Séamus Aran

But the real reason not to use it is a lot of shortsighted managers are laying people off because they think their remaining staff + AI are just as good. But IME, AI tools are so bad they actually slow down productivity more than the bottom n% of workers & unlike junior levels they can’t be taught

Right, it doesn’t think for you. It doesn’t think at all.

The use case for AI search is that Google have deliberately made regular search so bad you need a bot to sift through the slop and get the kind of results you used to be able to without one. But even then AI wastes a ton of energy to do it

I keep hearing “aloof wife” and my tired brain tries to parse it as some kind of Punjabi dish. Aloo fwaif

You’re describing dreams I didn’t know I had

But did we ever learn the meaning of “water pie”?? Talk about a cliffhanger

This hurts me (complimentary)

Everything he does is planned, which is all the more impressive

In 2005 I went through 100 floors of Rogue Galaxy's "Ghost Ship Extreme" dungeon solely to get a character's swimsuit outfit. To be young again

This is what the internet is for

Barf. I am so glad my wife & I got together before The Apps.

That said, I don’t think people are as dumb as they sound in these promos, because copywriting is hard! We’ve sure seen a lot of CEOs fail at PR; this is basically the same thing

I’ve heard of ncurses but rcurses?

But just for a moment let’s try to imagine the trauma of growing up as a little girl with the name “Mother”, feeling like the arc of your life is preordained. And the despite everything you marry a guy named Father??? I would not be ok

Any film with a character called “Muggsy” gets +1 star automatically

Poster art for the 1994 TV show ReBoot

Since we’re talking about 1994 let’s do a reboot of ReBoot too

Calvin (from …and Hobbes fame) shuffling off, muttering “NO RETRACTABLE CLAWS, NO OPPOSABLE TOES, NO PREHENSILE TAIL, NO COMPOUND EYES, NO FANGS, NO WINGS...”

Have you tried turning it off and then *not* turning it back on again

I’ve seen a year picker that was 4 tiny spinboxes, 1 for each digit 🤠

I’m surprised Johnson said anything besides like “I’m not familiar with this Phil E. Buster... I’ll have to get back to you.”

I saw Josh Radnor in “Disgraced” in NYC and was surprised that he’s actually very funny. People still yelled “Schmosby” at him afterward. Gotta be like Alfonso Ribeiro never escaping Carlton

Can't believe I've done this. What an error. This is a *4th* gen Thunderbird ('64 - '66).

Also just frustrating, especially for watching anything live! Remember when you could just turn on the box and there was your match or whatever

These are so dope but how do you keep your kids from grabbing them constantly? I have a revolving set of Shady Rays because they inevitably end up in the back of the van covered in peanut butter

duonomiko2.tripod.com/3x5/3x5.html

Sadly the site itself is down now, and was never archived on the Wayback Machine when it still hosted content.

I wish I could tell the artist what a difference their work made for a confused, lonely 14 year old.

A yaoi website on Tripod/Angelfire changed my life in the late ‘90s. It was called 3x5 Theater, a webcomic in the form of scanned 3” x 5” notecards, and focused on Gundam parodies and fanart

It inspired me to learn to draw, and in a couple semesters I was the cartoonist for my high school newspaper

I’ve found, in any field, where there are fantastic standout performers, they’re not the ones pointing it out. They just go about their business. With the exception of Muhammad Ali

People would pay for the privilege. Start a New Thing. Call it dom-edy

Close runners up in my book:

• Workmanlike looping singles to the pull side
• When dudes don’t react after hitting a home run and just trot

Lost Souls of Grammatiko: The crash of Helios Airways flight 522 The full story of how a Cypriot airliner turned into a ghost plane, and how one man tried unsuccessfully to save it.

Reminds me of Helios flight 522, which is actually terrifying. Excellent article, as always, by @kyracloudy.bsky.social here:

A checkered past with
Spotting empty flattery
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