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hey cis friends, i made a handy guide for you
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hey cis friends, i made a handy guide for you
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Screenshot of a threads post. It reads:
I wonder how many beautiful things never got made because somebody's rent was due. How many inventions, films, and fucking masterpieces died in somebody's head while they were picking up an extra shift.
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So Intel's down 100bn, Google's down 400bn.
Half a trillion dollars evaporated into nothing.
Well no, it was nothing to start with. But new we're acknowledging that its nothing.
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Binance (crypto) also took a 2.54billion hit (security issue)
Polymarket got hacked as well
Its been quite a day, hasnt it?
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So... neither the physio place that accepts my benefits nor the ultrasound place are accepting new bookings until February.
That's fun. 🙃
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Plenty of opportunity for suffering before February. I guess if it gets too bad you can go to the emergency room.
@tom grzybow That's where I got the referrals... after 10 hours of waiting. 😅
Wow. Here, the emergency rooms want to make some money too!
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Orders of tea spike around the world. Earl Grey. Hot.
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I think we're recently out of Earl Grey, but I'm definitely restocking to have a cuppa in his honour.
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It's been over seven hours since my last pain killer and I don't feel the need to take another! 🎉
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I live on pain-relief: physical, psychic, and spurious.
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If you're one of the many therapists I'm seeing who was approached by an AI company offering six figures for "de-identified" notes, reports, etc, and you've abandoned your ethics enough to consider the offer, make sure when you negotiate your compensation that you factor in legal fees and the cost of losing your license.
I hate it here.
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Every post I've seen has been a therapist saying something along the lines of, "Can you believe they would even ask this? No ethical provider would ever agree" so I do have hope for my colleagues, just not for, you know. Everything else.
"ethical" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
If my encounters contribute to statistics, we're in trouble.
@NadiaPurge Yeah unfortunately, I'm so sorry you've experienced that
@NadiaPurge "Ethical" just means you follow a set of ethics. You can change the set of ethics. You can follow ethics that only a monster would follow and you're still "ethical". See every CEO on the fucking planet.
They've sufficiently altered the ethics of the situation that I doubt very much they'll be held to account for anything. "De-identified" info is used and shared quite regularly in medical research. Generally with permission but some fighting that as "too costly".
@crazyeddie @NadiaPurge IMO no moral provider would ever agree, regardless of what the ethics code says.
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The main issue I find with "de-identified" info is that it's not.
No name. Ok, but we know where you live because we know what therapist you see. You mention a spouse, or kids, or work, or eating habits, or entertainment, or shopping habits. Every one of those things works together to identify you.
Not-Bob, who is stressed because his kid's school requires new uniforms every year.
Not-Mary, who is stressed because her company just got bought.
Not-Stefan, who is stressed because there was a shooting at their favourite movie theatre.
"De-identifying" in this day and age is a myth.
"Here's the collected works of Eric Berne and Claude Steiner"
"Now go hack people" /s
I didn’t have the heart to read it, but I scrolled past something about the US government providing a HIPAA exception for training AI…
@ShiitakeToast Noooooooooooooooooooooo
@ShiitakeToast That is a nightmare, crazy to see Mickey mouse get more protection then your health data thanks to AI.
do you have guidance on how to explain to a non-technical therapist that this is even is unethical? I've had no luck getting through to my therapist.
@sbrudenell I think a big part of the problem is the ethics codes haven't caught up, so when I say "This is unethical" it's probably more accurate to say "This is immoral" because they may say, "Point to the ethics code that prohibits this." Basically, the client's information is not truly protected just because you take the name off the note, and even if it's not being shown to humans, it's still a breach to share the information with the AI.
@sbrudenell We need to call on national orgs (I'm going to send a letter to APA) to make clear statements about the ethics of these tools and specific guidance for providers. Though I do worry a bit that if we do that they'll come back with "Actually this is fine" (see APA taking a decade to declare that psychologists engaging in torture of war prisoners is actually not ok)
@sbrudenell Right now, APA has a statement out but that guidance explicitly says it's permissible for psychologists to work to develop AI for psychology tasks as long as we follow the rest of the ethics code while we do it. Which IMO leaves way too much gray area.
@sbrudenell (Sorry for blowing up your mentions, I have a lot of feelings)
I'm in software. I share those feelings. based on my experience, you can count on large organizations to say "we're taking a cautious approach to AI (so go ahead and use this AI product! the company told us it's fine)"
I've had luck convincing non technical people of technical truths by appealing to their personal values. what do you value about being a therapist, that's put at risk by AI ingesting notes?
one deep truth we have learned is that ethics is a process. it is not a fixed set of rules. the rules are just the peace treaty that marks where the last round of fighting left off.
alas, yes, not everyone sees it that way ><
@sbrudenell someone's ethics shouldn't depend on a code and people outsourcing ethics to formalized codes decided by other people is exactly as bullshit as people trying to make the law the sole arbiter of ethics.
@elexia @sbrudenell This is true, and also with my license I am required to follow a specific ethical code laid down by APA. Personally I think that’s a bare minimum and we should hold ourselves to a higher standard
@sbrudenell One direct way to go about it may be to point out that AI companies have been relatively successful at de-anonymizing data, so just stripping away personally identifying information may not be sufficient to protect the confidentiality of patients.
