alison says reinstate Link!

promotional image for Memories of the Sword. A young woman in ragged medieval looking clothes stands as she cuts her hair off with a sword, behind her head. She's backlit from light shining through an upper window filtering down against the wall, some hanging rangs, and an arched, carved wooden screen with interlocking 8-pointed stars. The whole thing is sepia-toned. Text in the middle lists the three main stars, title and tagline: Kim Go-eun, Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Byung-hun Memories of the Sword Justice. Betrayal. Revenge.

Time for another movie (on my day of not having the brain to do anything).

Memories of the Sword is calling out to me...

Ugh. It was SO GOOD.
I'll be rewatching Miss Hong a few times.
... if for no other reason than it's a good dose of Ko Kyung-pyo in some well-fitting suits.

But truly, the whole dang thing is superb.

Komatsu are in the heavy equipment and armoured personnel carrier businesses only.

Board of Governors too.

This. My university keeps wanting me to make a “syllabot,” an LLM-based chatbot my students can query about the syllabus. And all I can think about is all the resources being consumed so no one has to use Ctrl+F.

what utter contempt for art, for meaning-making, for playing in the gap. vile people

calling "nonstandard syntax" in literature a mistake "like a.i. used to make" is going to make me joker

Agreed.

I second this motion.

Let's vote.

It's actually pretty wild how ctrl+f works in like every program ever and it doesn't even have to burn down any rainforests

True observation: *anyone* who ever tells you 'Look what you made me do' is abusive. Full stop.

This isn't pretentious over 50 white guy behavior. This is just dad behavior. When you hit a certain age you're given a specific war or military system that becomes your special interest

I feel like we're forgetting that ctrl+f still exists and works really well... simply because a bunch of shills want us to put money in their AI boondoggle.

I keep seeing journo-types say the best use case for AI is to sift through huge Epstein-drop-style data dumps but I haven't seen any of them talk about the fact that the Venn diagram of AI-pushers and the types of fuckos who are IN Epstein-style data dumps is a circle

bsky.app/profile/alis...

Exactly.

One of the heavy equipment companies (not Komatsu, I can't remember right now) also is diverse like this and it makes me giggle every time I see their brand on not a giant yellow excavator.

Hang on, it's Hitachi, which I already ran through all the massively diverse stuff they do...

Hitachi is also up there...

Contactless fare cards for public transit, "personal massagers", televisions, nuclear technology, maglev trains, power grids, ATMs, washing machines, software, elevators, electron microscopes...

THE BEST MORTARS AND PESTLES I'VE EVER USED!

"Would you like to buy a VCR or a baseball glove? Because those are our currently available products." said Sanyo.

(Also once upon a time, heavily involved in solar cell and lithium ion batteries... but hilariously the name emblazoned on both our VCR and my dad's ball glove)

Would you like to buy a chainsaw for razing forests to the ground or a computer-guided embroidery machine for creating the most delicately embellished garments? Because that’s what we make, says Husqvarna

make darth the ceo and no one tell him til he gets back

... Canada does this?

hmm... ok, I had to look it up.
15 minute breaks are not included in our legal rulings, but you're mandated 30 minutes after 5 hours of work.

www.canada.ca/en/services/...

Hi from a country with mandated paid breaks.

15min for every 2hrs, employer must provide water, tea and coffee.

Meal breaks are unpaid but 30min minimum.

Unpaid breaks also means your employer has no right to tell you what to do. So napping is allowed with your meal

s.e. is writing the advice column none of us want, and yet so many of us need <3

Your audience doesn't care!
We want Write Like An Ammonite!

Germany debates how to form gender-neutral words out of its gendered language The German language is full of male and female nouns. Officials and businesses are tweaking words, including adding asterisks, to make them inclusive.

From 2021

Good point wrt onion and tuna.
I'll be thinking about this!

Wait, what?!

I'm trying to increase my protein/fiber consumption.

Apparently I've been eating not enough meat or something... So I'm trying to figure out better vegetarian alternatives than I've been having lately.