occasionally pedantic. mostly harmless.

Massachusetts
Joined April 2009
Craig A Counterman retweeted
R.I.P. Teri Garr, and oh to live in the universe where we actually got that Gary Seven/Roberta Lincoln Star Trek spinoff show.
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If a Siamese cat’s eyes were cold, would they be brown?
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When you say “people should be free” without being willing to name slavery and say slavery is bad, you come across as complaining about the price of a good worker.
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Is it ethical to trick and lie to my immune system by getting vaccines? Am I supplying propaganda to make it paranoid about foreign invaders? I need to go watch the kurzgesagt vaccines dojo metaphor video again to forget this line of thinking.
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I shouldn’t be surprised that Hollywood executives didn’t watch and learn from The Twilight Zone, but it’s disappointing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Br…
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I may not have any children, but my cat offered me breakfast in bed this morning by dropping a mouse on my pillow, so I’m good.
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See a city name trending: Is it a weekday? Probably a school shooting. Is it a weekend? Probably a shopping place shooting.
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Johnson’s “Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good” applies to generative AI output.
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Tuesdays are the worst Mondays.
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Concepts should be able to sue for defamation.
I thought he had a different company to use to dig deeper holes for himself.
Move fast and break things, especially the company.
Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴
How will this work? How's twitter verifying that it's him, or how are they going to get $19.99 a month from where he is? The former would be remarkable but I don't know a theology to allow the latter.
I now know about the fencing response and that I will not be watching football for some time.
This guy has a decided lack of eyebrows.
Oh my. The closed captions rendered “amanuensis” as “a man who insists” I don’t know if a computer is to blame, it’s a 1990 BBC show.
I look at the numbers, and look at the lack of masking I saw while shopping this morning, and either the zeitgeist is “life’s too short to try to avoid death”, or murder-suicide seems like a good option nowadays.
"If the people believe there is an imaginary river out there, you don't tell them there's no river out there," Khrushchev told Nixon. "You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river."
Two wrongs don’t make a right. (but three do)