Mandi (Mandolin)

I’ve had Samsung SmartThings for a few years now & it’s worked a lot better than Orbi (but I wanted to throw the Orbi down a stairwell so the bar is admittedly on the floor).

Cover of the Choose Your Own Adventure book, “The Mystery of Chimney Rock”

Okay, Internet. I cannot be the only one who immediately started watching “Wake Up Dead Man” and knew Rian Johnson also read the same book I liked to scare myself as a child with. Right? I haven’t found a mention of it yet but I can’t be the only one! (Also the movie was good too.)

r/ChatGPT 4h ChatGPT gave me a customer support phone that tried to steal my bank account info CSR Perfect. Since you opened the Chase Sapphire Reserve, you now have a free Priority Pass Select through Chase, which gives you your strongest possible case for a duplicate-membership courtesy refund on the $79 account. Here is your exact best-play sequence to maximize your odds of getting that $79 back. Step 1 - Call Priority Pass (Do This First Call: 1-800-352-5320

Call: 1-800-352-5320 Sav this word-for-word (this scrint is Had a wild situation with ChatGPT today. I was trying to get a refund from priority pass and asked chatGPT what the best way to do it was. It answered and gave me the phone number with a script. I called it thinking it was priority pass. I gave my name and address after describing the situation. Then they told me they would give me a credit that could be used at major retailers. Then they started asking what my routing number was which is when I got suspicious and I started hearing other people in the background being asked for a routing number. They weren't able to answer why so I hung up. I then went and confirmed the telephone number. ChatGPT gave me a number that didn't match up with priority pass at all. I asked where its source was for this and it was not able to tell me.

lmfao. chatgpt skipping the middleman and just sending you directly to the scammers now

On their own, although a spam tub would be amusing in itself.

@miryokucon.bsky.social Hey, looking at the PDF program book online - page 8 has four events for Saturday August 29th before it moves to Saturday August 30. Is the day of the week or the day of the month the typo?

Kids Online Safety Act reintroduced in Senate. Advocates fear it'll block LGBTQ+ content online. - LGBTQ Nation Supporters say it has protections for free speech, but others worry platforms will block content to comply.

hi, folks!

KOSA’s back in congress. the project 2025 people want KOSA to pass & openly say they’ll use it to attack abortion & LGBTQ people. it's also got a lot of democratic support.

2 other censorship bills—IODA & SCREEN—are up, too. all must be stopped.

long thread! call scripts at the end.🧵

Darn it, I didn’t realize you would be there or we might have come out. Partner is with me recovering from surgery & I wasn’t sure if it was worth the trip. He got me into reading your books though, so it would have been!

What’s next? “This dish detergent marketed to households with children has SOAP in it, we should investigate Palmolive at once?”

Does he realize he’s making himself look worse by trashing Goldberg? “No, I didn’t accidentally share a group chat with a journalist, I just shared it with a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist.” 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’m tired of shouting “oh come on, I was being hyperbolic!” into the universe. And it’s not even April yet. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Pirate booted out: popcorn mogul’s coup in New York village falls flat Pirate’s Booty Snacks founder Robert Ehrlich claimed to be tiny Long Island community’s mayor – voters disagreed

Even if he thinks he’s somehow matching his brand doing this, I don’t think this attempt qualifies even as piracy. WTF?

This strikes me as an opportunity to Streisand Effect this hate crime. Maybe I’ll make a tshirt with this hero’s picture on it so that over the course of my life thousands of people learn about his bravery who otherwise wouldn’t have.

Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI.

FLOOD THE PORTAL

Spam the hell out of it.

Pass it on! It works!

enddei.ed.gov

Looking at this I honestly wonder if they mistook test data for the real thing & queried the test environments instead of production.

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.

3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Full admin access? Read AND WRITE access? Are you KIDDING ME?

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Seriously. I’ve got hard copies of a lot of my personnel files but I don’t know if they’ll do much good if Musk tries to start deleting personnel files & history to get rid of us. Or what happens if people’s benefit payments just get stopped.

Yep. Back in 1998 my college trip was a van trip to Stratford Ontario & that’s all we needed.

Although we did get stopped because apparently someone in the other van joked, “quick, hide all the weed!” And my Shakespeare professor had to patiently explain his students were crazy. Still!

What gets me is he says he’s going to do that by this weekend. Wonder how many people are suddenly going to stop seeing benefit payments because a sloppy team just blocked anything they thought looked weird in a weekend…

Unfortunately I didn’t have the damn time to rush into buying a new car in the last three months so I guess my 12 year old Honda is going to have to make it another 8. 😔

Trump Guts Key Aviation Safety Committee, Fires Heads Of TSA, Coast Guard The committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

What I find particularly sketchy is that there is no way to respond in the negative, thus no way to keep a paper trail that you didn’t take the deal. How hard would it be to manufacture a fake acceptance for someone they want to cut down the line?

Those of you caught up on #CastlevaniaNocturne - is the S2 finale plot twist something I absolutely don’t want to be spoiled for (like the ending of The Good Place S1) or something that will just make me throw things & yell at the screen?

‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield.

Meta's top lawyer on AI will no longer be defending the company due to Zuckerberg's decent into "neo-Nazi madness."

"Mark Zuckerberg is, of course, free to do whatever he wants to do," Mark Lemley says, "but I decided that that wasn't something I wanted to be associated with."

Exclusive w/ WIRED:

If someone had three months free of Paramount+ what would you suggest they binge on that wasn’t Star Trek or Sonic?

I know it’s inconsequential but suggestions would be appreciated. The distraction will help.

is anyone else on instagram or facebook suddenly having their queer-related posts get shadowbanned??? #queer #lgbt