walls packed tightly with a variety of prints and paintings
my office walls are looking better and better. newest additions are the dueling banjos by @phineas.bsky.social and a pair of abstract prints by Yoshisuke Funasaka that i got for $10 yesterday at an estate sale
i'm pumped to be playing next weekend in my bluegrass club first variety show. and i get to play bass AND dobro at various points!
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this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
heading out to No Kings today to play protest songs with some of my friends from Outlanders Progressive Bluegrass Social Club
no, not just comedy
it's not going to feel like a real democracy again until i can vote for party that at least gets this right
coders were having tremendous difficulty before. almost all software is very bad, especially big pieces of software with large teams. AI seems promising for addressing the "large teams" part.
however, if they have a cool scrub cap you can tell them that
"We must admit that we are losing this battle. We have to acknowledge that the older generations have failed. All political movements in their present form have failed. But Homo sapiens have not yet failed." --Greta Thunberg
Louder: All political movements in their present form have failed.
best Enlightenment Any% speedrun strats?
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The biggest news coming out of YouTube lately looks to have been a quiet change to its search engine: instead of "sorting" you now "prioritize" (popularity, not view count). i.e. removing one of the last remaining ways to search based on concrete metrics. You also can't search the past hour anymore.
you've been at it long enough, we thought you knew
plastic Jesus on the dashboard of my car
i don't care if it rains or freezes
Abednego
nobody said being cool was free
a constitutional convention could do us a lot of good maybe
this nation is a loose fish right now.
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
my "abolish ice" t-shirt is garnering lots of appreciation at the airport today. got compliments from several TSA agents, among others.
look what they’re doing to my beautiful city. this is bovino’s massive armed convoy, rolling through the Wedge, one of the nicest, friendliest residential areas in Minneapolis, doing nothing but posturing, starting fights, and then deploying chemical weapons at a park many children play in
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
I'm interested!
here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings
update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)
album cover of "something to write home about" by The Get Up Kids, which features a painting of two boxy metal robots with headphones on, leaning on each other
how far down you reckon they go?
