So which one of those guys is going “(omg) I’m voting I’m voting I’m voting” and which one is going “puki puki puki puki puki”? I can’t tell just by looks, could go either way

I think it’s weird how conservatives cried over Obama getting the Nobel for basically nothing, but now, Trump’s fan club is getting him the Nobel a week after the military raid.

Not saying Obama deserved the prize, but at least it went through the committee. Trump, of course, is not big on the whole “going through the committee” thing.

Well, good thing it doesn’t matter who or what possesses the prizes. Otherwise, I guess some museum somewhere has Nobels too. (And the British Museum owns Egypt, on account of them having some pharaoh’s jewels or something.)

It’s been that kind of a holiday season, huh?

I’ll look through the door.

Or, set up a webcam to see when the light is on.

If this isn’t allowed somehow, I’ll tell the building management to consider rewiring this absolutely cursed light switch situation ASAP because it’s gotten so bad that it’s being used as a brainteaser by the recruiting department

Reminds me of an old joke about how everything in KDE has a k and it’s very annoyink and irrtitatink bekause they have less laks user interface kuidelines than GNOME. (I haven’t checked, they’ve probably vastly improved since then)

A good shellacking. A wallop, even.

I don’t hate AI (specifically LLMs and image diffusion thingy) as a technology. I don’t hate people who use AI (most of the time).

I do hate almost every part of AI business, though. Most of the AI stuff is hyped by the most useless “luminaries” of the tech sector who know a good profitable grift when they see one. They have zero regard for the legal and social and environmental implications of their work. They don’t give a damn about the problems they are causing.

And that’s the great tragedy, really: It’s a whole lot of interesting technology with a lot of great potential applications. And the industry is getting run to the ground by idiots, while chasing an economic bubble that’s going to end disastrously. It’s going to end up with a tech cycle kind of similar to nuclear power: a few prominent disasters, a whole lot of public resentment and backlash, and it’ll take decades until we can start having sensible conversations about it again. If only we would have had a little bit of moderation to begin with!

The only upside AI business has had was that at least it has pretended to give a damn about open source and open access to data, but at this point it’s painfully obvious that to AI companies this is just a smoke screen to avoid getting sued over copyright concerns - they’d lock up everything as proprietary trade secrets if they could have their way.

As a software developer, I was first super excited about genAI stuff because it obviously cut down the time needed to consult references. Now, a lot of tech bosses tell coders to use AI tools even in cases that’s making everyone less productive.

As an artist and a writer I find it incredibly sad that genAI didn’t hit the brakes a few years ago. I’ve been saying this for decades: I love a good computerised bullshit generator. Algorithmically generated nonsense is interesting. Great source of inspiration for your ossified brain cells, fertile grounds for improvement. Now, however, the AI generated stuff pretends to be as human-like as possible, it’s doing a terrible job at it. Tech bros are half-assedly marketing it as a “tool” for artists, while the studio bosses who buy the tech chuckle at that and know they found a replacement for the artists. (Want to make genAI tools for artists? Keep the output patently unusable out of the box.)

🤦🏻‍♀️ What about the people who don’t use social media? Or have used social media for less than 5 years?

Or people who disclose a suspiciously wholesome 5 years of social media use? Or use social media platforms that allow backdated posts - how well are those going to be scrutinised?

Why am I even asking? This is all so stupid. People only want to travel to places where they won’t be immediately grilled on what they think of the dictator. (…Out of curiosity, what’s the process like for North Korea? Strictly for comparison.)

I’ve heard of slow cooking, but this is next level stuff.

Yeah I wouldn’t date an RStudio user. Real men do their R coding in Jupyter.

My father had an Acer laptop. It broke.

One of my friends had an Acer laptop. It broke.

I think my father had a 486SX Acer laptop which worked wayyyy past its reasonable age, but it’s in the closet and the hinges look crumbly and I kinda fear that if I touch it it will be atomised.

Me, I’ve used Asus laptops since 2011, and these things are only slightly less resistant to nuclear explosions than Thinkpads

Time to quote the Bible to the boomers who always hypocritically claim to love it so much:

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” - Ecclesiastes 3:1

…and mayonnaise should be used extremely wisely: never in vain, never merely due to tradition - and no matter what, it should always be used with full knowledge about its true, if somewhat mysterious and indescribable-in-words purpose. Those who never consider these mysteries are not fit to decide whether it is appropriate to use mayonnaise or not.

[mic drop]

This is starting to get dangerously close to some SCP-1981 shit.

(I know, I know, real life already vastly surpassed all potential of art in the realm of presidential incomprehensibility in Trump’s first term.)

I’m a girl. I’m not interested in Haskell, that’s too frigging endofunctiorific. Erlang! That’s what all the cool guys are doing.

Something something tech company CEOs

Well it’s an art film. The purpose of art is to evoke emotions, to inspire dialogue. Yours is one possible interpretation. Ultimately, who’s to say it’s not valid?

One day I was thinking of Andy Warhol’s film “Empire”, which is basically one continuous 8 hour shot of the Empire State Building.

I thought it’d be cool to make a similar art film about your average programmer’s work day. 8 hour shot of a programmer staring at the screen intensely, drinking coffee, scrolling through the code, and occasionally muttering “why the fuck doesn’t this work?”

I read about some surprising statistics over here. One of the leading causes of death: accidents at home. On top of that list: wool socks in the winter. Yeah I’ve slipped and fallen before, and I dread that, and I don’t wear socks at home, thanks

Trump: “order corn”

Foreign governments: “??? Not sure about that, the tariff situation being what it is”

Trump: “Sorry my bad I got confused” [deleted immediately]