Martin Barry

Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Barossa Valley and Margaret River would like a word... 😉

RIP David Stratton. A personal hero of mine, and the sort of person I aspire to be.

It's not that user-friendly but matrix.itasoftware.com has a "time bar" view of the search results which is similar to what Hipmunk's UI was.

Remembering Adam Yauch aka MCA

August 5, 1964 - May 4, 2012

Beastie Boys HD : Sabotage ( David Letterman ) - 1994

#hardcorepunk #hiphop #mca #adamyauch #beastieboys #history #punkrockhistory #otd

• Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: • Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. • Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

Animal Kingdom (2010) Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated...

I was confused at first until I realised it was a different movie, almost identical name...

Also worth a watch letterboxd.com/film/animal-...

Had to show this to my 6 year old. He's familiar with the Maeklong Railway Market in Thailand because it was featured in a Super Wings episode 😆

Screenshot of a Reddit comment fun user masonstreet: I think I have found a fix to remove the bubble permanently. It looks like turning off Facetime notifications and restarting works! If your Facetime notifications are already off, toggle them on, switch the style to ‘None’ then turn back off then restart. > System Settings > Notifications > Facetime > turn off Allow Notifications. Then restart your machine. (tried this without restarting and it did not work). Hope that fixes it for you. Hope even more that Apple patches this terrible feature

This solution worked for me

www.reddit.com/r/mac/commen...

Guessing it was the right seat of the Learjet.

The Challenger got front row seats for the emergency response 😳

Schrödinger's password, once observed it will never be the same.

Learn how to ask good questions.

- what do they want to know
- relevant context
- things they've already researched / tried and why they failed to answer the question

Do you miss the CBP kiosk receipts so much you need to channel that asthetic? 😆

⚠️ You have changed you language to: Australian English.
Do you want to keep these changes?

[Nah, Yeah] [Yeah, Nah]

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

This is a beautiful tribute.

BREAKING: Critical Safety Margin Mistaken for Redundant Excess Yet Again

I think the story of media, particularly online media, in the last couple decades is basically “market becomes more efficient, society realizes inefficiency was load bearing ”

Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why. Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.

Science works, y'all.

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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.

This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.

charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.

1st bag was handed to the contractor 5h later and they delivered it another 24 hours later.

2nd bag was only handed to the contractor 2 *days* after arriving at FRA.

Contractor ignored our sign to just leave the bag, take the note as proof of delivery and rang our doorbell at 1am waking everyone 😭

You seem to be having as much "fun" as I did with LH and their bag delivery subcontractor at FRA.

Both bags missed a transfer at AMS, both loaded onto the same flight the next day.

Here are my book recommendations for the new year:

Read the books you already bought.

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

Well this is grim

ethernet? you mean the wifi cable

Any "avid cyclist" who claims that the solution to road safety for cyclists is simply to be more skilled and assertive should be required to demonstrate that they are more skilled and assertive than Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel who was, this week, doored.

I recently started trying to keep plants alive and I didn't realize that eventually I'd have to punish the plants by hacking off the parts that were growing too well. What kind of sick hobby is this

The problem with Bluesky verification as domains is that they have confused the Registration Authority with the Certificate Authority.

This is an extremely common issue and not entirely their fault. But verification needs the RA.

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