Here's a reference, if you need one: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.16…
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles an…arXiv.org
@lrhodes @sbrudenell Thank you! I had assumed this was the case but backing it up with citations is always better
@sbrudenell The most prominent companies investing in AI are Big Data and adtech companies like Google and Meta, which have long been interested in extrapolating identities from incomplete data. Think: Target serving ads for maternity goods to people who have not yet announced their pregnancies. Given how much of their research into machine learning was motivated by that desire, it's unsurprising that AI can be put to that use. Health providers should err on the side of caution here.
@lrhodes @sbrudenell Out of curiosity, I went to see if I could find out who BetterHelp were getting their session transcripts processed by, and learned that they were prosecuted for handing customer health questionnaire responses to Facebook.
reframepractice.com/answers/be…
Anyway, their privacy policy doesn't say, but BetterHelp is owned by Teladoc, and Teladoc use Nuance Dragon for their transcripts, feeding into OpenAI via Microsoft.
teladochealth.com/newsroom/pre…
(I don't use BetterHelp, but their ads are everywhere so I figured it might be important who they hand data to. My therapist doesn't use any kind of AI and is horrified that others do.) #BetterHelp
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Holy. Smokes. That's horrible.
Edit: as in, we live in a currently horrible world and my horrible meter sensitivity has been adjusted accordingly, and I'm still horrified by this.
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@jmcrookston these last 20 years have been rough to say the least. Nothing feels horrible anymore to me cuz it’s all bad all the time.
I've been hearing recently that this is (unsurprisingly) not exclusive to therapy but across the medical field with providers being told to record consultations (and who knows what else) to feed the insatiable AI appetite. Not even your most personal information is sacred any more.
@joltrast speaking of sacred... is there a confessional data scraping yet? Strictly anonymized of course...
i guess the implication is that they're training a therapist-bot... even if this was ethically OK to do, what would it allow them to do? if they just see notes without observing what led to them they can't even *infer* the logic behind the notes. they can only learn to imitate the language and style.
what could possibly be the point of that? a machine that produces plausible-sounding notes and reports that aren't grounded in experience or judgment?
(i am not a therapist, i'm a computer guy, and this does fit the pattern... it's not just an AI thing, the biggest hubris of computer guys is that we can revolutionize a field without talking to anyone that knows how it works)
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Yeah, but creating the appointment notes is enough evidence to bill the insurer. Which is the only functional aspect of therapy the bot creators probably care about.
Yeah, but creating the appointment notes is enough evidence to bill the insurer. Which is the only functional aspect of therapy the bot creators probably care about.
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Oh my sweet summer child.
The implication is there's a huge gaping hole in their training set regarding people's deepest and most private thoughts and they want their interpolating autocompleters to be able to plagiarize those too.
That and gaining more personal info through deanonymization.
which here is that?
@Lizette603_23 This specifically appears to be going to US-based therapists (but it is possible that this is happening more places and I've seen replies stating they are in Europe describing similar issues)
thanks for clarifying, it's something I hadn't yet been reading about. Appreciate you.
@Lizette603_23 Of course! I hope it doesn't spread but I am worried
When they came for the coders, I did not speak out, because I was not a coder.
When they came for the maths, I did not speak out, because I was not a mathematician.
When they came for the doctors...
You need to take a good look at what Cambridge Analytica did in 2016.
The more help these companies get the worse it is for the rest of us.
The more help these companies get the worse it is for the rest of us.
This just shook me.
This is bad.
This is big.
Is there something beyond 'predatory' for the scope of this sort of violent invasion? The effects this will have on people and the machines designed to kill us, I can't even figure yet.
Wow.
I'm crouched and ready for most of this, but hadn't considered this. And its potential is terrifying.
I hate Nazis.
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You can ask your treatment providers if they use AI.
I’ve been introduced to it and won’t use it. Neither will at least one other counselor Inwork with. The boss is unethical, so she’ll probably push it.
I’m looking for other work.
You can ask your treatment providers if they use AI.
I’ve been introduced to it and won’t use it. Neither will at least one other counselor Inwork with. The boss is unethical, so she’ll probably push it.
I’m looking for other work.
Nothing is sacred or safe in these times.
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i wish i could find a medical provider who wasnt using ai to take notes.
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Even if they're not using AI, they're almost certainly using some commercial chart software or another, whose vendor has access to the charts and can presumably sell them.
Even if they're not using AI, they're almost certainly using some commercial chart software or another, whose vendor has access to the charts and can presumably sell them.
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@argv_minus_one @makeitmythic Yeaaaaaah this is why my reports are stored on an encrypted hard drive and not in the EHR
Can you be my therapist?? 🤩
@argv_minus_one @makeitmythic I used to have an incredible therapist who kept paper records and destroyed them after a certain number of years. She didn't even use e-mail, which normally I'd find frustrating but in this context, actually sensible.
De-identified data can still raise serious privacy and ethical concerns. Therapists have a responsibility to protect client trust, and no payout should come before patient confidentiality and professional integrity. AI innovation must come with accountability.
@ethanwalker128 YUP!!! (If it wasn't clear, my comment about negotiating legal fees was sarcasm)
say what now?
It's all strictly against HIPAA , as I'm sure I don't have to tell you. Report them all to your own professional associations.
