there’s a lot of reasons to make sure your smoke detectors aren’t more than 10 years old but an underrated reason is “avoiding triggering very specific trauma when one malfunctions and you can’t stop it from intermittently giving a false alarm 15 times in 10 hours“. check your smoke detectors, folks

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

[getting rejected at the bar] that's fine. actually my boys and i were thinking of diminishing and going into the west

watching Scrubs after The Pitt really has me stressing about how much downtime these doctors have to just talk about their feelings and make out in supply closets

every morning is a new day it could happen and I think that’s beautiful

it happened to me: finally read a sally rooney novel and it was at precisely the right time in my life to feel like i really got something out of the experience

A couple weeks ago I bought a hideous pair of green terry shorts so i had some comfy clothes to lounge and clean in that I didn’t have to be careful about. every day since then I’ve come home from work, said “time to go shrek mode”, and changed into them. my life is better now

there are dozens of us

That seems like it’s probably a record

A small plastic skeleton lies face first in a snow-covered garden bed. the legs of a two additional skeletons dangle from the porch in the foreground

Every once in a while I wake up to a pretty good murder scene

A SKELOTON WHO FEEL'S LIKE MACREADY IN DA 1982 FILM "THE THING" AND HE WAS RIGHT TO DESTROY CHESS WIZERD!!! HIS ONLY MISTAKE WAS WASTING WHISKEY !!!!! NONE OF US COULD HAVE SEEN "THE THING" COMING BECUASE WHO WOULD KNOW THAT YOUR HANDS WOULD GO INSIDE AND IT WOULD MUNCH THEM OFF BUT WE ALL KNOW THE FEELING OF DESTROYING A COMPUTER , WE ALWAYS KNEW THEY WERE FUCKED , WERE LUCKY WE GOT A COUPLE GOOD DECADE'S OUT OF THEM BEFORE IT ALL TURNED TO SHIT!!! IMAGINE LOOKING AT YOUR FELLOW HUMAN'S AND THINKING OF EACH ONE IN YOUR MIND AS A HURDLE THAT STAND'S BETWEEN YOU AND MORE MONEY , IMAGINE A LACK OF AESTHETIC SO DEEP THAT YOU CANNOT TELL A COMPUTERS OUTPUT FROM A HUMAN BEING, IMAGINE A MIND SO DEVOID OF EMOTION THAT YOU CAN SAY WITH A STRAIGHT FACE THAT ART MUST NO LONGER BE MADE, THAT CHAINS AROUND THE WRISTS OF HUMANITY IS THE WAY IT MUST BE, YOUR OWN NASTY MIND TALKINT TO ITSELF LIKE HANNIBAL LECTER AS YOU DREAM OF A WORLD WHERE YOU CAN GET OUT OF PAYING JODIE FOSTER, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO IMPRESSING HER LIKE WE USE TO , ANY WAY THE TEXT " I WILL NOT LISTEN TO AI MUSIC , I WILL NEVER WATCH AI VIDEO, I WILL NEVER READ AI WRITING , I HATE CMOPUTERS NOW, THEY RUINED GOING ON THE COMPUTER" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

NEVER !! - dashare.zone ADMIN

Egg I dreamed that I was old….

Still very relevant!

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

I literally drive to a town 50 miles away to go to see a movie once a month or so and have driven to a town over 100 miles away to see something on a bigger screen than the tiny, independent theaters 50 miles away offer

"if we win, that will answer every question" is in fact precisely the problem with this entire generation of democrats. it was the thinking that permeated the early biden administration and guess what: the problems weren't solved and in fact got much worse. need someone who will put power to use

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

ICE Kills American Woman in Minneapolis Trump decries “radical left;” homeland security screams “domestic terror”

ICE's killing of unarmed American citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis today has NSPM-7 written all over it, as well as a related Pam Bondi memo ordering feds to see any interference of ICE agents as a terrorist threat:

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-kills-...

Merry Lily Tomlin's Hole day to all who celebrate

Companies have also struggled with Al's lack of consistency. Jeremy Nielsen, general manager at North American railroad service provider Cando Rail and Terminals, said the company recently tested an Al chatbot for employees to study internal safety reports and training materials. But Cando ran into a surprising stumbling block: the models couldn't consistently and correctly summarize the Canadian Rail Operating Rules, a roughly 100-page document that lays out the safety standards for the industry. Sometimes the models forgot or misinterpreted the rules; other times they invented them from whole cloth. Al researchers say models often struggle to recall what appears in the middle of a long document. Cando has dropped the project for now, but is testing other ideas. So far the company has spent $300,000 on developing Al products. "We all thought it'd be the easy button," Nielsen said. "And that's just not what happened."

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
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tiny black kitten wrapped up in a scarf being held by a passenger

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

currently have the flu and I’ve never so thoroughly regretted having both a septum and a nostril piercing

Sometimes you have an idea so dumb that you HAVE to do it (I didn’t get this up in time for Halloween though)

F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in December 2025 We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change. New York City Transit

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

feeling very “there’s some good in the world mr. frodo“ about a lot of things tonight but especially about the fact that the energy of the city is going to be great when I’m there this weekend

everything feels insurmountably horrible and like it will never get better? well that may be true but you know what's also true? you live in a world where they just got footage of a whale eating a giant squid for the first time. and a world with ice cream. and cats. the universe is abundant.

started keeping a list of things that make me happy on my phone & cannot recommend this enough as a self care strategy. oh you're catastrophically sad & scared? how about you look at the list & think of the time you saw a dog wearing sunglasses in a stroller pushed by a spandex-wearing rollerblader

Every few months I have a nightmare where I'm visiting old friends in NYC and somehow get roped back into publishing, or at least feel that moment of "I wonder if I could go back." Is this the "major career shift" version of "have to go back to school" nightmares?