The richest country on earth wants you to financially support its security force it refuses to pay. Surreal.
“We took an ancient vice…put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong?” I *hate* the extent to which gambling has infested everything; it’s not going to end well. [theatlantic.com]
These voices have morphed over time as the technology changes so it’s a little hard to keep track of when this might have happened. Or maybe I’m just using better headphones tonight.
Am I imagining things or does Vikram in Duolingo now speak French with more of a Quebecois accent? The way he says “pain” and “Lin” jumped out at me here:
The guy who habitually uses an American flag as a pocket square (which, not for nothing, suggests using the flag as a hankie) is overly concerned with optics? You don’t say.
I'm sorry WHAT
Yeah, I guess you could say my city’s transit infrastructure is pretty good
Its 16°C outside and people on my train are rocking full-on down parkas and toques. I would be DYING.
The supposed explosion of the federal public service looks less explosive if you put it in per capita numbers and draw a line graph back to the mid-80s.
"This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?"
Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth Plummeting. 📉
It is a hideous scandal that they can publish a chart as obvious as this and not even mention the words 'covid infections'.
At least this suggests the ludicrous 401 tunnel isn’t happening.
This and the convention centre just seem like more payoffs for the usual few infrastructure contractors… what else?
Sometimes when it happens to me - especially with Amazon - it seems the prediction algorithm assumes one package per address but the stop(s) before mine are often big multi-unit residential buildings that typically have many packages to drop off before the driver can move on. Should be fixable…
All this bloodthirsty talk is not going to work out so well for from in the future, so while it may be disgusting to hear I suppose he should keep it up for posterity’s sake.
Plusieurs déploient des ressources militaires pour protéger leurs alliés victimes des représailles iraniennes.
No, the worst case would be that it gets worse. Obviously.
He’s never going to get this blood off of his hands… not least because he doesn’t wash his hands.
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Another source of #otherGregs emails, in addition to all the others: vibecoders
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
If I may potentially make this worse - I think the risk here isn’t that AI is going to nuke us, it’s that there’s a kind of guy who is going to see this and think that we should be more willing to use nukes because the computer thinks it’s a good idea
It’s sad that they can’t/won’t run 4 escalators in the peak direction
When this happened I got no information about it whatsoever, so I had to open a new case and wait to be told basically what I posted above (which doesn’t explain very much). It’s been like this for a decade!
Just last week I found out that I’ve been issued a revised T4 for 2018, closing off a supposed “overpayment” that was finally determined to be “invalid”.
So important for people to understand… no one is immune from the effects of platforms, and that goes double for places where there is such an obvious thumb on the scales.
It's not an accident that the most genuinely exciting and meaningful technological developments from the past few decades have not been incorporated into our cultural mythology of what counts as "tech innovation." That mythos is purely reserved for the products coming from Silicon Valley...
This maximum weather day ends with thunder snow. ⚡️❄️
I’ve got an awful sore throat over here, too… not ideal!
