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Everything is a casino.

You're very smart, that should have occurred to me a while back

I manage girl scout cookies for my kid's troop, and every year all the official communication is on FB. I don't understand why anybody setting up something new would pick it at this point. For cookies, they've said that in 2026 we might use another platform. I'm crossing my fingers.

argh I forgot about a particularly good BST group. That's another thing that'd be hard to replace.

There's some genuine utility around my kids' schools that I still don't know how to replace. But hopefully I can minimize it to just that use case.

About half of my Facebook feed is now algorithmically placed AI slop. Long text of "historic" stories that didn't happen, or embellished with photos that couldn't possibly have been taken.

I know, I shouldn't still be on that app. This is gonna finally push me over the edge.

An AI-generated photo of an American flag flying, lacking stars

A new government website literally called "TrumpRX.gov" that uses an AI-generated American flag missing stars 🤦

Oh and on a second look, it also has an inconsistent number of stripes. Trump's name and face are the new symbols of America apparently, the old ones are getting blurry.

a "Tariff Tunic" costume, a sandwich board listing various tariff rates by country

This is actually for sale at Spirit.

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

Imagine how embarrassing changes like this are going to look in 3-5 years

Well humbug. Sounds like a likely end of the franchise, though I suppose I said that last time too.

Oh no. I won't be able to see it till next week, and this is exactly what I feared.

At least the soundtrack seems pretty solid, or is growing on me anyway.

Me, leaning in and giving a thumbs up while in the front of the monorail

Monorail controls. A joystick, two screens, and a bunch of excellent classic clicky buttons

We asked nicely and got to sit in the front of the Disneyland Monorail today, with the pilot. Bucket list item checked off.

Bonus picture of the controls!

It's ok, smaller scale than I expected though. I assumed it would be a whole other destination with side quests etc, but it's just an extension of Rome. Still fun, just short for $20. I haven't finished yet, but feel close to the conclusion.

nice, at this point I get excited just to finish new bite-sized DLC! Working on the Indiana Jones expansion at the moment.

what games are on the pile?

Act III: This City Made Us, by The Protomen 2 track album

16 years later, Act III is coming to save us all.

theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Sure doesn't seem like the Outer Banks will exist much longer. See the area while you can.

My understanding was that these houses have been abandoned for a long time, as the inevitable became obvious. I'm surprised to see there was still stuff like appliances inside.

A cardboard CD sleeve viewed from the side, very thin.

I bought the Tron: Ares soundtrack on CD, my fist physical album in maybe a decade. It's in this little cardboard sleeve, and I'm kind of disappointed to not have a new jewel case in my life.

A small win that feels huge to me today.

This is the seventh year I've volunteered with the UX Y'all conference, and the sixth time I've had actual responsibility for planning a part of it.

This year I FINALLY figured out how to run the registration desk efficiently, and we avoided the traditional embarrassingly long line.

I still listen to 2010's Tron Legacy Daft Punk soundtrack regularly - it's my favorite album of all time.

Will the new NiN Tron album will have the same staying power, will I listen to it in the impossible-sounding year of 2040?

I'll just be happy to make it there.

I'm contributing, I'm involved and pulling whatever minor levers of power are available to me. But the despair is real.

How do you consume news of any kind and not give in to despair?

It must be a capitalist’s dream come true to keep employing a dead man but no longer needing to pay him, since he no longer needs food or shelter or autonomy.

A tweet from Michael Eisner: Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The "suspending indefinitely" of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of- control intimidation. Maybe the Constitution should have said, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one's political or financial self-interest." By-the- way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.

Bring back Michael Eisner.

Everything is Gamergate and no corporation will ever learn any lesson from it

This whole video right up to the end is amazing. It’s kind of satisfying watching him have to deal with how shitty the technology they’re trying to force on us is. I miss when things used to work

I put an antenna in the attic, drilled one hole to run the coax into a closet, and that's where Tablo itself lives. Then I use Tablo's apps on my phone & TV to watch both live & recorded stuff. Attach an optional hard drive for extra storage & higher video quality.