What I love about Evergreen is how genuinely excited to meet each other Evergreen alums are.

Saw a mechanic do that 30 years ago, finally had to pull it out of my bag of tricks.

Of course the van would pick this moment, out in the middle of nowhere, for the "start" position on the ignition switch to stop working.

Fortunately on old Fords you can just bridge a couple contacts under the hood with a screwdriver, and the starter will engage. Pressing on regardless.

Olympus Rally is off to an epic start.

I don't care, I just think it's funny that people are continuing to frequent a site they insist is evil because they just can't give up posting hot takes. It's like declaring a place a Nazi bar and then continuing to go becuse they have a happy hour that's just too good to pass up.

Their Ayatollah don't want none unless you got funds, hon.

So the Ayatoll booth is open.

Their Ayatollah don't want none unless you got funds, hon.

For you, Bluesky is all of society. Got it.

I generally find people who aren't willing to make even small changes for their cause don't actually want a cause, they want a social group.

A Bluesky account is not required to participate in society, though.

Q-tips will pack it in deeper, in my experience.

They're just announcing that they're going to cook the stats.

I think the idea is if the US can't supply munitions, other countries will shift to buying them elsewhere, hurting US manufacturers in the long run.

On two keyboards at once if you're really good. You know the bad guys will have two keyboards.

It's a bit like how people started calling 5-over-1s "gentrification buildings." The building style isn't really the problem, but people have noticed when they start popping up nearby their neighborhood is about to be displaced.

It *is* true that rents go up in places like that. It's a case of conflating symptoms and causes.

Ann Arbor, MI famously implemented IRV for exactly one city council election in the 1970s. There were problems with the counting process, then the candidate initially in the lead lost the runoff. The losing party concluded this was a dirty trick and went back to FPTP next chance they got.

That's *a* problem with ranked choice, but I think the real answer is people are suspicious of new, more complicated voting systems.

"The Lord moves in mysterious ways. Sometimes he hovers and swoops, or comes in at an angle..."

(Anything not saved will be lost.)

I've had that argument so many times. Apparently coding is sancrosact but artists? They're just modern buggy whip makers.

That's why they were so happy to see image generation AIs, though. They figured they could cut out the artists and still get art. I heard a lot of snark to that effect.

this is just to say

I have had an issue
fetching the posts
that were
on the timeline

and which you
were probably
hoping
to doomscroll

forgive me
the takes were so hot
and so
rate limited

The only way we're ever going to get limits on AI, or protection for people displaced by AI, is if it hurts tech bros. Becuse tech bros see themselves as the main characters of reality.

Coding models are the one form of AI I'm actually glad to see. Because after years of tech bros gloating about how AI is going to put artists out of work, it's nice to see *them* sweating about being replaced.

Exactly one year ago today:

Guarantee you it's in there. The Enron email corpus is a very common and accessible one, due to court records.

I got nerd sniped by it, since I found myself working out why that specific frequency.

Flannel? Check.
Stocking cap? Check.
Dyed hair? Check.
Drink served in a Mason jar? Check.