Ben Scranton

Sure it didn't happen. This is funny enough for today though. Maybe it will happen tomorrow instead.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

There's someone out there right now naming their NAS units "media-nas-01" and they'll never know what they're missing out on.

opening vim on all my friends' and coworkers' computers so they have to learn it to figure out how to close it

Poor Michael (or, maybe, fortunate Michael) clearly only swims in the shallow end of the Internet.

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

If there's one thing I've taken away from years of being on Bruce Schneier's mailing list is that rubber hose cryptography is way, way more effective than doing fancy maths with big computers.

Honestly, I think the thing we’re gonna have to work past is that we’re all a bunch of introverts who just wanted to be left alone to make some cool weird shit, and now we have to storm the beaches of Normandy and I will NEVER forgive the assholes who made this happen

It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun Nonviolence is a double standard

I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Everyone has been saying, "Sir, sir! The Iraqis have the biggest and best insurgencies, sir!" And I said to them, "No, no, we'll have the biggest and best. Iraq is nothing. Ours will be so great that one annoying Stancil guy will be leading a resistance cell."

I’m not sure how many more people I can watch die on social media.

Schumer is just a simple, long-serving United States Senator. What pull or leverage could he *possibly* have?

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

I certainly hope it doesn't, because the consequences will affect everyone. But it only takes one and they do that shit *constantly*.

That was me this morning. Very first post was the video, autoplaying. Second post was someone warning people to turn off autoplay.

It's a good thing for them they're not playing CoD because the way they stand around in groups like that... Well let's just say they're probably not playing ranked.

A depiction of Crisps Attucks being killed by agents of the state on the streets of Boston for the crime of protesting.

If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.

Sooner or later that condescending attitude is going to get one of them killed.

I'm pretty sure Greg Bovino is an Oopma-Loompa who saw the movie Downfall and decided he desperately wanted to be in that bunker being berated by Reichsdaddy.

If the federal cops are allowed to break the law and execute people, why don't the state cops just break the "law" and arrest them. Apparently the rules are made up and the points don't fucking matter. Or they're just all nazis wearing slightly different uniforms.

Until people the regime doesn't like start falling out of high windows at an alarming rate, it's just sparkling authoritarian ambition.

The bootlickers with "Don't Tread On Me" stickers on their cars should be statutorily required to replace them with "Step On Me Daddy Please" stickers after this is all over.

I work in IT and thus have a masters in bullshit excuses like "there was a misconfiguration on the edge device" when really I just forgot to plug the router in. That's the same bullshit. Dude probably got an ulcer worrying about being lynched by Minnesotans. Which would be embarrassing.

4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 with ponytail: The inspection revealed a few problems. Looks like your planet needs an alignment. PERSON 2: Oh? (2) PERSON 1: Yeah, your magnetic axis is 400 miles off-center from your rotational one. PERSON 2: Is that bad? (3) PERSON 1: The unbalanced magnetic field could cause radiation anomalies over the South Atlantic. Have you noticed any spacecraft equipment failures in that area? PERSON 2: There *have* been a few, actually. (4) PERSON 1: We can give you a loaner planet while yours is in the shop. Is a gas giant OK? PERSON 2: I’d *really* prefer a solid surface. PERSON 1: Sorry, it’s all we have. But it’ll just be for a few days.

Planetary Alignment

xkcd.com/3192/

If you listen to Killing In The Name on repeat every time our government justifies some atrocity, it's literally the only song you ever listen to.

It wasn't *that* long ago that a bunch of right wingers occupied a national park, then after a month-long standoff actually for real tried to run over FBI agents and then tried to draw a gun on them. The howling indignation about federal law enforcement overreach was deafening. Hypocrites.

Apparently Grok will generate CSAM all day, but won't let me replace Mussolini's face with Trump's in that one super famous picture of Mussolini the last time he visited Loreto. Weak.

Same.