George White

Seems like one of these options should be "stop warring with Iran"

Recent vet advice, when we added a second cat and it did not go smoothly:

- the correct number of litter boxes is number of cats + 1 (which is a lot, but it's restored some peace at our place)
- cats love Fresh Step Lite (based on past several weeks, kitties endorse this)

Trump didn't fire Noem because she was corruptly handling taxpayer's money.

He fired her because she forget to give him his cut.

From Claude's logo, to Meta's manus, these folks never pass up a chance to put buttholes front and center.

Dude never misses a chance to dehumanize and belittle. Individuals or populations of millions, Trump is always happy to paint them as savages and The Other.

"Hey Manus, can you give me suggestions on what to name my new product? It should make people think of buttholes every time they use it."

What an embarrassing admission.

The thing is, he didn't even say it. The whole piece was generated by an LLM. The piece might or might not contain any merit, but Kustov's only contribution of note was hitting the post button.

US Congress, 1789-2024 (zombie form, 2024-2026)

A former legislative body and co-equal branch of the United States government. After two years as an undead bicameral specter, spontaneously evaporated after breathlessly uttering the phrase, "the President is acting within his authority".

It's been nearly three decades since I spent any real time at the Coop but this is so very apt

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed

Hey, Democrats: do not send me even one fundraising text or email until you have mobilized as a united group to stop this illegal war and impeach Trump.

You have one job right now, to be an ACTIVE opposition to this madness, get on it or get out of the way.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

A stream of barely coherent insanity.

Fuck Kansas. Trying to strip people of their rights as identities. Such shameful bigotry.

What an inhuman thing to do to trans folk who are just trying to live their lives fully.

Assholes.

The activity around our backyard feeder attracted a surprise guest!

#birds #urbanbirds #backyardbirds

The funny part for me about "they're gonna get better" is the lack of awareness from purporters of this theory that it is a tacit admission that they are kjnda dog shit now.

You just know someone is going to turn their street into a half pipe for the day

If I get your point, it's *not* making a thing that's that problem.

Building and shipping a feature to production isn't the same as building a prototype to help answer a design question. The former is "ship it and see", the latter is "let's get informed".

Is that right?

Here's Betty auditioning for Hayao Miyazaki.

Working on something new (really something I meant to do a few years ago, but 🤷🏾‍♂️) and it needs a web page, which is leading me down the rabbit hole of all of the cool shit CSS can do now.

I am constantly perturbed by the words we are using around "AI" and the poor mental models those words are creating or reinforcing about these products and the underlying technologies.

@emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social make the risks of using language this way crystal clear.

On anthropomorphizing language about AI, I'm pleased to say that this paper with @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman is finally out in the world!

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Sadly, many die incurious and still not able to think critically.

The headline here is "Donald Trump hates Americans so much he immediately raises taxes, again".

A picture of the front cover of "On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt. These is a hand holding the book above a desk with various items in the background, including a Raspberry Pi Zero in a camera case.

There's a Certain Type of Person who not only has a copy of "On Bullshit", but also keeps it close at hand.

This fucking guy openly announced that he's going to line his pockets with $10B of US taxpayer money.

The "Board of Peace" is an entity he controls in its entirety. BoP = Donald Trump. He's giving himself $10B!

Even if it was true, why would you say this? Who's going to pay for this stuff if it eliminates all those jobs?

Imagine being so lacking in playing all of this out that you believe you can blow up everyone's livelihoods and that somehow you'll come out on top of the disaster.

The Discourse is a soul-stealing vampire.

There's a lot of "this thing supercharged my ability to do X" or "it's been a good thinking partner for Y" anecdotes out there.

But neither X nor Y seems to be anything particularly beneficial beyond the personal (if even) and I haven't seen much connection to positive societal impact. 🤷🏾‍♂️