“Elon” “Musk” “Trump” “Donald”

For me it depended entirely on how happy I was in the rest of my job.

If I’m, say, being death-marched, or requirements are written in sand, or senior management refuses to ever make a decision in writing, or my manager looks over my shoulder when I’m typing, or you just told me we’re going 100% AI for QA, I don’t want your fucking playdate.

If the team is happy, offsites can be a fun way to get some bonding in.

If the team is unhappy, they are there for their check and that is it, they are not paid to pretend to like you at an off-site. Take the money you would use for the party and hand it out as cash in an envelope to everybody individually.

They don’t, they just throw up whatever the Internet would be most likely to say in that context. That’s why they are full of shit.

I use Firefox because I have worked at both Google and MSFT and want as little to do as possible with their products.

Nice deep cut

Keep on whistling past that graveyard DNC.

I’m wondering whether this is a privileged/feels like deserves privilege white guy thing.

Down here with the queerdos and minorities, I’m seeing people engage more fully with each other, be more willing to take on friends and lovers, in the last few months.

Some are getting caught by chat bots, yes, but a lot of people are out there trying to grab human connection while we still can.

I certainly feel like the “I’m the übermensch and revel in cruelty, empathy is a weakness” mentality that the straight basic wypipo have adopted will not only discourage other people from wanting to be their friend, but also discourages themselves from seeking friendship, because they see it as a weakness.

He’s not trying to act in the interest of the United States.

He works for Putin.

vim too obviously

emacs

I mean it’s nice that he had a bad day, but ain’t shit gonna happen other than the legal fees.

I don’t think anybody who administers a mastodon server thinks it’s superior technology.

What mastodon isn’t is funded by fashy techbro asswipe VCs who will turn it into a torment nexus over time, just like X and Meta and Alphabet.

So Mastodon will continue to attract a small minority of people who don’t feel safe or wanted on a fashbro site. And that’s fine. I want to talk to people who think I’m human, not a bunch of Andrew Tate gargling fuck heads.

You’re just going to the wrong bars.

I fail to see the significance of not being dominant in bullshit generation, which is OpenAIs specialty.

Non-LLM machine learning is more interesting, but “write me a poem about how you’re my loving ai waifu” is just not a strategic resource.

Oops, oh well. I very much hope it’s over, asshole.

Ohhhh now this is actually pretty cool. I was disappointed they were doing it for MacOS, but I will definitely give it a try on Linux.

I like their search engine just fine.

8% drop in car sales isn’t great but I think the article is overselling the idea that the company is straight up dying. (Sadly) Most people just don’t make a connection between how they spend their money and the politics of the people they prop up.

And an eager young bride can do in 7 months what takes 9 for cows and countesses.

I promise this is relevant and worth the watch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tBE06SdgzwM&t=3s

Specifically, the women who report to him that he’s attracted to need to spend 60 hours a week dating him.

Thanks for the input, Big Head.