Show newer

I need to migrate my Unabomber quote bot from @kaczynskiquotes@botsin.space to a different fediverse instance… any suggestions of one that won't dislike having the writings of a convict being tooted on a regular basis?

All we had back then was good arguments and maybe, if you're lucky, an encyclopaedia in the house.

Now you can make a shoddy argument and back it up with a link for proof and win.

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

i'm not mr. AI doomer, and i don't actually dislike a lot of the generative features being added, but can we make it less AI! AI! AI! in-your-face all the time?

examples:
- sleep cycle has been analyzing my sleep patterns for over a decade. great app. gladly paid for it. but loaded it up yesterday after a long break and now they're calling it AI. subtext: "are we cool now that it's a buzzword?"
- today i opened notion and a big "notion AI" nav item's been added to my sidebar. on top of the many "please use AI" prompts popping up across their UI. big pick-me energy.

many such cases!
i feel like a curmudgeon, but it makes me like your products less.

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?

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

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?

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

This is ridiculous. I regularly get blaring super-loud annoying unblockable Amber alerts on my phone for kids who have disappeared at locations more than a 4-hour-drive away from me.

But today, there's a missing 10-year-old who disappeared just ten miles away from me, and no alert. I wouldn't have known at all if I didn't have the FEMA app installed and allow it to show notifications.

Want to take a guess what color his skin is?

What is your favourite age of child you've parented and what's the oldest age of child you've parented?

What is your favourite age of child you've parented and what's the oldest age of child you've parented?

Show older
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.