I'm genuinely wondering if priests are getting the same question?
Oh cool, one more reason for me and others to delay care, as if “but the cost”, “do I deserve it”, “will they listen to me”, and “but is it really serious” weren’t enough.
As bad as all this is, it still assumes the therapy being given is helpful...it will be the griftiest, most pseudoscience and ego driven therapists that go in for this. Get ready for a boat load of RFKjr nonsense in the chatbots. (Hopefully my ex therapist hasn't kept her notes from 25 years ago)
Wait, what did we do?!
wtf, why is that a thing?
Can you prompt a different vendor's LLM to produce plausible notes for a load of fictional patients and sell them that?
One of the bugbears I have at work is effective de-identification/anonymization of information for a small internal testing database. (We'd generate but ran into issues with THAT because older systems. Long story, much swearing, migraines and ulcers.)
Given how incredibly fucking hard it can be to anonymize basic records in many cases with no reports etc in them, I would suspect that it's near-impossible to do it with full reports.
To make matters worse, the therapists who even think about it are likely to be the ones out there who will happily write misleading/completely false reports for strong enough "considerations", or even just because they're confronted with someone who is outside their worldview. (I've run into at least three and two of them I wasn't even the client.)
It's already hard enough to get people to seek basic therapy. This? Oh hell no. I'm in favor of "everyone should get therapy" and shit like this makes me stop saying that, because I'm not going to advocate for anyone putting their mental or potentially physical health and safety at risk. Safe therapists are going to turn into a word-of-mouth-only thing at this rate.
Another alternative would be to pollute the AI models with completely nonsensical data. For example, state that all of your clients believe they are animals, like dogs, cats, mice. You tell them that they need to do squats, lunges, and planks to get better. If the AI models need a specific profile for each client, that would be a lot of work, but maybe you could get an AI to generate 100 client files. Then you submit that, and we see what the AI does with new input that is regurgitated old input.
@Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 Even if you were able to magically put the ethical nightmare aside...
You are literally helping them to put you out of a job.
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Fucking co-signed.
What a mess of ethics and everything else.
I could use simple models to determine who is who from the data,
Especially considering the existence of data brokers these days.
End of times grifts abound.
Privacy, what privacy???
Soon, we lose the pants.
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This is a new level of scary and brazen
omg nothing is safe 😩
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Solar power IS nuclear power. It's just the reactor is really really far away.
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@Nikki When you think about it, all power is nuclear power. It just gets stored in various intermediary ways sometimes.
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@me fission-based nuclear power is stored supernova power
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@me tidal? gravitational.
@bencourtice @Nikki I'll grant you tidal I guess, but how does one make use of gravitational? I've seen it used as a type of storage battery by pumping water up to a high location and then using gravity to release that energy, but that's once again just a way of storing some other energy source.
@me Yes, there are tidal turbines in some places, but limited applicability.
Geothermal is partly stored heat from the gravitational accretion of material to form the planet (and partly nuclear, from decay of radioactive isotopes)
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We can even say we use a fusion reactor
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So, one of my nieces told me a story today about how she went to the hospital in severe pain and they wouldn't even give her Advil.
I, on the other hand, went in—admittedly in pain, but it wasn't my primary concern—and was offered a morphine script (which I declined).
What??
I don't want to just jump to the conclusion that the difference is that I'm a white male, but...
The irony of this statistical issue in healthcare is women typically have higher tolerance for pain than men, yet the opposite solution happens. A woman in pain really means they are in pain.
My wife has had pharmacists accuse her of med seeking. Shut up and fill the rx, she has a rare, deadly, and painful medical condition most doctors don't even understand, let alone a pharmacist 🫠 #veds
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small and apologetic mutual aid request please:
could anyone help us a bit with the cost of a new car battery? it's going to be around 200€. rent is due, and thanks to the EU's ppwr + US absurdity and the increasing cost of everything, i've made precisely one sale in the past nearly 4 weeks, so the extra battery cost is a bit 
we live in the middle of nowhere, have one car, and i'm disabled and getting sicker, so it's very essential.
BUT please look after yourselves first! everyone's struggling these days.
thank you if you can help; no worries at all if you can't.
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Setting the time range on DuckDuckGo to before December 2022 kind of helps search results
This fails when articles were "updated" any time after 2022 or if they just lie about their publication date
I don't have this set as default, since it adds kind of a fingerprint
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It's embarassing to see senior software developers go "I used AI and I managed to pull values from this API and then write them to a file!"
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does anyone remember when people would talk about code smells. or design patterns. or application architecture principles.
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Some of us still do! We just get called Luddites for it, which... actually kind of tracks. Just not in the way they probably mean it.
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@xgranade I’m this close to making myself a nametag with „Luddite“ as job title.
I used to have joke nametags with „Professional Scapegoat“ and „Master Sergeant Shooter Person“ on it but that one won’t be.
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does anyone remember when it was generally agreed that a large amount of boilerplate in a project was a sign of bad design, and that you should seek to improve things through abstraction or refactoring rather than simply automating and codegen-ing your way through?
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I'm surprised slop engineers aren't coding in ASM since, you know, no one reads the code anyway
I get the impression that a lot of slop/vibe generated stuff is from people who aren't programmers at all, so they probably have no clue that going down to asm would be an improvement over higher level languages?
