Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

When I was in middle school, I had a shoplifting problem, along with some bad-influence friends. It started small, some M&Ms or binaca (which was weirdly popular in my middle school back then). But, as I kept getting away with it, I kept upping the ante. Eventually, it was my brazenness that got me caught. I thoroughly learned my lesson and never stole again.

I think about that sometimes when I read stories like this about a 43-year-old man sending shamelessly explicit texts to teenage boys... What led to his brazenness?

https://www.wcjb.com/2024/06/20/report-newberry-education-first-board-member-solicits-sex-teen-boy-snapchat/

Man, I need a sequel to The Old Guard already. There just aren't enough movies with two equally strong-but-flawed female protagonists and a gay couple kicking ass.

@JasonPerseus Yes, but it's not good enough on its own. You need a traditional underlying narrative framework, which AI can be used to make more interesting and less systemic-feeling.

@h_thoreson @nocoursewalks @major Yeah, and in a "big picture" sense, it's really a good thing... the market is sending a clear signal that this isn't as viable a career path as it used to be, warning kids coming up to consider choosing something else. Just like it's doing to the coal industry.

But change being beneficial overall doesn't make it any less painful to those stuck in the thick of it.

@nocoursewalks @h_thoreson @major Yep. The pressure from international job seekers was already stressing that market before all the layoffs happened.

With the rapid expansion of the past couple decades, it sure looks like a popped bubble.

It's gonna hurt for those who really love to do this work, but as wages go down, we'll probably see the folks who were just in it for the high salaries move on to greener pastures, so hopefully that will relieve a little pressure... but it'll probably be too little too late.

@DWTSquawk7600 Wow! I don't remember having heard about this at the time. I wonder which day of the event this was?

Excellent. Punted on standing, but still a win for #freespeech.

@erickolb Seems like an awfully tortured metaphor for pressing an approve button.

I don't think I'll ever understand why a "pull request" in git is not called a "push request". I'm not requesting to pull anything. I'm requesting to push my changes to the main branch.

In my opinion, the fact that we can accidentally bite our own mouths is proof that neither evolution nor intelligent design are real.

@polotek I think it's just an issue of visibility.

The ones that do tune only for revenue are the ones that get the VC backing and the huge marketing budgets and become household names.

There are *tons* of apps that don't tune for revenue, but they just aren't as visible, because their revenue doesn't support advertising during the Super Bowl.

@Harvard@mastodon.online Only if the owners don't wise up and lower prices.

@scottsantens We idolize it because that's the lifestyle of an entrepreneur trying to live their dream.

That business leaders have convinced people who own nothing to buy into this lifestyle is cruel.

@kegill We're actually 117 feet above sea level here in Orlando.