Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

No I don’t want cookies, no I don’t want to log in with Google, no I don’t want to give you my email address, no I don’t want a discount coupon, and just like that using the web on a phone feels like I’m looking for interesting rocks by the seashore. Maybe this is interesting, maybe it's good, lemme just wipe all this crud off first so I can actually see it.

Again, there is something really sobering about looking up anything like "automatically crop a set of images" and seeing nothing but web services that are obviously just thin wrappers around the imagemagick command you want, when what you want is the command.

I do think if he leaves he should still get a bonus.

His very own CyberTruck.

Maybe throw in a membership in AAA so he can have it hauled out when it gets stuck in sand.

"The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/09/rto_quit_study/

UUID, barely used. Has never been in a collision. No lowball offers

Does Netanyahu give a DAMN about the life of a Palestinian?

How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed at least 274 Palestinians in Gaza
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #BreakingNews #Breaking

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-hostages-casualties-1458f5a1dfe7bd4d908231bb7090a559

Don't anthropomorphize computers.

They hate that.

Michael Wolff claims Trump is 'totally incoherent' when he's not in front of the cameras https://www.alternet.org/michael-wolff-claims-trump-is-totally-incoherent-when-he-s-not-in-front-of-the-cameras/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Michael Wolff claims Trump is 'totally incoherent' when he's not in front of the cameras https://www.rawstory.com/trump-incoherent-2668487132/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Database reveals 'staggering' $6.6 million in gifts to Supreme Court Justices https://www.rawstory.com/database-reveals-staggering-6-6-million-in-gifts-to-supreme-court-justices/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Is this one of those "good guys with a gun?" An armed off-duty security guard thought three teens were going to rob a store. They weren't; they were returning a BB gun. Now one of the teens is dead because the wannabe hero shot one of the kids and "stood over the teen on the ground and continued to fire." Big man hero is in jail on charges of for second-degree murder. If he hadn't been armed, he would've dialed 911, he'd be free, and the kid would be alive.
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/teen-shot-renton-big-5-sporting-goods

If you put Schrodinger in a box with a cat and a vial that had a 50% chance of releasing a trolley that causes one hand to clap would it make a sound?

@weaselx86 @shelldozer @brouhaha You have to read to the third paragraph to get to the quote about it being too expensive to retrieve COBOL programmers from long-term cold storage and thaw them out. #SameAsItEverWas

Just a little reminder that here in Europe, we play the same exact video games as youth from the United States

We do not have (daily) school shootings however

Instead of blaming video games, start looking at the super easy to get weapons on each corner of street problem

Games are not the problem, weapons are 🇺🇸

Georgia is in play in 2024.

“I believe that Trump can be placed among a long line of demagogues who possess the skills needed to tap into the fears and anxieties of a group of people that perceives itself as marginalized, at risk and not in control.”

It worked for Democrat Lester Maddox in 1967, and it’s working for Trump this year
https://theconversation.com/preying-on-white-fears-worked-for-georgias-lester-maddox-in-the-60s-and-is-working-there-for-donald-trump-today-227749
#Trump #Election2024 #USPolitics @blackmastodon

@rberger @pluralistic For those who don’t want to pay for seat selection, the latest seems to be purposely putting passengers “randomly” into the middle. 9/10 times that’s my default seat even if I’m registering way in advance and there are dozens of empty aisle and window seats.

In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas received $20,000 from a wealthy “friend” — and was forced to resign.

Today, Justice Clarence Thomas just admitted to receiving $4,000,000 from a wealthy “friend” — and nothing is happening to him at all.

Congress MUST investigate Thomas NOW.

* $20,000 in 1969 is worth about $170,000 today

"The pandemic ends when infections end, not when your attention span ends."

- Arturo Portnoy, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

#COVID19

@mattblaze

Must be nice to get confirmed to the Supreme Court and realize not that you have been accorded the highest office of trust that the nation can bestow upon an attorney, but rather, you have just been given the biggest goddam cash cow of your entire career!