Can you open a Coke? I only want a sip. You can have the rest.

Did you finish that?

Microsoft Teams giving me all the right suggestions for my conversation with the guy that runs the development and test workstations as I try to navigate a version change

Therapy language is inherently manipulative, the point of therapy is behavior modification

It is a highly effective tool for both psychopaths and chronically irresponsible people and has no place in healthy interpersonal relationships

taking an online course and I'm realizing that as an artifact of my education I'm so teacher-brained that instead of simply either learning new material or glossing over stuff I already know, I pick apart every lesson's pedagogy and think, 'how would a dumb person receive this?'

Update on our friend, and schoolteacher to my children, Tammy Morrow. Completed first half of her cancer treatment. The Gofundme is still short for the second half of treatment. Please consider giving to help her and her family.
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of course it's cope, but it's silly to try to persuade these people america is a better place to live because the kind of person who would believe that this is a dunk is precisely the kind of person we don't want to risk coming here and messing up america

“Ah,” said the innovative and pragmatic engineer, “the car sunshade I roll up every day is becoming creased on one side from repeated rolling. I will roll it up from the other side to balance it,” at which point he realized there is no velcro closure on the other side, so he wept

There’s a certain archetype of attention seeker via persistent vocal negative self-assessment that I first identified in people as a teenager and there’s no more reliable way to get me to actively ignore you than to try that garbage on me

I let my son chose the music while driving and he put “wish you were here” on Spotify. I used to listen to this in my friend’s car on the way to high school. Now all I can think about is that I’m putting $0.03 in Roger Waters’ pocket and I feel like I need to make atonement

In the aftermath of yesterday’s strikes, if I were Iraq, Jordan, Syria, or Lebanon, I would be quite hyped to see Iran’s nuclear capabilities permanently eliminated before they are ever deployed

Panopticon where you put your kids’ computer desk

'make up a type of guy to get mad about online? why would anyone waste their time doing that?'

It is with great relief that I report the ascending missile seen in the sky near the Iraq/Syria border was merely a Russian ICBM

so anyway it's chicken nuggets for dinner tonight because timmy was throwing a fit but the steaks will keep fine until tomorrow and the bougainvillea is looking dry so check the sprinklers please and also sally's bedroom door needs oiling and I'm meeting pam for lunch tomorrow so…

OJ Simpson is getting the “Austere Scholar” treatment by headline writers

honestly, literally, actually, why would anyone use whatsapp (a facebook-controlled property) when signal exists

rip oj simpson. who can forget watching him with the legendary white bronco

The thing that would make roon really start poasting again is if Sam Altman changed his pfp to miss frizzle

I don't know guys I'm starting to have doubts about this whole technology thing. 'artificial intelligence,' 'electric cars,' 'renewable energy,' 'space travel,' 'autonomous vehicles,'? If these things were possible surely someone would have done them by now

Good news: my company is reversing its LLM ban and will likely roll out enterprise github copilot to all developers soon.

Bad news: 'all developers' includes this guy: