It’s odd to see the left swing from copyright minimalists to copyright maximalists so quickly as AI came to the fore.
Does no one have any actual principles? It appears not. Most people are too contingent for me.
Month: May 2025
It matters to me all the ways in which nature works, not just the ones that sound esoteric and deep.
How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image.
Why The Fuck Are Democrats Helping Build MAGA’s Censorship Machine With KOSA?
North Korean IT Workers Are Being Exposed on a Massive Scale.
The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science.
RFK Jr. proves the fallacy of ‘doing your own research.’ Most people aren’t capable of researching what their own favorite breakfast cereal is.
Microsoft Layoffs Hit Coders Hardest With AI Costs on the Rise.
Nutshell
Impressive. She really captures the feel of the song. My second-favorite AIC song; my favorite is “Rooster.”
Well Shoot
I hate troubleshooting with other people. It’s so slow. And they do so much wrong stuff. It’s so painful and so very plodding.
Just get out of my way and let the gorilla do gorilla stuff.
Not Accepting
I have also found this much easier than cultural perception had led me to believe. I remember seeing a study a couple years ago that on average ppl gain like a pound a year throughout adulthood and just imagined that was inevitable. But it isn't, there's a knob you can turn! https://t.co/Jh9Yf8b06F
— Adam Kranz (@adam_kranz) May 14, 2025
Yeah, it’s not that hard. Mostly this incorrect belief emerged from the Fat Acceptance/Early Death movement spending more than a decade lying about how it was “impossible” to even lose a pound and that no one could resist eating pints of ice cream and anything else in sight like some omnivorous Cookie Monster.
All lies. It’s not even really that difficult not to just mindlessly eat. I weigh less now at 48 than I did at 28. It can be done.
American corporations didn’t want to diversify, anyway.
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. Clean water? Who needs that?
How Apple helped China become America’s biggest tech rival. Clownishly idiotic what happened there.
I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
Grifters thrive under Trump’s scam-friendly administration.
Thomasin Thomasout
Living piously vs. living deliciously:
Easy choice, right?
Guy Cred
I’d admit most anything in public, but a very “guy” thing I did was this.
I was at a company picnic. Saw some dudes with their truck stuck in the mud in one of the nearby fields in the park where the shindig was being held. I grew up in rural North Florida so one of the few car things I know is how to get a truck out of the mud.
I’d seen some discarded boards and such nearby so I picked up some of those, walked over and said I could help get them get their truck free. They were amenable to the idea as they had made zero progress. So I placed a few of the boards in front of the rear tires in a little ramp and had the driver put the truck in L. Then me and one of the guys rocked the vehicle a little as the driver slowly gave it some gas. The truck came out quite easily after that of course because it had some traction.
Even though they’d been trying to get out of the mud for 20 minutes (and making it worse), in less than two minutes I had freed their truck like it was nothing.
Then I walked back over to the ~100 spectators from my work, many of whom congratulated me on how smooth that was.
That was pretty cool.
Pair Annoy Ya
Welcome to the age of paranoia as deepfakes and scams abound.
Laughably, all of the know-nothing Reddit doofs still claim this is “impossible” even though my company nearly hired someone who did AI deepfaking. It very much is possible and is not even difficult anymore for that matter.
Bowerful
God she’s good. She really just has the touch. I don’t think I’ve seen her play that white Fender Strat before. Beautiful guitar with a bright but still melancholy sound.
I like that she’s not a show-off; Grace cares about the music and what would make a good sound, not merely playing the most difficult possible thing. And just think: she’s only 18. She is only going to get better.
(Also, I love her zip cord coat.)
Comet
I don’t think I could never be scammed, but I am completely immune to most common scam tactics and pressure techniques as no one can compel me to do anything.
Your urgency is not mine. I’ve stood first in the door of a C-130 in the middle of the night over a strange drop zone loaded for bear and then jumped into the darkness. What stresses other people out is nothing to me. The first time someone attempts to force my hand, I’m out. I do things in my own time and in my own way. Or I just do not do them at all.
Scammers depend on wanting to follow the pack and being nice. And I don’t have much to do with either of those things.
Comp Sys
It takes a really long time to learn complex systems. I’ve been using Windows since 1986 and I still discover new things about it all the time. And I already know absurdly-vast amounts about the OS and its underpinnings.
And I’ve been using the modern version (BSD-based) of Mac OS since 2014 and I learn things about it daily. Anyone who claims you can master a complex system in a few months is lying. It’s just not possible, not even those of us far to the right on the IQ curve.
Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?
Scientists Bioprint Living Tissues That Could Revolutionize Diabetes Treatment. This is the sort of thing clown-ass RFK Jr. is attempting to kill.
Remote Work Empowers Workers. Conservatives are using Pandemic Culture Wars to Target it.
We’re All Living in a Carl Hiaasen Novel.
The rise of a new form of germ theory denial.
Wells Fargo Wants to Privatize USPS. We Should Dismantle the Mega Bank Instead.
Meant Pay
Hey, Qatar, I’ll accept a free 747 if you want to give me one. I’ll fix your computers and such.
It’s not bribery if it’s payment, right?