You know that Family Guy meme where they have the skin color chart to determine how suspicious someone should be? Yeah, you know the one. Well, the Supreme Court just essentially codified that intoβ¦
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The DC Circuit Court of Appeals did something remarkable last weekβthey followed binding Supreme Court precedent. In 2025. Involving Trump. Which, predictably, got them immediately overruled by theβ¦
I shop at Aldi's for most of my groceries, and of course I pick up interesting finds. A couple weeks ago I grabbed a couple boxes of hot honey macaroni and cheese. Its not bad, but the flavor profile is mostly just hot. I don't hate it, but I'd prefer regular mac and cheese, or something with an actual flavor profile.
My students are often surprised to learn that LLMs arenβt answering their questions. Rather, an LLM answers the question βwhat would a reply to this look like?β Itβs one of the first things I explain in the βShould I use LLMs?β portion of my syllabus.
What a day, slept fine far as I know, not through the night, but I never do that, but wasn't up more than usual. But dreams, I rarely remember dreaming, let alone what I dreamed, but I did sorta remember these, at least in as much as they were weird, very trippy.
So for whatever reason I was dragging this morning, but I did get out of the house close to on time so I could go sit at Bread Co and wait for RoadieXD to drop jobs... And nothing today, action there's been nothing for a few weeks I think, however I haven't had the time to work for them as I've mostly transitioned back to BetterTrucks, so I was checking as frequently, but Tues is a free day, so we were looking for something today. No dice, so I'm going to have to decide what to do with my Tues in the future, maybe back to Better Trucks, or be more careful on Sunday so I can catch when Jitsu drops their Tues blocks, not sure yet. I did however while I was out make a payment on his car, once his burial and memorial is sorted, I'll have to look at what's left of his life insurance and see if'n buying out the car is an option, but with no TOD, taking ownership might be tricky, I'm going to see if'n the Credit Union can help with that by repossessing the car on paper, then selling it to me for the pay off amount and some extra fees, otherwise there's a form to fill that will transfer ownership so long as the car isn't worth too much, and of course probate court is an option, but I'd rather not deal with that if I don't have to.
Either way, came home, finished my usual web surfing, though that took longer than usual as I was still dragging. And sleepy, very sleepy. I did wind up taking a nap, but do need to figure out why I've been sleepy lately, been busy getting the comics ready for sale to the tune of 20 or so hours a week on top of 30 to 35 hours of work, sometimes more on either of those, plus chores. Oh, and the yard work, part of a much larger project that was going to involve me, Vik and our room mate, the latter is helping here and there, but I'm mostly getting the backyard sorted out, it serves as a break from everything else, but its a large project, the yard waste pile is now 6ft or so, and we have piles of pavers and concrete. It is however mostly done, just need a few cubic yards of dirt to fill in some holes, and its done. Might also be thyroid or vitamin, my mom has basically no thyroid function and my sister very little, so runs in the family, but that'll have to wait until I find some insurance (anyone want to help with that?). If its vitamin, that's going to be tricky, I did try to go back to multivitamins, Vik had about a half bottle left here, but they turn my stomach, so that's not an option.
Should've called the cemetery about the burial, but was tired, so napped, then scanned a shelf of comics, and here we are. I suspect the burial is part of my problem last night and today, Vik was often out late whether he had game, town council meeting, pen club meeting, genealogy research, and so on, so him not being here is only unusual in the fact that its for an extended period, since I haven't cleaned out much of his stuff yet, things feel mostly normal here, but planning his burial... Yeah, that kinda hammers things home.
Need to figure out dinner, surf the web and then bed.
I set my personal blog up so it approves all followers automagically (Soapbox), because I'm fine with anyone following me what wants to, and I don't want to be bothered with new followers in my alerts. However I'd like to know who my new followers are because there's a chance I might want to reciprocate, so is there a way to check this, maybe friends, group: followers... Sort by date added maybe?
@KΔpitan my personal Friendica node automatically follows back and there is no way to disable it, and you can always see your followers in your contacts
@pasjrwoctxπ½ Yeah, I didn't want that option, my home timeline is busy enough that I don't need to indiscriminately follow people back. Only bad part about seeing your followers in your contacts, is that they're only sorted alphabetically.
@KΔpitan I wish I could have it where anyone can follow, but I dont follow back automatically, currently I can only manually unfollow, and yes a busy time line is good but also so very bad especially on shared hosting, it causes me headaches if my feed is ripping all day long, and yes the contact list is a bit of a pain, but I still love my friendica, it really over all is a great platform.
