Eric

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i think a big part of the appeal of bluesky is that there are a number of tools available to users to control who you interact with. so block em :-P

Macgyvering and Improvising | eric haller Due to a series of mishaps, when it rains it pours as it were, we find ourselves without municipal water, and with the 2500 L rain collection tank empty, with a broken valve involved. So i fitted a PV...

Outside the routine this Sunday

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a large part of MAGA is about triggering the libtards and enjoying the troll, i think. so if people are picking up the ball and going home, there will be a lot less satisfaction over on tweetface.

ok my curiosity is piqued, who is said putz? :-P

hold on, i thought mexico was going to pay for the tarrifs

for context, my dad built my first motorcycle out of a mcculloch chainsaw when i was 2, and i grew up blasting through our neighborhoods and other parts unknown on a variety of different 2-stroke noisemakers.

i was walking back from the beach just now and a couple kids on quads were blasting their throttles (a thumb throttle no doubt). as they kicked up a bunch of rocks, i muttered under my breath:
dipshits.
yep, i have become that guy.

i vaguely remember holmes and yoyo. but on the "we don't need to see that again" memory shelf.

can confirm. there is not an "unfollow all" button to clean up the mess.

given that i haven't lived permanently in the US for almost 18 years, it shouldn't have been such a shock to learn i no longer have my finger on the pulse of america. but it's clear i was in an info bubble. i blame my NYT sub, and facebook. among other things.

the biden administration was seriously lacking in this kind of entertainment value though.

newrepublic.com/post/188501/...

given the enshittification of the other platforms, is bluesky going to be enshit-proof? i have not tracked this thing that closely. from what i have read, i feel
a bit hopeful. so much disappointment over the years though.

How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growth The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.

Over the past week, Bluesky’s growth has exploded, more than doubling to 15 million-plus users as people seek alternatives to X, Facebook and Threads.

ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.

Instead, in a study Dr. Rodman helped design, doctors who were given ChatGPT-4 along with conventional resources did only slightly better than doctors who did not have access to the bot. And, to the researchers’ surprise, ChatGPT alone outperformed the doctors.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...

it's been pretty lonely on here for a while, but maybe that's changing.

hi i'm new here.