"I can't leave Twitter -- all my followers are there."

"I can't leave Twitter -- all the people I follow are there."

Nice! I'm going to have a look at my old HS yearbook and see who's opposite page...

"Future Farmers of America"

What a relief, I'd hate to think those files ended up in the wrong paws hands.

All the things the cops would want this bot to do are prohibited by rules or by the potential for public outrage; no facial recognition, no offensive capabilities, it's basically just a camera drone. But that will change when the rules change, or when people stop paying attention... if this thing can avoid being trashed for more then ten minutes after it's deployed.

fire everyone + break everything = the everything app

Depends on the form of meditation. For general, workplace-endorsed "mindfulness" meditation, you allow yourself to think whatever you think, but instead of reacting to it, you merely observe and acknowledge that you're having that thought. You don't let yourself get carried along with it though. You let it pass and let another thought come along, observing your own mind. Other types of meditation are about striving to think nothing, and it's expected that you'll fail, and take years to accomplish that after a great deal of practice.

It really is a stunning comparison. Designing art for CRTs was like painting with light.

"It was not by MY hand I was once again given pixels!"

Musk is so addicted to Twitter (or whatever they end up calling it) that he bought it to ensure he would never be banned. So it's like he bought the restaurant, fired the staff, put shit on the menu, and none of it matters to him because he still gets to sit at his favorite table and no one can tell him to leave.

...or surgeons who perform surgery in their free time.

I suspect surgeons doing surgery in their off hours wouldn't be just weird, but also very creepy.

That's some real fancy toilet paper!

Fork.

"What role did you get? How did you get it?"

"I've learned my lesson, judge."

"It's a trick. Get an axe."

I just tried it out, here's what I got:

Fawning has come to be recognized as a common response to fear, trauma, or stress.

Turns out it was kids who were bad for kids all along.

"I didn't say I'm sick -- motherfucker I'm ill."

Silicon Valley is where all the VCs are. They make a lot of their funding decisions based on whether they like hanging around with a founder or not. You're more likely to get money out of them if you're fun to drink beers with than if you have a great business plan.

Internet-ready

"Insert 400 tokens."

A real buyer beware on this one, thanks for the head's up.

I can't claim to be an expert, and this is strictly in a USA context, but I'd explain it this way: "Liberal" is used to insult someone for having and promoting bad, insufficiently leftward political principles, instead of good ones. The good ones depend on what principles the person doing the insulting holds. The right side of the political spectrum also uses Liberal as an insult, so it can be confusing.

Elements of the far left consider Liberals hardly better than (and in practice indistinguishable from) political centrists, conservatives, or fascists, due to the perception that Liberals support policies that won't disrupt systems that perpetuate injustice, and will carry water for other liberals even when they commit acts they would denounce their political opponents for doing.

The right uses Liberal as a catch-all term for leftists generally (whom they despise), but it has diminished a bit, being supplanted by "woke" "groomers" "antifa" and "BLM."

"Paige, yes!"

Partly it's convenience, but I think the main reason is you can get cheddar and bacon flavored spray cheese.

Me, TF.

I get what you're saying, but yuck

Speed and Velocity w/ Marty Beller - They Might Be Giants

It's a good example of how people's morals vary greatly based on their present situation, rather than being some kind of deeply held, unchanging foundation. What people believe is good and bad is largely a function of where they happen to be at the moment.

Imma head out.

F That Daily Mail

Albatross? What flavor is it?

You could make the argument that all his previous outrageous behaviors were desperate attempts to squeeze more money out of a business he didn't understand. But this... this is unhinged. It's so bafflingly pointless and dumb it's become clear that what was once a reliable dopamine delivery system could, without warning or reason, just... disappear one day. Even the people who rely on Twitter like addicts are starting to come up with exit strategies.

"Skynet was developed to be the command and control system for the military food delivery robots."

"The horror... the horror..."

"I've had one of my trademark changes of heart."

It's funny, I like my Retroid Pocket 2+ but the fact that the 2S swaps the location of the D-pad and left stick makes me want to "upgrade" more than anything else about it.

You're not wrong, but people also die of behaviors that stem from loneliness. I'd suggest it's not a complete waste to examine.

I guess this means I'll need yet another, different colored wastebin just for coffee now. I mean I'll do it if it helps, but I can only fit so many receptacles in my kitchen. Meh, I'll just put the rest in the twins' room.

Check out the controllers made by ipega -- I've never personally used them, but they're the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.

I know this will date me, but that straight up looks like an "If They Mated" photo of David Coverdale and Tawny Kitaen.