Also have they ever been to or seen a basketball game? The bench is… at the baseline, under the basket??

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.

It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Also, I cannot imagine even such a tepid apology from him now.

Final Fantasy Tactics

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

When I say the MAGA movement is post-truth, this is the sort of thing I mean. Push blatant lies in advance of an event, see overwhelming evidence that the lies were false, know that others saw it too, but plow ahead with the same lies, opposed to the notion that living in factual reality matters.

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Sounds good! cheers

Demo of PNW Pedals SBF Bass Fuzz. Hand wired in point to point style. YouTube video by PNW Pedals

I have made a couple specific for bass. Many guitar pedals can be also modded fairly easily to work well with bass by swapping out some capacitors (EQ, boost, overdrive, etc). Here is a demo of a pretty gnarly bass fuzz I made recently in point-to-point style:

www.youtube.com/shorts/0XrPK...

Yep, parts have been slower over here lately too.

cool! how did you make it?

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑

After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.

Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.

@404media.co on the end of the de minimis tariff exception in the USA, and the impact on hobbyists and small businesses.

www.404media.co/trump-tariff...

That's really the point, isn't it? The existentialists like Sartre and Camus would have had a field day pointing out how perfectly AI illustrates their thesis that most humans don't want the burdens of being human--free will is too much work.

Amazed you were able to fit 4 pots, a footswitch, toggle switch, plus audio and DC jacks in such a small enclosure. Looks great!

Same circuit on both sides, or different?

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

WHATEVER THEY'RE PAYING THE ASSASSIN'S CREED SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER ITS NOT ENOUGH

Silver guitar pedal with an acid etched skull design

New pedal coming soon! Prototype is sounding great!

#guitarpedals

I am now playing Demons Souls for the first time on PS5 and it’s so worth it. Keep the dream alive

YMMV but a blind first play through is 100% my favorite way to experience these games. Makes the stakes feel higher when you don't know when the next checkpoint will be, and makes overcoming the challenge more rewarding. Especially for Dark Souls 1 and Demon's Souls.

close up of a sub-assembly for a guitar pedal

close up of a sub-assembly for a guitar pedal

Sub assemblies for a deadbug fuzz pedal

Blue bass fuzz pedal on wood background.

Inside view of hand wired point to point bass fuzz

Built a one knob bass fuzz the other night in P2P style. Quick, fun build, classic circuit. MPSA12 Darlington transistor.