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abenomic🎃n @abenomicon.bsky.social · 2m

the claim that 2-digit numbers can't represent 4-digit dates was a hoax perpetrated by activists trying to stop people from upgrading to the new millennium

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 3m

I am down with extra hours for some opportunities and I'm fine always being in "standby" mode when I'm not at work because who knows when you'll make a serendipitous connection.

I am not down for performative grind. Not when I have a toddler at home.

☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 7m

I recently applied to a job that put in the job description that the expectation was M-F in office and Saturday WFH. I asked a friend who knew the co well and he was like "Oh, they also need you to work 9am to 1am every day. Are you sure you want to do that? No one with a family really works there."

JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 12m

The thing is that having children is very costly in a market economy. They're very expensive, and the expense comes during your early career. Employers don't want to hire you and don't want to make allowances for your family life.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16m

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 10m

Man this is some alt history isn't it

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13m

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 14m

This is basically Aggregation Theory. Distribution and audience are everything. In the 90s, the big media companies had not yet been disintermediated by the internet. Now they have been.

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 17m

My god that's @legalminimum.bsky.social's music

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 18m

Okay, it's tomorrow now. Remember Axie Infinity? So many idiots really thought "play-to-earn" was a real thing and not a way to exploit thousands of people in the Philippines.

Joke was on them: North Korea stole all the money anyway.

www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 36m

One thing I would do as president is set aside some money to run a national awareness campaign on Regulation E, which is the rule that forces banks to make you whole in the event of fraud.

holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 43m

that’s a very good reason to do so but also if you need a second one Wells Fargo let someone wash a check of mine, cash it for all the money in my checking account (which they only could have known if they had an employee on the inside) and then refused to extend me credit and stalled on reversing

Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 21h

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 44m

Let’s make a sequel to a movie that turns on an ill-advised “one last big score” plot element. Surely this won’t seem incredibly ironic in a couple of years.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

‘Heat 2’ Is On: Michael Mann Crime Drama Moves From Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber Producing (Exclusive)

Mann is set to direct the follow-up to his 1995 feature, which has Leonardo DiCaprio circling to star.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 10h

It’s late but I think tomorrow we should all make NFTs the main character. No reason, it’s not like they’re coming back. It was just the most comically stupid tech scam and we deserve to laugh at sloppy failure.

Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 10h

lmao, just remembered this

Tiffany & Co: We are pleased to announce our acquisition of "Okapi" by @tsrocketractory, marking our entry into the NFT space.

The “art” is like a six year old’s first draft of a rocket, extremely phallic shaped, lines not straight. It’s Tiffany blue and says “Tiffany & Co.” in their font three times, once on the top, once in the middle, and once on one of the wings.

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Torberg "No Spooky Pun Found" Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 52m

I worked in IT at a (small) hospital. I remember being there on 31 Dec 1999 waiting & hoping that all the effort put in up to then would pay off. Thankfully, it did. There was one minor hiccup that our EMR vendor had to fix due to an error in applying part of the Y2K update a few months previously.

☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 2h

Y2K was real. You weren’t impacted because the IT industry expended massive effort to update every piece of critical software that was written prior to the problem’s recognition.

Miss J @morelovelessus.bsky.social · 7h

Superb idea.
We could take a moment and remember the Y2K scam … and the one where when your phone stopped working they told you it was because your hand got sweaty …. Ah Tech they are such trickers

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 1h

I am willing to bet real money that we don't have nearly the success at preventing the Epochalypse (the Unix 32b timestamp rolls over in 2038...)

☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 2h

Y2K was real. You weren’t impacted because the IT industry expended massive effort to update every piece of critical software that was written prior to the problem’s recognition.

Miss J @morelovelessus.bsky.social · 7h

Superb idea.
We could take a moment and remember the Y2K scam … and the one where when your phone stopped working they told you it was because your hand got sweaty …. Ah Tech they are such trickers

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stellz @piss.beauty · 2h

Y2K is the ozone hole of software

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Confessions of a Masc4masc @eljajlorbs.bsky.social · 8h

I recall a time when people abusing their (usually female coded) ai assistants/companions was a major topic of concern!

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 11h

One thing you notice about people who have been extremely wealthy and powerful for a long time is that their people hang on every word they say… and then they apply the necessary filters to fulfill all requests in ways that minimize unintended consequences.

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 11h

a weird minor thing I believe is that Jeff Bezos kinda fucked up saying “personal liberties” when he meant “personal liberty”, and it’s fascinating to watch that dumb football get carried forward by his employees.

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 2h

Y2K was real. You weren’t impacted because the IT industry expended massive effort to update every piece of critical software that was written prior to the problem’s recognition.

Miss J @morelovelessus.bsky.social · 7h

Superb idea.
We could take a moment and remember the Y2K scam … and the one where when your phone stopped working they told you it was because your hand got sweaty …. Ah Tech they are such trickers

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Of the sunset the hugh @jhadur.bsky.social · 8h

NFTs!!
One thing I'm still mad about is, NFTs could perfectly easily have contained a hash of the image, and not depend on an url staying up. Also they were terrible in every other way, but c'mon, at least get the cryptography right!

☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 10h

It’s late but I think tomorrow we should all make NFTs the main character. No reason, it’s not like they’re coming back. It was just the most comically stupid tech scam and we deserve to laugh at sloppy failure.

Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 10h

lmao, just remembered this

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 10h

De-escalate all conflict that is not with the actual fascists in our government right now

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 10h

It’s late but I think tomorrow we should all make NFTs the main character. No reason, it’s not like they’re coming back. It was just the most comically stupid tech scam and we deserve to laugh at sloppy failure.

Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 10h

lmao, just remembered this

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Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 10h

lmao, just remembered this

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smbranches.bsky.social @smbranches.bsky.social · 10h

Can God make a dick bigger than his

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

i think that it is a problem to admit to the personhood of a thing exclusively for the purpose of denying it, because congratulations: now you have an empty category you can fill, and several weeks in people have decided that it is a good idea to start putting the disabled in that category.

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 10h

I think TV is more intrusive than a legacy print brand, but yeah, a lot of people are onto this now and network news just does not have the same clout it once did

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 11h

Thank you, Vin Diesel as The Iron Giant

a cartoon drawing of a giant robot with glowing eyes

Alt: The Iron Giant making a face

media.tenor.com

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 11h

In this case, LeBron’s people includes the NBA media, who went out of their way to say “Oh it’s so nice he can laugh at himself now.”

www.espn.com/video/clip/_...

Nobody in his circle told him this was corny as hell! How big was this bag?!

Is LeBron James getting more serious about retirement? - ESPN Video

Brian Windhorst analyzes LeBron James' "The Second Decision" ad, and Shams Charania gives an update on James' glute injury.

www.espn.com

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