lmao “Nevada Republicans dismiss 43ft nude Trump effigy as ‘deplorable’” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/01/naked-trump-statue-nevada-republicans

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also, my original thought was former military, but 20 seems kind of young for that. i guess dishonorable discharge is possible, but.


what kind of 20 year old registers to vote as a Republican? huh.


reading this whole thing while making the Tucker Carlton face. i don't know, man. https://maxread.substack.com/p/hawk-tuah-and-the-zynternet

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why the fuck are people still on X, my god.

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nice.
https://mastodon.social/@GovTrack/112496899870829435


damn, that is brutal. https://infosec.exchange/@chrismerkel/112495797916386580

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nostr:npub154xnz7xlpu08a63un8pmzusvm0yx42lvczmlh9v0eexheg926fasueusd7 i wonder if anyone has looked into this??


hoooooly shit this thing is a hot mess. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/


lmao oh ok. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112492445214914228

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at least we still have plenty of parking. https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/112496033795225194

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nostr:npub12hcukmhg84lr9r7pehtf24nt87cm76086pc0tp7vaz4glp6up79sfkf9al we are fucked.


nostr:npub1xt97dxl7xqe9q5pmsvr2egcrhu659lglvuv6qwg3yv5ed4wj097qxt74x5 followed!


is this a joke. https://futurism.com/washington-post-pivot-ai

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nostr:npub12hcukmhg84lr9r7pehtf24nt87cm76086pc0tp7vaz4glp6up79sfkf9al rocks in a box!! I mean, it’s a bad problem in the short term, but free energy is pretty cool once you can figure out how to distribute it.


nostr:npub1r3wekuwva3u32j07nphtymq703ca4z8m7k5nyq0n50aw4pl799ds762aza maybe? I think it’s just the load balancing issues that we knew would crop up as renewables spread. kinda good problem to have (although still a problem)


nostr:npub17zgeaq2yvh6rhuz34nuzgwdlhmsltf70vw9ph0lcn54qlu36qsxq079d77 $1800!!!! and it doesn't look like they are selling it anymore on their website. but yeah, i do see a lot of random stuff out there, cool!


i'm watching this one closely too. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-minimal-phone-first-e-ink-qwerty-phone/x/10057575#/


i love this kind of thing and i hope someone figures out a way to make it work commercially. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163225/daylight-dc1-tablet-livepaper


posting "put your balls in your butthole and pop them out one at a time to improve prostate health" on LinkedIn to save the internet 🙏


guys, we gotta shitpost to save the internet.  https://mastodon.social/@lzg/112494197616020167

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nostr:npub1kkwfr70hcmdxcqp0tm7kwc5l2zk6x0w6vxulr2esncewr9p239tsfdhfrq i kind of wonder if it ended up on that site because they hired an SEO company to scrape the web for popular geology articles to put on its own URL and well.


sci-fi novel where the all-powerful AI is tricked and defeated using that most human of communication techniques: sarcasm.


Google's GenAI search actually believes everything it reads on the internet.


looks like google's AI search is going great!! these "AI" products always produce hilarious results when they hit the actual public. since there's really no way to do thorough QA testing with an LLM product, every GenAI product release is in beta.


Sci-Fi movie director: In my film, I created a post-apocalyptic wasteland devoid of hope and ruled by fascist shock troopers as a cautionary tale.

Billionaires: At long last, we have created the post-apocalyptic wasteland devoid of hope and ruled by fascist shock troopers from the classic sci-fi movie “Don’t Create This Apocalyptic Wasteland”


this is a **problem**?????
https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/112494339835827150


I like BlueSky. I hope it works out, more open protocols is good.


my wife’s therapist was shocked that she personally knew several people who have committed suicide, because I guess that’s really unusual in Spain?? or they still don’t talk about it.


it feels like the bad guys are winning.


(pst, Trump doesn't give a shit about abortion one way or another and will be fine with whatever the GOP courts or Congress decide to do while he's in power. he genuinely does not think about this stuff, ever. he's in steak/Bible/golden sneakers-selling mode on this issue, it goes right out of his head as soon as the camera is turned off.)


so it's not just me. i've been finding that LLMs are not nearly as useful for learning SQL as they are for Python. they often just kinda give... wrong answers. i bet there's just not as much SQL content out there, as these kinds of things don't get posted as much in public Git repos or Substack questions. https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1bk3fd5/lets_get_real_is_there_anybody_whos_running/

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Reddit is going to finally die, isn't it.


nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh fuckin' hell. why??


nostr:npub1npquhlk625nxtt3ndsn3l2wjdfpe86uag57lpdk3tmq2zy80jcfsvcedqy yep! but when has profit-chasing ever been rational in the long term.


nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh anyway, here’s this one. congrats, big boy. https://youtu.be/K0OSfbPJFa4?si=I7IJBnWgWlDFtXQB


nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh oh buddy you gotta watch “I Think You Should Leave” on Netflix. at first you will fucking HATE it, and then it will capture your entire brain.


nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh

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nostr:npub17p7tcz5e5067ftpq4vqr22340xmtvrqqn44qn2u85qyt760u6jtq8yz3hs god I hope so, but I worry about this kind of thing + an LLM with 1.5 million tokens of context that can fit an entire code base. just 💀


nostr:npub1q99sh3cs7tnk2xhllqrwpdecxyhnnxf5xtyaq2dr3wp0pymr4xdq0jhvgg you see me as patient? interesting.


this is from the introduction of a different but similar AI "junior developer." you stupid motherfuckers haven't read a single real book in your whole STEM-assed lives, have you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36987454

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here's a discussion of the demo on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679787


there's more videos like this on their YouTube channel, and here's the product intro video they put on X. if this is real, i am genuinely and truly not sure why anyone would hire junior devs in the future. i actually just want to walk into the woods and never come back. https://twitter.com/cognition_labs/status/1767548763134964000


this guy uses an "AI software engineer" named "Devin" (honestly, accurate) to code a new feature in a piece of open source software. the "AI software engineer" has its own shell, browser, and dev environment. it makes choices about which development tools to use, and searches for answers online when it gets stuck.

my brain says "don't worry, this may still just be a puppet show to grift investors" but my heart says "you're fucked, quit now." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk3s5JlyHfU


lol let’s go. this seems like a dead drop from some spy for their handler. https://youtu.be/VvnLVniw2FI?feature=shared


🥲👍

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cool, let’s try this stuff out on the brains of children. https://www.wired.com/story/your-kid-may-be-watching-ai-generated-videos-on-youtube/


this is why companies are going to think twice about integrating GenAI into their products: this kind of stuff is **always** going to happen at some point. https://www.404media.co/amazons-hidden-chatbot-recommends-nazi-books-and-lies-about-amazon-working-conditions/

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yep.

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hey if you e-mail me with some fucking low-effort GenAI bullshit image in your newsletter i am blocking you. gtfo. this shit is not cool, it's tedious.

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stuff like this is probably why Biden's approval rating is not so great on the economy. maybe not his fault, and things certainly won't get better under Trump, but it's bad out there, and voters in their 30s/40s/50s know it.

