You wouldn’t hear about devs using it on 21st-century projects but IBM may still be selling a bundle of it.

Very disappointing. I mostly love the league pass, but who even gets CBS Sports Network?

As a queer parent, can I ask that my children opt out of classes where the books have straight characters? Seems only fair.

Go you! I ran my first 5K in a long time in December and I’m running my third next week.

A rectangular gray gravestone, inscribed with Whitin Badger, 1906-1992, Dwight Cooke 1908-1992, and underneath the line "THE UNICORN WAITS IN A DARKENING WOOD"

Hey, who wants something nice?

So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

Stephen Miller. Steve is a space cowboy, Stephen is an odious Nazi cretin.

They were so good and so underrated

How does the apostrophe thing work for families with two mothers?

Both this article and Blum’s book are very worthwhile reads if you are a person who eats food in the US on a regular basis.

I hear he’s bringing back coal, is that an appropriate Christmas gift?

Nailed it

That was meant to promote the product? I’m clearly missing something here.

Looking forward to the debate over whether it counts as sexual harassment if you are harassing an AI.

All 3 of those things are also true about the president, no?

Those of us who are observing Passover are automatically Team Crispy this week. Not leavening the bread in the first place is clearly the oldest and best way to make it crispy.

It was not the worst video game movie I’ve ever seen. And the trio of 11 year old boys I was chaperoning absolutely loved it.