Johnnie Can't Wait for Summer Camp

Just like getting a haircut, manicure, and pedicure are my tradition as of this afternoon!

AI *should* transform journalism like spreadsheets have — you don’t yield the benefits by simply posting a spreadsheet to your story; its transformative power is vastly increasing your ability to sort/collate the facts.

Sadly, hyping AI as a magic button is only way to justify its crazy valuation

Pan-Pacific man with impeccable superhero hair, wearing headphones and sitting on a plane.

Away mission update: the local authorities allowed me on their air conveyance vehicle. I'm traveling to a city called "Lost Wages". Funny to think that this culture is still stuck on the concept of currency.

Why do I get the feeling that in a few years, we're going to see this same commentary, but about AI?

Fuck yes!

A disembodied leg with black slacks and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds boots in the foreground. Lots of cat hair.

On my way to Vegas. BH, DC, or ST-LV?

Yes!

Thanks to @daemonobserver.bsky.social for the outfitting!

Ah yes, that dystopean timeline where the government realizes they don't have to pay benefits to dead people....

Malort: IATA Edition. Cilantro-infused Malort for those who enjoy Malort.

As always, I choose violence. Malört: IATA Edition. Get ready, @cocktailcon.org

I write the color, gloss, and how many gallons it took underneath the switch plate.

This has saved my bacon so many times.

Bad Decisions are kinda my brand, but I'll do my best.

A glass medallion with cryptic iconography hanging from a very, very cheap necklace lanyard. If you bothered to read the alt text, you have a leg up! These have a little bit of tech in them (I mean, we're Hackers, and Makers, and Whatnot), so you may want a smartphone or some other device to read them. Yeah, we could have put some douchy stuff in them, but we're not that kind of assholes. If you're lucky enough to score one, we intentionally made them reprogrammable, so you can do cool things with them.

CocktailCon is returning to Summer Camp for 2025 and this is the only way you and your guest will get in.

We have VERY few of these, as we're self-hosting this year. Even if you don't make it to CocktailCon, we'll be out and about all week.

"And the Nobel goes to... a person who discovered a way to maximize your $1.19 at Taco Bell?"

Bukkakonnaise. Duh.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

NGL, this is actually the best ad for wind ever, but damn does Samuel L. Jackson come close:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl7x...

A blue box to the left with four sillhouette-style humans, each notably wearing wizard-like robes from the Harry Potter universe. The box says Codenames and Back to Hogwarts on it, with Harry Potter in golden letters at the bottom. To the right, a cartoon astronaut head in a Harry Potter scarf winks, a variation of the logo of board game publisher Czech Games Edition.

Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

FWIW, I kinda want this job. Even if it means working for AWS.

I am demonstrably very highly skilled at Bad Decisions. While I am not certain about my ability to kill a god, I feel confident that I could get one to quit their job in disgust.

Y’all have got to watch this 😭

Do you hear this Satanists, Pastafarians, and Followers of the Church of the Subgenius? Time to get to work.

I'm here to tell you that since the invention of the refrigerator, you can easily cook 3-4 days worth of food in a single session and the best part is that most recipes are designed to make meals for four (or more!).

But also, if you don't want to / can't cook, that's cool too.

a group of people in space suits are standing next to each other and smiling . Alt: a group of people (Thermians) in space suits are standing next to each other and smiling .

This calls for an Away Mission...

You're making the whole, "let's wait until The Kid is in grad school before packing up for Europe," thing seem like a worse idea...

My GenX opinion is that if you can't enjoy microwave-reheated leftovers, your parents didn't ignore you enough as a child.

Me, looking at old mix tapes of AC/DC, Lou Reed, and... The Bee Gees: "You broke me!"

I love that my dealership keeps on calling me.

"Our records indicate your car is overdue for an oil change. When can you bring it in? We'll give you a loaner."

"Oh, that's great! I can't figure out where to put the oil. Can you look it up?"

"Sure, it's an... EV? Yeah. Sorry to take up your time."

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.

Hertz got popped earlier this year in a massive data breach, but, not to worry, they've responded by installing crazy-expensive AI-based car scanners to send you $195 bills in case you don't scratch your rental car.