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nostr:npub1ffslylv039n5sy0eddj3cmsdgmmpshh9wa40yfp9avn4zl2fn77qvncxj7 lmao Peoria, IL


nostr:npub1f4k9n0kj6w60xvvhnletjg0f98585gwjrgey9ve2zc3lskm2y55sa7zueq paywall-free link for anyone who wants it: https://archive.ph/HYTBB

i think it's super-cool that the Democrats doubled-down on funding cops and sending bombs to Israel, i'm sure that helped a lot.


nostr:npub1kkwfr70hcmdxcqp0tm7kwc5l2zk6x0w6vxulr2esncewr9p239tsfdhfrq lmao that’s better than I could have ever possibly imagined.


nostr:npub17n75fp04tp3rzqsdzsts5kg52xulrc9vcn5gtwnwr268da4v2gtq7gsxdv “The overhaul is aimed at cutting, what one of the people described as, “bureaucracy” at the RNC” lolololol


hey Ron, so you might be interested to know that there **was** a solution 30yrs ago, but rich people like you blocked it because they wanted more riches.

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wait they are **all** parenting influencers??? wtf is going on in Utah. https://wapo.st/3uD2A7z

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**sigh** "ah fuck." - me, for no reason.


I mean, whatever works, but.


Israel is going to do genocide, isn’t it.


:sickos1: :sickos2:


this is Firefox, btw.


finished my code, it is perfect, and no i will **not** run it to check, thank you very much.


so everyone’s suddenly wearing cowboy boots, huh.


the most annoying thing about talking with conservatives is they all trot out the same anecdotal reactionary talking points as if these are brilliant ideas no one has ever thought of before.


look at this cutie

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nostr:npub14606g7yny6qdux3ler6txv0dse4ghhra4v5xu3vq3rjqxe739jkqwatew2 nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe 😬


a journalist for nytimes.com being loaded into the same cattle car as the gays and the Jews:

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nostr:npub1kmlrs5gs7ejmlnm8kmm6uzqqwcns7qxzstv23evn2m4dym3jkwgqw33eta congratulations to both of you!!


nostr:npub1xt97dxl7xqe9q5pmsvr2egcrhu659lglvuv6qwg3yv5ed4wj097qxt74x5 maybe they reproduce asexually and just miss the company of the lady ents.


what if i told yo[CINDERBLOCK FALLS ON MY HEAD]


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe i'm caring for my meniscuses like tiny baby birds 🤗


love the Bob's Burgers episode where a bunch of cyclists show up and all order like three burgers each. one of them says "we rode 60 miles today!" and Bob says "well, it's great to be young" and the guy is like "i'm 52."


nostr:npub1myux9ackemrj8zk3udlpfrns8f95t99gje6artykkfay5d4ux0sq42m8wx thank you!! i will look at it.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe i am just finishing up the intermediate Code Academy course on Python and i did **not** like it. managed to learn a lot, but in spite of the course, not because of it. hoping i can start some projects and get into more depth with other resources.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe thank you!!


(personally, i need a very patient Indian guy on YouTube to walk me through this, thank you.)


oooof, tried that famous Harvard intro to CS course, fucking **overproduced** my god, calm down buddy, we are all just grinding to get some knowledge so we can find a job, not everyone is a 19-year-old from a wealthy family who needs a youth pastor to walk them through what a logic gate is.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe see?? you never should work in something you're passionate about, it will ruin it.


you know what immediately turns me off is job posts that start with "Are you passionate about..." no ma'am, i am not, i am just trying to earn some money, sorry if that makes me a sell-out.

it's like code for "we would like to find someone who for some reason enjoys doing this work so we can work them harder and pay them less."


i love doing numbers on Mastodon because you have to come by it honestly. it's not just that some whale account RT'd you, it's that dozens of people with 200-400 followers liked your post and showed it to their little circle of friends 🤗


i know it's hard to understand because the US system is not parliamentary, but there is a **fascist faction** of the Republican Party that has basically **taken over the Republican Party**.

you know Vox? Rassemblement National? AfD? Fratelli d'Italia? in the US, that's the Republicans. i know it's weird because it's one of the institutional parties, but that's how it works.

they want to cripple the federal administrative state and bring back a race-based caste system.


"Zelensky condemns" is the "critics say" of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.


crazy that this isn't on the front page everywhere. Russia just deliberately murdered 52 civilians with an air strike. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/05/kupyansk-kharkiv-strike-missile-civilians/


me: mind your own business!

my dog: no.


air in BCN when it is clean versus the air today 💀💀💀

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i think we've all lost sight of the fact that Meta is a horrible company and the real villain when it comes to social media melting our children's brains and destroying democracy.


lmao they didn’t arrest him for the fucking rifle, they arrested him because he had a **baton** in his backpack (concealed weapon) fuckin’ peak USA.

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found a redditor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/05/evers-wisconsin-rifle/

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lol I have no fucking idea what this means, am I having a stroke

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eh, I take it back, he just compared flying commercial to being forced to ride a bicycle on a freeway. big “it’s only one banana” energy.


nostr:npub1nyqeg55nq5eudx30py8fgff82ensxt9j063w6chkzu4leyfjygwsr3vvvs “everyone” can’t fly on private planes, actually.


nostr:npub1nyqeg55nq5eudx30py8fgff82ensxt9j063w6chkzu4leyfjygwsr3vvvs lol you were sad you can’t fly on private planes, come on, take the L.


(fwiw I like Marcus and he’s a good follow)


small-brain influencer: it is distressing that people disagree with me.
big-brain influencer: hate is fuel.


when you’re trying to be an influencer but can’t **stand** that people reply to your influencer posts.

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nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh no.


i love "Loki" and i refuse to do homework to watch it.


too much work.

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nostr:npub1q99sh3cs7tnk2xhllqrwpdecxyhnnxf5xtyaq2dr3wp0pymr4xdq0jhvgg big yikes. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html


nostr:npub1q99sh3cs7tnk2xhllqrwpdecxyhnnxf5xtyaq2dr3wp0pymr4xdq0jhvgg there's a particular slice of the online American left that is vulnerable to conspiracy theories and reflexively contrarian, and bad actors like Putin have leveraged that **extremely** well.


the defining aesthetic of our time is people talking into a camera from the front seat of a car.


also, you can tell when a chat has been going on a little too long, the answers start to sound slightly exasperated, repeating things, etc.

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/181/361/399/048/856/original/328db209b5f3d1c6.png


Code Pink is such an embarrassment, what a shame. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/04/bernie-sanders-code-pink-ukraine-aid-protest-arrest/


nostr:npub1gev8u8h29rrdgkhenyrfcs8nz73zpkqx9ztg9tszeg2l3x8sx6yqtjd8gu what about the energy he sucks out of children every morning with ancient chants to feed the cursed sack of rats he carries around under those baggy suits, that has to cost at **least** $5


[takes a long pull on a cold bottle of schadenfreude] AHHHHHH that's good stuff. https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/631569/josh-lopez-charged-for-alleged-threats-to-fraternity-brother/


nostr:npub1skj69gq20rxsmclnszm9g40xey4ymdfr6hmu8ckhg5xetz7re83qmvmjh7 another one of the great people the Bowser administration entrusted with a massive amount of political power, love it.


nostr:npub1gev8u8h29rrdgkhenyrfcs8nz73zpkqx9ztg9tszeg2l3x8sx6yqtjd8gu yeah, sure, but it's still a sobering situation.


nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh my hot take is that i'd rather smell cigarette smoke than some fucking cloud of jolly rancher bullshit. (this is for outdoors, indoors i'm leaving)


nostr:npub15gf7amukd7ze0m9n2u6sq8dydfnwdghu8tzm7ktu8cqft7tc6xrqlagzsd it was a problem with our hosting provider. https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/111176190783725181


hey nostr:npub1q6t97anxs8daua93npvy4kua7kpxaxfqcqgxhgd7p88hw705aqtsqvsw7m my notifications aren't updating, is there some issue with the server?


tough but fair.

