mujer blanca enojada con la computadora

[...] but they *had* to be like people, because they aren't meant to serve drinks, they're meant to let someone dream of firing their human workers

anyways i just learned about the neo robot and i am unimaginably vindicated

i've constantly compared chatgpt and equivalents to the robot butler fad in the 80s/90s where their human-like qualities are almost universally worse for them (why have a drink machine shaped like a person when you could just have a drink machine, and skip all the abstraction?) [...]

yes, google, i definitely wanted you to give me every single instance that the word "it" exists after "markdown" when i look for markdown-it plugins, thank you, this is so much better than when you got the actual results based on things you had input into a search box

i love the modern internet where you can search a specific phrase in quotes, implying you want that exact set of characters in that order, and then the search engine completely ignores you and makes searching for info on any development package with a hyphen nearly impossible

the default header tabs on twitter; there's a slightly glowing area in the center, and pulling down reveals the glowing circle is from an arrow icon under the header (the lower half is the same effect with a higher contrast)

twitter screenshot that makes you mad: on the mobile site's "lights out" theme, there's a frosted glass glow effect on the arrow that, especially on an amoled screen, is visible at all times

bottom half is edited with shadows cranked up, so it's obvious on all screens

two drop-shadow filters in CSS that get calculated to a bunch of text that represents, uh. uhhhh. listen buddy i don't know either, and i'm the one who stared at it for ten minutes

rt to scare a web developer

fashionably late to lesbian day but i do want it to be known

both of my blog's color schemes (light + dark mode) are just higher contrast versions of the lesbian flag scheme. i just think it's neat

for context i spent 10 minutes on 650 words, realized that was over the limit then rewrote most of it to get just under 600 after another ten minutes

this shit is easy if you actually know how to read

had to do a college essay assessment recently, and you could tell the instructor was so used to ai-addled zoomers because she was begging people to at least manage a whole, painstaking 300 words in 90 minutes. the illiteracy era has already begun

Jeff Bezos hails AI boom as ‘good’ kind of bubble Amazon founder’s comments follow warning by Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon that ‘it’s not different this time’ https://www.ft.com/content/8d80f601-4725-489a-8d6e-39099a01f9cb

oh for sure man

it's not even a walking infrastructure thing because canada and the US have nearly identical problems in that regard

it's just that, to >90% of america, walking is considered a suspicious thing to do. like they cannot comprehend the idea of just walking around on the basis that walking is fun

every time i talk about how much i walk to an american i end up experiencing the inter-country equivalent to learning your friend never watched spongebob because their parents thought it was the work of the devil

i have a literal walking disability and i walk more than americans do...

when this AI bubble pops (and it will), we're going to have a lot of people who cannot function because they outsourced their ability to comprehend the world to a chatbot

and that's on top of all the industries with people who outsource their own jobs to a chatbot

very cool

something from the past year or so that you can't un-see the second you notice it: the flood of social media replies that ask unnecessary questions (oftentimes answered by the thing they're replying to) worded exactly like how someone might prompt chatgpt

so not only was he announcing this to an empty room (nearly everyone left), but also the phone hijacking and loudspeakers weren't working so nobody else heard it either

israel admitted, out loud, to spying on everyone's phones, and they didn't even gain anything from it. good work guys

i would rather bash my head against a wall for six hours finding out how to make this work than stop using footnotes merging markdown files in 11ty before the markdown actually renders

i imagine there's other people (probably with a `/now` page of some sort) who might need this knowledge in case they ever want a combined archive of normally-replaced stuff, properly formatted against one another

merging markdown files through an #11ty template before the markdown actually renders:

shows plain input HTML at the top, with generic classes in a div, and the extremely mangled output below with unicode-jumbled classes everywhere

made an #11ty plugin that intentionally adds visually hidden garbage to every single paragraph in your HTML output, as anti-scraper praxis

www.npmjs.com/package/elev...

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,

the guessing machine is not god and you don't even need that much anthrax large language models, "ai", and getting you to stop believing in magic

you're not going to believe this, but this writer on the internet has a lot of opinions on ""AI"" and the ways people believe in them suddenly getting better somehow

badposts.boo/anthrax-in-t...

eleventy-plugin-lollmao Universal LLM-poisoning transform for Eleventy, adding unfathomable amounts of junk for scrapers to pore through.

i swear to god, half of me making this plugin was actually making the plugin and the other half was figuring out how to get permission from a computer program to actually upload a minor amend to a repo

whatever. go my poison

i spent over a decade and a half of my life hearing from people much older than me that git is hell on earth, and it's insane how it's nonoptional for getting code anywhere

and now that i had to publish something publicly for the first time ever: they are 100% right what the fuck is this

been spending a whole lot of time on styling my 11ty blog, which i swear will contain actual writing

eventually

once i stop finding new ways to make the text wiggle

yeah so there's repeated evidence of a recession, so the stock market is reaching all time highs in response because that means the federal bank might make inflation significantly worse. the stock market is very real and definitely not fake btw

My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.

ok so the killer was a mormon r/dankmemes guy with confusing politics where, even if you could possibly understand which layers are and aren't irony, enough people in polite society wouldn't, making him an inconvenient cudgel for anyone's politics

pack it up this news isn't lasting another week

listings for super mario galaxy 1 and 2, both at $39.99 usd in the year of our lord 2025

40 dollars for a videogame from 2007 btw

at most it will be a very flimsy pretense to justify something the united states government had already been planning on doing

do you remember why D.C. had the army in it, and in the unlikely event you say yes, do you think you would have remembered if the guy involved wasn't named Big Balls

another moment to add to the "if you can't care enough to stop a genocide, what could you be trusted to care about?" pile

with fair pretense that if i'm wrong so be it:

i don't think this is going to amount to anything, positive or negative, because we now live in a world so desensitized to death that even donald trump's attempted assassination was forgotten about after a week or two

every time i see 2xko i am convinced someone high up is trying to sabotage it. what do you mean the game everyone made fun of for having no characters is coming out with intentionally fewer characters