This is a great way to think of it

Every team I've ever been on that succeeds inevitably has some spreadsheet cruncher come in and say "I like this number, we should have more of this number"

And that changes why we were so good at that number in the first place
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Dionysus has a little rubber ducky in Hades II.

It is wearing a fig leaf.

Starbuck Thrace is so cool-coded I can't handle it. you can't see it but she's also doing sick tech deck tricks with her other hand behind the console

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Backing this up - Some of the worst humans I know and have worked personally with were some of the chummiest, "let's get drinks"-iest, "not so bad in person"-ey people I've ever met.

Some of the most astounding racists I've met said they were "big fans of my work." They know how to play this game.

Reposting and bookmarking to share with students in my sci comm class in the winter about why I believe that me telling them not to use genAI is in their best interest.

He didn't know who he was dealing with

"Who would have predicted this?"

- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.

"Well why didn't I hear them."

You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

Dammit @edzitron.com, this is your fault. www.pcworld.com/article/2917...

Bosses that sing at me while I fight them are My Favorite Thing. www.pcworld.com/article/2328...

EFF is proud to join dozens of labor, digital rights, and other advocates in support of California’s “No Robo Bosses Act.” www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

why does this feel like a description of AI

Hell yeah. The PA one might have made my electricity cost even more.

That's gonna happen no matter what, thanks to natural gas companies shipping all our resources out to the highest bidder. But at least it'll go a little slower now.

what the hell is anything

LinkedIn is terrible and completely useless to me.

I know lots of people need it, or seem to think that they do. But I can't see a single positive thing about it, top to bottom, and that's before it started filling up with AI slop.

I've had to manually delete a LinkedIn account three times now. This time it didn't even have a password, I had to CREATE a password for an account I didn't make and never wanted.

It looks like it just made an account for me whole cloth because I was logged into Google and looked at LinkedIn.

With “Find My Parking Cops,” technologist Riley Walz reverse engineered San Francisco’s parking ticket system to place cops on a map seconds after they issue parking citations—in theory, helping people avoid spots where officers are handing out tickets.

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To me, this is cinema.

I see that advertising case is still on the Google executives' mind. Gotta suck up to the fascists, otherwise you might not make every last possible dollar from your illegal monopoly.

Attention, internet: I would like all of you to know that Cera the Triceratops from the 1988 animated feature film The Land Before Time has a father, and that his name is Daddy Topps.

Thank you, that is all.

I've got this USB battery myself, it's pretty great. Still not my favorite since it lacks the built-in wall outlet, but it's smaller and can output at up to 45 watts for faster refills, and still has the built-in cable. $25 today.

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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

DID YOU KNOW: the R.O.B. amiibo works with four times as many games as the actual R.O.B. does

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.