Starting the day out right

Why is it that when I turn on "block ai enhancements", #firefox still does popups to ask if I want to shake my phone to do #ai page summaries?

Why do smokers bother to walk away from groups of people if they're just going to stand upwind?

Dan Barkhuff with the perspective.

https://dbarkhuff.substack.com/p/on-platner-and-me?

The year is 2026 and telephones are ubiquitous.

I do not understand why the doctor's office can't call to let us know they're running late and that we should come in a little later.

@mcnado

I am convinced, utterly convinced, that at this point the Republicans believe the one and only valid use of governmental money is to hurt people.

[doing things I’m bad at]
“ugh, I suck at everything”

[doing things I’m good at]
“this doesn’t count because it’s easy for me”

I finally made that paella that Jeannie's been wanting.

We have arrived at the "you need to bring your own medical equipment to the doctor's office" stage of #LateStageCapitalism .

I hate that #KaiserPermanente is simultaneously a terrible option and the best option.

Today was snake day at the park.

I was recently at a government office, and noticed they had posted pictures of sex offenders on the wall across from the restrooms, so the public would know who to look out for.

RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116618931097778342

Worth looking at both the quoted text here and •especially• the linked page, which is quite good.

I’ll add another item of my own. The first screenshot mentions giving an LLM the task of “implementing an HTTP server in JavaScript from scratch” in 90 minutes. Sounds impressive, right? Until you remember that every open-source Javascript HTTP server in existence ••was in the training data••.

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#NoBillionaires #epsteinparasiteClass #epsteinclass #nobillionairesneeded

It's so odd how when they park their cart in the middle of the aisle, it's always _at an angle_.

I love everything about this, from the uncomfortable expression on his face to the awkward way he's holding that taco, to the little plastic tomato slice on top of the pile of orange cheese.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/california-governor-candidate-mocked-street-taco

I had a dream that Mozilla were bullied into including a toggle in Firefox that disables all the corpo bullshit (so no tracking, ads, AI, etc.) but they were really pissy about it so they called it "communism mode" and you had to click on a little Karl Marx to activate it

Speed? Range? A Jedi needs not these things!

#Hyundai #UserExperience #Fail
The constant beeping is also annoying, but even worse is that the meaning of the beeps is explained on the screen that is blocked by the wheel.

#SFO #Design #Fail I can see what temperature water the other two spigots are dispensing, but I can't see what temperature my own is dispensing because the graphic is printed on the back.

(The third spigot isn't shown because somebody was using it.)