sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 1hI and most other Iowans I know would gladly pay anyone to take first in the nation away. Please. And also please take away any Iowans who still want first in the nation. Goddamned monkey’s paw shit is what it is. 010
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 1hRun the owner out of town in a hail of rotten eggs! 020
Reposted by @sailingthepuddle.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1hSomething unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war. 1021193591
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 2hYes, it’s a shame. When I sold it to a buddy last year it had 240K since new in ‘18. Only tires, brakes oil changes, plugs and wires. He says it still knocks down 38-40 doing 80MPH with the AC on. 110
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 2hThere’s always prairie madness. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie...en.wikipedia.orgPrairie madness - Wikipedia 000
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 6hOne of the under appreciated reason Americans like bigger cars/trucks is that we drive a lot and we drive a long ways and smaller cars are tiring to drive like that. And I say that as a lover of small cars. 000
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 7hThe only car I’ve ever bought new was a stripped Ford Focus with a manual and even new it is very hard to find them, because nobody but sickos buy them. 140
Reposted by @sailingthepuddle.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12hWhite supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 7732411268
Reposted by @sailingthepuddle.bsky.socialElle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don’t know who needs to be cheered up by Macaroni and Chilli sharing their favorite stuffie but here it is 1148637
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 23hThe “certain industries hard” is the part that makes me worried. AI looks like it could be so malleable it can fit into more roles than we expect. And it takes a human a long time to re-skill. We’re 3 years from the Will Smith eating Spaghetti video, that’s about how long a technical degree takes. 000
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Will LLMs be more like migrant workers, or more like manufacturing automation though? We’re manufacturing more domestically than we did in the 70s with fewer workers, because automation is so effective/efficient aren’t we? I think LLMs might be more like that. 130
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I feel like there has to be anthropologists who have studied this, at what level of size or complexity does a machine become something people will ascribe a personality to? I have definitely worked with machines that get referred to as “cranky” “cantankerous” or “bitchy” especially about weather. 020
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think we are running into new weird territories of anthropomorphizing. People have been ascribing spirit, or personality to machines and objects for a long time. Most IT people will 99% jokingly ascribe a malicious feral cunning to printers. Being able to abuse the machine back gives you agency. 140
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The important thing is that the flushability is a bald-faced lie. 000
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Isn’t one of the jobs of a CEO to represent the interests of the company in a way that does NOT inspire the public to show at the main offices with torches and pitchforks and rope and a strong desire to shoot back first? 000
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The funny part about this is, it’s a democracy, why should 350 million regular people care what ~ 1,000 billionaires think? There aren’t enough of them to carry the vote. 000
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026AI aside, Google should concentrate on fixing its search engine before doing anything else. Everything about computers has gotten cheaper/faster/better by orders of magnitude in the last 10 years, but google search has gotten orders of magnitude worse. 120
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Man, it seems like the Supreme Court is truly so powerful, the only organization that can really damage it is itself…. Kind of like a hegemon choosing an idiot on the scale of King George III or or Emperor Commodus on purpose. 020
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Local governments having to depend on property taxes while at the same time we want a house to be people’s nest egg that carries them through retirement is really at cross-purposes. It’s made so much worse by federal and state leaders cutting services to say “the county/city can do it.” 0160
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Do the know your customer laws make this more difficult as well? 100
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The MC Escher drawings where stairs go off into every direction and even up and down stop making sense is a much more accurate portrayal than a ladder I think. 1160
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think we are going away from PDFs alltogether at work because it’s an ADA compliance nightmare. 020
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026People with healthy “normal” kids really don’t understand what it means to have a kid with ongoing health issues. It’s not their fault, it’s just really, a lot, my special needs daughter has already gone to the funerals of two peers who have died due to health issues from genetics. She’s 22. 060
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Funny, because old mainframe billing by copy usage was totally a thing. 020
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026These seem more like business-centered groups than science-centered groups. 010
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s like the arts, except that athletes are constantly creating the art in realtime, and even removing a tainted player can hurt clean players. Taking a super skilled, but problematic player off the field immediately puts an asterisk on the performance of players who didn’t have to face them. 000
Reposted by @sailingthepuddle.bsky.socialDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists." 2751204
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My friends call me like “dude, you gotta get me and my stuff out of here, I broke up with her and she already broke one of my guitars and I’m afraid she’s gonna stab me” and Elon get’s this?? Life is deeply unfair. 020
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The amount of money and acclaim they are swimming in might have something to do with it. How many stories are there of rock bands going completely off the rails when fame hits and they are suddenly surrounded by yes men and money. 040
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“High trust society”? Pretty much every time in my life I’ve been screwed over it was by some fellow white dude. High trust my ass. 080
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In the election that is 4 weeks away, that ballots have already been orinted for? Is there an unfunded mandate angle here? The counties have to pay for all the ballots and election equipment… states could reimburse them, but come on. This seems unworkable. It’s 4 weeks. 050
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hah, I never thought that Donald Duck would be the Donald that’s “normal” 010
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It amazes me that states that are so gleeful about killing people are also so bad at it. 3520
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think they are already dosing him with stuff from the veterinary supply store. “Person, woman, man, Xylazine” 031
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Does nobody on his staff have one of those big vaudeville hooks for pulling failing performers off the stage? 2410
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ah, well me to. I do think it’s going to be pretty transformative. In a lot of good ways if we have the willpower to do the right things, big if though. 200
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Absolutely, things have to get apocalyptically bad before parties getting out of hand will have a *negative* effect on enrollment, no need to sweep anything under the rug. Rape though, there is a clear financial motive not to be too loud about that and see it in the least bad light. 141
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s been 30 years since I interacted with them, but in comparison to small town cops who in some friend’s experience were *also* terrible at dealing with rape and sexual assault they were much less likely to go out of their way to be racist powertripping pricks. No good for rape cases tho. 161
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I mean, if we restrict them to just melee and no bystanders at this point I’m totally happy to let the failsons of oligarchs feed each other grass for breakfast on the regular. Not much of value will be lost. 010
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 01/10/202685/15 ground beef is back up to 8 bucks a pound. Trump take taco. 000
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I mean, I guess, I can’t prove to you that something that hasn’t happened yet will, but have you used AI at all yet? 100
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I agree with him on pretty much everything else. I just think people are under-worried about those two. 120
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don’t think the job loss has started for real yet, we’re early days in this and things are changing very fast. We’re only just shy of 4 years from the public release of Chat GPT. Huge numbers of legal and regulatory questions haven’t been answered yet that’s going to slow adoption some. 110
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I also don’t know that I find the idea of near limitless demand for anything except maybe energy plausible. 010
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And what was the quality of the jobs that the people who were pushed out of manufacturing took? Was the real deal that it just lowered the price of their labor until the demand for it grew enough to absorb that extra labor, at a new, worse price for the laborer. 000
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That didn’t work for manufacturing in the US. Since the mid 90s manufacturing output in the US has increased by 40%, but employment has dropped by 30%. We’ve lost some jobs to offshoring, but obviously a lot to productivity. I think it’s even less likely to work for AI. 110
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So far, maybe. I don’t think it will end up being fictional. I think it’s been getting the same sales treatment new tech always does “this is magic, it will solve everything” but I think it will be like automation was for manufacturing. Most factory jobs didn’t go overseas, they went to automation. 110
sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026<quietly raises hand> I do think the climate crisis is actually way worse than almost everyone is thinking. I don’t think they should react to it the way they are reacting to every thing else. AI work displacement is probably also going to be a huge problem, because we are so bad at doing crises. 2150
