reece.py

"I hope the lifter pilot doesn't get too bored." Jarvis is all chummy again. "There is no pilot. It's a smart gel." "Really? You don't say." Jarvis frowns. "Those are scary things, those gels. You know one suffocated a bunch of people in London a while back?" Yes, Joel's about to say, but Jarvis is back in spew mode. "No shit. It was running the subway system over there, perfect operational record, and then one day it just forgets to crank up the ventilators when it's supposed to. Train slides into station fifteen meters underground, everybody gets out, no air, boom." Joel's heard this before. The punchline's got something to do with a broken clock, if he remembers it right. "These things teach themselves from experience, right?," Jarvis continues. "So everyone just assumed it had learned to cue the ventilators on something obvious. Body heat, motion, CO2 levels, you know. Turns out instead it was watching a clock on the wall. Train arrival correlated with a predictable subset of patterns on the digital display, so it started the fans whenever it saw one of those patterns." "Yeah. That's right." Joel shakes his head. "And vandals had smashed the clock, or something."

excerpt from Starfish by Peter Watts (first book in the Rifters Trilogy)

Giant "Unlock Teams Premium" button in the top right corner of Enterprise Microsoft Teams

you can tell AI is a legitimate tool people seek out and want to use and definitely not just the next corporate trend after crypto and NFTs because *Microsoft* has to force in the option to spend money on AI via a giant button in the corner of their ENTERPRISE version of Teams

peter watts london subway station suffocation incident incoming

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

and our bones are like chains old and rusted in the rain
they're gonna snap when the weight shifts

A 5x5 grid of album art. 1: Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary) by La Dispute 2: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence by Glassjaw 3: Rooms of the House by La Dispute 4: Feel Something by Movements 5: No One Was Driving the Car by La Dispute 6: Panorama by La Dispute 7: New Medicines by Dead Poetic 8: What It Is to Burn by Finch 9: War All The Time by Thursday 10: Spiral in a Straight Line by Touché Amoré 11: Stage Four (Deluxe Edition) by Touché Amoré 12: Let It Enfold You by Senses Fail 13: Life Is Not A Waiting Room by Senses Fail 14: The Artist In The Ambulance by Thrice 15: Tigers Jaw by Tigers Jaw 16: They're Only Chasing Safety by Underoath 17: Homesick by A Day to Remember 18: Around the Fur by Deftones 19: From Under the Cork Tree by Fall Out Boy 20: The Albatross by Foxing 21: Worship and Tribute by Glassjaw 22: Why Would I Watch by Hot Mulligan 23: Futures by Jimmy Eat World 24: If These Streets Could Talk by Just Surrender 25: Wildlife by La Dispute

we cast our hearts in plaster
we imagined our bodies were fashioned from stone
but they chipped at the brick and the mortar

we found out that we're only
LAYERS OF SKIN HIDING BONE

Noem's gonna spend another $300 million on 3 more private jets in her new role lol bet

have maybe been disassociating since learning we blew up a girls school then blew up the recovery effort

friendship ended meme template: "Friendship ended with Auden. Now Wilfred Owen is my best friend" There are crossed out pictures of Auden and a man shaking hands with a picture of Wilfred Owen.

only way to describe what this is as intentional and targeted evil. they want to make it impossible for trans people to live. this is genocidal

I’ve got a substack! This is my first short story (from a collection I’m serializing about life on the road with Thursday) — every month a new story, a new essay, and a demo!

https://open.substack.com/pub/geoffreyrickly356453/p/envy-and-the-angel-on-the-a-train?r=1ojnry&utm_medium=ios

auden time

i get the appeal of an edit button and it sounds like it's being worked on but like, you can also just delete and re-post or double check your words before posting. and that doesn't require special handling of likes/comments before/after an edit or yelling at the devs after every update

confused why everyone is so expectant of an edit button on this platform. twitter never even had that except for the paid accounts

sing of doorshock

i feel like if a fest could have gotten them to reunite, it would have been the (not quite) final furnace fest. so i'm not holding out hope 😿

i gotta listen to receiving end of sirens. that sucks mightily that covid killed the reunion though damn

the goats fr

yesss it’s never gonna happen but that’s my dream band reunion

A 5x5 grid of album art. 1: Panorama by La Dispute 2: No One Was Driving the Car by La Dispute 3: What It Takes to Move Forward by Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) 4: Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (10th Anniversary) by La Dispute 5: False Cathedrals by Elliott 6: Downpour by Charmer 7: The Satellite Years by Hopesfall 8: The Things We Think We're Missing by Balance and Composure 9: Wildlife by La Dispute 10: Magnolia by Turnover 11: Yellowcard by Yellowcard 12: What To Do When You Are Dead (15th Anniversary) by Armor for Sleep 13: (I Think) I'm Leaving by Better Off 14: Death Deserves A Name - EP by Can't Swim 15: Everybody Is Going to Heaven by Citizen 16: Four Wall Blackmail by Dead Poetic 17: Diamond Eyes by Deftones 18: Worship and Tribute by Glassjaw 19: Decadence by Head Automatica 20: Prototheme by Hot Mulligan 21: You'll Be Fine by Hot Mulligan 22: Damage by Jimmy Eat World 23: Futures by Jimmy Eat World 24: Rooms of the House by La Dispute 25: Feel Something by Movements

i felt ashamed that i’d stayed in my head in the same place for so long
because i was afraid to change

but that’s not an excuse to stay

i could never dog sit cause i’d teach him to like jump up on the counter and shit

this is incredible

Children’s online safety laws are failing LGBTQ+ youth | Brookings Brooke Tanner and Nicol Turner Lee discuss how children's online safety laws might unintentionally target safe online spaces for LGBTQ+ kids.

another trvth nvke: that bubblewrap isn't applied just to dick and boob. unequal application of that happens to anything vaguely controversial for kids, including if your shit has been mentioned in a sentence with Gender Ideology or Orientation before
www.brookings.edu/articles/chi...

weather getting warmer which means i can finally listen to things other than la dispute

it wrecked 👍

i keep saying i gotta get navidrome/jellyfin set up but man i really gotta get navidrome/jellyfin set up

tidal - AI slop on Thursday's page
qobuz - AI slop on Thursday's page and missing albums that I like
spotify - ICE/weapon startup connections yipee!!
apple - API is literally $99 per year for some reason
deezer - no AI slop and free web API except not really they're just lying about the free web API

My Apps We're not accepting new application creation at this time. Please check again later.

does anyone actually work at Deezer? apparently the API has been down for a year+

is there any streaming service other than spotify that has a free web API and isn't absolutely swamped with random AI slop on official artist pages?

Best Buy listing for a WD Black 2TB PS5 SSD for $1,068.99

2TB ssd*

Best Buy has a $500 2TB WD black m.2 too tbf but the PS5-branded one is literally $1000 lmao

how is the economy so fucked up that a 2TB is $1000 now genuinely what the fuck are we doing

problem: winbind sucks and frequently stops pulling domain user information correctly

solution: write a service to monitor winbind output and keep restarting the service until it looks good again

verdict: surprisingly effective