rstevens

evan, 2 months ago to random

Where were you on the day that @zuck joined the Fediverse?

jimray, 2 months ago to random

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

rstevens, 2 months ago to random

The number of times I have nearly typed “Well, that sounds like a you problem, not a me problem" this morning is currently at five

rstevens, 2 months ago to random

i’ll see you all tomorrow. in the meantime, please meditate on how the purple Pentel Sign Pen is second only to the black fine tip Sharpie in the pantheon of writing utensils

this one’s red

exchgr, 2 months ago to random

new rule: i’m not allowed to read anything in my tab attic until i’ve caught up on RSS and read 10 pages of an actual book

deirdresm, 2 months ago to random

Today in “men explain technical concepts to women who have more specific and deeper knowledge”:

• I was whinging about a page that required Chrome (which is, by definition, NotAFreakingWebPage because SomeRandomBullshit piped to port 443 does not a web page make).

• I was told that Chrome and Safari shared an underlying library.

Which: I was on the Safari team for 5-1/2 years, including the time when Google forked from WebKit, which was in 2013.

So.

rstevens, 2 months ago to random

described myself as a “consigliere" in a work email today and i liked it

hotdogsladies, 2 months ago to random

DAD: Hey, who wants to play Connect Four?!

KID: Yaaaaaaay!

DAD: Yeah okay but first who wants to spend 15 minutes joylessly punching tiny discs out of a razor-sharp card so we can struggle to play this bullshit on a fucking plane?

KID: May I please have a different seat?

rstevens, 2 months ago to random

my beautiful, immortal blood for a to-do app that is half as good as a stack of index cards and a couple sharpies

rstevens, 2 months ago to random

someone should genetically engineer popcorn to pop in different shapes. we can make fireworks do it, so why not food?

rstevens, 2 months ago to random

i don't think i saw any movies last year, so the award once again goes to The Phantom Menace

rstevens, 3 months ago to random

every organic molecule on earth was once a fart, so take yourself exactly that seriously

rstevens, 3 months ago to random

any day i get to say, “so my blood was the cure for the plague THE WHOLE TIME???” is a great day

rstevens, 3 months ago to random

I don't understand why we need two Dune movies when we already have a perfectly good Phantom Menace

rstevens, 3 months ago to random

my favorite genre of music is any song that zooms out midway through and starts playing on a random lo-fi boombox or car stereo

exchgr, 3 months ago to random

this is the kind of thing i usually shy away from, especially with catchy brand-y terms like “sturdy,” which seems in the same vein as “grit.” but the discussion here goes to some really good places, and i learned a bunch. worth the listen https://botsin.space/@kottke/112010669121658805

twostraws, 3 months ago to random

The most “European mind cannot comprehend this” thing around 🇺🇸

rstevens, 3 months ago to random

THIS is how you get butts back in theater seats–you respect the CLASSICS

exchgr, 3 months ago to random

perhaps apple news’s largest folly is not implementing reader view

mcc, 1 year ago to random

For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7