Michael Crider

If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.

Maybe try building some EVs that don't cost more than most people make in a year.

My Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 headphones had some issues, the down volume button got really gummy and the USB-C cover wouldn't close all the way.

I submitted a warranty claim. No further questions, no photos demanded, no need to return the original. They just shipped me a new replacement. Nice.

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@mollywood.co If I remember right, you had a Sony Vaio P waaaay back in the Buzz Out Loud days. I really liked that netbook design. Somebody made a super-focused "writer deck" out of it, basically an old-fashioned hardware word processor, with a custom Linux build. www.reddit.com/r/writerDeck...

I got my Red Cross one-gallon blood donation achievement

I'm so good at bleeding, y'all

I bleed like twice as fast as everybody else, gotta get to those cookies

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

literally no one has ever claimed machine learning is bad, and it's been in use in consumer applications at least a decade longer than the current genAI trend, and the NYT knows this

if you're not at least able to clear up the linguistic confusion on a topic, I'm not sure you should write about it

Windows Central: "The next Xbox will allow you to quit out to Windows and run PC titles including Microsoft Office"

WoW players: "I KNEW IT, THEY'RE PORTING WOW TO CONSOLES"

Amazon URL with all the tracking junk

amazon URL automaticaally shortened by Vivaldi

Love the work you're doing here. But I have to hype up my browser bestie Vivaldi, which will shorten links in the URL bar if you hold Ctrl and click the relevant portion. I haven't seen this in standard Chrome.

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

OpenAI has released new estimates of how many ChatGPT users appear to be experiencing severe mental distress in any given week, and the figures are startling.

For one, around 560,000 people's chats -- EVERY WEEK -- appear to indicate mania or psychosis.

Walmart employees? On SNAP. Junior US military personnel with families? On SNAP. Wherever workers are being underpaid, they are on SNAP.

Minimi40 A lidded, wireless, injection molded 40% keyboard. An ideal travel companion. Designed by keebibi, coming October 31st.

Every time I try a 40% keyboard I end up frustrated. But dammit, this one's so cute...and it's hot-swap and wireless....uuuuuuuuuuugh

"Don't be evil...unless some evil people make it a little harder to make money, then be evil, it's for the shareholders."

Weird to see that in DC. I thought they only had those in Michigan.

This reminds me of the dreams I had on post-surgery painkillers.

Three times in the last week I've looked for a "what is that thing" visual result using Gemini. Each time it gave me an answer that I knew was factually wrong.

It identified a Ford GT as a Dodge Viper, and I know there are 10-year-olds who wouldn't make that mistake.

DuckDuckGo lets you filter out AI images. It's not perfect, but I appreciate the effort and you can help tag what it misses.

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood

Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

Meme image: doodle guy holds up finger and opens mouth to speak in top image, closes mouth and lowers finger in hesitation on bottom image

Some good, useful analysis here.

Fucking gross. I can't tell if someone at Samsung is intentionally pushing this slop, or the marketing people are asleep at the wheel and some newbie is shoveling it onto YouTube without their knowledge.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Knock-off Wolverine figure from "Dbapdool & Wolvbrlne"

Dbapdool & Wolvbrlne (2204)

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

About ten minutes from alert to update and reboot, on my very heavy desktop and very light (Snapdragon) laptop.

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Heavens to Betsy
Betsy to Heavens
Heavens BACK to Betsy
Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

I've been working remotely in digital media for the past 11 years and have, in that time, published something like 12,500 bylines. Imagine how much more productive I could have been with a commute!

...cats and dogs, living together...

And then everybody clapped. Especially the lesbians.