I had to stop using interpreted languages in elementary school because they were so inefficient, asm was the way back then; when I finally encountered C in college? It felt bloated. I do not think anyone using LLMs and vibing their way around, would have such insights; since I get the impression most of those lessons were lost on folks after CPUs transcended the 10MHz barrier, decades ago and kept getting faster and cheaper and nerds such as I were some of the only ones left who cared?
@teajaygrey @Igigog vibe coders would be perfectly fine with LLMs directly generating compiled modules. that is a frightening thought.
@Igigog that would require the LLMs to be able to generate random programs in ASM. since humans don't read that, it's not generally uploaded online for them to steal and extrude
@Igigog I am certain that at some point LLMs will emit compiled code directly for "optimization". No one will be able to look at the source, since there will be no source.
Sounds like a reasonable point on the enshittification path.
@Igigog people are saying asm is in short supply somehow; but machine code is all around you and disassembling it is truly trivial. i think the real reason is that in asm it's not possible to beginner-level halfass something of any non-trivial size and have it actually work, or at least it's too unlikely even by the standards of cherry-picking-as-a-service
and then came Java?
I remember working brains.
It feels... so long ago
Does anyone want to start a new slop-free #opensource IAM Server Project with me? Please retoot if you know someone who might be interested!
when I was fresh out of university and starting my career I thought that everyone was like me and actually enjoys building elegant concise maintainable and extensible systems
but I guess some people just want to trot out slop and go home?
@zrb I think this is what happens when for the last 20 years or so it became common to tell students to get into this profession for the money. (Which makes sense - it's more money than most degrees.)
So we now have a large population of coders who really (more or less) _don't_ care that much. Getting a bigger paycheck was their primary motivation in the first place.
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nah but im also like not smart enough to know what boilerplate means bc like i js write code in a way that seems fine enough and let future me suffer
to this day i ruthlessly go through my projects looking for repeating boilerplate and try to find ways to eliminate it.
Sometimes it's easier than other times, but I always see it as an opportunity for improvement
Although I also remember a lot of "we ought to make this a standard routine" in 8bit days ending up as "but then it would be too slow" 8)
@etchedpixels this code must be inlined, do you know how much performance we’ll lose chasing pointers!
I love my lack of boilerplate in brainfuck, it's so nice
omg yes. when "good" was the goal rather than "now?" When being asked to do things of questionable legal, ethical, or moral value was preposterous?
"This could kill all humans? Well obviously I gotta do it first!"
remember when people actually liked programming and helped each other learn?
remember when programmers complained about "recruiter spam"
honestly I'm job hunting right now and the number of people who see my 10 years of FE experience and call me to say "hey do you want this senior c#/java job" amazes me
I do wonder whatever happened to the notion of software craftsmanship too these days. But yes I do remember
@ladytel there are trillions of dollars invested in making it obsolete and some of our peers and colleagues are apparently ecstatic about the possibility too
@theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel I disagree on the second point, actually. When I look at the *kind* of people gloating that I'll be left behind, I don't feel lonely at all - they are not the types whose company I would enjoy anyway.
The internet weirdos who still enjoy coding, on the other hand, mostly seem like lovely people.
@theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel That's not to say I'm doing fine at all. I'm terrified of the future and I'm awfully, awfully depressed.
Just not lonely. The company of ghouls is worse than no company at all.
@datarama @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel
I feel like im drifting aimlessly towards oblivion, it was hypothetical and now it feels all but assured.
I work and pretend as much as i can that shit isn’t breaking down when it very clearly is
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@cyberquixote @datarama @wrl @ladytel I always say: if there are no AI haters, then I am dead. (Similarly, if there are no computer lovers, the kind that give a shit and who want to do good work and learn, then I am dead.)
@cyberquixote @datarama @wrl @ladytel I'm not going to stop. I can't. I'm fueled by love and spite and an incandescent rage that burns deep within me.
@theorangetheme @cyberquixote @wrl @ladytel It is a flaw of my personality that I'm not prone to rage or anger, even when I ought to be. I just get sad instead.
At any rate: I've sort of come to terms with the fact that my job is going to go away, and that I will probably find myself below the relative poverty line - again. I've survived that before, though. If the AI ghouls don't manage to completely break down society, then I think I'll live.
However, I want to make weird computer art and as long as there are programmable computers that's what I'll do. Even if it turns out to be for an audience of 7 people.
@datarama @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel
Im just gonna go before I depress you further, because my vision of the future doesn’t see that as possibility, because the ruling class sees our very autonomy as a threat.
They will not rest until we are all accounted for. I only hope im dead by then.
If im lucky i will die peacefully in my sleep one night.
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@cyberquixote @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel The ruling class, you say?
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I live in America so put that away its not happening. Don’t give me false hope.
please
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@cyberquixote @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel America, you say?
There was a whole wiki. Remember wikis?
the halcyon days of 2024
My code smells like melty butter and garlic
i miss those days already
I have whole books on these things, some of them physical copies!
I remember when software engineering was a thing (like mechanical or civil engineering). I even moved far away from home specifically to study at a university that had developed a new program 3 years earlier. A bunch of the faculty had worked at nuclear plants, developed formal methods of verifiably correct software for safety critical systems.
