turtlesareneat

Are you supposed to do it? No. Is it safe? Also no. But did lots of our grandfathers run their Christmas lights with an odd mismatch of cords including one of these? Yesss with a cigarette in one hand, a beer in the other, they sure as hell did.

Last time I was on Thingiverse browsing, someone had spent the past day uploading hundreds of models of women squatting. Just page after page. I gave up and went somewhere else. Who the fuck thinks we want to see this

Folks here’s the deal. Corporations have an obligation to the shareholder over everyone else. Costco doesn’t give a shit about consumers. Costco cares about nurturing and communicating their brand, which is all about being pro-consumer.

Target doesn’t give a shit about you. Apple doesn’t give a shit about you. Nike. Whatever brand you love, it doesn’t love you back. Unless you’re a shareholder and you want a very specific thing.

Corporations that kept DEI had their internal prognosticators tell them “it’ll blow over and be better for us if we stay the course.” That’s it. Never in any meeting did someone utter the words “It’s the right thing to do, that’s why.”

Corporations that tossed DEI made a different calculation.

That’s it.

So celebrate that our side currently has a very good market segment in all these corporations, but don’t celebrate anything else.

There’s a key involved that we don’t have, so people can’t do this on their own. It’s pretty fascinating. Training models would have to be told to check for watermarks and ignore them, but yeah that would be an effective way for the providers to avoid ingesting their own AI output.

Which is why you see rental trucks delivering Amazon in my city.

Now you know how many raises you can get before they fire you for being too old and costing too much. AKA “a career”

We’re way past that in Kansas, where bathrooms are now fully weaponized.

I work in higher ed. I would say it’s “innocent until a professor who doesn’t understand what he’s doing runs it through his own ChatGPT and asks if it’s AI written, and then that’s going to be gospel.” So yeah we have software that tracks everything students write to avoid it.

I got caught up working on my old house this summer. Doing carpentry and electrical and a half dozen other things. Nothing digital, only hands. Now I can barely force myself to be near a screen, like it’s painful. I am sitting at work counting the seconds until I can go home at lunch and pull a couple of nails. But there’s no way doing that work would pay what I make for sitting a few hours a day on my ass, so those hours are just gone, to a fog.

How many of these folks have a rack mounted somewhere in there… once you get into this degree of tech, you’re looking at folks with PoE systems on battery backup, maybe 5G backup circuits in case the internet is cut. It’s really not a crazy level of security, if you live in a high crime downtown area for instance. But I also don’t go around whipping my rack out in every conversation, and my house is old, so lots of folks don’t know how high tech the house really is. And wouldn’t until they saw the doorbell still glowing, Wifi still on during a power outage I suppose (Wifi is how we really see each other during power outages, and the sound of gennies for those rich bastards that can afford them)

There were photos circulating for a day or two after the pool was drained, purporting to show tire marks, but later arial photos of the pool don’t seem to show anything so clearly. I was hoping he was going to get caught extra red handed this time, so his supporters would have to go drive their cars into swimming pools in solidarity.

It’s always the ones you suspect most.

How the hell am I supposed to crush up this bracelet

When all you have is a hammer, and you’ve bought all the hammers in the entire world, through the end of next year,

English law recognizes takebacksies, yes?

I think X also said Trump could come back, making his exile entirely self-imposed now.

The strawman, he’s long dead.

I was for a while. Cut the “cable” in 2003 and was happy to pay a few bucks for a streaming service here or there, more convenient than pirating. But now… well I cancelled them all and am right back to where I was years ago. They are so happy to kill the golden goose.

Getting rid of visible clocks fixed this for me, and all the way to the bathroom and back so I can’t get the time when I go pee. I just assume it’s 12:30 and go back to bed no matter what. Unless the fucking sun is coming up around the edges, then it’s just “your bones are going to hurt today.”

I see you found Mr. Floofintooth