Al Sweigart

Rigged casinos are a great way to make money from insider information.

Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

Emergency protests against war on Iran in cities across U.S. Act Now to Stop War & End Racism

Emergency protests against war on Iran in cities across U.S.

Find your local details for today's protest.

www.answercoalition.org/iran

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

I really should have put in a linter like ruff into the 3rd edition of Automate.

"Why should anyone listen to you? I made a torment nexus, and it's made me a wealthy man. What have YOU accomplished?"

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I've created an app that summarizes photos.

By which I mean it makes a smaller, blurrier image that takes less time to look at.

YouTube video by Alberta Tech AI denied my medical claim 🤠🤪

"AI denied my medical claim"

She was told they don't know why her health insurance claim for her annual physical was denied. She was told that sometimes the AI would check again and maybe change its mind.

www.youtube.com/shorts/Y7QPX...

I noticed that the negative replies under this post on Twitter get floated up in priority even from the non-checkmark accounts:

The term "vibe coding" has only been around for twelve months.

"We get it, you don't like it. But can't you at least say one NICE thing about the Emperor's new clothes?"

"AI turns idiots in the workplace from a distraction into a menace. Everyone now seems as smart as everyone else unless you lock them in a Faraday cage and force them to explain themselves. And the smart people are getting dumber every day."

I'm old enough that I watched a healthy girl in my kindergarten class catch polio and was in a wheelchair by 1st grade and she died at 36. She cried all the time because she was in pain. When you die I'm gonna piss on your grave, Del.

people say, "I don't know if I can justify a membership to Costco" and then I will explain fancy brand whey protein, Greek yogurt or olive oil is almost half the price of other retailers or how I use it to book cheaper rental cars, travel insurance, or get 2% back on my new laptop or AppleCare

"Copilot is my Jesus"

this is murder

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox

They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender

They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

Fact Check: Jesse Singal Lies About Trans Care At The New York Times The New York Times spreads misinformation about transgender people yet again.

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people.

This time, it comes from Jesse Singal.

I fact check it in my latest piece.

End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Screenshot of chatgpt conversation asking it to search a single page about drywall tools and generate a list of questions and answers.

How much would it cost to make a search engine company that crawls the internet, use an LLM to generate a Q&A list from that page, and then create a database of brief questions and answers? Could it be done for as low as $10 million?

NASA Delays Space Walk After It Starts Snowing In Outer Space WASHINGTON—With no choice but to suspend the planned outing and await more favorable conditions, NASA announced Wednesday it had delayed a space walk after a heavy snow began to fall in outer space. “...

NASA Delays Space Walk After It Starts Snowing In Outer Space theonion.com/nasa-delays-...

GitHub - asweigart/Free-Web-Games-No-Ads: A collection of links to free games with no ads. A collection of links to free games with no ads. Contribute to asweigart/Free-Web-Games-No-Ads development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm also trying to put together a mini git repo of links: github.com/asweigart/Fr...

Debugging is chapter 5 out of 24 chapters in the 3rd edition of Automate: automatetheboringstuff.com/3e/

In the relevant chapter on GUI automation, I put the section on not using it to evade captchas about 2/3 the way in.

Putting the debugging and documentation chapter last in your programming book is a choice.

Putting the ethics chapter last in your programming book is a choice.

Silly Little Websites Old school interactive websites that just have some fun charm. No registration, no social media, no engagement bait, no pop up ads or distracting ads. Just silly little websites.

Oh no no, I didn't make it. The subreddit is what I made; I wanted to make a collection of small websites that don't have obnoxious ads or registration requirements. Just fun little things. You can check out the other finds I've posted: www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...

My latest post on r/sillylittlewebsites (a subreddit I'm trying to get going): Castle Light - A game to use a spotlight to figure out an image.

www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...?