Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

"Reading the news and it sure looks bad" -- Joni Mitchell lyric in the song "California"

plus ça change ...

In the headlines I see a slew of slews.

I hate when people use baller when they mean banger.

I's beginning to look a lot like vehicles with small conifers tied to their roofs. 🎵

Analogy in a business magazine: "Think of CUDA as the operating system for AI, not unlike the role that Microsoft Windows played in the PC boom during the 1990s."

Ugh. Though there is something in the comparison with respect to moat/monopoly.

The problem with the cybertruck is the windows are too big.

trending 3d print design: cybertruck doorstop https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3994290

@carnage4life The biggest Grifter in our lifetimes refutes this. You can ask away, and he'll spread the b.s. so thick it will be impenetrable.

@asymco Does the definition of taxes include fines and settlements (that we might see annually in the news) ?

I attempted to use GPT to write a pun in the style of a Tom Swiftie (https://badpets.net/Humor/LongLists/TomSwifties.html) Further, I specified that it should involve Taylor Swift. Seems like it should be an easy task. So far, no luck.

@dangillmor

Nepo

Not just good. Scary good.

"By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30"

Even so, C is far more interesting than Ti in our world: carbon acts like entropy's stirring rod.

An obscure remark, and surely observed by many before me. Jean Giraud (aka Moebius in the graphic novel subculture) owed much to Henri Rivière. If you look up a few images, it is obvious.

I have a signed print by Giraud.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67510670

Microsoft, the company, is predicated on removing friction by creating friction elsewhere.

In a comment on a WSJ article, I found a concise spec of megachurches: Six Flags over Jesus

@counternotions feet hurt