It's been over 20 years. I wonder if that's still a thing now. Part of me still hopes so.
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Forget fold up phones! I want one that unrolls from both edges like an old timey scroll!
Bonus if you roll it back up by smacking it against your wrist.
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Hahaha different degrees of "old timey"
Just like different degrees of infinity 🤣
ow? my mind is stuck on the shards of broken glass you'd be embedding in your wrist if you tried that with a regular phone too insistently.
there are keyboards you can roll up though. I've been sorely tempted to sew a split keyboard into a pair of pants.
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So since this morning I've been having this weird weakness in my arm. I figured it was possibly a result of the muscle relaxant I was prescribed last night, but I imagine that should be well out of my system by now. I called the telehealth system again and am currently waiting on a callback from a nurse—which should happen in the next couple hours.
It was suggested that I could use their online symptom assessment tool for faster advice, but after jumping through those hoops, all it tells me is "seek medical advice".
Umm... what exactly is it you think I've been doing all this time?
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Telehealth nurse: See a doctor within four hours.
ER nurse: Just so you know, we have an eight hour expected wait time.
Me: Neat. 🙃
Eight hours in and I am now sitting in a different waiting room. This is progress, I guess?
We have officially ruled out the big scary things we were hoping to rule out. I'm now home and can finally get some sleep... at 9:46AM...
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Threw out my shoulder the other day and it seems to be getting worse rather than better. The past couple nights it's been impacting my ability to sleep. 😢
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when pain interrupts sleep it is the worst im sorry. i used to have this with tooth stuff and ill never forget it. good luck!
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I hope you get well soon. My left shoulder is also acting up for some months now.
Good strong doses of ibuprofen can help, but only time will tell if this can heal. You probably should see a specialist and get an xray.
On call doctor wrote me a script for some muscle relaxants, but interestingly, during our consultation he seemed confused by the term "stimming".
The context was when he asked if I knew what brought it on, I said: "I do this thing when I get excited where I'll sort of tense all my muscles up for a second; it's kind of a stimming thing. I did that and there was a sudden sharp pain." I had to re explain this a couple times. I'm not quite sure he actually understood in the end.
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Me, I clap my hands rapidly for a few seconds, sometimes jumping from my seat.
When I say I clap my hands, I clap each of them, separately, though roughly in unison. My long fingers can flap nicely against my palms.
:-}
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@tom grzybow I wondered if maybe I didn't explain it well. It was a phone appointment, so I couldn't demonstrate. I had to paint a word picture, which I find difficult.
if I could just hold my arm above my head 24/7, I wouldn't need to be dealing with any of this now. 🙃
I don't know why that makes the pain stop. 🤷♂️
...also, doesn't everyone show up at the pharmacy to pick up their meds in a bear onesie?
Welp, I'm taking the first pill and calling it a night early. I held off as long as I could because I didn't want them to wear off in the middle of the night. The over over the counter stuff just isn't cutting it.
Goodnight, fedi.
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Awoken at 1:22AM by pain again.
Fuck.
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Of course I would choose to clean my #FountainPens on the same day I cleaned the sink.
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Also, even with the ultrasonic cleaner, getting all of the ink out of my Jinhao 10 is a pain. #FountainPen
@Antonio Giamberardino I solve that one by shaving in the shower. 🙃
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Me dining in North America 😂
Honestly, that's exactly what I look like when I'm faced with this nonsense. Especially in self-service stores.
This cat knows what I'm talking about.
Pleez give it kitty kisses and cat hugs from me.
Pleez give it kitty kisses and cat hugs from me.
20 purrcent is about right
Cat's look says 'I've had enough of your shenanigans'
You might be able to ask 30 or 40% if you let the cat play a swat the fish game first.
MOOOOOOOD!!!! 🤣
in my opinion it's the cat that should receive a tip
You're behind the times. These days you should ask for a tip before providing service and the choices start at 20%.
"a tip from what? you paid for this"
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Opened a brand new, factory sealed, bottle of metformin to immediately see a hair in the bottle.
How??
This does not instill confidence in their quality control process.
I don't normally get cereal but I got a free box of Cinnamon Crunch Special K. I just pour a little in a cup and eat them dry. Sometimes there's a weird nugget in the bottom. I spent 4-5 cups of this wondering if these manufacturing errors were safe to eat or just swept up of the floor before looking at the box to realize they're supposed to be there. They're the "crunch."
Low consumer confidence is not at all good for business. But they don't care because they know we don't have choices anymore.
@Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 Yeah, my options are take the meds my benefits will cover or risk a diabetic coma... or worse: insulin injections. 🙃
Yeah I've just been continuing to consume what I need and throwing the scary thoughts into the compartment where I put all of societal monsters I have no control of. There's not much else to do.
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Stop
suggesting
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suggesting
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I don't know how many of us there are who straight up refuse to use Discord regardless of who wants us to and for what purpose. My biggest issue is the mystery meat navigation from one space to another powered by hastily created amateur icons with only tooltips for the NAME of the space. And no option to fix it.
To me a FOSS project on Discord is closed-development model. I will never participate, and everyone who is participating is a black box to me that outputs new free releases.
