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BoredomFestival

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Coding, Caving, Comics, Cats (not necessarily in that order). Professional work these days is mostly on the Halide programming language (halide-lang.org) at Google.

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smellsofbikes, to random
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:gargamel:

BoredomFestival,
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@mycotropic @tezoatlipoca @smellsofbikes @NilaJones Outgrabe or GTFO

BoredomFestival, to darkbrandon
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Apropos of nothing, it would be kinda amusing to have Biden make an offhand remark about having recently met with SEAL Team 6

selzero, to random
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A decade ago I asked my kid, then 6, who would win in a fight between The Incredible Hulk and Godzilla.

He didn't even think about it, just replied "Whoever's name comes first in the movie title".

I learned to stop asking stupid questions.

BoredomFestival,
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@selzero something something Plot Armor something

verge, to random
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X’s Grok chatbot has no reason to exist https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24030261/grok-ai-chatbot-test-chatgpt-twitter-x?utm_content=bufferb93e6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

BoredomFestival,
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@verge neither does X

carnage4life, to random
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This guy is supposed to get us to Mars? I wouldn’t trust him to get me to a Greyhound station.

BoredomFestival,
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@carnage4life I wouldn't trust him to find his own ass with both hands and a contour map

NanoRaptor, to random
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Apple Extended Keyboard III

BoredomFestival,
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@NanoRaptor please please please

BoredomFestival,
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@NanoRaptor (the Keychron K5 Pro is actually pretty similar to this IIRC)

hulkintosh, to random

When your Mac SE needs a stand and you want to add a CD-ROM and a 44MB Syquest drive, why not do it all at once?

BoredomFestival,
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@hulkintosh whoaaaa

lauren, to random
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Contrary to the images that have become standard in so many novels and films, it is now believed that most Greek and Roman-era fighting ships ("galleys") were manned by free, highly trained oarsmen. While in emergency situations or under other unusual circumstances slaves might be used, this was avoided because rowing was a crucial skill for warships. Nor is there apparent evidence that criminals were condemned to the oar. Sorry, Ben-Hur.

BoredomFestival,
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@lauren to be fair, Ben-Hur probably didn't have blue eyes, either

BoredomFestival, to random
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Today is National Bean Day, so:

ubersoft, to random
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Be wary, be wary, on Sixth January,
for nooses, and zip-ties, and rage;
I see no reason why red-hatted treason
should ever be given a stage.

BoredomFestival,
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@ubersoft :chefskiss:

cstross, to random
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Dilbert Stark rediscovers human biology orthodoxy circa 1890 among fans of eugenics (long since debunked) ...

It's almost like he wants to breed H. G. Wellsian far future big-brained hominids and has no clue how evolution works.

BoredomFestival,
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@cstross leave out everything after "has no clue"

carnage4life, to random
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This is the dumbest thingI’ve read this year

BoredomFestival,
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@carnage4life <tintin> Captain, it's only January 4 </tintin>

BoredomFestival, to random
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♫ Free as the snow as it melts away / Free as the wind on a real calm day ♫

cstross, to random
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NO FUCK OFF GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP— https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ai-comes-for-your-pcs-keyboard-as-microsoft-adds-dedicated-copilot-key/

BoredomFestival,
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@cstross in ten years, this will be Clippy-level sad.

(It's that sad now, but it will be in the future, too)

LizDylan, to Texas
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Court Says Texas Can Ban Certain Emergency Abortions. What That Means

Texas hospitals cannot be required to perform emergency abortions to stabilize the life of a patient, a federal appeals court ruled, despite federal guidance to the contrary.

How do you say the GOP hates women without saying it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/court-says-texas-can-ban-certain-emergency-abortions-what-that-means/ar-AA1mpSVI

BoredomFestival,
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@LizDylan headline would be more accurately written as "Court Says Texas Can Let Women Die"

nixCraft, to random
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Heads up: Google just killed yet another product. RIP Google Podcast.

BoredomFestival,
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@nixCraft the real kick in the nuts is that they have "replaced" it with adding podcasts to YouTube Music, or, as I think of it, "Google's Most Embarrassing Product"

pluralistic, to Watches
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It's time for action

BoredomFestival,
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@pluralistic something something "Repent, Harlequin!" something

carnage4life, to random
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The Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court wrote the annual report on the state of the federal judiciary and it’s all about AI.

He likens AI to foundational technology changes like electricity and computers which have changed how courts run.

He believes AI will help people who can’t afford lawyers. While he acknowledges shortcomings like hallucinations he says AI will help courts to be “just, speedy and inexpensive.”

But he doesn’t expect AI to replace human judges.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/31/chief-justice-roberts-supreme-cout-artificial-intelligence-year-end-report/72074251007/

BoredomFestival,
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@carnage4life this is terrifyingly misguided

BoredomFestival, to random
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"Let’s get this out of the way right now because not only did the explosion of AI in 2023 prove to be the dominant strain of brain rot among tech news topics, its towering philosophical stupidity ultimately rose to overshadow a lot of otherwise quite pressing tech fails that deserve to be slung into the literary sky and double-barrel obliterated like clay pigeons."

:chefskiss:

https://www.salon.com/2023/12/31/2023-worst-moments-in-tech-google-facebook-openai/

lauren, to random
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We're only going to get a few days to breath in the new year before Trump trials start to hit high gear. It's going to be brutal.

BoredomFestival,
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@lauren it's been brutal for years, but it will be brutal in 2024, too

BoredomFestival,
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@lauren just a new strain of the Trump-in-the-news-for-being-shitty virus that we have been unable to escape for nigh on a decade

lauren, to random
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I could not recognize or identify a Taylor Swift song if my life depended on it.

BoredomFestival,
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@lauren I know "Shake It Off" but only because of the awesome cover that the Screaming Females did

SteveThompson, to rhodeisland
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Hall of Fame for what?

"Mike Flynn's Hall of Fame induction halted after board resignations"

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-flynns-hall-fame-induction-halted-after-board-resignations-1856761

"The Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame said Mike Flynn's induction would now be deferred 'to a more peaceful and rational time.'"

BoredomFestival,
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@SteveThompson I didn't know there was a Treasonous Dipshit Hall Of Fame

GottaLaff, to california
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👏🏻👏🏻 Via Kyle Griffin:

Reuters: LAW BARRING CARRYING IN MOST PUBLIC PLACES CAN TAKE EFFECT JAN. 1, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES

BoredomFestival,
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@PJ_Evans @SailorDisco @GottaLaff or anywhere else, for that matter

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