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it’s like, there’s this gang that comes into our house regularly with guns to take stuff, and this time everyone’s celebrating and yucking it up because they “only” took the microwave and the craziest ones in the gang shot the leader, and they’ll all be back in a month and a half. idk doesn’t seem that funny to me.


the liberals crowing and joking about the McCarthy thing is pretty jarring. this isn’t funny, as it seems to me the Republicans are getting exactly what they want (destroying the federal government).


nostr:npub1jg8qp0x7238sxa3xe9vmqlfnfvphhg2t6utcau22tvvljmz4ducq0s6lfg or maybe it will turn out fine! who knows.


nostr:npub1jg8qp0x7238sxa3xe9vmqlfnfvphhg2t6utcau22tvvljmz4ducq0s6lfg right wing wins again, consolidates its power in the GOP. it took 17 votes to elect McCarthy. how many is it gonna take this time? who would go through that? you think they’ll complete that and pick a speaker within 45 days so the gov doesn’t have to shut down? also, zero chance of a separate aid package for Ukraine now.


nostr:npub1jg8qp0x7238sxa3xe9vmqlfnfvphhg2t6utcau22tvvljmz4ducq0s6lfg it is without question a bad thing


lmao

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nostr:npub1vymleysve0lstktwfusketymkphluvevwpexwx8m6vw9p6gpp30qtpa8a2 yeah, **if** the vehicles are registered in DC (or if they're registered at all). DC has lots of nice-sounding rules that never get enforced or don't actually mean anything because of enormous loopholes.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe alright i cut the silk into fucking scarves. it's a **lot**


nostr:npub12hcukmhg84lr9r7pehtf24nt87cm76086pc0tp7vaz4glp6up79sfkf9al honeypot moderation!


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe lmao


i'm being a little obtuse, but the point of using real-world examples rather than like lists of integers or something is to make it **more** clear why we're doing this, not **less**


like, am i an idiot or are these just extremely unclear instructions? i don't understand the real-world utility here. you want me to randomly assign food to people? and randomly assign table seating? hey, shit, if we're going to do that, just have everyone sit where they want and leave who gets what up to the waiters!

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/171/164/841/030/262/original/19cd95228efba28d.png


god help you if you post a nipple tho.


go on Facebook Marketplace and you can buy literally anything if you know where to look. stolen goods, counterfeits, etc. Meta doesn't care. same with sexploitation and scams on Instagram. **really** stopping crime and fraud on their platforms would mean crippling certain functionality, and earning a profit is more important to Meta than the health and safety of their users.


seems like one solution to this is "don't let your kids use Instagram because Meta platforms are **loaded** with scammers and they do nothing about it until it's too late" https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/10/02/teen-boys-sextortion/


i just want ChatGPT to be proud of me.


fuck me, a robot is helping me debug code. i'm sorry i keep posting about this, but it's blowing my mind how useful this is.


me when i'm getting ready for a bike ride.

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this parasocial relationship with a large language model is going great!

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I have been forcibly subscribed to this podcast and I don’t like it.


my internal monologue sucks.


nostr:npub1f4k9n0kj6w60xvvhnletjg0f98585gwjrgey9ve2zc3lskm2y55sa7zueq so, is he?


hey pst, every time you dunk on Elon Musk you are giving him exactly what he wants, which is attention.


nostr:npub1jfjr5sv75jynwjfd3qj7njfucu82j2x8mncgktuvg6qwr0sxgjeqdgrvy2 no idea. probably!


love songs today all sound like really thirsty text messages.


imo Elon Musk's villain arc is complete.


Mondays, right?

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/163/862/048/455/203/original/96763fea576826c4.jpeg


lotta people coughing lately.


good piece. these star-fucker biographies are trash. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review


i keep thinking about how all the AI guidelines used by OpenAI, Google, etc. are self-imposed because they are trying to build a marketable product. but what if you don’t care about a product that’s marketable and you want to make a racist, horny AI that convinces people to kill themselves? Saudi Arabia could fund that on a lark just to fuck up the western world and it would be a **great** value.


nostr:npub1qs5lzfmrrvxvx7ac29lpgu3dx40vqtlqmmq9gdd4u9glnkmpljxqltfezs and now with Meta putting AI chatbots on Facebook, woof. imagine, you can used a deceased loved one’s content to create an AI version of them that will live forever. 🤐


is it mediocre? sure, but most published stuff is mediocre. no one will be able to tell the difference between this children's book and a children's book written by a human. we are going to be buried under a pile of synthetic language and i don't how human culture survives this.


i don't want to be one of those guys who is always posting ChatGPT crap, but this took a matter of seconds, and as a writer, i am genuinely alarmed.

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one of the biggest cons upper-class Americans ever pulled on the middle class is convincing us that you have to work yourself into mental illness as a child in order to be worthy to attend an elite university. those motherfuckers never did anything of the sort, they got Cs and drank in high school, then they got into Yale because they were legacies, and they got Cs and drank at Yale. you think George W. Bush worked hard? he did not.


for my money this is the funniest fuckin’ thing in El Prado. you have to see it in person to really appreciate how weird it is. St. Bernard looks like he’s in the middle of saying something, the painting capturing the split second right before he starts coughing and spluttering. incredible that anyone would paint this imo.

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/160/589/340/833/056/original/6095171b6c29028c.jpeg


huh. https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/16x08g5/is_this_ai_or_not_this_is_the_first_thing_ive/


nostr:npub1u390x89dw7w2h60ndcjrkc4ekq80nyw2c7whc7cfp5vw84ctcxmse8csql imo Alon makes a better point, plus it turns out it's from experience. and **she** came into **his** mentions.


i feel like one thing your question-answering service should be able to do is answer questions about itself.


nostr:npub1u390x89dw7w2h60ndcjrkc4ekq80nyw2c7whc7cfp5vw84ctcxmse8csql i mean, hypothetical work. i guess education?


nostr:npub1u390x89dw7w2h60ndcjrkc4ekq80nyw2c7whc7cfp5vw84ctcxmse8csql work.


alright let's go.

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lmao holy shit the response thread starting here get’s **wild** textbook example of why you should never use authority-based arguments against strangers on the internet, you never know, they might also be authorities! https://mastodon.social/@Alon/111159654672104775

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oh, never mind, i guess the class also sorts the student roster alphabetically, but that part of the code was already there, they didn't have the students write it. just kind of tedious and boring.


can't wait to be done with it so i can move on to making things.


i wish they would teach the concepts/tools in a way that demonstrates a circumstance where you **need** them.

anyway, codecademy: intro to Python was great. intermediate Python, pretty rough. bad course, incomplete content, boring projects


a pet peeve of mine is teaching a concept by making something needlessly complicated. like, ok, class iterables, i know that's what we're learning, but we can literally do all this with one 'for' loop in two lines.

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Ukraine now finding out how the US treats its allies. it’s a rich country, but unreliable.


nostr:npub1tskevpn3vz0jwl0ywsklt25h5ny5n7n2xcn7h28gakqpguzt2dlqf8xzlr i have a constant low-level fear that some captcha will fail at some point and I’ll get permanently locked out of my accounts. happened to my wife’s gmail. the algorithms hate us. best of luck 😑


it's bonkers that the GOP finally met a war they didn't like, and it's a war against Russian lmao


nostr:npub1rv4738d6q3nxf24v4gmg4u7lh3udmarsttfzp7q0xttdlqk5ls3s65ft5j lmao queen.


i wish i could do this with a certain bike lane.

