expectation: a “no meeting Friday” where everyone can focus on their work without distractions

reality: Fridays become packed with last-minute impromptu meetings

gonna start calling the AI bots “replai guys”

I know that the web has kind of gone downhill lately, but if you ever start to despair just remember that thistothat.com is still around as a rare bastion of The Good Internet™.

the twitter porn bots have graduated from ░P░U░S░S░Y░I░N░B░I░O░ to straight up replying with AI generated pornographic images.

so be extra careful when clicking that “show” button

electrical grid operators hate this one weird trick

“please stop,” begs my vector editing program.

“I’ll do anything.”

has the government tried doing anything about this?

the only reason I ask is that they’ve been doing nothing for a decade now and it seems to not be working.

kudos to google for offering a free option to keep AI out of search results

has there ever been any business meeting less realistic than the council of elrond?

you seriously want me to believe that a meeting ended with a decision being made and multiple teams taking ownership of the problem?

sometimes I like to pretend that LLMs are simply mechanical turks, tiny boxes filled with a human tasked to write the most cringe bullshit you've ever seen.

and hallucinations are simply the hypoxia settling in.

my spouse won the Pioneer Press annual Peep contest with “Lake Supeeperior.” she’s so cool. 😎

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computers used to yell at us when we connected to the internet, but in our hubris we ignored them.

this reminds of how the Target app sometimes asks you if you recommend Target to your friends, as if that is a thing that normal human people do.

i suppose one of the upsides of having extensive body tattoos as i do will be being able to affirmatively assert any given piece of deepfake porn is not me.

one of my least favorite things about living in the Midway of City of Saint Paul is how the U.S. Postal Service controls a huge span of sidewalk that they basically never clear. I’ve fallen here three times in the last five years.

(@AnikaBowieSTP Saint Paul Public Works)

twitter today sure is filled with deeply insightful questions such as, “why don’t they equip 170,000 ton cargo ships with those emergency brakes that you see in cars?”

“you know, the kind that go skrrrrt when you pull up on them?”

america twitter be like:

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Healthcare (cancer) $43,600
Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

my favorite part of owning the apple studio display is that they stuffed an entire iphone with no network connection in there for almost no reason.

but it needs frequent updates and bricks itself most of the time for me.

somebody needs to get Metro Transit on the line, STAT