feel like your garage is too full of junk? no problem. try referring to it as "cargo bay one" instead

If your $dayjob is at all related to security, I'd love to hear from you about what type of mobile phone you currently rely on.

I've never really seen a data-based breakdown of the answer to this question, and I'm genuinely curious. Thanks!

p.s. if you vote, please also boost this poll!

“I thought to myself, ‘The natives are on to something!’ And I immediately went out and purchased the biggest, ugliest pair of earmuffs I could find.

“The moral of the story: never walk into a situation and assume you understand it better than the people who live there.”
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i don't want to monetize my hobbies i want money to not exist

Thread: Hey, you know those Tiny Free Pantries that people put up to help distribute food to those in need? My mom was telling me that she had been frustrated/confused by some of the items that weren't being taken.

She started paying attention to what items lingered. For example, dried beans. No one wanted them. She took them home, added canned tomatoes, a package of seasoning, etc, and put the ingredients in a zip-top bag with a instructions to make chili. Someone snagged it immediately!

also: did you know that the idea that humans have a poor sense of smell (compared to e.g. dogs and rodents) is a 19th century myth derived partly from religious politics of the Catholic Church in France
yes seriously
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5512720/

Introducing my new organic, all-natural intelligence search engine: Mark.

It's just this guy Mark. He'll do his best to answer your question, and he'll make up a reasonable-sounding answer real quick if he doesn't have one.

How will we scale? We'll hire more guys named Mark as demand ramps up.

We got rid of cable tv ages ago and have always had ad blockers on home devices, and going to visit relatives who’ve never made that leap is always incredibly jarring. You just let someone interrupt whatever you were doing, to show you an idiotic vignette about cars or shampoo or vitamins or who cares what, and you just… tolerate that? Like it’s ok?

I wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.

to quote an old tweet of mine:

Put the date in your paper. Put the date in your pastebin. Put the date in your blogpost. Please, the date, put it.

Beware the ides of march.

i want something like the death note except if i write someone's name in it then the internet goes down for them

I'm non-binary which means I have to compile my gender from source

Pov: you're watching me steal the Shogun's cat

To have a viral post on Mastodon is to be confronted with a long series of people asking the exact same question or providing the same “well actually” response, for days, because of the limits of federation. They simply can’t see those other replies. Sometimes they see *no* ofher replies, if they’re on a tiny server.

The experience isn’t great! As with customer service, it can be hard to remember that this isn’t actually the same person over and over again.

Client side validation isn’t. Please stop.