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nostr:npub1myux9ackemrj8zk3udlpfrns8f95t99gje6artykkfay5d4ux0sq42m8wx i don’t have time to get into everything, but it seems to be **very** good at copy editing and adjusting English written by non-native speakers to sound more natural.


hilarious that it's called "X" but all the URLs are still twitter.com, fuckin' brutal


nostr:npub1zhelddx6za8kd6tnlefsy9j8psp5dwtexzdysl9qrghvsmd2gdhse8tfhh lmao very possible! I’m only flying this one indoors so far because flying a drone anywhere in BCN is **very** illegal, but we’ll see how it goes, maybe I’ll get a bigger one and head outside town to do it.


here’s one from the “Missed the Point” Department.

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i got a little Tello and I’m flying it with an Xbox controller, **super** fun. my plan was to program flight paths and whatnot using Python, but so far it’s just a blast zipping (cautiously) around the room with it.


getting better at flying the drone without crashing, but I’m afraid my little guy is probably gonna die a grisly death eventually 😭


so, will that mean 25% more product or 25% fewer consultants? excited to find out! https://mas.to/@carnage4life/111153889165331136


nostr:npub13zaqq5y4rk8kgl4lxh33vvq682fkwa3y9vwqkc2yuf8psr3pgj9setx588 exactly. credit where it's due, they are very good at managing the media!


thank you for coming to my Ted Talk [jumps out a window]


in the end, i suspect this is the result of Silicon Valley companies very effectively curating the legacy media tech journalists that inform the general public. they reward the superficial gee-whiz tech journalism about Apple adding a new button or whatever by providing further access. but these tech journalists are **not** the ones equipped to help us grapple with how this new technology is upending basically every part of the economy and the workplace.


i think both of these approaches obscure the massive changes underway in our digital lives. by failing to emphasize the work-a-day ways in which AI is developing to become very competent, journalists are leaving the public unprepared. and by failing to get feedback from experts in the fields where these companies are claiming non-existent competence, journalists are encouraging people to trust AI to do tasks that it is fundamentally not ready for.


2) they look at the output in a field or area where they have zero experience and say "wow! that's impressive!" when they have no way of knowing whether it's impressive because they don't work in that field. i can put Python prompts into ChatGPT and get what look to me like incredible results, but it's silly to people who do code for a living. or i just heard a snippet of a podcast that Spotify auto-translated into Spanish. the journalists were like "sounds great!" folks, it was nonsense.


there are two opposite-but-equal problematic approaches journalists keep using to cover AI and automation technology:

1) they give the technology some insanely difficult and subjective task like "translate this poem" or "psychoanalyze me" and then when it fails they say "lol, well the technology isn't there yet." in actual reality, these products are mostly going to be doing repetitive grunt work, and given the right parameters, they can be **very** good at that.


i guess some people are annoyed by this, i'm just thrilled to be reminded that i don't have a toddler anymore.


a thing about the particular place where we live is that 1) everyone walks + 2) there are two schools and a daycare nearby = there is always some toddler having a meltdown outside 😂


here's the video if you're curious. it's not gory or anything, no one dies, it's almost like slapstick. such a stupid, stupid thing. https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/16vv080/to_prank_a_stranger_at_the_mall/


incredible content, America.


you got a suburban sprawl shopping mall, fast food, unstable gig work, a strike-it-rich internet content attempt, a **fucking gun**, and then (off camera) some insane medical bills, followed by putting some poor bastard into the prison system for the rest of his life (you never stop being a felon).


lmao that video of the guy shooting the youtuber is the most American thing i have ever seen in my life.


nostr:npub1ull86zpdr0x07zkm49flqfdlqcze2g4zzx4qz74d2999eu6p5v4s92mcfk nostr:npub1kcpupv63g6ww7z4n8j6aua3f5kdxmvrfn2l8vdqu25zvym949xxsa0vmkd I couldn’t see the preview so I thought we were talking about Haiti 🙃


nostr:npub17n75fp04tp3rzqsdzsts5kg52xulrc9vcn5gtwnwr268da4v2gtq7gsxdv and for no reason! because why, his name is Donald?? booooooring.


lmao he's so bad at this. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/christie-will-not-stop-trying-to-make-donald-duck-happen.html


hey, if you can avoid it, don’t walk in flood water. all kinds of nasty shit in there. weird bacteria, waste, chemicals, swirling around your skin. people get flesh-eating bacterial infections from flood water. if possible, stay out of it.


nostr:npub1z3v05d3jfgsew329qll50en6vau2drvrkxd4dqt60w697d5fhmusayaukx yeah, I’m not even slightly interested in interacting with a giant everyone-in-a-single-bucket audience ever again. hard pass.


glad to see #bikedc moving from Xitter to BlueSky. I imagine it will end up having the same problems eventually, but for now seems like a good place to build a network. 👍


nostr:npub1nyqeg55nq5eudx30py8fgff82ensxt9j063w6chkzu4leyfjygwsr3vvvs if I were you I would think about finding representation. hire a talent agency. they’ll take a cut, but handle this business stuff and you might actually come out ahead. anyway, good problem to be having, congrats!


small recommendation, there’s a Spanish movie called “The Platform” (“El Hoyo”) on Netflix. if you like speculative fiction like “Cube”, you will like this one. don’t read anything about it, don’t watch any trailers, just watch it. WARNING: gore, violence.


nostr:npub1r3wekuwva3u32j07nphtymq703ca4z8m7k5nyq0n50aw4pl799ds762aza one year anniversary coming up! to celebrate you can all join my Twitch stream to watch me play Fortnite for the first time ever.


this bar is playing “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” and like Pavlov’s dog I am now thinking about two lions fucking.


nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh [chambers a round] Jon.


fyi pit crew, i have **not** fucked this up. 😎

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nostr:npub1wv2dkhg2d3vccch45ahqnvggcek6q6dkr4ynrcemvsaw976xr9gsh2yxsz nostr:npub1anphhfvxpsfl0f3an45r3fasajecqanvee2qvs0yvy899prc6wpq0j972l i love the trivia that Newsom used to be married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. just, huh.


she could have retired with dignity, instead she slowly lost her mind in front of the entire country. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/29/dianne-feinstein-california-senator-dead/


nostr:npub1d45e5njklvacyktayrtnngt8m8f7kjv9j6hppth0ymvc883paqfsh75ute literally elder abuse.


nostr:npub1yg4r2ajycwertzt3c99nj3g3gxrnxdyxd64a3fzuuudn7prtaa5sdvsrwy lol crazy right??


nostr:npub1przd75z3lpg99xl5v349xd23gfh5areed3aw76yw60guudrzennsey20je (also, if you don’t want people to yell at you, barça is the team, Barna or BCN is the city [i personally don’t care, just throwing it out there])


nostr:npub1przd75z3lpg99xl5v349xd23gfh5areed3aw76yw60guudrzennsey20je haha well the ham certainly is. I haven’t found it to be unusual but.


i don’t know if it’s proximity to France or what, but I think the Catalan palate is just better. they demand nicer things, they make nicer things. there’s a touch that’s special. food is very important to me, so Ifeel really privileged to be able to live in Catalonia.


i don’t even understand how it would occur to someone to produce a dish like this. cook like this in BCN and your restaurant will be fucking EMPTY. full stop. and we had several “wtf” experiences like that.

it really, really, really made us appreciate Barcelona and Catalonia. there’s some things we’ve come to take for granted that we really shouldn’t.