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My biggest issue is simply that developers are demanding that I trust my security and privacy to a closed-source opaque Silicon Valley vendor who has a history of violating both. I must give this untrustworthy vendor unspecified access to my device via app APIs, my contact information, an unspecified amount of personal data, and… I may even be required to scan my government ID and send it to this company, depending on local legal jurisdiction and how the server is configured.
These are the requirements set by Discord before a user is allowed to READ (not even contribute or comment) the release notes, changelog, FAQs, closed support tickets, issue db, and any and all discussion surrounding your nominally open-source project.
“Oh, but a discord account is free” doesn’t even begin to cover the cost and friction you are imposing on your users by demanding they participate in this platform.
(Closed-development FOSS is still FOSS. The license doesn't require the project owner to discuss anything with you.)
Also companies please stop using Facebook for product support, I don't want to join Facebook just to get help with some product, and I find my self locked out of so much stuff because it's on Facebook #socialmedia
Seriously, why the F do even companies use Discord for support? There are just so many projects I can't in any way contact to inform them of bugs or etc for the sole simple reason they would require me to sign up for an enshittified network that steals my private info to sell without my permission and then jump through hoops to "join their server" (sometimes with specific requirements even to make a post.)
What the bleep happened to just having an e-mail account or one of those forms on a page? Why did everyone decide this was better? Heck, if you want constant live chat, why not use IRC? It has been around forever and has zero requirements. (You can even use a Javascript client on-page to connect to the right server and autojoin the right channel automatically.)
Dis is da proppa Dis'solution.
There's a notable privacy project that does all their dev discussion on Discord. I'm only interested in them because I won't go to Discord. It's pretty wild.
Not tagging them in because I did that and had a brief exchange with their Fedi account about it, which was highly unsatisfying and not worth repeating.
But I feels ya.
but without cloudFlare 'ditz'cord servers, how else to you propose the cia/fbi radicalize our kids and stage false flag attcks?
Saying it louder for those in the back!
+ stop suggesting {Discord, Matrix, Fluxer, Stoat, basically any chat app} as a wiki/docs for your project.
Wikis and docs are one thing, your chats and forums should be a separate thing.
Why? I provide support on Discord for Omarchy
Well then.... How about Reddit?
/S
Thank you!
preach. is discord still housing nazis? ive avoided it since that news but have largely ignored it since
hot take : same for irc
"we're open source"
"ok cool, i have a problem"
"oh just search the discord, there's a fix there"
open source done on the dark web is not open source, it's published source and a big fuck you to users
We should be using IRC, but matrix would be better for newer users. The sane solution is obviously to have an issue tracker or some forum but who here is sane?
Malicious compliance, I will now direct everyone to documentation hosted on irc instead
Stop
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Discord.
(was enough) ;)
Discord! More like.... Wait no the title already makes the joke work
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Please
Join
My
Slack
Then
Please
Join
My
Slack
Then
Literally what advantage does Discord have over a good old Forum?
I have developed an appreciation for Forums because they are usually just hosted by the service provider, so there's no need to worry about corporations and making unnecessary accounts.
what's worse is when that discord is also the project's documentation
And why do you think so lol??
This is honestly even worse than "Our only channel for server status notifications and updates is.. Twitter".
I know tech people love acronyms but I don't think this one is catching on 😛
Company I work for spent half a million dollars on specialized printers. Two of them....
And the company official does support via mod tickets in discord....
Especially if it’s the only option provided!
it's among the worst and most unintuitive crap, erh software, I've ever used. In parity with Windows ME/11.
Agreed, It is so sad seeing Discord still being the suggested support spot even for some FOSS projects.
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also: stop using commercial and corporate social media as your only presence on the internet.
Since all these social medias will and definitely block your accounts if your behaviour isn't following their "guidelines" (read: "stay in line or we'll ruin your digital life")
"... Why don't you all just sort each other out?" Is such an easy way to strip-mine your userbase for support in lieu of actually paying support people, though.
I'd add "never go with a platform provider that already uses Discord as support solution"
they should use discourse instead
💯🙏 
People keep doing the "when all you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail" thing, except that there are other tools, they just only want to use one.
The obvious pun there should be a clue.
@Veronica Explains I, for instance, cannot technically even use Discord without violating their ToS—I was banned a few years back without explanation. My appeal was rejected with even less explanation.
is there a federated version of discord? Ideally something with a nice clean UI?
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Fortunately, we didn't get a ticket. That would've been an interesting one to fight.
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Yep. That's pretty cool.
I'm going to play with it more later.
What's the shortest your baby has lived and the longest you've had it live?
@Stuck_Here I died at 37 during childbirth of my 5th child in Ethiopia.
omg i had no idea how emotional that would be!
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Curse you, I am crying now after fast forwarding through my guy's life.
I outlived my wife AND one of my twin daughters. Got to have three grandkids. Was broke almost the entire time, no complaints.
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I think I won? Born in Nigeria, died 102.
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Today's Internet Apocalypse is brought to you by the letters P, H, and P along with the numbers 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237
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@Jim P.hantom I woke up to the PHP thing this morning. All I'd heard at that point was "immediately shut down all PHP servers until a patch is available" and so, down went my fedi services until I could get a handle on what the hell was going on. Fortunately, patches were already available at that point.
0/10—would not recommend
Anyhow, back to running my daily backups/updates...
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— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
Also Denmark has a functioning free healthcare system.
