On this day in 1986, #siouxsieandthebanshees released their seventh studio album, "Tinderbox".

It peaked at number 13 on the UK Albums Chart and at number 88 on the US Billboard 200.

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

Thing is, once you develop confidence, there will always be people trying to tear it back down.

Including yourself.

Something for @bethynyc.bsky.social.

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Exclusive: SpaceX says unproven AI space data centers may not be commercially viable, filing shows SpaceX warned investors that its ambitions to build space-based artificial intelligence data ‌centers, as well as human settlements on the moon and Mars, rely on unproven technologies and may not beco...

Exclusive: SpaceX warned investors that its ambitions to build space-based artificial intelligence data ‌centers, as well as human settlements on the moon and Mars, rely on unproven technologies and may not become commercially viable, according to a company filing reut.rs/4vYOMPE

A baby raccoon

A baby raccoon

Meanwhile
A timeline cleanse:

I went to change my snow tires to summer tires this afternoon...

And discovered I've got a raccoon nursery in my shed.

I know it's almost 6pm, but it's too early for this.

This is a pretty good reminder that a lot of what makes AI bad are the humans who use it without empathy. McClatchy execs do not have empathy.

First reaction: JFC, *McClatchy* is doing this?

<brief Googling>

Ah. Bought in bankruptcy by a hedge fund in 2020.

American combat deaths in World War I: 54,000.
American soldiers killed by flu in World War I: 45,000.
They would have given anything for a flu vaccine.

Happy Birthday Robert Smith! Explore The Cure co-founder & frontman's musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/RobertSmithHBD

Your daily affirmation:
Today you will fight self-doubt and win. Later, you and your imposter syndrome will share some snacks and watch a movie.

My generation is such a disappointment.

Capitol Hill bookstore will close as sibling coffee chain goes up for sale

The owner of the Capitol Hill bookstore and community space will close its doors for good on June 6. Sibling brand Fuel Coffee is also now up for sale.

Our days can be tiring, so save some energy for the important stuff, like reading books, brewing tea, and shapeshifting into a were-bear to protect the old forest.

Can someone sit this clown down and make him understand that the 1918 flu pandemic was American soldiers taking the flu from Kansas to Europe?

Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Vet: It's time to spay and neuter. Hit my music!
Assistant: *plays Coldplay’s Fix You*

Oooh.

Our time is short @SaraGonzalesTX . Mass deportations will correct this, worst of the worst won’t. If Plano, Texas, of all places, has this problem, then you can see how there are 100 million illegal aliens in our country. Commence mass deportations . @nicksortor original post: At a park in Plano, TX with my 5-year-old. We are surrounded by foreigners, speaking multiple foreign languages, making it more difficult for my son to make friends. This is my hometown. It’s unrecognizable. I want my country back.

trump's former "commander-at-large" of the border patrol greg bovino says mass deportations, not deporting "worst of the worst" will "correct" places like Plano, Texas having a diverse population

Cancelling all plans for today and going back to bed. Either I'm getting sick or I've pushed myself into exhaustion again, but either way I can't function well like this and I need to not make it worse.

More and more I am seeing "I would never use it for anything creative but I generative AI seems fine for coding" and I wonder if people realize that coding is also a creative field and the generated code is also coming from scraped and plagiarized human code, please don't give coding a special pass

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Forbes Prediction Market Gamifies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.

Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.

Now, on a story about about a Louisiana man that killed 8 children, they’re asking you to predict if Congress will do anything about it.

I hate it. 😠

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Trying so hard not to be discontented with everything today, failing so miserably.