Elon Musk Accidentally Wasted a Vast Sum of Taxpayer Money Due to His Staggering Incompetence Elon Musk's DOGE could actually be costing the government far more than it saves — an astronomical waste of taxpayer money.

The Department of Gross Ineptitude.

The entire idea was a joke from the get-go because he fancies himself a memelord.

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A white short-haired cat lying on a bed about 50 centimeters from, and facing, the camera

This is Ghost. He's 5 months old. He's just a couple of hours in his new home. He's playful and aggressively affectionate.

A shaggy black cat swaddled in a pink blanket, having just been euthanized.

Cocoa died last night. He wasn't even 3 years old. Somehow his bladder had ruptured.

I haven't had a pet since I was very young. I never liked cats much, having always had negative experiences with them, but I was absolutely smitten with Cocoa. I miss my squishy boy.

If JD Vance came to ski in New Hampshire, and we had the same amount of tip-off time as Vermont had, I guarantee that people would come protest him here, too. Republicans may outnumber Democrats in the State House here, but not by enough to stop us from protesting! #NHPolitics

A black Saab hatchback photoshopped in a white bathtub, captioned "Black Saab bath"

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

have said it before and will say it again:

Bluesky Chat/DMs are not E2EE. don't put anything sensitive in there you wouldn't want rando law enforcement to pore over.

use it to exchange Signal contact info. consider "disappearing messages". do it by habit, get your friends+fam to also.

A screenshot of Google Maps showing The Gulf of Mexico mis-labeled as "Gulf of America"

This is embarrassing. I wonder how many of the working humans at Google are embarrassed on behalf of their employer.

The "First AI Software Engineer" Is Bungling the Vast Majority of Tasks It's Asked to Do Researchers have found that AI tech company Cognition's Devin, the "first AI software engineer," is astonishingly bad at its job.

Shocked, I tell you!

Anybody who has experience with both software engineering and generative AI - and there are a lot of us - never for a second bought any of this garbage.

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Reminder that "AGI" is pure science fiction. The FUD is being perpetuated by a blend of cynical profit hungry corporate interests and credulous laypeople. What baffles me is how utterly captured some legendary experts are by the sci-fi stories.

It is also a Chinese operated company, which means that it is by definition under the thumb of the CCP, which means we must assume that every byte through their stack is being siphoned off to their political and military machine.

The Lobby: Electronic Art + Design, Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup **Doors open at 6pm** **Presentations start at 6:30p sharp!** **Drinks and mingling after until \~9pm** **If you love emerging technology, innovation, electronic art, soft

If you love emerging technology, innovation, electronic art, software dev, XR, engineering and are curious about seeing some cutting edge makers, you are welcome to join us at Blue Spiral 1 in #Asheville next Wednesday!

Hope to see you there:
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My wife and I met in 1998 via an online dating site. It has long since been subsumed by others. It was long before the advent of smart phones, so dating apps and twitter didn't exist.

Nah. Google is the 800 pound gorilla that everyone else has their bullseye on. They're already quite a bit ahead of the other players. OpenAI pulled a temporary PR coup by building a chatbot first, but if that's all they have (and so far, it is) then they're all but doomed. There's no moat.

Thank you for your service.

Merry Christmas.

You are making some unwarranted assumptions. I'm just wondering how any "expansion" is expected to happen when the objects of this expansion are opposed to the idea. What is this process you're referring to? How do we take another country's land?

What does that have to do with anything? Are you suggesting that we should invade these countries, allies, because they can't pay some imaginary bill?

I'm pretty sure it's a photo of Trump and Vance competing to see who's better at jerking off Elon

LimeWire Wrapped 1. sistem_of_a_dowm_Zelda_song.flac 2. Nirvana - Glycerine.flv 3. track_8_(1)_(1)c.mp3 4. weird_al_Bert_and_Big_Bird_smoking_weed_FUNNY(parody).wav 5. jay-z_the-blueprint_FULL ALBUM_REAL.mp3.exe

finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years

I get it. We once planned a weekend getaway around a visit to @ruckusdonuts.bsky.social

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #101,857, Chris Woods ‪@bitspace.org‬, joined on Jun 1, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #101,857!

There is no S4 coming. It's done.

It's my belief that if John Lennon had lived he would have become the most annoying podcaster of all time

When you tell the generative AI to help you design an economic electric car based on the Citröen 2CV.

The twisted, deeply unwell, rage inflamed facial expressions of the criminal Trump.

Trump is constantly saying “The world is laughing at us,” and on that, he’s right. This morning at an international autism conference in Spain, a prominent pediatric neurologist used this image to depict emotional dysregulation.

Reminder that the web is not the Internet. The terms are not interchangeable. In fact, if we could rewind time and keep today's knowledge, we would not invent the web.

I suspect that they are underestimating.