If the White Sox finish the season 8-8 over the last 16 -- if they play .500 ball, which they have not over any stretch of this season -- they will still finish with the worst-ever record in modern baseball.

What's a guy gotta do to get a Buc-ee's in Northern Illinois?

The Internet Archive ruling is just a bitter reminder of how jaded I've become about the Internet. What excited me most back in the all-text days is that I could Gopher so much raw information contained in journals and books, and I dreamt of a future where everything would be digitized and easily accessible. Of course, I underestimated greed and the iron bars of capitalism wrongly applied, and those dreams died long before the feds tortured Aaron Swartz to death. So much potential for bettering the world, and here we are, stuck behind antiquated notions.

White Sox Infamy Update: In order to dodge the title of worst team in history, the Sox must finish the season with a record of 12-12. They won four games in the month of August. What we’re witnessing is unfathomable to the baseball stat junkie.

Telegram: not even once.

Kind of frustrating, really. Bluesky will Mastadon if it remains the "enemies of Elon" refuge, just as Nostr will if it's "that network for bitcoiners." It's easy to lose focus on what matters (easy, stable decentralization) when your market remains niche.

Now that every Social Security Number in the U.S. has been stolen, can we just agree that perhaps this isn't the best system and come up with something new?

Hadn't listened to Bob Dylan's "Triplicate" in a couple of years -- cover albums of songs that aren't Bob's usually end up low on my playlist -- but man, is it good. The perfect overcast rainy day slow-moving album. The band is perfectly laid back and Dylan's voice is strong, yet grizzled with the experience needed to tell these stories well.

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Was just thinking about how I read "The Game of Thrones" as a junior in high school. It's my 44th birthday. Finish the series, George.

My dream for Star Wars: (1) Disney sells off Lucas Film to recoup at least a little of what they've lost on buying it (2) New IP owner restores "Legends" canon, brackets and discards everything Disney has their name on. I know it's just a dream. A nerd's dream. But it's my dream.

Carl Perkins was so cool, and you don't even know.

If you're looking to ditch Adobe, check out Affinity. I've been running it for years and have absolutely no need for the overpriced spyware.

If I seem a little surly about AI, it’s because of the confidence men who tried to convince you a better way to Google was going to change the world.

Anyway, I said about a decade ago that the only groundbreaking advancement in phones left on the horizon are better batteries. Still waiting on that, but I'll be the first to admit I am awful at physics.

Ripping off actual artists to train the robot artist the actual artist fears will replace him.

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Adobe Defends Changes in Its Terms of Service Amid Gen AI 'Explosion'

It could still cause issues for creators, even as Adobe says it won't scan every file.

1) Subscribed to TIDAL yesterday because they did us Nostriches a solid. 2) Went down the rabbit hole of how audiophiles utilize high quality streaming. 3) Spent a bunch of money. At least it'll all sound great.

🤣 It's always been controlled government tech. Might as well just make it official. View quoted note →

Color me not impressed. They had a chance to build it right, but decided to concede to the Twitter defectors.

Windows Recall under the stage name of """AI""" is probably the most disturbing thing I've seen in my 30 years of computing. What's more disturbing is that this will become a trend, and you won't be able to opt out. Time for everyone to get really familiar with Linux. Unfortunately.

Re: GPT-4o... Good gravy. I can think of no greater waste of time than talking to the bot on your phone. LLMs are growing on me as a means to obtain quick baseline info, but that's it.