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5. After sending these undercover officers to the drag show, the DeSantis administration ignored their report and FILED A COMPLAINT WITH A FRAUDULENT DESCRIPTION OF THE SHOW to try to shut the venue down.

Seem like a pretty big deal.

popular.info/p/the-war-on-drag

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@gpowerf If you really want a break from modern 3D games, allow me to recommend Roadwarden. It's a minimalist RPG with a great story, choices that matter, and it's completable in about 10-15 hours.

@briansniffen @jeffjarvis "trained to be hurt by the aspects of unmediated life"?

I don't know what world you live in, but in the world I live in, you don't have to be "trained" to be hurt by unmediated life. "Unmediated life" is extremely hurtful by default. "Life is hard" is a saying for a reason.

Some folks find refuge in booze. Others deal with the pain by hurting others. These kids find refuge in online communities. That sounds extremely healthy to me.

Anecdotally I've heard people say they're surprised by how many job applications never get *any* response, not even a rejection.

Seems this is part of why: companies are posting fake job openings to mislead investors, employees, and competitors.

wsj.com/articles/that-plum-job

(via @ jamieson on twitter)

@arossp If I were still on Twitter, I'd ask Jonah if he would let his kids watch Ms. Doubtfire or not.

@Pat Seems more likely to me that they're just imitating a style that they think is "cutesie".

@Pat Entirely possible. Could be a cultural thing.

I was speaking to a more generalized pattern.

@Pat Kind of. It's like how sometimes adults will speak in a childlike way after getting busted for doing wrong to try to avoid consequences.
They see people laugh at kids who make mistakes and call those mistakes "cute" and think it should apply to their grown-ass adult life too, because they refuse to take personal responsibility.

Obviously, there are degrees of this, but I've seen it often enough to understand such people tend to be wholly unreliable.

@Pat Because they're cowards who desperately need the people around them to keep lowering their expectations?

@RollingStone If "can" was the right word for that headline, then we'd already living in fascism.

Any functional government for and by the people must have accountability at every level.

The real question isn't "can", but "will".

@brad_frost What... uh, what are you actually planning to store there?

So I didn't realize until recently that you can just straight-up run a Linux server inside Windows with WSL, and I absolutely love it.

It's crazy that people think Microsoft is still an anti-competitive company when they literally let you install competing OSes into Windows!

@Simonh Depends which workplace you're talking about. LLMs are like blockchain: they have a few very specific uses for which they excel, but during their initial craze, everyone's trying to fit the square peg into every round hole.

Writing jobs like translators and marketers will likely be automated into prompters, though, yes.

@Spicewalla Or, if you don't understand someone's argument, you could ask them to clarify.

But that wouldn't let you get your jollies off by lecturing people for slights you've wrongly perceived on the internet, now, would it?

If you want to feel outraged and pick fights, go to Twitter. Because that bullshit isn't adding anything to the conversation over here.

@caseynewton ...and then sells their information to divorce lawyers for lead money.

@Spicewalla It's revealing that you read that into my argument when I never said anything of the sort...

@jeffjarvis Sounds like 5.8M too much.

They really want Google to pay for driving traffic to their businesses? And they got lawmakers on board with that nonsense? How do I get companies to pay me to advertise my services?

@NatlSecCnslrs Wait, I actually do use them for cleaning pipes. What are they called now?

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