Rowley @Rowley@social.cleverlibre.org

Choosing to illustrate this stupid advice-column question with a picture of @AoC is a passive-aggressive, misogynist slap from The Times.

This is spectacular.

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.”

— William S. Burroughs

Dear Microsoft. Here is a list of things I want the Start Menu to do:

* Show my installed programs
* Search my local files
* Provide access to system settings

Here is a list of things I do *not* want the Start Menu to do:

* Show the weather for a randomly-selected town near my network's public IP infrastructure
* Show tabloid headlines
* Show programs I *don't* have installed
* Search the web via Bing
* Show adverts(!)
* Attempt to engage me in conversation with a hallucinating LLM

Thanks.

“As humans we so often feel helpless in our own smallness yet still, we find the resilience to do and make beautiful things and this is where the meaning of life resides.”

It's just one of the many compelling lines that the outstanding Nick Cave created. Listen and enjoy Stephen Fry reading Nick Cave's letter about ChatGPT and human creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcF4bLKd4

#ai

“You there, boy, who’s the CEO of OpenAI?”

Esta es la rana Paedophryne amauensis, un anfibio endémico de Papúa Nueva Guinea en Oceanía. Mide solo 7.7 milímetros (menos de 1 cm) y es el vertebrado más pequeño del mundo. Fue descubierta en el año 2009.

ok folks, hit me with your most ridiculous, overpowered "go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" examples

not mining this for a listicle or anything, i just want to see cool stuff ppl have done with basic tools

the kind of stuff I'm thinking of:

- bashblog, a static blog generator https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog
- "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster" https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
- bocker, "Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash" https://github.com/p8952/bocker
- suc, "a slack clone in 5 lines of bash" https://the-dam.org/docs/explanations/suc.html

(more low-powered version: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible, https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible)

#bash #sh #unix #linux #cli

social media such a mental agility exercise.

here's a tank. a lasagne. a video of a chick texting as she walks into a building painted to look like a beach scene. antarctica's gone. try this cake. your role model died. this fellow's wig looks like a hamster.

It's perversely entertaining to watch Britain belatedly discover what it's like to be ruled by Britain.

If it makes you feel any better... nobody *actually* knows how to use Git. We all just memorize a few shell commands and hope nothing implodes. 😉

Man I love all you nerds, computer nerds, sewing nerds, maker nerds, knitting nerds, book nerds, tree nerds, bird nerds, protocol nerds, distributed web nerds, food nerds, retro music nerds, retro computer nerds, old music nerds. I got more

happy 1 year anniversary to hundreds or maybe thousands of readers getting so so mad at this piece and lecturing me about how I shouldn't comment on what the world's biggest brained genius is and isn't capable of

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-elon-musks-quest-to-revive-twitter-is-likely-to-fail-11667620832?st=i0bkw1f4c5ixldf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference Day to all who celebrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Total_Landscaping_press_conference

#USPOL #idiots

Keep in mind as #Ohio legalizes #cannabis and restores #roevwade today, that

the motherfuckers in the Ohio #GOP who run this state tried to keep tonight — and I mean the will of the voters — from happening with a bullshit, anti-democratic special election to change the rules a few months ago.

They lost then and they’re losing tonight. Let’s see if they take their medicine and eat 💩 , as they really fucking should.

#issue1 #reproductiverights #handsoff

This weekend, @nytimes made it clear: They're doubling down on the horse race in #2024 election #journalism. A better way than the Biden-vs.-Trump poll preferences as news (I'm declining to link) would have been to use the polls to reflect what people are concerned about and report what #Biden and #Trump have done/ would do to address issues: inform people's choices, instead of predicting. The Times' political coverage is locked in and impervious to criticism or reflection, but should be better.

So McDonald's is giving away free fries for the rest of the year...

... if you use their mobile app

... and agree to the updated terms and conditions

... which say: if you use this app you waive your right to trial in any class action lawsuits against McDonalds."

We live in the lamest dystopia.

The stuff that got edited out of Snow Crash.

@sorenhave @CONCITO btw, I think what the new paper shows is that maybe the Southern Ocean influence on Antarctica is a true example of a tipping point, where "every decimal point of a degree matters", maybe actually doesn't apply, though it does to many other climate change impacts, simple because the sub-shelf melting of ice is not really linear with temperature but depends on ocean stratification and oscillating from 1 state to another.

Why is it that we keep blaming our kids' depression and anxiety on social media and smartphones instead of the fact that we've turned the entire planet into a burning dumpster fire for them to deal with