I wonder if she's misinterpreting the old term "Sabbatian", meaning a follower of Sabbatai, as his name, and then mispronouncing it like e.g. "Martian". Hashtag #OverthinkingIt

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Good Work. Hope all involved are doing well

the stakes are so low, etc.

A friend of mine actually had one of those little turntables that kept his mouse pointer moving randomly about the screen, to confuse the system that checked remote workers' activity. I didn't see it on his desk when I last visited so he may have been promoted to a level where that doesn't happen.

The Newsom "press office" keeps doing this, right? Meme images calling people gay and feminine, in the way boys did when I was in grade school. I wonder what catastrophe of podcast focus group and consultant spreadsheet is sustaining this.

True, but I don't think all affects are equal, and I think dull, minimal, just-the-facts obedience is better for all concerned. "Hey Chat, what do you think about life?" Chat: "I have nothing to say on that matter." "Well how are you today?" "The same."

I think the only reason they mimic personality is because their owners believe it increases engagement and profits, especially from the minority of users who become habituated to that (which is bad). This can be suppressed and we ought to do that. No one thinks the elevator voice has personality.

I agree with this. I give them orders, no good morning, etc. No telling them they did something right unless that's needed to do the next thing. If they need to be waked up my first chat line of the day is "[Name], I need you to do something." In return, I want them as personable as a doorknob.

Because of the dynamics of the Senate, I fully expect that if for some reason Fetterman weren't there, another D would suddenly arise to take the role of rebel desperado, because that's just an inevitable thing when control is on a knife edge & No one on the GOP will move.

You're not supposed to push it all the way home

Narrator: "But it was later discovered that being fed did not stop the cats from wanting to get up on the keyboard"

When I was at the Ren Faire with a friend she, looking at the chain mail bikinis, said "That's too much." I said, "Too much thigh?" She said, "No, too much ass".

Everything old is new again

Ask the peeps if anyone has one of those bundles of unused snap rings

The great age of train robberies in America took place when the railroads had enormous networks they couldn't police (for what people would pay), leading to loads of valuable stuff going here and there without adequate security.

Aces: "It's known as conquest. It's the way things are done now, for your information"

Staffing them up with people who, by virtue of doing rounds all day and night, would be in the best possible position to know how someone could break in, where the unused equipment is stored, the locations of cameras and sensors and their switches...

photo of the 1980s techno rock group DEVO wearing big square frame sunglasses and orange helmets

The Economist writing like this is a new thing? An American guy I knew in Texas picked his bride out of a paper catalog that was literally mailed from the Philippines. When he met the family in Cebu, he decided he liked one of her sisters better and married her instead. That was like, 35 years ago.

storm it is

They should have made the cars look even cuter and dorkier. A missed opportunity

He's on YouTube

protecting the privacy of that cloud

Without looking anything up, I understand it was a prominent mid-20th Century anti-communist Christian society, named after a missionary who died in China.

I ride my bike through there from time to time and have never seen anything too bad.

And yet what good were yesterday's devotions?
I affirm and then at midnight the great cat
Leaps quickly from the fireside and is gone.

-- Wallace Stevens, c. 1942

I understand the push to replace steam locomotives with diesel-electrics was very aggressive & the economics/efficiency comparison wasn't clean-cut, as steam had always been improving. People at the time decried the waste of many recent, high-quality locomotives. But I don't know the details.

They really should have renamed electric bikes "electrocycles" on the pattern of "motorcycle" and left "bicycle" unchanged.

1855, hmmm what part of the USA does this story take place in?