lol. chez static, we call this The Novel Stimulus Dance. the dork in my avatar is the mistress of the dance.

I would shank someone for that kitchen.

CAT tourniquets and trauma dressing in the glove box, ABC fire extinguisher secured to the feet of the passenger seat...

90mm recoilless rifle, since the Miata's so light

or an explosive drone dispenser, in which case recoil is entirely moot

true

they're 30% of voters but closer to 45% of the electorate, is my understanding

we can do it, but jesus fuck, it's a roller coaster

woe

but there's a non-trivial subset of this electorate that's rooting for exactly that :-/

rude. fair, but still... rude.

right? burn it all to the fucking ground.

also, apologies to my wife, who doesn't like vanilla yogurt: at least it didn't wind up in the tandoori marinade.

oh. I almost did this last week, the struggle is real

pollo con pollo

he sat at a table across from us at a (the?) restaurant in the Portsmouth, NH airport in 1999, and I still regret not running off to the nearby newsstand to get a Penthouse for him to autograph.

He's not much for letting his tongue stick out, but he does have nursing dreams which are simultaneously adorable and disturbing.

list, please

also, Pollo look _so much_ like the dork in my avatar

there's a good chance that he is 0% Lab... but he looks like such a Good Boy

it's not a recent photo, but it's a true photo. that pink blush of happiness...

a shitty phone photo of a blissfully asleep, brindle and white pit bull. the tip of his tongue is sticking out. behind him is a black and white boxer mix, also deep asleep.

...

youtu.be/epDFHOVbhWk

how dare you

Taurus, I believe.

Screenshot of the body of a LinkedIn post. It reads: "hiring managers, i'd like to posit a theory. we can improve hiring efficacy by increasing our willingness to fire. why? there is no such thing as perfect signal. hiring is maximizing high performers. to do so, we look to capture as much as possible above the x-axis by relaxing stringency on signal. this inevitably expands both the false positives and false negatives. said another way, if you are too scared of the false positives (i.e. making a bad hire) you will miss out on the false negatives (e.g. a stellar employee who interviews poorly). trust your ability (or learn how) to course correct quickly and hire optimistically."

Counterpoint: I try not to be a callous asshole and fuck around with their lives.

it's all shorthand for black and brown people, Phil

it's not entirely conspiracy thinking - the model's "ability" against specific benchmarks ebbs and flows as OpenAI updates it.

Zillow regrets to inform you...

forget about it, jake, it's chinatown.

seriously, though, it's probably best described as third-order fallout from a bsky beef that blew up spectacularly.

on second thought, stick with the chinatown reference.

I remember running across bouba/kiki as an undergrad, and filing it away under "huh; weird but interesting."

Now, with [mumble] years of lived experience, it strikes me as more than a little "Just So."

Starting with "1920s cross-cultural research," if you know what I mean.

neither bouba nor kiki, but a secret third thing

can you see Jay in a cowboy jacket