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One time at the dog park someone said Kitty had "gravitas" and every time she does a goofy little face I whisper "gravitas" to her

@maxfenton I have only seen Discoursing about it but just put it in my mind

@maxfenton yeah I haven't listened to any of her stuff for a long time but just feels dishonest to be like "I never liked her"

@rose_alibi I haven't been able to log into a university account for a part time gig for over a month because HR hasn't fixed something in their system and they have not returned my calls. This means I can't submit time sheets! Pretty bad.

Is it controversial to believe that Visions was a pretty good album and also a pretty good album eleven years ago isn't much of a defense for the rest of Grimes

Instead of going to yoga I got ice cream it has been that kind of day

@adam_harvey let's not be so cynical, the faculty member on the grant might also use it to move into a higher paying tech job doing some "trust and journalism" bullshit

we're live at Local Tech Ecologies today, organized by @ntnsndr and @medlab - we'll be talking about the lab, and we've brought some of our One Laptop Per Child XO-1 laptops as an interactive exploration of hyper-local networking (and of reclaiming technologies with Complicated History for humanistic purposes)

https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/06/26/conference-local-tech-ecologies

@beep my favorite part of his bio is "He is also a LinkedIn Top Voice"

in addition to killing Toys R Us and generally being vultures feel like it's also fun to note that David Petraeus has some nonsense job title at KKR that probably pays him some obscene amount of money kkr.com/our-firm/leadership/da

@aparrish one friend pointed out it's less than four year tuition for two undergrads!

axios.com/2023/08/08/openai-jo this is an embarrassingly small amount of money relative to OpenAI's resources and the asset that they're allegedly trying to support

Trying to become a podcast guy, what are the good ones

Food shitpost 

Grateful for croissants for giving me a way to eat an entire stick of butter without getting my hands quite as greasy

Whenever news breaks of bad decisions a popular product, there's a flurry of recommendations of various alternatives, and in that mix there's always folks extolling the virtues of hosting your own.

As a person who works on security for an open source project, my spicy take is this: unless you enjoy being your own sysadmin (some folks do!), any hosted solution from a vendor that is currently reputable and currently has acceptable terms is a better, safer option than self-hosting.

@pootriarch Price Wars by Rupert Russell. It's not perfect but definitely smarter than the thing I'm reading now.

The thing is there is actually a really good critical book on commodity trading by an extremely posh British journalist (guy literally named RUPERT who went to HARVARD) but he used his posh credentials to basically get industry assholes to tell on themselves?? It can be done!!

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This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.