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The_Tim

@The_Tim@mastodon.social

I host the podcast "Dispatches from the Multiverse" & comment on podcasts, data, games, LEGO, real estate, economics, EVs, drones, & all things awesome. Also I'm the guy who posted that video of a raccoon trying to catch snowflakes.

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The_Tim, to ai
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"Drunk Clippy" is my new name for all LLM features like Google's "AI Overview" and OpenAI's ChatGPT. #AI #LLM #Google #OpenAI https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

The_Tim, to Palestine
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"WELL ACTUALLY, the indiscriminate murder of civilians, including literal infants and children is OK because of the history of the area" is quite the take. 😬

The_Tim, to random
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Who could have possibly foreseen it. 😒 #layoffs https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/23/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklaying-off-1500-spotify-employees-negatively-affected-streaming-giants-operations/

The_Tim, to random
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@notjustbikes I met a lovely lady from the Netherlands the other day. My small talk was "there's a YouTube channel I watch that's made by a guy who moved there." She immediately replied: "Oh, Not Just Bikes? Yeah, I love that channel."

The_Tim, to random
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Five months into I still have no job despite having applied to over 500 roles, often with internal referrals from my network. If anyone on here has any connections that are hiring data roles I'd love an intro. Here's my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetim/

In the meantime, with unemployment benefits set to run out soon, I've started a to hopefully raise enough money to keep paying our bills while I continue my job search and side projects. https://www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-family-unemployment-fund

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Onion saga on /r/Seattle today was mildly amusing.

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Gee, thanks LinkedIn. Very useful email. Definitely worth sending. 🙄

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@notjustbikes I was inspired by the latest episode of The Urbanist Agenda to pull out my small collection of vintage Wired magazines from 1993/1994 and no joke, this comic was in the back of the very first issue. 🤦🏻

[it was a single page, but I split it into two here so the full alt text would fit.]

Photo of the bottom half of a full-page comic strip from the 1993 premiere issue of Wired magazine. Panel 6: Man stands in train station, speaking to passers-by. "'Scuse me folks… would you trade me an old, crinkly dollar for this fresh new one?" Passers-by: "Yeah, right. I've heard about that scam!" Panel 7: Man is beginning to look frantic. "These credit cards won't do me any good! Hey! There's my A.T.M.!!" Panel 8: Man has a crazed look on his face as he hastily withdraws cash from the ATM. "I'll just keep withdrawing cash until I get something that @*%# machine will accept!" Panel 9: Man stands slouched over in front of ATM, dejected again. "I withdrew so much money, the A.T.M. can't process any more transactions." A pair of scary-looking men approach the man, presumably with criminal intent. Panel 10: Man is beaten up, with torn clothes, hitchhiking next to a busy freeway packed with cars. "Next time I'll do my part… to BOOST NEW AUTOMOBILE SALES!"

The_Tim, to random
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We have had this farm animals baby toy set since our now-12-year-old daughter was a baby and it's only just now, getting it back out for our 8-month-old son to play with, that I realized that all of these farm animals…

• are about the same height as the farmer
• are standing upright
• are holding their front legs up like arms

Those aren't animals. They're people in animal costumes. My kids have been playing with a toy set full of farm-themed furries.

The_Tim, to random
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Opened the Burger King app to find this special deal. LOL, well played.

The_Tim, to ai
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In case anyone else wants to know how to disable the dumb that enabled by default to live down in your taskbar in the latest update, here's how.

  1. Right-click an empty space on the taskbar and click "Taskbar settings."

  2. In the "Personalization > Taskbar" window that comes up, toggle the "Copilot (preview) switch from "on" to "off."

You're welcome.

screenshot of a Windows 11 settings screen showing how to turn off the Copilot preview

The_Tim, to random
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LOL no I will not upload a video telling you why I want this job.

The_Tim, to random
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My dog Maya and I spotted another coyote right outside our house tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjtzDxR3SWM

The_Tim, to ai
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I asked the to make some images of a corporate celebration.

Great work, computer. No notes.

AI-generated image: Two men in business suits high-five across a conference room table. They are the only two people in the room. On the screen behind them is a graphic that says "layoffss" (sic) and has a smiling man in front of some downtown towers.
AI-generated image: A long corridor with many doors on each side, looks like a hospital, completely devoid of people. Two red balloons can be seen on the left side, one near, one far. Some chairs line the left wall. Small signs hanging from the ceiling read "lay offs"
AI-generated image: A group of skeletons in suits toast at a boisterous party, with balloons and colorful drinks. One of the balloons reads "layoffiss"

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Wait, those speed monitoring devices cops use are made my a company called "Stalker"‽

Seems a bit on the nose.

Photo of the back side of a device parked on the side of a residential street that measures the speed of passing drivers and reports it on a large display.
The words "Stalker Street Dynamics" appear in this close-up photo of the back side of a device parked on the side of a residential street that measures the speed of passing drivers and reports it on a large display.

The_Tim, to politics
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frame from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" in which Charlie Day's character stands in from of a conspiracy board, wildly gesticulating, with bloodshot eyes

The_Tim, to random
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I deeply relate to this article.

I was full of foolish loyalty to my employer in 2021, when the tech job market was piping hot. My reward for turning down a steady flow of recruiters? Getting kicked to the curb in a late-2022 layoff, dumped into the worst job market I've ever experienced in my career.

I know the data says the overall economy is doing great and the job market is in good shape, but that is definitely not the case in the tech sector right now. https://www.businessinsider.com/loyalty-employee-employer-job-security-broken-work-companies-bosses-2024-1

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are such BS. If things are going so badly at a company that they truly need to eliminate hundreds of jobs, then the VERY FIRST person that should get the axe 🪓 is the CEO that got the company into that situation.

But the CEO almost never gets fired in a layoff, even when they've been so bad at their job that the company has multiple rounds of layoffs.

The_Tim, to random
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There is a big debate on Reddit about whether "it's slowed down the traffic on our road" in this Calvin & Hobbes strip means cars are slowing down to gawk or there are fewer cars on the road because they're avoiding the street. https://old.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/197luhq/im_perplexed/

Am I going crazy here or does only the first one make any sense? Nobody would say "slowed down the traffic" to mean fewer cars on a residential street, right? It's obviously that cars are slowing down… right?

The_Tim, to random
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Playing Barenaked Ladies' version of "Auld Lang Syne" on repeat in my house until someone physically forces me to stop it. 😆 https://youtu.be/s5X6QUZK5hw

The_Tim, to random
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@zoomar There's an extended segment in the newest episode of the YouTube / Nebula show "Jet Lag: The Game" where they go to Archie McPhee! Currently only on Nebula, will be on YouTube next Wednesday. https://youtube.com/@jetlagthegame

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The_Tim, to movies
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The $8,000 Mr. Potter stole from the Building & Loan in It's a Wonderful Life would be like over $100,000 today. In my head-canon he got found out and spent the last few years of his life in federal prison.

The_Tim, to TeslaMotors
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I've been waiting for the for so long. I hope they really finally succeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PU4DQoQAWY

The_Tim, to photography
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Frosty fall leaves in my yard this morning.

The_Tim, to photography
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Some fall colors around my home and neighborhood.

Photo or a tree full of bright orange-red leaves next to a white house.
Close-up photo of a pink rose with wet leaves in the background

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