i get why folks want this to be a “bsky uses ai” problem and it could be, also could be the upstream provider using ai! downtime happened long before ai though and i think the real problem is that <5 companies control how we get things and keep things online

Hitting me today that I need to give myself, like, a week to recover from the emotional effort from a three-hour family event. FFS...

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

The surprise is not the incident/outage, it's that anything on the Internet ever works at all. The amount of hard work/smarts/skill/expertise involved in everything that keeps it running is astounding.

Absolutely. And you got a Montreal win!

We can meet you somewhere, too. Not sure when we're planning on rolling in yet.

Cool. We'll keep an eye out for y'all. @mightystickbug.bsky.social

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

You all anywhere near section 108 by any chance?

Finally cleaning up Christmas decorations. @jennybeanreads.bsky.social: "Leave those pinecones. Those are business pinecones."

The opposite of the Detroit scenario in the original SimCity, where they wanted you to bulldoze a bunch of stuff so you could afford to fund "strategically placed" police stations.

"Remember, hockey players in books aren't douchbags." - @jennybeanreads.bsky.social

"Fuck that. Call a lawyer."

Alternative entertainment for the evening.

the rules are clear: Ryan Coogler gets to keep shooting until he misses

They should campaign on this in every election at every level because it's a rare moment of honesty: Begin work as children and work until you die without ever retiring. You exist to serve capital and the parasitic ruling class. You exist as a serf to boost profits and shareholder value for others.

Fair. And I like to think someone like Nolan wouldn't stand for Musk taking the credit but I have to imagine someone good enough would cash the check. It's not their life savings riding on the bet, after all.

Defending our fundamental freedoms would have included opposing this from the start but that wasn't enough of a kitchen table issue was it?

But even more, I could see Musk buying/bribing his way into slapping his name on something someone else did most of the work for, but nominally meeting the industry's extremely low bar for the definition of "making" and "good movie."

I could see a suitably-motivated Nolan devoting his life to it, surrounding himself with the greatest innovators, doing everything he could, and failing because "everything he could" isn't enough.

Sitting at intermission for Hadestown and a girl a couple seats down comes back saying "Evan Hansen is a terrible person."

Not. Wrong.

Overheard in East Lansing... "I'm a chill hot dog, okay?! Just give me my wings so I can leave..."

The whole series is great. Batshit crazy. Maybe this is the year she finally wraps it up.

I appreciate that movie for how Christopher Eccleston manages to out-ham Nicholas Cage, the man widely regarded as his generation's hammiest actor.

I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.

I want to remind lawmakers here and abroad that "forcing Twitter to stop producing CSAM" is the starting point and "prosecuting the administration at Twitter for producing CSAM" is still the demand of a moral and just state.

Peters is a creep and Slotkin is such a damned disappointment.

Happy fucking New Year

That Stranger Things finale gave me Battlestar Galactica vibes.

I actually have a terrible photo of my own of that very building, snapped from a tour bus in 2019 to send to a friend who worked at Dominos. Recognized it immediately from your post and broke my brain for a second.