Sub-thread of a conversation of something unrelated becomes an open source software recommendations mini thread.

I’m excited about the day when these shop owners learn about Furry Porn.

“I found pictures online that looked like our two shop mascots. They seem to really love each-other, Bob.”

It’ll be glorious.

But maybe they’re all already aware and are just advertising their support for the Furry community.

Please fix the tabs thing.

Nice.

This duck is the new acceptable answer, when someone asks “what is art?”.

All philosophical answers need not apply. The answer is just this picture.

Any detailed philosophical arguments about art are still allowed to continue, but those discussions must now treat this “smoking duck stuck in traffic” as their shared first axiom.

Everybody says the data isn’t retained. It’s very stylish, today, to claim to delete unused data, at least until it get breached

And when it comes to number 2, they’re number 1!

Camera pans uncomfortably and refocuses on MoonRaven’s cat buying NFTs on an old laptop in the background.

You got my hopes up.

I don’t wish Alex anything but a long life after a hopefully complete rehabilitation of his sociopsthic habits.

But I do have a nice drink set aside for my own enjoyment on the day that I’m convinced Alex will stop harming others.

I don’t have any particularly strict rule about how I get convinced he is done hurting people. I suspect I’ll see it in the obituaries rather than an op-ed. But I’m open to either.

Alex doesn’t seem likely to fix his life, but he also looks like he doesn’t cares well for his health…so I do have that drink near the front of the cabinet.

Oh well. My nice drink can wait. Maybe I’ll open it to celebrate his reform yet. Like Alice, I try to believe six impossible things before breakfast.

It won’t be a problem, because companies are taking the risks of AI seriously, and compensating employees at every level well enough to ensure each employee takes proper precautions.

Free markets hurt capitalists.

Fucking communists and their free markets and open competition! None of that for us, please.

(Poe’s law: This is meant to be taken as absurdist humor.)

Yes, it’s the people who put in decades of hard work, not the cocaine snorting golden parachute executives, costing US auto makers their chance to compete. That might be it.

Edit: If only there were some way for citizens united to do something to help those poor executives.

I’m glad to hear it.

I have a friend Jody reminds me of, and I appreciate that he’s still around.

Is that the one The Onion now owns?

Feels like this could happen…

How is Jody doing, now?

I also noticed how much Bill Gates didn’t address his ties to Epstein here. Of course, addressing those ties probably wouldn’t help with my suspicion that he’s a rapist abuser.

We’re still quoting this fucker after his Epstein emails?

I heard one of their private rape islands got shut down. That had to be inconvenient.

FYI, whether fair or unfair, since you don’t mention having an error-catching mechanism, the rest of us suspect that Lumo is hallucinating things regularly, and you’re not catching the lies, because you lack familiarity with the original source material.

I desperately hope that AI makes drastically fewer mistakes in some roles than others, because most people do not report the error rates that I see in my areas of expertise. So either the errors aren’t happening evenly everywhere (probably true) or some people are simply not catching the many mistakes (also probably true, though?).

We got the nerd tech who exudes, “I’d rather be at ComiCon.”

Wow. That describes my whole team.