RE: https://mastodon.social/@christianschwaegerl/117509077595690014
Anthropic: So, you know, we stole approx. $30 Trillion worth of work and data. And since we're not even thinking about paying a penny for it, we should be worth roughly $30 Trillion now.
Break into a nuclear wessel today in memory of Walter. As good a villain as a hero.
About half the things he told me to do to adjust said posture are things I already do. Or did when I used to spend most of the day sitting at my desk. Harder to do lounging on the sofa.
First PT appointment complete. Shockingly, my posture is most likely to blame.
Saw an interesting recipe. Realized I have no wash-your-sister sauce. Go to add it to the grocery cart.
Do I want to pay almost 4x as much for a brand name I've heard of and used and know I'll like, or get the cheaper store brand and hope it doesn't suck?
Finished Andor S1.
Nobody has done all 20! How many for you??
Generated 52kWh yesterday. Today? 8.
I open YouTube. The first recommended app is a review of a piece of hardware that interests me. I watch enough to know I would totally buy it if I was buying such things right now AND that the reviewer is an asshat. I downvote the video and mark the channel as do-not-recommend.
Boo hoo, a device released in 2026 doesn’t come with a usb-a adapter, what horrible garbage. Why would they make a plugin for Minecraft, how foolish (it was made by a third party, you even acknowledged that in the video).
Seriously, stfu, you’re a terrible reviewer.
So it's settled into various bits of my brain that LLMs and their descendant technologies are at this point standard enterprise tooling.
Which of course has me even less interested in using them.
Anyone of a certain demographic and vintage translates "enterprise tooling" as "tools that suck, used by friends we pity, to make number go up for people we hate."
Good luck out there.
Hm. Heading into winter. Prolly not a good time to try out piracy in Saskatchewan.
Every once in a while, I will read replies to a popular toot and be forced to remember that Mastodon isn't ONLY for smart people. Stupid representative sample.
Advice for female-presenting persons: if a male doctor asks if you've been under stress lately: SAY NO. Tell him life is great. Don't budge. Make the fucker actually figure out what's wrong.
I don't know a single woman who hasn't gotten the stress brush-off, only to get a real diagnosis later.
It's bullshit. Sometimes lying to your doctor is the right thing to do.
Vaguely pondering the idea of taking a casting of my nostrils and having something custom made that I can put replaceable filters into. I’ve got plenty of the Flo pro filters laying around I could cut up to fit, just need the framework to hold them.
Ok, they get more uncomfortable when talking. To the point of “gah! [yanks them out]”. So, another point against. Back, I think, to the drawing board.
To be fair, other than not staying put and feeling like I have to adjust them every few minutes, they’re surprisingly comfortable, both to wear and to breathe through. Breathing resistance is not meaningfully different than with my Flo mask.
You remember the antagonist in Ultraviolet, how he had those in-nostril filters? I always thought that was a pretty good idea.
Turns out, there’s a company that makes such things. They’re not as stylish, more designed to be as invisible as possible. I’m trying out a sizing set now. Not sure if the L or XL fit better. Neither is quite right, and they don’t quite want to stay where I put them. Discs aren’t good at staying aligned in a cylinder, cylinders would work better.
Honestly, not sure they’re going to work out. Was looking for a risk-reducing option that still allowed for eating, but their advertised effectiveness, combined with the insecure fit, makes me think the reduction will not be adequate.
Call from my new insurance to do assessment stuff.
“Have you had thoughts of harming yourself or others?” “You’re aware it’s the midterms, right? But apart from that, no, not really.”
/I/ certainly wouldn’t label it as “self harm”, however society wants to think about it. Quite the opposite.
Things Democrats are willing to do if Trump and his Nazis rig this election:
1) Send a strongly worded letter
2) Ask him to pretty please stop cheating
3) Hold a press conference in which they will state in a calm measured voice how shocked and disgusted they are by this totally unprecedented and unforeseeable action which we all saw coming and happening in real time
4) Heal and move forward
5) Dance in a frog suit (maybe?)
6) Ask for $5
Oh, finished the game. As I said, much faster when nobody can give you side quests. About a third? Maybe as little as a quarter. Anyway. Adequately entertaining, I guess.