Tianon ✿

"Now THIS is peom-racing" -Anakin Skywalker, probably

i have eaten
the poems
there were in
the icebox

(sorry, I love a good meme even if I'm not actually that into poems, generally)

500ms to respond to a UI action is like nails on a chalkboard.
Seconds? Get out.

Yet most of the big-tech web is this bad.

A screenshot of Plex's list of services including Amazon Video, CW, Roku, Pluto, and Tubi all listed as "free"

Detectorists The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.

I use Plex to check that, and it turns out it's free on demand from them and a bunch of other "free streaming" services too 👀

l.plex.tv/wfBtQ8Rt

This sketch is so pretty; they look so good together! 🩶

On the plus side, it gave you an opportunity to remind me of the existence of this incredible piece of art; I haven't watched it in so long and it's so funny 😂❤️

When the gal finally gets into it and teabags him right through the floor onto the table below, I die, every time 💀

it's totally undocumented because it's a side project of a hobby project of a side project entirely for personal use (you know, normal OSS stuff), but maybe my mostly-jq (tiny bash glue) Zulip bot is the type of thing you're looking for? github.com/tianon/zulip...

A fresh new kind of "you just lost the game"

"Al can generate the toast, the prayer, the party games and the poem"

What every single one of these things has in common (ignoring the obvious ethical questions) is that using AI for them is a fundamental misunderstanding of their purpose in societal interactions 🫠

I love being on the other side of this question in meetings too; "today's lucky ten thousand!!"

I am really enjoying all the "oh no. it really is a bubble? 😯" articles this week

cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical.

You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!

Don't put down your own work. Plenty of people want to devalue you and the things you Make. Don't help them do it.

Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

"What if it looked realistic, but in a super off-putting way??"

-Disney execs, over and over and over

Isi in some light pink and turquoise Blumarine outfits

isi x blumarine 🦋💞 #oc

This is such a beautiful talk; worth every second. 💖

"Art is a form of protest"

"MAKE SOMETHING"

"Your art is an antidote to someone's pain, and you're keeping it to yourself"

Wouldn't it be neat if this absolutely crashed both parties and we HAD to vote third party? Honestly, goals. (It won't happen, but "a girl can dream" right?)

To the quoted's point, there's at least two "Democrat" WOMEN supposedly "representing" Nevada that I'd love to see taken to task too.

I think these look really cute and I'm very glad they're already sold out so I can't even contemplate it 😅

As in I don't think you can even buy it until then

That's when it goes on sale 🫣

Doing my part 🫡

(If I get a whole bunch of nerds aware of it, maybe my chances of being *able* to get it decrease and solve that financial dilemma for me 😂)

(bonus points for answers outside "Security" 😂❤️)

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Beautiful answer ❤️

This isn't why I asked, but it's probably why it's on the brain, and maybe I'm really lucky and you haven't seen it yet:

www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

What's your favorite Star Trek (or War) and why? 🙇

Lol the screen banner saying "small landlords" is quite the juxtaposition isn't it

I'm torn between "the alt text should mention your prominent and very well done EFF sticker addition OR how old this classic is" and "no that's Becky" - thank you for being you 💖

Image of a clipart style person lifting weights with the caption "if you aint cryin you aint tryin"

That really sucks; here's an old meme that will hopefully give you a small chuckle 💪