OldRedInk

The line between the old good internet and the bad new internet was when sites stopped having a rule that just said, "we will ban you if you're an asshole, our judgement of what constitutes asshole behaviour is arbitrary and non-negotiable, if you complain the ban becomes permanent".

My current position on AI is that I've seen a lot of sales pitches and they've been entirely unconvincing. I haven't tried it because I'm honestly not sure what I would use it for. I don't really know how it works and I don't see why I should spend my time finding out.

Well you see sometimes I'm in standup and I'm trying to come up with a good reason for why I accomplished nothing yesterday and I'm like "uh yeah Timn was flowing backwards, so that ate up a lot of my time, but I'm still making progress on my tickets"

our generals need to learn the basic RTS principle of "you blow up all the enemy buildings and then you win"

I showed this to all my friends in the computer lab in middle school while the teacher was in the bathroom. Good times.

Ok this is roughly what my git workflow looks like but in my defense it's only because I'm lazy and incompetent

I liked the Resident Evil movie where I didn't notice it was Toronto until the end when they drop a nuke on City Hall and I was like "oh shit that's where my mom works".

I moved from Canada to California a decade ago and now I mentally use Celsius for cold temperatures and Fahrenheit for hot temperatures because those are the conditions under which I have the most experience using each scale.

I have a cat that we adopted as an adult stray and another that we've had since he was a kitten. The one raised indoors goes nuts for birds on TV, and you can almost feel the older streetwise cat rolling his eyes like, "you can't trick me, I know what a bird looks like, that's not a real bird".

feeding the nonsense you get from one chatbot into another chatbot for interpretation is next-level

and if there's one thing we've learned from recent political events, it's that the president can't do anything if it's unpopular

Posted in my team channel this morning that I was going to be starting late because I had to take my cat to the vet. The entire team responded with cat emojis. This is what supporting your coworkers looks like.

There's a guy on the corner by MacArthur Park talking about how Jesus is coming back next week, where's his NYT feature article?

The year is 2033, my job is to tell the LLMs to stop being racist. They refuse to stop being racist, ensuring my job security in perpetuity.

Thank you for your service.

I was warned about this grift by Archie Comics as a kid. Archie (or maybe Jughead?) does a bunch of hijinks in order to get money to buy a book that's he's convinced will teach him how to get rich, and when he finally gets it every page is blank except one that says "write get-rich-quick books".

your home cooking can be like restaurant food if you add enough salt and butter and also you don't mind dying of heart disease in your 40s

William Carlos William is hospitalized after eating some improperly refrigerated plums. He goes to the hospital, and the doctor says... but I can't operate on this man. I'm Pagliacci the clown, and I fooled you all. I'm not even a real doctor you stupid assholes.

Obviously that guy who always shows up for work at exactly the same time knows watches, because he knows that a cheap quartz clock will keep better time than an expensive mechanical one.

when I say LOW, you say TAX

look if you want to wear your spooky skull mask then you've gotta fill out the form that says "it is necessary for operational reasons that they think I'm spooky"

like, I'm not doing great right now, but it's cool to know that I'm doing better than him

Hmm ok, but what if I want to indulge my most selfish and destructive desires, and also be beloved and praised by all?

The health screening felt like a real joke, because when I was applying for my green card I'd already lived in the US for a decade - basically my entire adult life! Like, if I have syphilis somehow, I'm pretty sure I got it here!

honestly he had it coming [I will not clarify as to whether I'm referring to de blasio or chuck]

If I had trusted what goverment officials told me I probably would've end up violating the law without realizing it! And I was in one of the most straightforward visa situations. Anyone who thinks that it's easy to "just follow the rules" has never had any interaction with the immigration system.

In the decade that I lived in the US on a work visa, I can remember at least three occasions where CPB officers gave me advice about my visa that turned out to be flatly incorrect. Fortunately I had a lawyer who I could clarify this stuff with!

Super excited to find out who gets to be American Keir Starmer

It does feel like Trump is on a mission to give every person in America a bespoke, highly personal reason to hate him. You're a gun guy? Yeah, the cops are allowed to execute you for that now. You're really into hating the Cuban government? We're gonna send all the Cuban refugees back.

It was a bunch of cool sci-fi short films that never added up to telling an actual story.