Three panel comic of two people talking. Text reads: WE INVENTED A ROBOT THAT ANSWERS QUESTIONS WE JUST HAVE TO FEED IT 10 BABY GIRAFFES A DAY BUT IT ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS CORRECTLY? OH MY GOODNESS, NO. NO NO NO NO NO
This comic is sublime
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Two middle-aged people in glasses, smiling in a cafe
Road tripping - We stopped in Nabiac for lunch on a beautiful day!
https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93330
Looking at LinkedIn posts about people using OpenClaw to build shit that would’ve been trivial if people just like them hadn’t killed off RSS and Yahoo Pipes
Envisioning a modern day Debbie Downer sketch that’s just me, going into people’s LinkedIn posts and asking pointed but depressing questions about ethics and the environment, when people just want to plagiarise and spew out slop in peace.
There is a secret thrill in walking around in modern society in clothes that you made yourself.
“Everybody’s talking about productivity… and being really busy… and doing more with less… and 10x-ing yourself… But what is everybody actually *doing*??”
That one got chuckles and applause. #sydtechleaders
Pondering… Is every tech meetup an AI meetup now? It’s been the underlying theme of every single question so far, even though it’s not meant to be the focus of the night. 🤔 #sydtechleaders
Two women and a man sitting on chairs
Now for the patented #sydtechleaders Q&A panel!
A woman presenting at a lectern
Final #sydtechleaders speaker for the night is Nelly from Atlassian. She starts off with a helpful reminder of what’s happening in the world, and encouraging people to take care of their own mental health these days. ❤️
Next up is Steve from Lookahead, trying not to be a doomer about the state of tech hiring. He says tech leaders need to provide the guard rails that are going to keep someone like him from shipping to prod! #sydtechleaders
Made it to #sydtechleaders just in time to see @jpofoz.bsky.social speaking about why it’s so hard to ship. You need to move decisions closer to your team, and look into improving context.
I'm on the mend. And he's an introvert who no doubt just lurked around the edges. :)
I was happy to see you in the news story! I was still too sick to go that day but my husband was there. So glad to see the outcome. Well done!!
A man speaking in an auditorium. His slide reads: Markets, Planners, and Demography A. Spontaneous order and markets 1) The emergence of cities' spontaneous order. 2) Cities' economies rest on their labor markets. B. The role of planners in managing cities 1) Planners should track spontaneous order through indicators, 2) Audit existing land use regulations. Must plan infrastructure to facilitate the functioning of the labor market. C. Cities will soon compete for people 1) Historically, cities competed for jobs created by large firms. They are already competing for people. Ensuring housing affordability for young people entering the workforce will be a city's economic survival strategy.
A slide showing a graph trending linearly upwards to the right. The horizontal axis is the annual percentage of job switchers, and the vertical axis is the lifetime wage growth. In the upper right are countries like Norway, Iceland, the US, and Britain. In the lower left are Italy and France.
A slide showing two stacked bar graphs. The upper one shows the demographic breakdown of Sydney, and the bottom shows the rest of NSW. They Sydney graph has a notable bulge in the center that the other graph lacks.
A crowd of people in an auditorium
Order Without Design: How markets shape cities - Rodd is fully in his Old Man YIMBY Era, so last night he headed to the State Library for this talk with Alain Bertaud and Lucy Turnbull (https://web.archive.org/web/20260216134307/https://events.humanitix.c... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93221
having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:
you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.
🚴♀️ Ride: Library - Distance: 2.92km
Time: 16min
https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93030
A CD jewelcase for the audiobook of Patrick O’Brian’s “The Ionian Mission”
Twelve?! - I went to reserve the next Patrick O’Brian book from the library and saw that it was available on CD. “That could be nice,” I thought. “I can knit while I listen to it!” Today I went to pick it up.
It’s twelve CDs.
I forget how mu... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/93032
Screenshot of a question posted to quora: "Why do older people not like putting spaces in file names when saving documents?"
Just put me on a flaming raft and push it out to sea.
Two people's legs stretched out on an ottoman. One person is wearing white pajama pants, and the other purple. Both are printed with characters from Bluey.
Two folded pieces of fabric, one white and one purple, both printed with characters from Bluey.
A mirror selfie of a woman wearing baggy white pajama pants printed with Bluey characters
A man wearing baggy purple pajama pants printed with Bluey characters
Bluey PJs, for real life! - I whipped up both of these pairs of pajama pants this weekend using Bluey fabric (https://www.essenhausquiltshop.com/iishop?form_version=2&showSearchResults=1&search_keyword=bluey&image=Search) I picked up at my Mom’s quilt s... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92898
A plastic container filled with small round egg patties with bits of speck and tomato on top
Egg bites: round 2 - I picked up a couple silicone muffin trays at Kmart today, and WOW, what a difference! They popped right out, no fat needed.
https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92891
A Singer serger sewing machine being used to finish a seam
Hubris - I managed to swap the thread on my serger in under 2 minutes by using the tie-on method successfully for the first time ever. Basking in the glow of accomplishment, I then switched over to my sewing machine and sewed a buttonhole in the wrong pla... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92888
Book bans and legislation - In the US, a nationwide book ban bill (https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/) has been introduced in the House of Representatives. (By Republicans, of course.) It would restrict libraries from carrying any book for ... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92880
A man in a beard and hat carrying a large clear piece of glass down a street
A man cleaning a piece of glass on top of a wooden sideboard
A wooden sideboard set up as a bar, with trays of alcohol and glasses on top
The bar - We got our sideboard/bar refinished last year, and today we finally got a piece of custom hardened glass to protect the top. (We learned the hard way that drops of alcohol can damage some wood furniture finishes.) It looks great, especially with... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92884
A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."
an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:
A screenshot from the movie Excalibur showing a young Helen Mirren in a chain mail headdress and a metal breastplate thing, and a beardy Merlin wearing a metal skullcap
Excalibur - “I hope you’re taking notes for the Halloween costume,” he said.
But honestly, how did Monty Python and the Holy Grail pre-date this film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_(film)) by six years? There are scenes that seem like dir... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92879
Tech industry layoffs - Mike Monteiro nails it again (https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-grow-strawberries/):
> “I think we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their ... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92877
Looking down at a wet sidewalk pavement with a yellow leaf. A person is wearing blue jeans and yellow rubber boots.
Rain - The only good thing about this weather is I finally get to properly break in my Merry People boots. My feet are nice and dry, and the yellow cheers me up.
https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92876
The LLM actively reduces the available context for the information it provides, which is bad.
But even worse, it *trains people to accept information without context*
Alexander’s Outing Walk 🦆🦆🦆 - Awww, this is very cute. If you’re visiting the Sydney CBD, be sure to check out the Alexander’s Outing Walk (https://www.nsw.gov.au/visiting-and-exploring-nsw/walks-near-me/great-walks/alexanders-outing-walk).... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92869
The sole of a sock, with a needle and thread darning a hole
A person's hand holding a darning mushroom, a wooden tool with a domed top and a slender handle
Darn it - I bought a darning mushroom last year (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/79927) and tried it out for the first time today. A bit of a bodge, but it’ll do!
https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/92873
