Somewhere amid all the Congressional hearings called for by all of this, though, someone simply must find time to break Elon Musk on the fucking wheel.

The dream.

Be fun if they held it hostage. Don’t bring email back up until demands are met. Worker ownership. CEO exiled to a remote island.

I lost a lot of respect for a coworker over this.

This was pre pandemic. They brought a nurse into the office to give everyone who wanted a flu vaccine. She wouldn’t do it.

I said to her that if she got the flu, she’d probably live, but she’d also pass it on to other people. She’d be contagious before she knew she was sick, so she might be on the subway and infect a bunch of vulnerable people. Old ladies. Little babies. Anyone.

She was like no that’s not how it works. That’s not going to happen.

I was like, why not? In what way is that not how it works?

“I’ll just stay home if I’m sick”

“What about when you’re contagious and don’t realize? Or if it hits when you’re already at work?”

“That won’t happen”

Just denial.

Can’t convince people with facts. You have to play on their emotions. Make them feel good about themselves, or reinforce something they believe in. I can’t always figure out how to do that

If we had some sort of new Nuremberg trial he might die in front of a crowd.

I had a similar thought. A nice HUD for navigation would be nice. But we live in the bad place, so it’s all privacy invading enshittifying trash.

There’s a thing in our culture where we simultaneously tell people to work hard, and to become the guy at the top who doesn’t work.

CEOs and managers and such often don’t really do much work. They’re not in the weeds making the thing go. They don’t spot that O(n^2) algorithm and fix it so the site doesn’t go down under load. They send a message that says “site seems slow”, and someone actually fixes it.

This is a problem all over. The people we let make decisions aren’t the people doing the work. They don’t know how things work.

AI creates a smaller version of this. It turns you into an idiot leader, but without the benefit of taking all the profits from labor.

I get most of my music from Bandcamp, on bandcamp friday’s. It sucks they sold out and are probably circling the drain, but for a long time they were a solid independent source.

Buying directly from the band at a show or through their label is also cool.

It’s more of an up-front cost, but after years of doing this I have a large drm-free library.

Where does “I did a web search and found an answer on an AI generated source” land? I feel like the Internet is increasingly infected, and finding actual answers to stuff is hard.

Sometimes my cat will whine and try to get in my lap, but if I pick him up and put him there he leaps off. It’s only good if he climbs up himself.

A member of the general public can’t issue a citation.

My lawyer tells me it’s a “crime” to smash the windows of an illegally parked car. Even if they’re double parked in the bike lane.

This month management started quietly asking us to “write more of it ourselves” again.

I think… I think there’s a chance that if I was in-person, and this happened, there would be violence.

And the people who run this shit need to go to jail. I’m sure a lot of them would rat out their corrupt buddies for a reduced sentence.

There’s that political cartoon that’s like two people on bikes through a beautiful downtown, and one says to the other “If anyone tried to add bike lanes like this back home, I’d murder them”

Good. I look forward to a future where people who fought transit have their lives improved by it, even if they’re too small minded and foolish to recognize it.

I went back to windows for a little bit a couple years ago because when I tried to install mint on the new desktop, Ethernet WiFi and HDMI didn’t work. I tried some fixes but it was a real shit show.

After a little while on windows, I went with pop!_os , which worked out of the box

They’re not smart or visionary. They’re just rich. They sell us a myth that they’re titans but it’s a lie.

It’s all projection. They have poor empathy and poor critical thinking, so they think everyone is basically like them. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, except they’re also a bunch of toxic submissive types that will always yield to perceived authority.

They’re shit people. Failures to live up to human potential.

As the spokesperson put it, the robot’s actions may legally constitute fleeing the scene of a traffic incident, meaning Starship Technologies could very well be on the hook for the incident.

Good. Nail them to the wall.

Yes, because they are incompetent. They are not fit to be decision makers. Fucking get rid of them.

I’m so tired of work being a fucking nightmare because the people in charge are high on their own farts.

I don’t think so. I think it looked like a normal rectangle flash drive, but with some buttons on one side.

Oh! It was the creative nomad muvo, the model without the screen. Looking online it was actually two pieces- the flash drive part slid onto the audio part? Man, it’s been a while.