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Neighborhood kid, general enthusiast, music enjoyer. Failed circus man and former stereo repair hustler. Presently some sort of engineer in Tucson, AZ. 🏜️
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Yeah let's definitely give these dipshits more money and less accountability πŸ‘ This is the kind of "community outreach" that Prop 414 wants us to fund. thenerdstash.com/tucson-cops-...

New USCSB video just dropped, let's goooooo! πŸ¦…πŸ¦…πŸ¦… youtu.be/CFVUSDzHL8A?...

Stories like this matter because Elon still has lots of soldiers who genuinely believe that he lives up to his "first principles" patter, and puts merit and efficacy first. Experienced tech folks need to make it clear that he and his goons are partisan hacks with "limited technical understanding."

Saya Gray doesn't ever seem to miss. I was really excited when "19 Masters" got a vinyl release. Had this on order a track or two into my first listen 😁 sayagray.bandcamp.com/album/saya

I am the exact "self learner" that this guy is trying to broadly gesture at. AI is totally useless in the areas I work in that are proximal to "advanced degrees" or expertise. You know what my "hack" is? Open a book and engage your goddamn brain.

If you show up to my house in a Cybertruck asking me to pay for a service, I am going to assume you’re ripping me off and also a dipshit. Sorry.

Engineering text books can be simultaneously very expensive and very bad. A select few are transcendent. This fred harris book will still be appreciated generations from now:

Back in the day I always wondered what kind of cretins made ratio requirements necessary. Of course Zuck is one of them πŸ™„

Flew into Santa Fe. The power was out in the terminal which feels like a rural post office. A cop is passing baggage in through an emergency exit while the alarm goes off. The facilities manager got fired before Christmas for stealing a box full of presents. We bought art. ACAB includes bag cop.

Something I think about a lot lately for, oh, no reason, is the stupid stuff that gets banned in dictatorships, like how Argentina banned Venn Diagrams β€œas the concept of intersection and collaboration were seen as potentially subversive” www.e-flux.com/criticism/23...

Looking forward to doing just a bit of repair work as a fun distraction.

Aerospace is clearly the best engineering field check out how absolutely disgusting they were able to make this nozzle that blows a jet of aerosolized gunge at each passenger's face. The crenellations really help separate and trap grime from travelers fingers as well.

I represent banks for a living. Can confirm that credit card defaults are rising fast. We are also at the highest rate ever of folks barely making their minimum monthly payments - 20 million folks. The tariffs could be disruptive enough to the price of necessities to put most of them in collections.

Phenomenal article here. In the past couple weeks there's been a conspicuous uptick in older engineers saying in meetings that they asked chatGPT about engineering topics they're unfamiliar with and presenting the resulting answer as work. Read a goddamn book you clown comics.

I stopped having anxiety dreams about forgetting to go to class all semester or my brakes not working. Now, I have anxiety dreams about working at the radio repair shop. Each time I gradually realize a cruel trick is being played on me. I set down my tools and leave. Outside, the air is fresh.

Trying to keep the lab a little more tidy. Not hoarding "spare" parts helps a lot. Not reselling and being constantly overwhelmed with packing garbage helps even more πŸ˜…

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The Chinese have developed their own open-source Hawk Tuah meme coin and the rug pull only uses one-tenth of the computing power and scams 15x the number of horny victims.

Must-read story on how a private equity group cornered the fire truck market, doubling prices, causing massive delays and leaving departments across the county β€” including Los Angeles β€” without the resources needed to combat fires.

I read this and immediately wanted to know what @wagatwe.com might think of this: www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...

The magic of role playing games is that you can imagine you are someone somewhere else like Ned Kelly on Japanese holiday

Making sure to take regular breaks to practice my SpaceMouse

Everything this man does πŸ€ŒπŸ’Ž

Another job opening for a cause that's super important in our region: The Arizona Mining Reform Coalition seeks a new executive director. With multiple mines already in the works or seeking permits in the Sky Islands, the work here is urgent and necessary: ow.ly/M51W50UIEhS

I'm amazed that I could ever make out a difference between green and yellow in Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. Do colorblindness glasses help with this game or nah? πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/ www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

Hanging out on Chinese social media is about as close to spending time living abroad as most of us are going to get.

Reading rap reviews usually just leaves me wondering why a particular publication even considers it part of their purview. I really enjoyed this analysis 🎢πŸ₯°

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

I overheard someone at work excitedly saying some day AI is going to be able to make whole movies from his instructions. Yeah great dude let's boil the ocean so we can have your dumb fat head in a shitty John Wick knockoff where you fly a Cybertruck.

ACAB includes that one friend who’s always trying to police you.

This is the closest thing to a military victory that America has experienced since 1991

Unless the economy is good for the poorest people in your country, the economy sucks.