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Been flying to and from Hong Kong for fifteen years, and I've never seen the flight back to the US anything less than full. Bad news for America, but good news for my legs and elbows.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

When I first discovered Ed Zitron, I tried reading some of his work. He came off as insufferable, so I didn't keep following him. I guess insufferable was only the tip of the iceberg...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

my body WAS a wonderland, but on account of zoning changes and local property developer interests, is now a county fairground for rodeos and demolition derbies

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I've been married to a Hong Konger for ~13 years, and I only just learned that there is a slang term for beer in Cantonese that translates to "whitey's herbal tea".

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

IT Guy Slips On Carpal Tunnel Braces With Calm Of Soldier Prepared To Die In Battle theonion.com/it-guy-...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

“But but but LLMs are useful to generate captions!!1!”

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

Getting all caught up on today's news.

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One of the best things about guerrilla interventions like this is that they prove that cities can act fast *when they want to.* A man used spray chalk to mark a crosswalk on a street. The city responded almost immediately and covered it up with black paint to restore the status quo.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

A comment by @steveklabnik.com on Lobsters that made me think quite a bit: “I don’t want to speak for you, but I have had some people express that they view any sort of optimism with suspicion. […] I think it’s easy to get into this mindset with how… the world is right now.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

idly wondering if the shocked 'i didn't vote for this!' people being interviewed are actually aware of the whole leopards eating my face meme or is it just another one of those things only the terminally online understand

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

Investor: Your AI company sounds very impressive. Are you open to investments? Giant man who suspiciously resembles 700 Indian engineers in a trench coat: Yes.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Left: senior engineer Right: vibe coder

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

An LLM could hallucinate a more coherent response to this question.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning✌️🍀

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

I don't really know what I just watched but you should also watch it so that we don't know together.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Adhd diagnosis #adhd #comics

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

When housing is scarce, build more.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine outsourcing all your thinking to a guy who still only has two Pokémon badges after 80 hours of gameplay.

submitted 6 days ago • 87 comments

"I'm only using 5% of my maximum power level" isn't villainous hubris, it's just ADHD

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Pre-ripped jeans but it's luggage. 🤔

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

convened a group of people working on open source software that is intentionally designed to give people more power. i took notes.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

This rug would really tie the room together.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Seen in a shop. I guess this artist decided to immortalize a particularly bad trip to Wendy's. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Zoning for Tower of Babel or whatever.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Who says ChatGPT is useless.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

See, you think you're the secret third thing politically and that makes you hot shit. Little do you know, you've fallen in to a trap because you have a unique lack of context and information. I, however, am the secret fourth thing which is correct unlike you or the other two.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments