L.D. Burnett

shoutout to the low-level espionage bureaucrat in China trying to make sense of the LIDAR map of my house.

it’s a great product!

Roborock has too many trimlines / models. too confusing.

that said, I’m happy with mine!

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

this rocks

accurate to the 17th decimal

a migrant Okie cotton-picker turned CA tomato farmer who worked as a journeyman carpenter in the off-season & a TN hillbilly with no fear of heights who learned the electrician’s trade in WWII courtesy of the US Navy and spent his working years climbing transmission towers & farming walnuts in CA

just saw the video clips of a sitting U.S. Senator assaulting and *breaking the arm* of a uniformed United States Marine who was speaking up in protest at an event

thanks to a warning, I didn’t watch with the sound on because I really don’t want to hear the sound of a bone break

alas, alas Babylon

According to no history book ever we should certainly trust that our sensitive health data will be safe and free and accessible only to us and not at all shared or monetized or weaponized for profit. So sure this is all really good.

y’all, King and Conqueror is *really* enjoyable. don’t know how I missed it when it came out.

of course everyone expected it, but like … all this in five days???

honestly pretty weird that world war III just kind of snuck up on us, even with all that buildup

in this economy?!

If you're a writer or researcher who thinks AI is better than you at your job, I believe you. I just don't think you should pretend like your skill issue affects me

hosting a zoom meeting at 6 tonight for a volunteer thing I’m doing. team lead asked me if I could record the meeting so AI could summarize it for us.

absolutely TF not. I am capable of taking notes and summarizing and am happy to do that for my fellow participants. my zoom room, my rules.

just gonna leave my best work here psmag.com/social-justi...

a partially eclipsed bloody full moon amid a smattering of dim stars

a fitting sign for troubled times: blood moon eclipse in the western sky

my brute Celtic ancestors would have been terrified. maybe they were right.

Being a working writer with deadlines is great but it's also unbelievably stupid. Like sorry guys I can't go out tonight, I am thirty-three years old and I have homework that I begged to do.

shorter Rachel Maddow: we’re screwed, y’all

yeah, there’s a reason I’m not following her on here

wow that looks spectacular

really enjoying “King and Conqueror” — you can stream the whole series on Prime

the four-part harmony! the complex theological arguments sustained over multiple verses!

bring back the hymnal!

Yes. *Yes.* “Megachurchification,” soft rock-lite worship music, and… not a hymnal anywhere in sight.

Many of us learned how to read music from those old hymnals, and so did our most talented musicians and singers! (Grew up with the New National Baptist hymnal 🥹)

i think it’s a bad sign that stomp-clap-hey music is in again

snuck into the theater to see this on my first date. we were supposed to be watching a Star War but we decided this looked more fun (since we had both seen the Star War already).

quite eye-opening for a couple of 7th graders from church choir / youth group.

a screenshot from NOTTING HILL of Julia Roberts speaking Hugh Grant. Grant's back is to the camera. Julia is a beautiful white woman with dark hair to her shoulders. She's somewhat smiling. l've edited the subtitle to read, "I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking [everyone ti make tv shows well-lit again]”

Please. I can’t see anything in era accurate candle light.

when I taught the 2nd half of the U.S. history survey, I spent a looooooooot of time underscoring and then unpacking, decade by decade, the long reach of the Truman Doctrine. it is the Rosetta Stone for deciphering U.S. involvement in the Middle East from its inception to, well, today.

northern flicker

is there a way to block every post that includes a screenshot of anything that Tyler Austin Harper has ever said? not interested in reading the toxic drivel of vile mendacious tankie trash on this or any medium.