Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

It's always scary when your phone shuts off on the last leg of your trip trying to get back to your hotel in a strange city when you haven't memorized the name of the hotel or the address and it's after midnight and the bus you're on doesn't identify the stops in any way.

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

I've never felt like I've made a better decision than the choice to let the Uber driver deal with this Chicago traffic. I wouldn't have made it.

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

Apprehensive to leave Michigan. Michigan City will have to do.

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

I don't know about the climate where he wrote this, but in Michigan, May 1st is always still a tad too chilly to consider having sex outside. #FirstOfMay #JoCo

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

GM I'm going to drive from Detroit to Chicago today.

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

If Ashton Kutcher's character from The Butterfly Effect was convincingly fooled by a deep fake, could he then go back to a time that never existed?

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

There we go. Now I'm feeling slightly better.

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

Does the mirror universe have their own versions of Lore and Thomas Riker?

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

So did they find him or was it a "Finding Bigfoot" type situation where they had a blurry photo of some hairy guy and decided to run with it?

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

I love the look of really cool cars, but I don't think I would enjoy owning them even if I had the means. I guess no lambo in my future.

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

The #enshitification of Google Assistant

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

Moments after I took the first picture, I was offered an upgrade to the second

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

If anyone was in the market for Usenet providers, (for reasons) Newsdemon has a special going on right now. $0.50/mo for 2 months. $24/year locked in.

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Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

As I go through and select my interests in yet another app, it's a shame something like the attention profile markup language never caught on.

GitHub

GitHub - apml/spec-0.6: Attention Profiling Markup Language (APML) is an open standard that encapsulates a summary of your interests (across multiple profiles) in a simple, portable way.

Attention Profiling Markup Language (APML) is an open standard that encapsulates a summary of your interests (across multiple profiles) in a simple...

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

I miss when people were demure.

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

I hate that there's such an overlap between my kids being too young to sit still when I take a picture and the period when phones were absolute shit when it came to taking pictures with motion. So many of my family memories are a blurry mess.

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

I wonder if his contemporaries considered Alexander Hamilton's writing to be the equivalent of AI slop. "Oh, that doesn't count. You used Al to write this"

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

The latest updates to Hyprland broke my binding where I use the thumb button on the mouse to drag windows around and I haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. I'm bumping into it every time I use that system.

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 1 month ago

Things are generally so much nicer without a fake Satoshi stirring up shit.