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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • Our internal slack channels contain more and more AI-written posts, which makes me think: Thank you for throwing this wall of text on me and n other people. Now, n people need to extract the relevant information, so you are able to “save time” not writing the text yourself. Nice!!!

    My last software dev employer did this, except with the “voice recording” feature. Instead of composing messages in text in a text chat (because that takes too long), he’d hit the record button and just start talking it out, then send the recording. Easy! Then the team had to download and listen to ~5 minutes of verbal diarrhea, pausing and rewinding for twice that long in an attempt to glean something useful from it. This particular kind of delusion existed before AI.



  • How many Scaramucci’s is that?

    A “Scaramucci” (or “Mooch”) equals 11 days, which is the total length of time Anthony Scaramucci served as White House Communications Director in 2017.

    January 25th 2025 to March 5th 2026 = 404 days / 11 = 36.72 Scaramucci’s.

    Bonus Fun Fact: Kristi’s full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem, which means the monogram on her bathrobe says “KLAN.”


  • From Tim Sheehy’s post on the X formerly known as Twitter, dated March 4th, 2026:

    Capitol Police were attempting to remove an unhinged protestor from the Armed Services hearing. He was fighting back. I decided to help out and deescalate the situation. This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one.

    Straight from the horse’s ass, as it were.

    Rewatching the video(s), I’d posit that Tim’s “help” was 100% ineffectual in every possible way here, save for stalwortly upholding the GOP’s demonstrably false claim of “supporting the troops.”



  • Where once was a vast and lush landscape of innovation and ingenuity, now is only a desert of grift and profiteering. The optimistic nature of our youthful tech enthusiasm has transformed into a cynical and substanceless husk, aged too fast by the years of consistent disappointments.

    But if anyone at work asks, then yeah, sure, I’m really excited about the next iPhone or AI generated email signatures or whatever.