Levi Breederland, now with AI @levisan@qoto.org

Obviously in the grand scheme of things this isn’t a good thing, but I have to wonder if the garbage truck operators consider this to be worth extra points.

24 years ago today, humans stopped living only surface of the earth.

Humanity is in the very early stages of a post-earth era.

I don't need a "smart" thermostat. I just want one that connects to wifi and gives a half-decent web and/or mobile interface

@sabbatical you inspired an edit to my profile name here and on X

Does everyone assume those ZoomInfo "notice of personal information processing" emails are not, in fact, because they have to or want to be nice, but because they know some people will click through to see what they scraped? Or is it just me?

@progo Exactly!

While I would appreciate a little more context, I think this is fine. It’s really saying “…when you can” rather than assuming the recipient has the same priorities and timeline.

If it were a real emergency, my mom would call. The rarity of her calls shows how urgent they are.

Rude: someone chiming in with a factually-inaccurate answer in a group chat while the asker of a question is awaiting your opinion to a question directed at you (asked in the group for everyone's benefit of your opinion, not for discussion purposes)

Social media: it’s just the market’s answer to a generation that demanded to perform so the market said,

"Here. Perform. Perform everything to each other, all the time for no reason."

It's prison. It's horrific. It’s performer and audience melded together.

What do we want more than to lie in our bed at the end of the day and just watch our life as a satisfied audience member.

I know very little about anything. But what I do know is that if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it.

— Bo Burnham

@louis I like your desire to keep the neighbourhood sign-free to start. Good move!

@progo Making it harder to be unsafe (for both driver and pedestrian) seems to be a common and effective tactic in Europe. I wish we'd do it more on this side of the Atlantic!

Sure, there's no good in being right and dead. But flip the whole thing around.

There's nothing stopping you from not noticing the pedestrian with right-of-way and getting away with out penalty.

But what good is being legally innocent if you killed someone?

In hot drinks, whipped cream < steamed milk

The term "the ick" is starting to give me the ick

@Zonz Aha I forgot about that one! I guess I only like it when it's literally true

Like "literally," I kinda hate it when people say "and it always has been" or similar. I know exaggeration has a use and I'm usually certain that's what they're going at, but I can't help but think they're just making themselves look dumb by stating a blatant falsehood

"Tag yourself" as they say https://xkcd.com/1269/