If I wanted to make a wild generalization about Grok it would be that anybody who uses Grok is corny and has always been corny, and that making a conscious choice to use it basically marks you as a creep.
Whoever spent all night painting the beams over the downslope of the Williamsburg Bridge bike ramp so that it reads "STOP MEN" from space: I salute you.
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social I was reading @angierasmussen.bsky.social’s post on H3N2 flu transmissibility (and original antigenic sin) today and went back to check on our flu-prevention selfies from 2018. Guess which flu was in the air that year? open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
To that end, a hail mary: I have two tickets that I would like to offer to folks who are… between things. If you’re free on the 15th and 16th this wednesday and thursday and would like to attend and spend time with community, please send me a message (or offer to your unemployed friend).
Spending two straight days with thirty or so speakers who are obsessed with their corner of these topics is a real gift, but so is spending that time with the community of engineering managers who come every year. It is a very useful thing to talk about the work. People find help, people find work.
Hello! This week I will be hosting LeadDev NY for the fourth straight year. It’s rapidly becoming one of my favorite habits, because I get to think about what engineering leadership is—and what engineering is and what leadership is.
I'm fine. Let's not let the stochastic feeds distract us from the dogs that matter most to us. My condolences.
I adore that you're just sitting there watching for people using a word so that you can doodle on into their brains.
KAYFABE METER IS OFF THE CHARTS
To give credit where it's due as I dip my toe back in here, I'm following my good friend Mandy's approach to social publishing, about coming home to the web and stepping out of the stream.
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/coming-home
On the inevitability narrative and what it more or less directly says about the lives of the few hundred people I passed on my way to work today:
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-apocalypse-is-for-the
If you're seeing this, you're watching the progress of my solving the dilemma of how to think out loud without scrolling through my social media feeds. I'll let you know how it goes.
conclave is sudden death tiebreaker but for organized religion
More than my own experience as a cyclist, though, I thought a lot about the overall usability of the streets for everybody—including the cars who were in the tolling district, who were moving at a reasonable speed for the first time in recent memory.
I rode my bike into Manhattan today, and while my experience is a sample size of 1, the traffic I observed (and rode in) was significantly lower than almost any other Monday in the last year or so. It was, for me, a glorious ride. #congestionpricing
miette best cupcake
“monterey and carmel are just south florida but they like trees more” ha yeah send that
I will die on this hill: the two buildings in your neighborhood that you need to protect most of all are your post office and your library, because they protect you.
I don’t think people realize what it means for your government to have a little building in their town or neighborhood that helps them live their lives. This is what government does. It’s worth everything your taxes pay for.
Like, I literally just got back from getting my eight year old daughter a passport five blocks from my house, right after a woman bought a money order to pay her rent, who in turn followed another man who needed to make sure his mail could automatically be forwarded to his new apartment.
Once again: The postal service can “lose money” no more than the U.S. military can. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
As somebody who rides in Manhattan traffic nearly every day, it’s hilarious to me that people who have to drive into the city think that what they are experiencing on the streets RIGHT NOW is even slightly preferable to congestion tolling.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/n...
A school running out of paper is like, oh, I don’t know, police cars running out of gas.
Seven-year-olds benefit from paper. It’s not like office workers just printing out slide decks for no reason. You can riff and think and make mistakes on paper in ways that are really formative.
My seven-year-old’s school ran out of paper last week.
Who here, when they were a child, were ever given pepsi syrup as a remedy for stomachache?
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The best thing about @choire.bsky.social’s newsletter is that I really cannot tell if this is intentional or not.
Tired: Gingko
Wired: Bradford Pear
On further reflection, I think it’s just cars and the mayor.
