Aaron D'Souza

ZOMG

It's also instructive to look at PRDs for these new features. A shockingly small number of them are motivated by solving problems for marginalized communities.

"currently" is doing some heavy lifting for me.

@scalzi.com what did you do?

I really enjoyed that one album (VH III?) in which Gary Cherone voiced the group.

Ok, our musical tastes *are* frighteningly aligned.

Jealous AF.

We should both rightfully harrumph at the thought of musical alignment 😉. 👋🏼

Howling Silence, by Olga Amelchenko 8 track album

OK, I don't think I've been this blown away by a saxophonist's sound since I first stumbled into a Miguel Zenón set at the Jazz Bakery in LA 25 years ago.

She's incredible.

A shot planned with Photo Ephemeris The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) helps you plan outdoor photography shoots in natural light, particularly landscape and urban scenes. It’s a map-centric sun and moon calculator: see how the light wi...

Meh. Can't take the landscape photographer out of my brain. app.photoephemeris.com is basically autonomic now.

Nice view! Looks South-ish? (assuming that photograph was taken this morning).

<taps the sign>

It's that time of the year. To the question "Does this manager model Google's values?" I really want to answer:

"Fuck no. They're *wonderful*."

i think the worst thing that happened to RSS was people believing that Google Reader WAS RSS

Google Reader died, RSS did not

We've had an "auto complete" framing of the tool for years. That I support (and it is quite useful at eliminating boilerplate toil).

Leadership thinks that they can mandate productivity gains by asking folks to "tell the AI to do it". Tellingly, that's also how they're selling it to shareholders.

Google execs say employees have to 'be more AI-savvy' as competition ramps up Google has fewer employees than it did in early 2023, and the company is pushing AI in part to boost efficiencies.

We've had AI-awareness added to the job ladder for most engineering roles.

As someone who often deals with C++ variadic generics, I can tell you that AI completely destroys one's productivity. I've seen it mangle the code to the point of needing a hard reset to the previous commit.

👍🏼. Usual channels.

Which one is the box that you're never gonna finish unpacking?

Interestingly enough: you and me both.

Four lines (8 measures) of rhythmic notation for a drum-set exercise in triplets involving flammed groupings of 3/4/5/6 strokes.

Spent an hour making a nice engraving of an excellent exercise from (every drummer's drummer) Dan Weiss. Now off to print and shed. #SundayAfternoonVibes

Also, when they do wake up to the damage, they'll make deals to ensure that *just they* are excluded from the blast radius. Exhibit #Always: Murkowski.

😂 The two of you touring together would be something I'd pay to attend.

😳. That's a controversy I didn't know existed. I'm surprised because I'm legit impressed by Mohini. She's talented, prolific, funky, savvy (in business & music), and knows how to use all the tools at her disposal to be successful.

I despair. The force-multiplier that AI brings to the toolchain used by disinformation-peddlers is going to make things worse.

Imagine an automated system tweaking disinfo copy in real-time based on clickthrough/engagement rates. Hill-climbing to reach the not-yet-susceptible.

I'm legit worried.

These are lovely! My wife paints in watercolor, and I'm always in awe of how expressive the medium is.

And he raised over $150M for charity with that gig. Metal AF.

💔

TBF, before Trump there were a bunch of highly-educated idiots in very Democratic North Bay Area cities who didn't vaccinate their kids because they mostly believed that a sprig of sage and a lit Gwyneth's ~$70 "This Smells Like My Vagina" candle was all the protection they needed.

Morons abound.