Who won?

My most recent waste of time like that was getting llama3 to write bizarre Dora the Explorer fan fiction after her cameo on South Park a couple weeks ago.

#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe
Batman (1988)
Clerks
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mallrats
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Reservoir Dogs
Road Trip
Short Circuit
The Shawshank Redemption
Thor: Ragnarok
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Trainspotting
WALL-E

Mine goes back into railroads back into the 1800s at least. But I can tell just by being somewhat politically active in my adoptive home state of Iowa for most of the last 25 years that most notions of farming (including my own before) are WAY off.

Obama is the best of ‘em!

No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com

I wish that was the explanation.

*dropping

So tl;dr - I have been lucky to come out of those (and other) employment situations better off. And with age I don't freak out as much with uncertainty. But I would be a lying SOB if I didn't say I'm always worried about the other shoe to drop.

My first big-boy IT job was at a large green tractor company as a contractor. A few months after 9/11 (yes I'm old) they cut loose all contractors, regardless of performance or importance. I ended up going back to college, swearing to never work for a huge company again. :)

That was the worst weekend of my life. I had a 2 year-old and a newborn at home and nothing was certain with respect to the economy, etc. I vividly remember holding back tears taking my daughter trick-or-treating.

Halloween 2008 was a Friday and I found out the grant I was working under had been pulled. I had just turned down an unsolicited offer to re-join some friends at a company, but wouldn't be able to confirm the offer still stood until Monday at the earliest.

I hope you're right. I have Mormon family who acknowledge how awful Trump is, but "my family votes republican" even still.

I worry a lot of folks would welcome the apocalypse before righting the ship or acknowledging they're wrong. I hope I'm wrong.

I finally did it last year. I wish I had 30 years ago. The only way I'll regret it is if RFK takes my meds away.

I'm in the White Sox/Cubs market (blacked out of my Cardinals). I watched so many shitty Sox games a couple years ago because Benetti is one of the absolute best.

I know nothing beyond what’s shown in this video but I would read an entire profile on No. 24 and why and how she knew to stand up when it was needed.

Me, two turns ago “I have no f$& vowels”

Wordfeud: Hold my beer

Yep. And here in the US the sheep wear hats promoting the Wolves.

Very much in the same boat - all of my friends love it and I lose cool points for not ever seeing it.

The Geoffrey Hinton interview this morning on @npr.org on-point show is worth the listen. It is the best lay-explanation of how ANNs work that I have heard in a very long time, and he cuts through the BS and hype around AI.

👋 Your regular reminder that next year, your tax dollars are going to go to the wealthiest families in Iowa to pay for their kids private school tuition, instead of going to your public schools

Good point. My "X" is often things about how Windows deals with certificates, certificate statuses, etc. Definitely not my category 1s, but things that are good to know.

But if a random relative asks, I have been linux-only since 1997, or I don't know what a computer is at all. :)

I think that quit being a flex longer ago than I'd like to admit. So here I am, on break, installing a Win11 VM of my own volition. To learn.

Next up will be DOS + DESQview :)

When anything Windows came up, it used to be a point of pride that I hadn't used it personally or professionally since 2002 and had no idea how to do X in it (where X is usually fixing an issue).

son of a bitch! :) i'm jtizdal on there if you ever want an easy win

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