Clanker wankers

😍

That was my first thought, but apparently one of the pilots killed was a Francophone Québécois, so I can see it undercutting any message of thinking about the family

CORRECTION TO THE CORRECTION:

THERE ARE TWO DIADAMAS

One is John's mother, the other is his daughter. I'm going to stop liveskeeting, but the point is that there exists, somewhere in spacetime, a Diadama Powers to whom I am related, and it is not a drag queen name

CORRECTION: I misheard Jen and got the generations mixed up!

John was Diadama's father, Powers was her married name, and she had sisters with similarly epic first/middle names (but all still nées Smith). Anyway, this order of operations makes for a much more intuitive story.

Today's genealogical discovery:

Diadama Powers, who had a child and named him John Smith

I've spent about half the flight's worth of time in this attempt and have started the process from the beginning five times, and I don't have it booked yet.

Truly, capitalist markets are guiding us toward optimal efficiency.

Trying to book travel for a company retreat. So far in the process I've visited sites for: Kayak, a couple individual airlines, my ISP, my domain registrar, my hosting provider, and the North Carolina state legislature.

Umm @jenwang.com was doing some genealogy and found someone in my ancestry who is somehow both a TV show and a movie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G...

Also the Disklavier would like a word about that claim

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

DOGE's pristine reputation is at risk of being blemished! :clutches pearls:

I've had this exact experience, with macOS development. It even took me a second to recognize that it was my own SO post, because it was under my pre-transition name. (And of course no replies after like 8 years)

I hear this in the voice of Cecil from Welcome to Night Vale

9yo, in the midst of a Katseye phase:

🎵Hands off my Nutella
My Nutella
Hands off my Nutell-ell-ell-la🎶

LOL the underscore in burger_king.com

∆E_OK JND result of 0.000050, achieved by cheating!

Of course, it is still possible to cheat, though they do a good job of making it difficult! :-P

This was fun, but now the state of my monitor is *really* bugging me—natural dither from all that dust really doesn't help!

What's My JND? 0.0017
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

This thought inspired by a "plan" I got from Claude, which it pretended it had already decided on, that was structured like so:

At some point we as a society will realize that LLMs have no inherent interface to the physical world, thus cannot be responsible for any real-world decisions. You can't just hook up WMDs to a random-number generator (even if it has a friendly name) and then say whatever happened wasn't your fault.

It doesn't help that by that time they'd already been primed by months of fully made-up media coverage on both "sides"—the right criticizing her for being so pro-trans, and the centrists responding by wringing their hands and asking if she should change course (never mind the wildly false premise)

❯ Build me an app that behaves identically to a vanilla web site with 75 kB of jQuery. Next make it take 300 MB of hard drive space in order to include the latest and fastest V8 engine, and then make it run at IE 4 speeds anyway. Don't you dare use plan mode.

✳︎ Bloating… (thinking)

skill issue tbh

Implying the existence of potato non grata

French salt is easier to sel

Just wait until your self outside the Matrix tells you about it

They’re mostly reply dwellers (and likely a lot of bots), as far as I’ve seen. There seem to be tons of them out there, but I think prominent people who read their replies see them a lot more than the rest of us.

I was just looking at Apple's code documentation for AVAssetTrack and misread `preferredTransform` as `preferredTransfem` and maybe it's time to go to sleep

the venn diagram of people who think republican policies will probably turn out fine

and the people who think all musicians have a default apolitical setting

is a circle

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.

It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too