Playing with #Vivaldi browser right now as a replacement for #chromium . I'd been using Chromium for a few sites that don't work on Firefox or don't work reliably, but #firefox is still my browser of choice so far. As much as I don't want the web to be built around Chrome/Chromium, I gotta say I'm getting rather tired of Firefox, but its container feature keeps me around, but if'n Vivaldi has a similar feature, that might be the stake in it, just gotta figure out how to use it as its an incredibly complex browser, it has so many more features than I'm used to seeing.
Vivaldi has Workspaces and profiles. Neither are like Containers in Firefox: profiles are completely separated browser instances that share nothing except for the version you have updated to, whereas Workspaces (within one profile) give structure, but pages share cookies. So with workspaces you cannot log in to some site with two different accounts at the same time, you'll have to use profiles for that.
@WildEnte Hmmm, Ok, thanks, was going to look into this if/when I got a chance. Not sure I like either of those options, I'll have to think on it.
EDIT Ok, looking at it, Workspaces are like Tab Groups on Firefox, Profiles is definitely like Containers, but Containers are more elegant, and possibly a bit more flexible since you can create containers to specific sites companies, like my Amazon container doesn't just grab Amazon automagically, but also GoodReads, IMDB and other Amazon properties.
The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio childrenβs hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump administration a βsledgehammerβ to use on mass deportations.
The camera on certain models made from 2015 to 2019 may show a blank or distorted image on the center display screen while the vehicle is in reverse, which increases the risk of a crash.
Therapy practices meant to βcureβ homosexuality are set to become punishable by law. A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, voted in favor of a bill by D66 and the VVD that ensures this.
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Looker is based on a Kiger Mustang.. same thing as Spirit. Felt like a movie star horse and something relatively down-to-earth fit him. It's got a rugged/wild look instβ¦
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Credit to @/ali3nboyfriend for their horse poses!
Quakers in Britain has applied to intervene in the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, saying the ban has undermined their freedom of religion.
This seems to be the last functional #diaspora server in the USA that is still accepting new users. I am grateful. My goal is to make connections with people by developing a large list of tags. I am interested in people's writing. I don't mind memes, so long as there is some accompanying commentary. I was a long time user of #livejournal in the deep past. It was not uncommon to make "friends" with people on livejournal due to shared common interests. This was in the period of 1999 to 2005. At some point, "social media" developed, and the #teleology shifted. It was no longer about Users using the software to create new associations based on common interests, but rather it became about the software recreating Users' IRL social networks online (and exploiting them). So, I have spent twenty years looking for a "social media" platform that is abstract, generic and sufficiently User-oriented to function in the "old-fashioned" way that the Web+RSS (often called web 2.0) was supposed to be. So I am attempting to do that here.
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For fifty years or so, U.S. media academics warned anybody who would listen about the perils of letting your media companies consolidate in the hands of a bunch of rich assholes and giant, amoral cβ¦
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The image depicts a historical scene set in a workshop, likely from the 19th century. In the foreground, there is a large, intricate machine with gears and a flat surface, which appears to be a paper bag-making machine. The machine is positioned on a wooden table, and there are stacks of paper bags in the background, suggesting an active production environment.
In the background, a person wearing a maroon shirt and a brown apron is operating the machine, with their hands visible as they work. The setting includes a large window with a grid pattern, allowing natural light to illuminate the scene. The walls are made of brick, adding to the industrial atmosphere.
Text overlaying the image provides historical context, stating that in 1868, New England inventor Margaret E. Knight built a machine that cut, folded, and glued square-bottom paper bags. It mentions that she won a patent interference case and received U.S. Patent 116,842 on July 11, 1871, launching the standard bag used worldwide.
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This is interesting to me as I drive a Bolt, and came from a Subaru Crosstrek, a non-hybrid, so my savings are obviously higher. I already knew I was saving from back of the napkin math, but seeing solid numbers in an article is good, however they should've also brought up the reduced maintenance, I mean here's the schedule for a Bolt:
Yeah, compare that with a gas powered car, regular or hybrid, and imagine what I'm saving in maintenance as well.
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The image shows a screenshot of a social media post and a reply. The post, made by a user named "jordanmooney___" with the label "MAGACult," is 9 hours old. It criticizes the cost of updating 700,000 Department of Defense (DOD) facilities across 40 countries and all 50 states with a new "Department of War" logo, stating it will cost billions of dollars. The post includes a comment about cancer research being wasteful spending, accompanied by an emoji with a middle finger and a facepalm emoji. The post has received 1.8K likes, 21 comments, 229 shares, and 68 retweets.
The reply, made by a user named "celadonsage" 5 hours ago, suggests that the money spent on updating the DOD facilities could be better used for veterans, serving members of the military, their families, and updating military facilities that are falling down. The reply has not received any visible engagement metrics.
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