Damn commie bastards!
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the industrial accident of a certificate authority: "our private key is 4"
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Disregarding the context, I think this might be funny to quantum field theorists as well.
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That's the private key an idiot has on their luggage!
"4 digits?" "No, literally just the number 4."
NO ONE WILL SUSPECT: FOUR!
but they’re audited! they have the certificates (lol) to prove it!
Security Through Stupidity: the act of being so incompetent that your vulnerabilities are too dumb for attackers to consider
ive been seeing stuff about 4 a lot what happened 😭😭😭
but do you do YOLO-Ops like this?
“The CRL's were signed with the original private keys (which were supposed to be the correct keys with appropriate entropy) but given that this resulted in incorrect signatures, they were resigned with flawed keys.”
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2083449 - Private key compromise of eMudhra Intermediate Certificates
NEW (nobody) in CA Program - CA Certificate Compliance. Last updated 2026-10-20.bugzilla.mozilla.org
@benroyce At least you can feel good about yourself now 😇
wait what are we talking about ?
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finally, a private key that current quantum computers can factorize
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Or an intel 4004 processor
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A+ on trolling 😂 I love it.
These keys are not even things that live in a space where factoring is an operation that makes sense, and it's (RSA) public keys you'd factor, not private keys.
But yes, a QC might be able to factor 4=2*2 on a good day, if you tell it in advance to expect 4 as input. 🤡
@dalias You forgot the /sarcasm
I think this take is the winner.
Tell them to ask a dog for help:
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how it must have felt to come up with this post.
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A white person who tells you change can only be accomplished by voting and you should only protest peacefully and never fight back even as the regime is gunning you down is a fascist.
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The only thing these people care about is their own material comfort and safety and the illusion of order even under an authoritarian state, including the protection of all those possessions and wealth and privilege, and the possessions and privilege of people like them. "Don't disrupt anything. Don't resist. Just lie down and die if you don't like it."
Get MLK's name out of your racist, lying mouths while you're at it, assholes.
The phrase "false peace" broke the light of day across my mind when I first heard it. It's white people's favorite thing.
Don't punish them. Don't hold them accountable. Don't ask for reparations. Don't fight them. Don't make them fight each other! Just let them hold power in perpetuity, which is the natural order of things in their minds, and if you have a grievance, you must convince them peacefully or not at all, at their leisure, when they deign to receive you.
People love to talk about MLK but nobody wants to talk about the Black Panthers anymore. They’re two sides of the same coin.
With that said, everyone needs to go vote!
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Just in case anyone was unclear on the difference:
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i've come up with a new versioning system for software, it's called cemetery versioning (cemver for short. pronounced the same as semver)
the version numbers have the form X.Y.Z where X, Y, and Z are natural numbers. there is no meaning attached to any of the numbers.
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I was out walking with my girlfriend, and we found a new Fedi reaction pic.
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10/10 meme. No notes. 😁
not just a reaction pic - marketing material for fedi
I'mma kick it!
Although, two notes:
One, I appreciate their use of the apostrophe.
Two, does that really look like a hornet's nest, or is it more like they used a beehive graphic and were all like, "Eh, close enough."
"So, hey, have you all heard of this new decentralized social network called Bluesky?"
Alice wants me to die, fighting hornets.
@PhoenixSerenity
Just leave them alone and then you won't need to 😛
large signal groups approximately half the time 😅
I really really want this sign, but I’d replace the bee skep with a paper wasp nest.
Saved, will definitely be utilizing. That’s so awesome!!
wish they didn't use a bee skep to illustrate. Bees are constantly getting a bad rap!
Absolutely snarfing that for the reaction GIFs
To be paired with a slightly less dramatic: "Notice: Inactive Hornets' Nest"
I love our native hornets! They eat wasps... 🙃
(and the ones over here are really chill, our neighbour did move a nest to a different tree a while back, no stings)
Were they murder hornets?
Yeah, but native hornets or those of immigrant origin (Asian one, green¹ one for example) ? 🤔
A French beehive...
¹ Bruce, it's for you !
A French beehive...
¹ Bruce, it's for you !
Pedantic: that's a beehive.
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Haha, love it!! 😆 👍 👍
My brain has twice as many hornets as my skull can hold, but if I can keep at least half of them active at all times, I'm Ok.
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No worries, just walk past it wokefully, and don't mention AI (Apis Intelligence, I presume)
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I have had (European) hornets all around the house this summer. Most relaxed guests I have had compared to wasps and flies. It’s just the humming and size that is a bit too impressive. 😅
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I'm sure everyone here has "the tech box": that box where you shove the miscelaneous cables and dongles and other crap that isn't currently being used but is too useful to just get rid of. In my case it had spilled over into multiple boxes and had just become a bit of a nightmare.
Anyhow, my parents were getting rid of this guy, so we took it home with us. Katy and I just spent the past hour meticulously going over every single item in our various tech boxes and cataloging them into a system inspired by the one described in @Cory Doctorow's book, Makers.* It's not quite so elaborate as in the book. It's just an org-mode document that tells me exactly which drawer each item is in—no fancy RFID tags, but they're not items with a lot of churn either, so it's fine. Got to admit, it was rather satisfying to my probably #AuDHD brain.
