I was trying to convince my boss that buying skills (ie: learning) is better than renting them forever from the AI, but I don’t think I convinced him

Every conservative accusation is a confession

I’ve known plenty of polyamorous people, many of which have otherwise unremarkable, happy, lives.

There’s always people ready to shit on it online.

“I could never do that”. Ok. So don’t.

“I’m too jealous”. That’s a character flaw. Maybe work on that.

“I knew a couple that tried it and broke up”. Many people break up for many reasons.

“It’s cheating”. Cheating is breaking agreed upon rules. If the people involved say it is not, then it is not.

“It’s confusing for kids”. No it’s not. Kids are very adaptable.

Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.

If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won’t, because the police serve the wealthy, but it’s a nice day fantasy.

I hope I never become so befuddled that pushing one chat bubble icon instead of the other is confounding.

I don’t understand how some people who are ordinarily reasonably smart just turn into subhuman intelligence when faced with a new computer thing.

My dad is quite elderly and he manages to run ubuntu fine. My mother, on the other hand, gets confused and angry if anything changes at all on her phone or laptop.

I’m so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. “We’re ai native” , “we want employees who are excited about ai tools”, “agenic workflows”

Just fuck off.

Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!

Because the current process means constant merge conflicts that I have to deal with, and constant bugs I have to deal with.

But, on the other hand, maybe you’re right and I should just check out and spend a day “fixing git problems” too

I see a lot of ads for ai slop on the subway and I refuse to engage with them. I don’t look them up. Fuck 'em.

Sometimes people vandalize them and if I saw someone doing so, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.

I’m working at a mega Corp now (not one you’ve probably heard of) and it’s a fucking farce.

We had a meeting last week about some problems with the current process. People kind of nodded along. Meeting was drawing to a close. No concrete tasks or assignments.

I say, “great. Who’s taking lead on this? Can we have a proposal by Monday and make a decision by Wednesday?”

Suddenly management people are like “whoa whoa whoa stay in your lane”

Okay then why don’t you fucking manage?

This happens all the time. We have long ass meetings with the whole team, talk about problems, but then no one is assigned to do anything and nothing changes.

There’s just so much incompetence and ineptitude. Some of it is probably coming from hidden, bad, incentives

Another way I’m a little insufferable but like… yeah the pandemic and quarantine sucked, but I read a lot of books, played a lot of video games, had a great online DND game.

Some people just seem so helpless and inept. They’d be like “I just need to see other people” and I’m like please develop some discipline.

I do a lot of rice and (canned) beans, which is pretty cheap and satisfying.

I don’t have any experience with lentils. My parents never had them because , the story goes, the last time they did my father farted himself out of the bed.

Cars (well, the car-first infrastructure in most of the US) is already a pretty effective forment nexus.

Stop making people commute when they could work from home. That’s hours wasted on top of climate crime.

Cool. Fuck cars. Take transit in NYC.

They could pay people to check, but it’s more important that they spend billions on slop and executive bonus.

Fuck Spotify. I’ll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.

Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.

It’s kind of funny that because most of us are nice, no one just beat the shit out of trump or worse. Assholes are kind of like parasites taking advantage of kindness.

I feel a little guilty by not skipping work entirely, but I have the legal minimum of paid time off. So I’m technically on the clock, but I’m not doing any work.