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  Just heard a bank ad on the radio whose entire thesis is that they have real customer support people and won't make you talk to an AI chatbot

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  If Uline is really so homophobic, why did they select such a fuckable mascot?

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  As someone who read "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" on Kuro5hin when it came out, I feel like I would probably not name my AI startup this: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent

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  If you, like me, have absolutely no idea what you're doing w.r.t. pruning shrubs and trees, this is a very helpful, no-nonsense guide: https://fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/publications/B949/basic-principles-of-pruning-woody-plants/

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  The existence of an oubliette implies the existence of a larger, more masculine, less constricting oubli.

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  A house centipede just ran out of my CPAP tank when I took it out of the drying rack, so if anyone needs me I'll be never breathing again

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  Shout out to Zach Tellman's byte-streams, which I use *constantly*: https://github.com/clj-commons/byte-streams

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  Man the fatigue is real this week. Basically all I've been up for today is a little weeding, repairing the porch, and cleaning the house. Everything is sore and I'm exhausted. 🫠

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  I have to say this new thing where users report each other as suspected LLMs is both understandable and, for a moderator wrangling a crowd of queer train enthusiasts online, deeply exhausting.

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  Given how impossibly grim and idiotic things are here in the US, it's nice to know there are still some countries upholding the high standards of democratic governance to which we all aspire.

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  holy shit how did it take me this long to learn about btop https://github.com/aristocratos/btop#screenshots

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  @lcamtuf @SecureOwl A military friend of mine has a gruesome story about a colleague who ignored a fence and warning signs and inadvertently made contact with an active radio antenna. If I recall his language, their head "exploded". Arc hazards are a risk even with smaller AM or 5G antennas. I wish I had a good source for you here, but IIRC RF power density near some antennas is enough to fuck you up--basically like a big microwave. Be careful around antennas!

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  "A ship that can navigate space without a computer on board can be constructed in one-fifth the time and at one-tenth the expense of a computer-laden ship. We could build five times, ten times as great as Deneb could if we could but eliminate the computer." https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/4/mode/2up

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  Please tug!

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  Illinois HB5511 just passed both chambers and is headed to Governor Pritzker for signature. My reading is that by January 1st, 2028, any "public or semipublic web site" "used by a covered minor" "shall request... an age bracket signal" for any user that visits the web site. Our ToS bans anyone under 18, but there just... isn't any standard way for a web site to obtain age assurance information. I don't know what will happen if no standard emerges in the nex...

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  after overrunning Christmas and claiming Carhartt in the name of "trade", a new front has opened in the gays' war on straight culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDcHBgVsGvE

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  Lot more bible people protesting at Chicago Pride this year. 😕

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  The Blue Prince RNG is crushingly difficult. I don't understand how anyone is drafting more than four schoolrooms, let alone NINE

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  Bots now make up ~80% of woof.group traffic, and I'd say ~2/3rds of our signup requests. Pretty sure we'd be down right now if it weren't for @algernon's Iocaine.

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  You know @mozilla one AI browser feature I would actually use all the time is a button for any web page which says "Did you use AI to write this? This feels like slop" and if you click it it sends an email to the author of the web page asking whether they just made you read slop.

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  OH "He pulled his dick out!" "At the Sweetgreen?" "It was a nice dick too" "But it's *Sweetgreen*"

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  Our dear friend (and woof.group co-admin!) @kvetch.gay was doored on his bike and suffered a serious brain injury. If you'd like to help with his recovery, he's started a fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-taber-recover-from-traumatic-brain-injury

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  "To become wolf or to become hole is to deterritorialize oneself following distinct but entangled lines. A hole is no more negative than a wolf. Castration, lack, substitution: a tale told by an overconscious idiot who has no understanding of multiplicities as formations of the unconscious. A wolf is a hole..." Deleuze & Guattari, "A Thousand Plateaus"

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  These sliders have become a regular favorite. Bless Deb Perelman 🥰

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  Tried something new for pancakes this morning and it turned out *really* good... 500 g weak flour 100 g sugar 1 tbsp baking powder Pinch salt 2 eggs 250 g milk 250 g buttermilk Splash whiskey Butter for frying Optional: blueberries Bake as usual: whisk together dry ingredients, then add liquids and whisk until smooth. Pan to low-medium. Smear pan with butter, pour ~10cm disks, add blueberries (frozen works fine). Wait until bubbles form, check for golden underside, flip. Serves 3-4.

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  I keep having this bondage pipe dream about using a smart belay system like https://youtu.be/fhSUv2paiDQ?is=57SkVIRjqFocDrEi to attach a boy to a series of rails around the house. So he could travel from the dungeon to the bathroom, but always be attached to the walls...

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  Well that's one of the hardest bugs I've ever tracked down. Took like six hours of tracing through this stupidly complicated memoized graph traversal transitive-closure thing to figure out that deep inside we were sharing mutable structures. https://github.com/jepsen-io/elle/commit/5cc2ecaf1a0619ea8a3d91adc4740073202c1045

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  I'm not saying I should be any taller. Just that I look good from low angles.

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  Man, Matthew comes out swinging and does not stop: https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html

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  Every time I clean the couch I realize that couches, like lungs or intestines, have *shockingly* large surface areas for their volume