Jonathan Dursi

“I will do it tomorrow,” said Toad. “Today I will take life easy.”

A Happy/Angry Wojack meme. Happy Wojack: when gas is $2/litre because their guy decides to start a world war. Angry Wojack when gas is $1.20/L because there's a consumer carbon tax.

"i'm worried about AI's impact on the labor market" i say as i continue to leech off of unpaid open source volunteer work

"Wealthy landowning interest groups begin advocating in the media for higher prices for their land" I guess is too long for a title, but it's a shame because you could typeset it in really nice fonts once and just keep using it across a whole swathe of different genres of newspaper articles.

"Unlike _those_ professions, who are basically ditch-diggers, _my_ profession requires an unparalleled level of intellectual sophistication and subtlety" is something we're going to hear more and more, until we hear it less and less, replaced with "Well I always _said_ it would be a valuable tool.."

Claude is your FRIEND. He fights for FREEDOM

I could see this going the other way too, though. Having a ready answer to « why don’t you just go after the big investors instead » - we did, we stopped PE - might open up room to build some momentum towards other better changes.

(Yes, that’s an optimistic take, but I’ll take what hope I can find)

Maybe the problems caused lets us talk about the downsides of cars without the triggering defensiveness by and sympathies for drivers?

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There's even a Succession-like drama! www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/417414...

And "eventually" is ~1-2 weeks!

Canadian red cross swimming badges, yellow orange red maroon (grr maroon)

Canadian red cross swimming badges, blue, green, silver, and white is replaced by a badly drawn figure in the same-ish style shovelling snow

There are already small niche practices in law - law! - offering narrowly scoped fixed-price productized services, and explicitly using that as a competitive advantage in their advertising. Working with one now.

Moving away from billable hours might do more for productivity growth than AI

I'm sure you can get them to switch to Teams if you ask nicely

There's a lot of people on here who are just yearning to pile verbal abuse on people, and who are eager adopters of any new beliefs that give them permission to do that.

Oh no - the cat was about to very much be a participant in this great moment in science, and to be extremely pissed off about it afterwards.

The cat looked unaware that any Great Science was to be done that day

Don't know how it all plays out, but I'm kind of hoping that by the time we've sanded off the rough edges and are working productively with agents, way more people will have been taught effective basic management and delegation skills.

Half joking: This is what it's like to be a senior technical leader.

My grandmother remembered "No Irish" signs in bars and restaurants in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1920s

Also worked at a physics journal where people would routinely send in, erm, revolutionary manuscripts. Usually just text, but one had a figure which was a photo of the experimental apparatus, which consisted of a playground slide, a cat, and a garden hose.

I used to work in an astrophysics institute, and not only would people mail in their treatises, sometimes they’d get dressed up and bring them in, looking for someone to talk to.

looking back on it, AOL was right.
Thirty hours of internet is all we need every month

Who wore it better

Except unlike with a work van or even minivan the single 2x4 won’t fit in the bed of his cosplay-cowboy pickup truck so it’s left sticking out and bouncing around uselessly with a flag on the end like a hobo bindle.

Grew up TOS/TNG liberal, now rapidly becoming DS9 liberal

They knew at some point - getting their license - that this was unsafe and disallowed, and they did it anyway, and something bad happened - this should clearly be well beyond "administrative offence and get a ticket" level of punishment

My most carceral car take is that if a driver causes damage or harm while doing something that would have insta-failed them in a driving test - like going through a crosswalk with a pedestrian there, or speeding, or going through a red light - it should be automatically at least criminal negligence

For $20/month I have an always-on crazy fast graduate student-level tool to write and debug code, run simulations, and do analyses and literature reviews.

The idea that this doesn't have huge impacts for youth employment - and thus raise questions the left should be thinking about - is absurd.

So all this "just spicy autocomplete" "stochastic parrot" stuff that's all over bsky is just crazy-making.