Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” [kottke.org]
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Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” [kottke.org]
What device is that?
It is *bananas* that they would give vibe coding tools (and _Replit_, of all platforms 🤣) production deploy access! With no backups! We gave better backup tools to teenagers on Glitch remixing apps a decade ago.
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
Never mind! As it turns out, they removed the arbitration clause from their terms in 2021: www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/b... (gift link)
(saw your post in the disability feed)
Sadly, that's probably not feasible. Amazon almost certainly has a "all disputes must be resolved through arbitration" clause in their terms of service.
A person stands partially hidden among dense, lush green foliage, holding a megaphone up to their mouth. They wear a red hat and a light-colored shirt with bold writing, though the text is not fully legible from the distance. The person appears to be speaking or shouting through the megaphone, positioned in the center of the frame and surrounded by tall plants and overgrown vegetation. In the background, a small patch of open grassy field is visible beyond the thick greenery. The scene evokes a feeling of someone broadcasting a message from a secluded or unexpected place.
thread of photographs i took at my local protest (3)
this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands — all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout "you are the minority!"
I did take the stickers off
Also scoring the sticker doesn't really do anything, they're already fairly brittle as-is
A stack of removed registration stickers, thicker than a coin, held in front of a license plate with a 2008 registration sticker showing. A new sticker, waiting to be peeled, is visible in the bottom corner.
Put the new registration sticker on @josh.sirota.org's car today, and wow the thickness of the stickers really adds up.
*NEW LAWSUIT ALLEGES 80'S BAND STARSHIP VIOLATED NUMEROUS BUILDING CODES
@goodlordwhatishappeninginthere.auroraborealis.uhauroraborealis.atthistimeofyearatthistimeofday.inthispartofthecountry.localizedentirelywithinyourkitchen.yes.mayiseeit.no.seymourthehouseisonfire.nomotheritsjustthenorthernlights.borealis.gay us
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
What do you think of mine?
Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan
For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
You are limited to non-commercial use on the free version (unless you're a student or educator), and all your documents have to be public, but depending on what you're using it for that may be fine.
Onshape? It's web-based but surprisingly cromulent despite that. I've used it a ton and haven't seen any issues that I can attribute to the browser environment
One of the most frustrating things about US car culture is that there’s no “opt-out.”
Even if you choose to live car-free in a dense city, not only will you have other people’s noisy vehicles polluting your streets, but drivers will also demand access to *every last space.*
A 🧵 on CT car culture/
@aviva.gay I think this is a deer.social feature request
No, or at least not visibly.
Top-down photo of a table with various buttons and stickers scattered on it. At the top of the frame is a name badge with assorted other accoutrements attached to it, including about 10 ribbons.
A panoramic shot from the bleachers of the championship venue, showing a long line of identical robotics playing fields.
A group of people in gold t-shirts around a large FIRST logo statue.
what a ride it was at FIRST championships. even though we didn't make it to the playoffs, it was amazing to show off what we could do on the global stage. couldn't have asked for a better way to cap off not only the season, but my career as a student in FIRST. (also I got to meet @reeseric.ci irl)
that looks really cool, if you showed that to me I would not say that came out of Onshape
oh no
(These photos were both taken by myself!)
A photo of an FRC robot extending its metal elevator mechanism upward, in preparation to place the piece of PVC pipe it holds on top of the metal structure at right.
A motion-blurred photo of an FRC robot picking up a large teal playground ball. The robot is clear, but everything around it is blurred.
My #frc team (6238 Popcorn Penguins) just qualified for the championship for the first time in our 8-year history! I'm so proud of this team and our scrappy little algae bot.
#photography #omgrobots #robotics
A robot with blue bumpers with the number 6238 printed on them hangs above a carpeted floor. The robot is suspended by a blue metal cage-like structure attached at the back.
New banner! This is my #frc team's (6238 Popcorn Penguins) robot completing a climb. It's hanging from a small piece of truss that's only a few inches off the ground.
Photo shot by me, 2025-03-16. CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
I'd bet that's why. There's no way they'd make a change like this a propos of nothing
Why did we get "pilled" and "coded," "fangled" was right there.
I imagine most anyone who follows transit-focused accounts knows this, but I figured I would write this little thread for those who may be less familiar with these issues.
We have chosen to make cars easy and transit hard. We could reverse that and increasingly I think we should.
Great challenge - I nominate Santé by Stromae (🇧🇪/🇫🇷): youtu.be/P3QS83ubhHE?...