Silicon Valley:
"Self driving cars are coming"
also Silicon Valley:
"Prove you are not a bot by identifying traffic lights, cars, bridges, fire hydrants, motorcycles..."
Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary
with English subtitles:
youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...
A cartoon illustration of two cats sitting by a freezer tasting frozen mice. Caption reads "See? Aren't they just magical straight outta the freezer like this?"
New experiences. #grickledoodle #cats #mice #freezer #foodies #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
Why is society outraged at Epstein while still celebrating Michael Jackson?
Or am I misunderstanding the MJ musical, and is a JE sequel in the works?
#epstein #mj #musical
From a few days ago...
Do I choose the apartheid nazi or one of the surveillance creeps?
Every year on the first of January I get a lot of "happy birthday" messages from companies. They figure I just turned 56.
#UnixTimeZero
I store my files on vinyl.
Amazing article. both deeply moving and insightful.
For anyone who has ever marvelled at the writings of Oliver Sacks.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
" βLanguage is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought.β "
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
"the complete perversion of the actual premise of not just social media but the internet"
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
A cartoon illustration of a happy frog snuggled under in bed under an electric blanket. Caption reads "He'd heard the old metaphor of a frog in boiling water, but he was pretty sure his electric blanket was a different, safer matter all together."
Toasty. #grickledoodle #frog #winter #cold #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
"people who found the simpler and more flexible game to be bland; and people who didnβt like the game getting βwoke.β This is a slippery term, but it often boils down to things not being quite as racist or sexist as they used to be."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
A cartoon illustration of a lizard holding an old shed skin on a hanger looking at his attic which is full of other old skins hanging on racks. Caption reads "He didn't really have a good reason for doing it but he'd been saving his old skins for years."
Habits. #grickledoodle #habits #hoarding #collection #cartoon #lizard #art #drawing #funny
"More than a century ago, a wild-eyed, vegetarian, free love-promoting German entrepreneur and self-taught economist named Silvio Gesell proposed a radical reformation of the monetary system as we know it. He wanted to make money that decays over time. "
www.noemamag.com/what-if-mone...
"todayβs top-down, concentrated internet is, for many, an unpleasant and harmful place. Its owners are hard to remove, and their interests do not align with ours."
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
"an implicit acknowledgement that the infinite scroll, stuffed with bots and synthetic sludge, is approaching the limit of what humans will tolerate...."
It's just like the ChatGPT. You explain why it is wrong, and it says:
"Ah! I see now! I apologise for my earlier mistake." and then proceeds to give a whole new wrong answer.
The "Ah!" is just a simulation.
A cartoon illustration of a frustrated vampire in a castle looking at his tv screen showing a loading bar. Caption reads "Yet again, another movie night was totally ruined by the castle's crappy internet connection."
Lame. #grickledoodle #vampire #horror #internet #movies #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
A cartoon illustration of a dog, cat, and mice all enjoying jumping on a trampoline outside. Caption reads "It was agreed that all differences were to be put aside momentarily to try out the new trampoline."
United in fun. #grickledoodle #cats #dogs #pets #mice #trampoline #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
A cartoon illustration of facehugger aliens attacking two astronauts while one disappointed looking facehugger alien stays in its pod looking at sad Steve the astronaut. Caption reads "Although it was ultimately what saved his life, in the moment Steve had never felt such profound rejection as he did right then."
Alienated feelings. #grickledoodle #feelings #horror #aliens #cartoon #drawing #art #funny
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
Self Hosting is not the answer.
"I realized how privileged I am to have the skills required for digital sovereignty[ ... ] I realized that self-reliance isn't freedom β it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape."
www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu...
Picture of a chat log with a FlinkApp help bot stating: "You can manage your Flink App push notification settings directly from your mobile device. However, we suggest keeping them on, as disabling them may prevent you from receiving important tracking updates on your orders. At the moment, we are unable to allow different notification preferences for order tracking updates and marketing messages."
Flink App: the only way to stop us forcing ads down your throat is by going outside the app to the system settings and blocking us from there.
Starting to play with NixOS and discovering whole new ways of making my computer not bloody work.
A cartoon illustration of a mouse at his laptop surrounded by framed images of scary cats. Caption reads "Horror was the only genre he was able to write."
Skills to pay the bills. #grickledoodle #horror #mouse #cat #writer #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
I tried coding with an AI again. Quite frustrating. Got a huge pile of spaghetti code for the same price as a small pile of spaghetti at a fancy Italian.
#cline #claude #spaghetti #aislop
