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hi dere. I write code, sing, and talk all kinds of nonsense

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · Jul 31

If you are in Boston on a Wednesday evening this summer and looking for something to do, consider swinging by the Hatch Shell to catch the summer season of Boston Landmarks Orchestra. There will be free concerts every Wednesday starting at 7:00 PM through August 27th. Come check it out!

Home Page – Landmarks Orchestra

Landmarks Orchestra - Building Community Through Great Music. Learn more about Boston's free orchestra, performing all throughout the area.

www.landmarksorchestra.org

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 5d

What are your recommendations of things to do in Houston for a conference attendee with a possible night or two free?

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 5d

Oh hell yes, a contemporary PWEI jam that I dig

YouTube video by Pop Will Eat Itself - Topic

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 5d

tfw something you’ve written gets flagged by an automatic legal review because the algorithm isn’t sure you should be using the word “black” in the context of the term “black box”

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 6d

This made my day

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 7d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 9d

I finished it. Parts of it felt like a documentary.

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 9d

The total budget was $2.5 million so likely not as much as we might think

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 9d

I’m watching Idiocracy for the first time, AMA

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah it was very much a “we should maybe have some words about what is appropriate for being a decent human being, let alone a music camp for kids” moment

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 9d

I discovered that Teams lets you put chats and channels into user-defined sections so now I am 100% obsessed with organizing my Teams chats

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 9d

Follow up on this:

One of my kids asked to put a sticker on the front desk on their last day of camp and the staff said “Sure!” My kid asked “Where can I put it?” I said “How about on top of the Burzum sticker?”

The staff laughed uncomfortably. The sticker ended up elsewhere.

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · Jun 25

Debating whether I should ask the staff at School of Rock about the Burzum sticker nestled among the band stickers on their front desk

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 9d

Oh ffs, Saturday was nomination day for the next People’s Pop poll wasn’t it

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 10d

I’m in Dunkin waiting for a black coffee and the playlist just subjected me to “Shake It Off” and “Before He Cheats”

I will never set foot in this establishment again

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 12d

Who invented the concept of hotel cubicles, because I have some feedback I would like to deliver

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 12d

I did not know this existed, thank you both

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 12d

I think my rule for October is I’m going to mute anything reposted from Twitter

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 13d

My copy of Force of Habit by The Leather Nun doesn’t have “F.F.A.” on it so it always catches me by surprise when I play the album on a streaming service

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 14d

I’m sensing story time

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 14d

Spending some time reacquainting myself with A.R.E. Weapons; am I wrong to be parsing them as a prototype for Fontaines D.C.?

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 15d

y’all

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15d

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

Eric Adams surrounded by members of the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation. He is wearing a blue velvet jacket that is embroidered with gold Magen David’s and other Jewish seeming patterns, including multiple menorahs. Everyone else is just in button down shirts or normal suits. He is not blending in.

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 15d

Here’s the money quote: “Workslop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being.”

404 Media @404media.co · 15d

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

www.404media.co

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 15d

I really can’t overstate how much I liked The Long Walk and how much I think people should see it

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 16d

Beau Is Afraid is a deeply strange movie

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 17d

Insomnia is the worst

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 17d

The Long Walk exceeded my expectations on virtually every axis I can think of

DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 19d

Rewriting The Metamorphosis, only this time Gregor Samsa transforms into Morrissey