Reposted by @ericboersma.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.” 28766621746 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The Internet you are proposing simply wouldn't exist. Breaking everything for everyone because you don't like how it works right now is not a healthy nor civil impulse. 110 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Even if I did have outstanding Ohio tolls, I'd refuse to pay them on the principle of the thing. 000 0
Reposted by @ericboersma.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025with a 24-point loss in the first round of the Horizon League Tournament, Doug Gottlieb's first year as UW-Green Bay head coach/radio host is over. The results: 4-28 record, 3rd worst in D-I 14-game drop from last year's 18-14 record 2-18 in conference, last place by 2 games ranked 334th on Kenpom 1119231 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Finally. Having to write a cover letter without caffeine was really a drag. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Look on the bright side, though. This will make a harrowing documentary someday. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Had the privilege to turn my favorite blog post from @slacktivistfred.bsky.social into a sermon this morning at Valley Church. www.youtube.com/live/psk772J... Sermon starts 30 minutes into the stream, but the music is worth hanging out for.youtube.comValley WorshipYouTube video by Valley Church 030 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Does Apple Music pay more to artists than Spotify? I've been an Apple Music user for years, and while I know none of the streaming services pay great, I always hoped the required monthly fee meant better royalties. 010 0
Reposted by @ericboersma.bsky.socialEd @ed3d.net · 01/02/2025Show the fuck up. It isn’t optional. 0219 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 01/02/2025It's awesome that Jared and Christen are doing this for Detroit, but that tweet is real bad. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 01/02/2025It's Gary. He didn't wear his lifts today even though everyone told him he needed to. 000 0
Reposted by @ericboersma.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025In children per year, the US birth rate is at an all-time low, but in Miles’ per hour it’s at an all time high. 36616559956 0
Reposted by @ericboersma.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/01/2025It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directivesabcnews.go.comTrump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal expertsThe Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News. 850374679869 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025This is exactly the sports problem I'm talking about. All the Dems apparently need to do is magically have an entirely different country, with different laws and a different economy and then those 90 million people who still wouldn't have a coherent political outlook would go vote 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Those 90 million people do not share your ideology or any coherent ideology. They don't vote because they basically don't understand our political system on any useful level. There aren't "more of them" than anyone, because there aren't any of them. They're nobody. 100 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I really don't feel like "just make the magic thing that gives me exactly what I want happen and if you don't I'm gonna be mad at you" is the right medicine for what ails our body politic. That's what sports fans want, all the time. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I feel like I have to respectfully disagree. Sports fans are the most disconnected from reality people on Earth. Last year I talked with bona fide Detroit Pistons fans who thought the team would be a top 10 team in the league. They lost more games in a row than any team in any sport ever. 110 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025This is such wonderful news to hear. Praying for a quick recovery. 010 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025The same is also true for the Petrine sect of the early church. It's wild how many times I have had to repeat that Acts 10 is not about food in my life. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 30/01/2025My first clue that it was a joke was that they didn't spell it "HIPPA" 030 0
Reposted by @ericboersma.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/01/2025OpenAI right now 287435186254 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I feel like you're responding to a different thing than what we were talking about. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 26/01/2025The current AI that's on the market or in the pipeline is not going to put everyone out of a job. It's also not going to empower us. It's a bubble. It will solve some problems, not many, and be discarded for most of the rest. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 26/01/2025It's not programmed at all. It's simply a very, very, very large collection of statistical probabilities of what words follow the previous words in the chain. Getting things wrong is a feature. If it didn't, it would have the same response to every input. That just makes LLMs bad for facts. 160 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 25/01/2025But hey on the up side, the owner just pissed off millions of people, triggering a big backlash against the platform. Should be fine. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I feel like it needs a little introduction 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 26/12/2024One for weekdays, one for weekends. It's a good system. 020 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 25/12/2024A Christmas miracle: none of our kids woke us up until 9 AM. 100 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Still waiting for the scene when Superman does ballet while wearing another man as a cape 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 20/12/2024My wife rolls her eyes every time I remember the date of something by tying it to some obscure sporting fact. Then I forget whether it's the pepper shaker or the orange juice that goes in the fridge after breakfast 120 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 19/12/2024According to the state legislature of Ohio, you are the danger 000 0
Reposted by @ericboersma.bsky.socialSlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 16/12/2024This hotline should be an elaborately branching automated menu run from an offshore call center. Getting a human on the line should be near impossible. 715239 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Writing talent is so much cheaper than people would think, too. It would be so much less expensive than you'd think to bankroll something like this. 010 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 15/12/2024That shift in who is displaced doesn't change the fundamental perspective that tech workers have to come to grips with the fact that they're unemploying people at every step. "This time it's me" is unlikely to be persuasive. 020 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 15/12/2024But making the argument that engineers aren't aware of the impact that their work has isn't going to change any minds. It's just that LLMs are displacing white collar and college educated work instead of taxi drivers this time. 140 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This isn't a defense of AI; LLMs are I think more of a bubble than they are a real push in tech. And they do have unique externalities that are worse than some other tech pushes. 130 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Trying to find a way to say this that doesn't sound super callous. And I don't work on AI. But every software developer either dies ignorant or has a day where they reckon with the fact that all their work is stuff that would otherwise be done by a person and thus is destroying a job. 131 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Watching Jameis Winston play QB, even years later, still somehow looks like watching an 8 year old play Madden for like, the fifth time. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I think I'm preaching to the choir in that you were the one to write this first, but when you pointed out that it's because they want to LARP and the facts are ruining their game it was super revealing to me. 060 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I think this is kind of a vaccine situation. Nobody shoulder surfs because there's no point. Not sure that would be the case if we got rid of password masking. 000 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 14/12/2024What do you mean it's only 3 hours long 010 0
ericboersma.bsky.social @ericboersma.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Not saying this is the only thing I want on every Sunday. But it's real high up the list. 000 0