Ona and I were talking about this again this morning, it’s really remarkable. like, the **bread** is worse, the coffee is worse. we ordered a dish at a restaurant with great reviews—we were at the bar, the place was packed. wild mushrooms with a fried egg, to share. great, let’s go, love it. it was **just** mushrooms with an egg, I don’t even think it was salted. no sauce, no aeromatics, nothing. price: €22. we were **laughing**


this is fucking hilarious. and the best part is, Biden will get blamed when they tank the economy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/28/kevin-mccarthy-tom-emmer-government-shutdown-motion-vacate/


i imagine there’s some law or something. bah.


on the radio, they play ads for movies WITH THE DIALOG DUBBED. ON THE RADIO.

[voiceover] “… con George Clooney …”

movie clip: [some random Spanish guy saying George Clooney’s lines]

completely mental.


tried to watch a movie on the train with the onboard entertainment options AND IT IS FUCKING DUBBED IN SPANISH. ALL THE MOVIES ARE DUBBED IN SPANISH. honestly one of **the** dumbest things about Spain is this obsession with dubbing, it is **awful** like, please join us in the 21st century ffs.


it’s fucking crazy that the Prado and the Reina Sofia collections are like right next to each other in Madrid. one of the most incredible art experiences in the western world imo. overwhelming.


nostr:npub1r5f0l64mlaavvmgsn5acn5ywq3el5netsyjgycey28dt49ke3egsqlzgp3 holy cow, how many miles is that?? what’s a typical tour?


nostr:npub1nyqeg55nq5eudx30py8fgff82ensxt9j063w6chkzu4leyfjygwsr3vvvs it’s not “congress” it’s the Republicans.


nostr:npub1q99sh3cs7tnk2xhllqrwpdecxyhnnxf5xtyaq2dr3wp0pymr4xdq0jhvgg nope, I barely ever leave Gràcia lol


nostr:npub1yg4r2ajycwertzt3c99nj3g3gxrnxdyxd64a3fzuuudn7prtaa5sdvsrwy never been!


gonna fire some shots here: Madrid is not a good place to eat. it’s expensive and mediocre, I’ve had like a dozen meals in Madrid now and not a single one has been memorable or remarkable in any way. in contrast, there are at least eight restaurants within three blocks of my apartment in Barcelona that I’ve been back to multiple times. Barcelona is just a **much** better food city, it’s not even close.


CURRENT STATUS getting an online certificate in cluster munitions #riseandgrind


nostr:npub1ltj3py8hkgv9mdv263xtrw2nnldxd6fsncys86zhzjtepkr66nzqrw0gqy like, no one ever asked a Mission Impossible movie to make sense (none of them do) and “Tenet”s sound design alone makes it better.


nostr:npub1ltj3py8hkgv9mdv263xtrw2nnldxd6fsncys86zhzjtepkr66nzqrw0gqy HELL YES. just let it roll over you, it’s fantastic.


nostr:npub1ql3dpnw3dwy5zjnjehg008e0ua67a6fl792dwn94nyzgm7r8u6wq22a0kk I watched it stone sober and I still understood like maybe half of it. it’s a movie that **requires** you to watch it multiple times, which I don’t think I’m gonna do, but also 👏👏👏 I respect the hustle.


“research suggests” lmao what are they going to research next, the power of prayer?? https://mastodon.social/@Koenfucius/111143910340470271

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ok look, “Tenet” is a hot mess, but it’s also fuckin’ **great** really disappointed in everyone who said not to watch it. there’s no possible way anyone could get that movie right, but it’s thrilling someone would try. just watch it like a comic book movie and it’s delightful and dumb and a total mindfuck. better than 99% of action movies out there, easily.


nostr:npub1r922qcju9p0dwpg23nltr43f0wdqpme5lrn4ykyyu236qp6065yss0tpfu yup!


gonna be Sexy Jesus for Halloween.


employers: no one wants to woooooork!!

worker: I want to work, can I have a job??

employers: lmao no.


nostr:npub1r922qcju9p0dwpg23nltr43f0wdqpme5lrn4ykyyu236qp6065yss0tpfu google “loss meme”


PETA is a false flag op run by the Farm Bureau, right? is this a just a conspiracy theory, or I feel like there must be some clues someone could track down. nothing in the world has made me **less** interested in being a vegan than PETA’s “go vegan!” bit.


I think I get it. the internet’s been around for awhile, they may need to scootch that age cutoff up a bit.

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current status: bored **and** stressed


nostr:npub1f26f59ln7czluy7gxqm2h0qcpwex6d50nzlul86sh4t8svhqfzuq8ejmfe are you not remembering that Trump spent his entire term attacking Bezos and the Washington Post? his DoD tried to deny Amazon a huge cloud contract over their feud. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/26/trump-mattis-screw-amazon-10-billion-pentagon-cloud-contract-jedi.html


this is a great point by nostr:npub1nyqeg55nq5eudx30py8fgff82ensxt9j063w6chkzu4leyfjygwsr3vvvs: why create anything g if some AI is just going to rip you off? and get away with it by claiming fair use?  ironically, this is the **essence** of why copyright law was created in the first place: if creators don’t have some kind of protection so they can profit off what they create, they will stop creating. https://marcushutchins.com/blog/tech/opinions/the-end-of-the-free-internet.html

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yikes. there was nearly a mass shooting in Falls Church, VA. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/man-arrested-minutes-before-mass-shooting-at-northern-virginia-church-authorities/3430595/


nostr:npub12j3p7sk2pxnpf9edluh84sxpn335t365w6xj97lhkv32nv60x0wq8my6qj nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh i sort of don't think we can just blame Republicans for this one. Silicon Valley has done an **excellent** job buying influence with Democrats. hell, Jay Carney is their head of policy.


nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh this is a pretty safe bet!


my dog has the unfortunate characteristic that she runs **toward** things that terrify her, making it very difficult to practice flying a drone indoors.


nostr:npub14606g7yny6qdux3ler6txv0dse4ghhra4v5xu3vq3rjqxe739jkqwatew2 i'll see you there, then. 😎


nostr:npub14606g7yny6qdux3ler6txv0dse4ghhra4v5xu3vq3rjqxe739jkqwatew2 currently descending into the Valley of Despair, it's fine.

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finally understanding how classes work. i'm writing all my jokes in Python code now, sorry.

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lmao oh no! https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-officers-sold-black-sea-fleet-intel-ukrainian-fighters-report-2023-9


i'm developing this theory that the people who love ChatGPT the most are people who are already used to giving detailed instructions that have to be adjusted over and over again with mediocre results (university professors, managers, people with servants, etc.)

personally, i fuckin' hate telling someone to do something for me when i know i can do it faster and better myself.


i mean, just write your own list at this point??


hilarious watching people who are used to ChatGPT doing prompts. "please prepare a grocery list. the list should contain food that is not toxic and normal in size. please make the quantities reasonable for a family for a period of one week, and assume the family is less five people. the groceries should be readily available in an American grocery store and a mix of frozen, canned, dried, and fresh. Assume a western diet, and please do not add any car parts or large rocks to the list"


a better way to deal with cheaters in online shooters would be to turn them into bullet magnets and set their aim off by a couple clicks outside the hitboxes. or queue them exclusively in lobbies with other cheaters. banning them just means they'll start a fresh account.


