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Speaking of "AI," I just made Claude search "John Scalzi Burrito" and its response was, in that very polite, philosophical way Claude has, "Dude what the actual fuck"

Thank you for this gift of niche pornographic zines. I’m going to hide them around the house for my grandchildren to discover after I die

enormous shoutout to the author of wsl-hello, a PAM plugin that invokes Windows Hello, so that when i use sudo inside wsl it flashes a pin popup. the only thing i don't like about this is that it _also_ does that under ssh connections, but ctrl-c causes a fallback to direct password entry. neat!

The greatest thing on the internet today

this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

let’s endymion, hoes

I really have to side-eye people who otherwise seem sane but ensure me AI is really useful for "summarizing meetings" or "planning my day".

It.
Does.
Not.
Work.

If it appears to work, it's only because there is a random element and it's been lucky so far. Eventually, it rolls a 1 and hallucinates.

I was thinking yesterday about that old urban legend where the serial killer would drive around at night with his lights off and if you flashed your lights he’d follow you and kidnap you.

Some ICE agent somewhere thought, “Wait, we should do that for real.”

Really gonna snare all those rapist and murderer immigrants by appealing their desire to help a stranger.

ME: happy valentine’s day

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: *slaps heart-shaped box out of my hands* an actual heart is shaped nothing like that

If one is looking for left-FP ideas from electeds in the US, could do worse than follow the lead of Ilhan Omar, who has repeatedly put forth a repeal of the Hague Invasion Act as a core necessity for international rule of law. US alignment should not function as a backstop against justice for crimes

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here

It's wild how much the world has changed.

1992: Bill Clinton says that he tried pot once, but he didn't inhale.

2026: RFK Jr says that he snorted cocaine off of dirty toilet seats.

I've seen various posts with instructions about turning off the transparency and making iOS 26 much less annoying.
bsky.app/profile/riki...

My universe revolves around you. Happy Valentine’s Day, Gabby.

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 unrolls carpet outdoors while Person 2 with short hair pulls cart full of more rolls.] (2) [Continuing uphill.] (3) [After going over a bump that takes them downhill, both people catch carpet roll that’s falling off the cart.] (4) PERSON 2: You’re *sure* we started installing the wall-to-wall carpet on the right side of the wall? PERSON 1: The other end of the room *must* be getting close by now.

Installation

xkcd.com/3206/

Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ... TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

I think we need to mobilize the whole country in support of military families and vets.
(Repeating)

To that end:

Image of a coin, a Cuban Peso, featuring the “manjuari” aka Cuban Gar.

Found my Cuban Pesos, featuring the Cuban Gar, colloquially called “Manjuari.”

I also call them…GARBUCKS 🥁

Got some help from Actual Gracie making a video this morning.

It’ll never beat Lars von Trier’s Charlie’s Angels (1994)

If you're a swordsmith who isn't advertising their work today, you're missing out.
Everyone knows that a sword is the perfect Valentine's day gift!

We are a nation in which thousands of Black people were "legally" kidnapped with the assistance of the federal government & sent back into slavery.

We are also a nation in which thousands of white & Black people organized in their local communities to try to stop those kidnappings.

"We" are both.

A sticker on a cork background featuring a cartoon pizza slice with a happy face and the text, "I Wonder If Pizza Thinks About Me Too."

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this I Wonder If Pizza Thinks About Me Too sticker. Happy Valentine's Day. On a scale from 1 to "I hope pizza loves me back" how lonely are you?
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This isn’t just against Army policy. It’s incredibly gross. When you enlist, you’re a captive audience. This is why previous Presidents have been circumspect here: they get it. Trump does not. Forcing people by exploiting power is how he’s always operated. He has no capacity for empathy or honor

Claude Opus gets this one right, but Sonnet (which is quite an expensive and fancy model still) gets it wrong.

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

National Treasure (2004)