That was Tim, This is Now: the John Ternus Story.

X is going to let Grok curate your timeline Another way for Grok to invade your timeline.

X is going to use Grok, their application for creating deepfake pornography and CSAM, to curate users' timelines.

www.theverge.com/tech/917113/...

Remember, today is Earth Day, so be sure to do something nice for that special earth in your life.

The tech industry wants you to think the AI boom is the setup to The Terminator, but it's really closer to the setup for Les Miserables.

When life hands you lemmings, make lemmingade.

That place has always been kind of a sausage-fest, but now it's gone from brat to wurst.

It's not bad enough that "podcast" has been bastardized to include things on YouTube and locked up in proprietary apps; now we also need to come up with the worst names for their sub-formats.

Every time you hear the word "vodcast," a schoolteacher has to sell plasma to buy groceries.

¡AI, caramba!

Sorry, everybody. Someone told me that my slightly-better alternative choice wasn't good enough. I guess I'm a fascist after all.

Microsoft Brings Token-Based Billing to GitHub Copilot (Updated) Internal documents reveal that Microsoft intends to update GitHub Copilot to support token-based billing, a dramatic shift.

I know I'm just playing my greatest hits here, but: Nobody's paying what this actually costs… 🎶

www.thurrott.com/a-i/github-c...

Apple names insider John Ternus as CEO, Cook to become executive chairman Apple on Monday named insider ​John Ternus as its next CEO, tasking the ‌long-time hardware chief to steer the company after Tim Cook as the iPhone maker gears up for an ​industry change spurred by artificial intelligence.

"#Apple names insider John Ternus as CEO, Cook to become executive chairman."

The king is dead. Long live the king!

www.reuters.com/technology/jo...

Office etiquette tip: "Microsoft 365 allows multiple people to edit the same Excel file at the same time!" is not the same as "It's ok to leave a shared Excel file open on your machine for days on end."

I'm having some trouble focusing on my work this morning.

He posted on Bluesky.

I'm gonna blow the lid off of the looksmaxxing community with my revolutionary technique.

I call it "Maybe NOT hitting yourself in the face with a hammer."

How much caffeine is too much?

All I know is I'm prepared to find out.

April showers bring Mayflowers.

April showers are therefore colonizers.

Which is why I support drought.

If AI is actually capable of replacing workers en masse, shouldn't we have a spate of breathless hand-wringing articles about workers "ripping off" their employers by outsourcing their entire jobs to AI while still collecting a paycheck?

The browser tabs I most need to close are in my head.

Only the repliest of guys.

"Did that whiny post make you feel better?"

Not as much as blocking you did.

I have this neurological condition where you can show me pictures of celebrities, and I can hardly recognize most of their faces.

It's called giving a shit about things that actually matter.

It's the guns.

Donning my clerical collar to administer the holy sacrament of confusion.

Bram Stoker's Lullaby.

screenshot (or reproduction) of the 1980s-era arcade gam, Dig Dug. A small blue-and-white character stands in a dark tunnel dug through orange and red soil, facing a red, ball-shaped creature. The former character is using a red pump attached to the creature with a white hose, causing the creature to inflate.

Yes, it's true. I was involved in a pump-and-dump scheme in the 80s.

I am NOT saying MacBook Neo is perfect or beyond critique.

But every post I've seen complaining about fanboys genuflecting to the Neo was made by someone who obviously never used one.

Neo is lauded because it's a good product at a strategically interesting low price. There's no conspiracy here.

Weird how every positive take on the MacBook Neo comes from an "Apple shill" or "fanboy," but every negative take on the MacBook Neo comes from someone who has LITERALLY NEVER TRIED TO USE ONE.

Something wiggity wack this way comes.

I wonder if 'The Pitt' is so consistent about referring to "the ED" (Emergency Department) because that's the modern term of art for an emergency room, or if it's because they *really* want to avoid saying "ER" because of the lawsuit with the Crichton estate.