(i do think 3-D printing has its applications, as does ChatGPT, but in both cases they are way more narrow and targeted than the boosters would have us believe.)


more than anything, it is reminding me of the whole 3-D printing thing: lots of engineer-type guys raving about how cool this technology is that takes six hours to print a plastic trinket that looks like shit.


so far, my experience with ChatGPT tutorials and how-to's is some way-too-enthusiastic guy puts in a very complicated prompt and gets back a lengthy and extremely boring series of bullet points giving the most basic of college freshman answers, but you have to read it carefully and in full because it may randomly include something that is completely wrong, and he goes "wow! wow!! this changes everything!!"

ffs worst of all possible worlds.


nostr:npub1tqltharn8mmngg849hs0qpyj2f8xt37uawvj0rqap6gpefg78dsqlyxvec yes, this is the quintessential "worst person in the world makes a great point" moment.


nostr:npub10jgt0ppc42lxum8rgkssmfu3gufnudtxxgy7474wayvqxc08phjsg5yflz 🤗

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nostr:npub12hcukmhg84lr9r7pehtf24nt87cm76086pc0tp7vaz4glp6up79sfkf9al wait i thought the only reason the imperialists want to get involved is because white people are threatened??? the discourse is so confusing!


you have a chance to fundamentally ball-slap one of the world's foremost adversaries to democracy without risking a single one of our lives **and** while aiding the victim of an illegal war of aggression, essentially heading off a genocide. of all the dumb shit we spend war money on, this one seems like a pretty good deal!


again, funding Ukraine is the best value the Pentagon or NATO have ever gotten for any military project, ever, and it's completely bonkers that anyone would be like "hmm, idk, is it worth it??"


holy yikes. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/25/world/europe/ukraine-russia-black-sea-fleet.html

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nostr:npub10jgt0ppc42lxum8rgkssmfu3gufnudtxxgy7474wayvqxc08phjsg5yflz  BCN already does this, but im ok with letting NYC think it’s their idea if it makes it happen.


nostr:npub1c3wum5xvmv4vl9nqfe0yjzm7mnx9nav6wznme3tkw4h7mv99g36s3s8fwp nostr:npub1f6a33pfyp67y8llhunlhrf855xm47n3fdqymvxfj7yx78c6vqf4scxpnql yeah, the same thing is happening in translation: fewer actual translation roles, more post-editing. some people like debugging/post-editing, but tweaking an existing thing is fundamentally different (and doesn’t pay as well) as making the thing yourself.


what the fucking fuck.


fuck Bob Menendez 💃


Peter Krupa

Admin of thepit.social. he/him.

American, formerly of DC, recently immigrated to Barcelona, Spain. Married to a lawyer, got a great kid (@monkeboi) and a useless dog. I am interested in good food, video games, cycling, bouldering, and crushing all cars into shiny little cubes. #fuckcars #bancars #bouldering #cycling #Barcelona #BCN


me: [laughs mirthlessly]


**really** glad to be living in a city where cycling for transportation is a thing everyone does, not just psycho weirdo risk-takers who like to do extreme sports before work.


(CORRECTION: no one reads my toots.)


look at these fucking fossils.

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i like good dogs, but also i have a soft spot for dogs who Refuse to Be Governed.


It’s fine, I’m just hungry.


nostr:npub13zaqq5y4rk8kgl4lxh33vvq682fkwa3y9vwqkc2yuf8psr3pgj9setx588 ok but they never put the "how to fold a fitted sheet" content on the front page. newspapers are collapsing into lifestyle brands.


it’s pretty wild that Web 2.0 is turning out to be temporary. we watched “Zola” the other night and it was **surreal** watching two 20-something women exchanging their Facebooks. that was in 2015, imagine meeting someone today and asking to connect with them on Facebook.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe personally, i prefer to braise billionaires because otherwise they can be stringy.


nostr:npub14606g7yny6qdux3ler6txv0dse4ghhra4v5xu3vq3rjqxe739jkqwatew2 idk now I’m nervous 😂

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/081/620/731/485/902/original/4daa7d387a29d4ff.jpeg


also had an exceedingly mediocre bottle of natural wine last night. thanks nostr:npub14606g7yny6qdux3ler6txv0dse4ghhra4v5xu3vq3rjqxe739jkqwatew2 now all i taste is the brettanomyces 😭


had an incredible bottle of wine on Friday night and i'm still thinking about it, good morning.


nostr:npub1d45e5njklvacyktayrtnngt8m8f7kjv9j6hppth0ymvc883paqfsh75ute I assume you’ve seen the groping video by now too. I’m enjoying watching the meltdown of conservatism as a bastion of “family values.”


honestly good for these folks, that’s a pretty good deal. https://apnews.com/article/migration-poland-visas-bribe-election-b6cdeadfc6a3935d0fbdb779947dad78

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/073/675/691/797/652/original/6048a6b418353a45.png


have occasionally encountered motor vehicles stopped in the bike lane in BCN but it doesn’t make me as mad as it did in DC because a) there’s **so much** bike lane it’s not like they’re encroaching on your tiny sliver of non-car space, there’s plenty of non-car space, and b) the speed of traffic in general is sooooo much slower it’s not nearly as scary or tricky to go around. oh and probably c) it just happens a lot less because there are real penalties.


this is legitimately heart-warming, everyone should do this with their stupid yards. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/09/15/wildflower-meadow-lawn-grass-vermont/


**this** is the kind of post-carbon transportation innovation Tesla could be doing but is not because they lack imagination. https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/111065671739936030

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/070/024/496/614/862/original/715bcc591bba7b62.jpeg


fire them out of a cannon.

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/069/137/369/952/550/original/55ac1a5ff8ad8792.png


nostr:npub1u390x89dw7w2h60ndcjrkc4ekq80nyw2c7whc7cfp5vw84ctcxmse8csql no idea, It’s paywalled, but if they’re saying it’s a gender thing, Bill Maher is getting dragged all over the internet too. I think these publications just need contrarian takes.


here’s the thing, Hunter Biden is a page 10 story. it has nothing to do with the country or with political power in any conceivable way and putting it on the front page like every single legacy media outlet is doing is just playing to the (insane) rightwing conspiracy conviction that There Is Something Going On (there isn’t).


uhhhh the answer is right there in your headline???

