yesterday I both sent a fax to and burned a DVD-R to mail to the FAA, because the former is the fastest way to write to them and the latter is the only way to send them files. 🫠

don't think, just click. if you need to sort alphabetically from A -> Z, is that…

crowdstrike leadership be like, “what if we threw our customers a pizza party?” techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/cro…

I have gotten a lot better about being assertive in work conversations over the years, but golly is it hard to break my bad habit of wording PR change requests as “could we do XYZ instead?”

mndot be like, “we absolutely do need an eight-lane intracity interstate highway right next to a couple dozen schools.” theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 GPUs $7,400,000,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my AI is dying

wild that twitter's revenue has fallen 80% since the musk takeover and yet people still don't understand that moderation is the product.

my five-year-old Kindle Oasis, which is still an amazing device, has really dropped off a cliff lately with regards to battery life lately. went to see if Amazon replaces batteries and it seems they don't do battery replacements on devices? like at all?

as a Union Park District Council board member, it is endlessly amusing to me that not only is Governor Tim Walz one of my constituents, but that we also shop at the same menards. now i just need to figure out a way to get him to sign my spruce tree centre tile.

me: portrait mode on this selfie would be nice, maybe blur the background a teeny tiny bit ios: great, lemme set the depth of field so narrow that it looks like you took a picture with a 280mm lens from 20 feet away at f/2.8

never would have predicted this future with a million guesses in 1995, but i'm really enjoying my 11-year-old son's first foray into linux.

i always sign paper documents using ISO 8601, in a sisyphean attempt to fight the dateriarchy.

tech companies be like “we love diversity” while having name change systems that miss a ton of spots and force trans people to be deadnamed forever with no way to fix it.

When you're in a 1:1 Zoom call (or whatever), do you prefer that the other person looks at their camera and therefore provides "direct eye contact," or do you prefer they look at their screen or whatever?

i am extremely sad that LiveATC.net seems to have permanently blocked Lofi ATC, as it was by far my favorite thing to relax to. thankfully there’s at least a bit of a workaround on iOS, using shortcuts and automations.

nah techcrunch.com/2024/09/04/x-i…

when the City of Saint Paul was drafting their laws for new drive-throughs, I suggested that they tweak the language so that those outside of vehicles were entitled to the same level of service as those inside. and it looks like it might happen 👀

you've heard the adage about how you can only have two out of three when it comes to software development, right? which two does your employer choose?

people who are gay: i'm gay people who are straight: i'm straight people who are bisexual: i'm bisexual people who are trans: i'm trans people who are from chanhassen: i'm from minneapolis

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