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INTERIOR. DIMLY LIT. A FIGURE SITS BEHIND A DESK SMOKING, THE SMOKE COILS UP, ILLUMINATED BY THE NEON SIGN OUTSIDE. Me: <a long pull on the cigarette> Back in the Database Wars of 2010 I had to deal with an issue just like th- Sony PSN SREs: NOT NOW! PSN having a tough time today

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@arseblog.com Question for the pod - if Havertz scores his chance to make it 2-0, do Arsenal go on to win as emphatically? Might Pep have gone more defensive in the second half?

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@caseynewton.bsky.social A delicious irony how the Hard Fork emergency podcast episode on DeepSeek starts with a breathless Oracle Cloud ad about lowering the cost of your AI workloads.

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@gunnerblog.bsky.social More like Leandro Crossard, amirite?

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Meta’s pivot to “masculine energy” is a good reminder that society should not rely on corporations to uphold the cultural values we wish to see.

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Me: Last time ChatGPT got it very wrong. Maybe this time it will be correct? Gell-Mann: Wet streets cause rain.

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This is a wild stat about Man City’s recent form - equal to the team at the bottom of the league, and Southampton play tomorrow. “Relegation form”

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Ho ho ho, 'tis the season of Christmas Shoes www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq10... h/t @pattonoswalt.bsky.social

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Life before mobile phones was wild. You would agree to meet a friend somewhere, and then you would have to wait for an hour hoping they show.

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Now do the over 60’s www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/w...

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We’ve had pasteurization for at least 129 years and it has been a public health triumph. arstechnica.com/health/2024/...

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Follow Me Around - Radiohead. The MPIE version is my favorite, but this is a close second. The visuals are fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o4_... @kottke.org you may appreciate

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When our kids travel their toilet schedules are thrown off, and we are treated to a Cambrian Explosion of soiled underwear and constipated meltdowns.

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BBC 2 had the best channel idents. My personal favorite:

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Me: I’ll just log in and resume where I left off… Streaming: Want to watch our new movie instead? Me: No Them: Okay… what about a true crime documentary series? Me: N- Them: A competitive baker is accused of killing a rival by filling their lungs with butter frosting! Me: FFS! Just resume!

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Waiting for the Netflix documentary series about the high stakes sport of competitive rochambeau “Rock Paper Winners”.

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As I approach my dying breath alone in hospital, the phone rings. Disembodied voice: On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is the best and 5 the worst imaginable how would you rate your health care? I press 7 and hang up.

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That’s not … that’s not how chairs work.

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A pleasant surprise. I was lucky enough to be involved in the scene during my best programming years. Wonderful to think that a bunch of kids hacking away in their homes, competing with each other to push their parents computers to new heights, would later be recognized as a cultural heritage.

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Want: ChatPDF but it summarizes legal agreements.

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Going to open a bakery called “Yeastie Boys: Not your STD bread”

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Almost ran Alanis Morissette over in the grocery parking lot just now. She yelled at me. I yelled back “What are you, a fucking parking attendant‽” Narrator: And who would have thought? It figures.

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Waiting for the “What does this tragedy mean for my 401k?” analysis.

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HBO’s Inside the Episode reminds me there are two versions of each episode. What I watched and what was shown. Show runner: so this scene is a callback to her feeling of powerlessness in Season 1 Episode 4. Me: She’s saying WORDS! Talking!!! That’s a nice house she is in. Is that a set?

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Who called it Father’s Day and not Dad’s Day? Happy Dad’s Day to all the Fathers out there.

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Me: ChatGPT write a joke in the style of Don Rickles. ChatGPT: Hey, I'm lookin' at you, sweetheart. Now, I don't wanna say you're slow, but you make a snail look like Speedy Gonzales. But hey, that's alright, 'cause you got a face that could crack a mirror, and that's a real money-saver.

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