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/068/467/914/125/908/original/7685473b688a538c.png


i guess i have to go back to pre-Web 2.0 and find some good aggregators?? are we doing fuckin' blogs again???


with the enshittification of Twitter and now Reddit, i no longer have a place where i can get kind of a broad overview at what "people" are saying, across a broad array of internet/IRL subcultures, interests, and news items, and i don't like it.


nostr:npub10jgt0ppc42lxum8rgkssmfu3gufnudtxxgy7474wayvqxc08phjsg5yflz "... and then i was looking for parking..."

me: [ritual self-disembowelment]


fuck ‘em up. ✊ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/15/uaw-strike-updates/


nostr:npub10jgt0ppc42lxum8rgkssmfu3gufnudtxxgy7474wayvqxc08phjsg5yflz but props to them for bailing, for sure.


nostr:npub10jgt0ppc42lxum8rgkssmfu3gufnudtxxgy7474wayvqxc08phjsg5yflz i think by October last year he'd already bought it???


one thing I love about my dog is her digestive tract can tank **anything** she ate like 12 dried apricots the other day, nothing, took it like a champ. any kind of meat, eggs, fruit, cheese, yogurt, bread, she’s a monster. healthiest gut bacteria of anyone I’ve ever met.


nostr:npub1axd0uct24n9cqng879wwh22ps7fxn25ruhe9ecscddyejp9ng5fs994hfl i think in the case of Reddit, the mods really were adding value by policing the avalanche of mediocre reposts and off-topic dross, and that's basically what the site is now, the worst thing a social media platform can be: boring.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe 🥲


nostr:npub1uc9vrptm0wxvsw2qsn52x8l8wq98hq0f02yx5r9f7wgcf7eqna8sa4ryjy nostr:npub10jgt0ppc42lxum8rgkssmfu3gufnudtxxgy7474wayvqxc08phjsg5yflz  this is a thing people say about the “ejes verdes” in Barcelona: they make rents go up because they are so nice, and therefore must be stopped.


nostr:npub10jgt0ppc42lxum8rgkssmfu3gufnudtxxgy7474wayvqxc08phjsg5yflz  lmao yes!


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe yeah, that's what i'm doing now, seems like a fundamental concept of programming that i need to poke into a bit.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe thanks, i think i'm starting to get it, just had to hit my brain with a hammer a few times.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe thanks! i'm doing Codecademy and it's been really great so far, but it doesn't do a very good job with classes (or i'm just not getting it) so i'm poking around for other explainers.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe i'm probably on some bot-produced page just regurgitating documentation lol.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe probably nothing, but when you use undefined jargon to explain other undefined jargon, it's not that helpful to people who are just learning.


whole thing is really helping me understand why technical writing exists as a professional.


lol got it, thanks for the explainer!

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/063/674/949/301/539/original/21062f14b5ef220b.png


Python makes perfect logical sense until you get to classes and then suddenly it's all "the dingus goes in the fleeb because otherwise you wouldn't be able to hanker the boingo" wtf.


I love that the alien has a **tiny** dick-and-balls

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swimming is a great form of exercise in the morning because as soon as you finish you want to go right back to bed wait no that's not it


that's right.

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/062/666/354/667/937/original/a066423f5e47e2f9.png


huh. https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vindicates-1972-mit-prediction-that-society-will-collapse-soon


nostr:npub1c7k7zg5fdh3fwnlahn4s6d4k8u0s0s2f7rdwrd72sptuaq5ne7tqpsjmlf new type of guy just dropped


in the realm of “things I did not see coming” probably this guy’s magazine turning into the one of the internet’s top purveyors of garbage clickbait is way up there.

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/058/387/555/510/493/original/c3bbb7cd0a755a76.png


nostr:npub1qgsat9v6thhp0tafq47ggwfcxnuu4u8w05qdg6frsdwzct788rpqn9dy2v it’s a million little things I hate about the iOS UI (especially the typing interface 🤬🤬🤬) and the way Apple tries to lure you into their stupid walled garden. I think most people who have always used iOS don’t notice, but I had several Pixels before this that were great. only problem is Apple makes the only good small smartphone.


this Unity shit is wild. anyone running a small business had better think long and hard about their exposure to larger, more powerful tech enterprises. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/12/23870547/unit-price-change-game-development


Android is sooooo much better than iOS, I can’t WAIT for this fuckin’ phone to die so I can switch back.


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe WHAT


nostr:npub1scjzkunqrlls8433mwha9t9ws4cfv4jap260n0wxfsj8rxkjh5gqqrpdxj nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe lmao


nostr:npub1t22ezsps7a7hredz249naq3s9d3csytmrzyf0yhqw94pklxk8ggq6x3ddy great piece 👍


nostr:npub1r5f0l64mlaavvmgsn5acn5ywq3el5netsyjgycey28dt49ke3egsqlzgp3 definitely!


nostr:npub1r5f0l64mlaavvmgsn5acn5ywq3el5netsyjgycey28dt49ke3egsqlzgp3 ah cool! I have yet to get down there.


nostr:npub1r5f0l64mlaavvmgsn5acn5ywq3el5netsyjgycey28dt49ke3egsqlzgp3 ohhh I thought you were in BCN for some reason


nostr:npub1r5f0l64mlaavvmgsn5acn5ywq3el5netsyjgycey28dt49ke3egsqlzgp3 I am hearing thunder????


nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh great! March is a great time to be in BCN too.


nostr:npub105em57gtk6wz3yf3474d2cp47ekgqn5gk986q8cxqc6uxfajmfxsl2f9gk nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh (although don’t worry, there is still plenty of signal-jumping here, which fwiw is made a lot safer due to slower speeds and narrower roads with fewer lanes 🤗)


nostr:npub105em57gtk6wz3yf3474d2cp47ekgqn5gk986q8cxqc6uxfajmfxsl2f9gk nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh in your defense, you’ve also been trained to expect that the people who design crosswalks are actively hostile to the needs of people who walk. I find myself obeying traffic/bike signals much more in BCN because I know they are designed to keep me safe **and** to make ped/bike movement a priority. I can trust there’s a good reason behind a “don’t cross” signal, whereas in the US the reason is “fuck you, that’s why.”


it’s unfortunately common for foreigners to complain about how long everything takes here, but from my perspective, it’s a manifestation of the incredible amount of patience everyone has here. patience waiting in lines, patience in shops, patience with kids, patience with dogs, patience with the garbage truck coming by at 1am, patience with cyclists out for a ride, patience with people who are just taking a bit longer because you don’t know what’s going on in their life. I like it. it’s the way.


first time anything even remotely like this has happened to me in Spain. I genuinely, sincerely appreciate the culture of patience in Catalunya. it is low-key one of the best things about living here and a major reason I never want to leave.


yeah sex is good but have you ever been threatened by three burly guys from the Republic of Georgia after you yelled at them for close-passing you in an SUV.


nostr:npub19qm2trjs3p32nwqwry4ufxl4fk9q4utkq53ywueg0yk8cvggra5s79sn8k tech isn't the bad guys, cars in cities is the bad guys.


Tom Cruise: motorcycle pilot


BBC documentaries lmao

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/041/009/101/715/373/original/8f67878dced122d4.jpeg


jesus fucking christ they’re showing it **in Spain** 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/035/058/453/530/692/original/331d108583055657.png


nostr:npub1qy346tkqq46rhcmkrryhu6k5sdtzrg0fn6se6p2u6a2uqvvd7gtsgh6nwn haha waaaaay ahead of you **loads bovine spongiform encephalitis darts into drones**


i guess this is how you learn
🙃 🔫


just spent all morning staring at code that wasn't working because Python treats capital and lowercase letters as different characters, great.


wait, what WAS the "fuss" over Elon Musk? i don't recall it being splashed on the Washington Post's front page.

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/033/829/878/204/267/original/bb927e8d94ac5390.png


[blocks traffic in climate change protest]
"this is just hurting random people!"
[throws paint on a yacht]
"pfff, performative, do something real."
[murders a fossil fuel CEO]
"NOW YOUVE GONE TOO FAR"


nostr:npub1xz50x2xs78cdgnqwg6vs55rzmn5zt66jxve7vljhh0zpwlteshlqn45u8r I seem to remember a Farside cartoon that was similar, but with a cow trying to cut the line and the others like “hey hey hey! no cuts.”


anyway, free idea for someone who can draw.


if I were an artist I would draw a cattle yard with a chute to the kill room and one protestor cow in a T-shirt that says “STOP THE SLAUGHTER” blocking the chute and the other cattle looking mad and saying “move it, buddy, we got places to be!”


i've thought about it and concluded that the most "American" meal possible is a BLT (white bread, smoked bacon, beafsteak tomato slices, iceberg lettuce) and a glass of milk.


nostr:npub1vuly3cafv6uyxell8vq5ryeldxr3few85vxf9uzp5w0wlpmgqphskwjwy6 tagging in nostr:npub1h0cvt5hvrp9l30aswzj05ck7gksgah54ew3spgrenxexm8es5akssp6mf7 i think he came up with a simple solution.


nostr:npub1nj77sxsa30nmgqk5emj9fptendevnj4fxnv5qkgvltk8vwc4kv4q5dlzxh we are past the time of life when our friends are getting married and having kids, now into the time of life when they are getting divorced and dying of cancer. 😔


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe it's gorgeous.


friend of mine from way back just died of colon cancer right before his 40th birthday. hug the ones you love.


nostr:npub1uglzydvupvnfgwyc2ufa7m4usk6tc7auqkzcw9zc30yxezhnuansnnsqys plus people in the US have guns and they will genuinely murder you and the police will say "yeah, it makes sense, i mean she touched his car, so he is free to go."


i generally try to avoid saying ugly things, but the end of the fuckin' world gets me a little bit worked up!


lmao got reported to myself by this bot. eat shit.

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/029/887/245/819/423/original/70117f2c0b0cd2bb.png


the literal least you can do -- the **absolute least** -- is shut your fucking mouth. oh you have "concerns"? i have a concern, and here it is: shut the fuck up.

and furthermore, i have a second concern: SHUT. THE FUCK. UP.


i am not out there painting boats or smearing peanut butter on art or chaining myself to pipelines or deflating the tires of SUVs or blocking highways for a variety of reasons, some of them maybe good, some of them maybe not, but i have the DEEPEST FUCKING APPRECIATION AND RESPECT for anyone who puts their bodies and wealth on the line to stop climate change even the very slightest, even if it's just symbolic.


the **worst** fucking thing about this shit is the people who sit on their couches saying "well i wouldn't do activism that way" yeah we know what you would do, you would do **nothing** because that's what you're doing now, so shut the fuck up, in fact kill yourself.


hell yes, fuck 'em up. https://www.reddit.com/r/Espana/comments/16d6dlv/activistas_por_el_clima_pintan_el_superyate_de_la/


nostr:npub12hcukmhg84lr9r7pehtf24nt87cm76086pc0tp7vaz4glp6up79sfkf9al 🤐


i want to post certain things, but they will get me out on a list, so just imagine them as best you can.


Me [arranging my life so it’s a series of frustrating things I can’t quite do]: wait, this sucks.


i thought Jimmy Fallon sucked before it was cool.


talk about burying the lede...

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nostr:npub1urlatd9kj2827mgywdy8mpg9zrwk7wrpugzxq854mknyeh8u3juq77jxsf lol


the most neo-liberal moment of my life was in the parking garage of the Inter-American Development Bank in DC, some gray-haired economist in a Mercedes-Benz with the top down, driving too fast and blasting U2, absolutely perfect.


not The Onion.

https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/111/025/792/328/860/859/original/ce00e095b8db2521.png


nostr:npub1r3wekuwva3u32j07nphtymq703ca4z8m7k5nyq0n50aw4pl799ds762aza heh, yeah I guess.


nostr:npub1c7k7zg5fdh3fwnlahn4s6d4k8u0s0s2f7rdwrd72sptuaq5ne7tqpsjmlf i used to ride past them all the time when they were parked at that food incubator in Brookland, off Monroe (I think). I assume Cleveland Park is the best brick-and-mortar deal they could find??


nostr:npub1sx34f3tmjpe9yz38qkzut2yndyuh9apzdlakngknmt7ft3f5yf6qlrtghe “how come no one is regulating these hospitals and doctors???” funny story about that


nostr:npub1r3wekuwva3u32j07nphtymq703ca4z8m7k5nyq0n50aw4pl799ds762aza not my fight, not my problem. I assume it’s gonna get overturned on appeal, but this is sort of what they voted for last election, so: let there be consequences.


it turns out, rural areas voting against their own interests for 40yrs is kinda starting to come back to bite them! https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-remote-emergency-room-life-and-death-in-rural-america?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us


nostr:npub1c7k7zg5fdh3fwnlahn4s6d4k8u0s0s2f7rdwrd72sptuaq5ne7tqpsjmlf weed.


nostr:npub1ltj3py8hkgv9mdv263xtrw2nnldxd6fsncys86zhzjtepkr66nzqrw0gqy nostr:npub1q99sh3cs7tnk2xhllqrwpdecxyhnnxf5xtyaq2dr3wp0pymr4xdq0jhvgg nostr:npub1kkwfr70hcmdxcqp0tm7kwc5l2zk6x0w6vxulr2esncewr9p239tsfdhfrq if there’s one thing the whole “back to the office” craze has taught me, it’s that no one in positions of authority is actually using data or research to make decisions, they only cite it when it confirms what they already plan to do.


nostr:npub1dn9tdf6s3qasqdhlp43vsnpngprqeqc2j6s64zexacmm8zr6m50sa9nunh some tourism depends on large buses driving through cities to the main attractions 🤷♂


nostr:npub1p7u9gt55qrvktc6hfjqqhtn6qnq0jvkjf6ewpagt6lm4nrwxfjhqf5edpc sure does!


nostr:npub1kkwfr70hcmdxcqp0tm7kwc5l2zk6x0w6vxulr2esncewr9p239tsfdhfrq apparently it's the big shopping malls/retailers. so yeah, they want to get people back into cars, definitely.


i guess i should just get used to the idea that the world is going to get worse and worse from here. https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/court-orders-barcelona-council-to-undo-pedestrianization-of-city-center-street


nostr:npub1c7k7zg5fdh3fwnlahn4s6d4k8u0s0s2f7rdwrd72sptuaq5ne7tqpsjmlf i guess the DoD contract specifically just started this summer. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/pentagon-buys-starlink-ukraine-statement-2023-06-01/


nostr:npub1c7k7zg5fdh3fwnlahn4s6d4k8u0s0s2f7rdwrd72sptuaq5ne7tqpsjmlf "oh i thought when the Department of Defense offered to pay for these services, they were going to use they for Netflix!" gtfo.


imagine if you or i had a defense contract that we personally stepped in to sabotage in favor of an enemy nation. jail without bond pending trial.

pretty crazy to think Musk is out of the reach of the law because he is simply too wealthy.


nostr:npub1uglzydvupvnfgwyc2ufa7m4usk6tc7auqkzcw9zc30yxezhnuansnnsqys 0.75 million dollars for 1000 square feet jesus christ.


arrest him. https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-secretly-used-starlink-to-foil-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-russian-ships-report


nostr:npub1r3wekuwva3u32j07nphtymq703ca4z8m7k5nyq0n50aw4pl799ds762aza 100%


now that Reddit is just the same ~200 TikTok videos posted over and over again, i have a lot more free time!


props to the person in the tiny hatchback blasting Natalie Imbruglia at full volume, live your life 🫡


and this wasn't some ratty street person, this was an older man in business casual pulling roller luggage. pedestrians are king in BCN.