Anyhow, I present to you the new gay tech organizer.
* That system has lived rent free in my head since I read the book like a decade an a half ago.
Edit: I make one little edit to fix a typo (okay two typos) and then need like three more edits to fix the formatting errors those introduced. I'm fired.
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I have 5 boxes. Yep, 5. They are loosely organized and more tightly tangled.
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@tom grzybow See? This is what I'm talking about!
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@tom grzybow I might've needed more storage than this, but I live with an anti-hoarder. 🙃
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If you need a cable, any cable, I have it. Same goes for wall transformers...
@tom grzybow It turns out I have stuff I didn't even remember getting. A handful of things got thrown out because I had no idea what they actually were.
We don't talk about the barrel jack adaptors...
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I refuse to throw out any of my SCSI cables. Do you know how difficult they are to find, nowadays?
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@tom grzybow When I first got married, I had an ungodly number of USB micro cables because my phone charger needed them and they had such a high failure rate. Katy influenced me to get rid of most of them. I still have a surprisingly large number of them though.
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Ever since reading that book I have desperately wanted an RFID organizational system like that. Spent a bit of time years back trying to puzzle out how to do it in a reasonably affordable way but at the time it would have been pretty spendy. Maybe now though...
@Jonathan Frederickson I've used a similar system to help with packing when moving.
"Where's the spatula?"
"It's in one of the six boxes labeled kitchen."
vs.
"It's in box 21."
Game changer.
@jfred never read the book; whats the system?
@Connor Cadellin It was basically an inventory system where you put an RFID tag on everything you own and then have a bunch of plain plastic containers built into the architecture that serve as storage, but also can read their contents. When you want something, you type it into a search and the bin that contains that item lights up.
it looks great! Do you use the TP core method to keep cables neat? I find it useful to keep them from tangling with their neighbors. 😀
@Samuel Smith So long as there are no follow-up questions, I'm going to say "yes".
Nothing to see here.
For reals, though, I should look into that.
Went on a short break with a friend last weekend.. They "forgot" the usb-c wire their stupid modern phone needs (mine is sensible micro usb like 99% of its era) .. They had to go find one in a very expensive tourist city... 2 hours later I found one still new complete with it's little wire tie lying on the street....... so now I have my own usb-c charging cable and nothing to plug it ..
Got me to read Makers, and realize I'd read it once before long ago. Fun moments of nostalgia, and a very timely book to be reminded of.
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The best part: my registrar says it's available and I can have it for $17.99.
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Root #monsterdon post #TheLastManOnEarth
Why does this monster have such a smarmy look on its face? #ultraman #monsterdon
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So my knowledge of #ultraman is limited to the last few minutes of the episodes I've managed to catch before #monsterdon, and the only character whose name I know is Hayata*, but I can't wrap my brain around how nobody seems to have worked out that he's Ultraman.
* I guess there's also Cap (I assume short for captain). Does that count?
He's like Clark Kent, nobody expects anything from him, & he has a super suit.
So we're just doing Vincent Price films forever now? I'm okay with this, I guess. #monsterdon
Where's that light bulb getting power from? #monsterdon
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Oh, he's got a generator. Next question: where's he getting the fuel? #monsterdon
In an overly convoluted way as we'll see in a little bit
I mean, for an end-of-the-world scenario, this isn't a bad setup. #monsterdon
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If you're going to hunt zombie/vampires in the apocalypse, you may as well look stylish doing it. #monsterdon
Grocery store garlic still good after three years? I'm calling shennanigans!
Also, he must have some really impressive fuel stabilizer.
I assumed he was farming the garlic. #monsterdon
All his arable soil is devoted to gasoline berries
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THAT's a euphemism?!... #MonsterDon
Let's just run into the crowd of zombies... #monsterdon
Maybe the move here is to just stay in the car? #monsterdon
That projector is shockingly high-def! #monsterdon
An airborne virus? That's preposterous! #monsterdon
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"If you don't feel well, please go back to bed."
"I'm just a little tired is all."
You know what helps with that...?
I'm no scientist, but I don't unserstand how germs would either confirm or refute the existence of vampires. It seems pretty non-sequitur to me. #monsterdon
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Germs do tend to be somewhat unreliable witnesses
"Mankind won't be destroyed. The fact that you and I are working here today is evidence of that."
For scientists, these guys seem to lack a grasp of basic logic.
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It is a well known fact that shouting "come back!" is the best way to catch a fleeing dog. #monsterdon
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KOKW is an FM radio call sign, not an amateur radio call sign, isn't it? #monsterdon
Also, I doubt there's anyone left who cares about enforcing such rules. #monsterdon
When is he scheduled for his booster bat? #monsterdon
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Now all we need is enough blood to give transfusions for millions of zombies. #monsterdon
Good thing the armory was conveniently unlocked. #monsterdon
In all of this, no one has managed to shout "we have a damn cure!"? #monsterdon
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I mean, they got "you don't understand!" in there multiple times.
Remember kids: effective communication skills can save lives!
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Got an email from a recruiter this morning. I thought it was for a position at a well-established company, and despite the yellow flags I decided to at least look into it.
It's clearly a different company than I thought, with a prominent typo right on their landing page (apparently they're a "worldwid" organization).
Also, they have both 10+ years of experience and were established in 2024? 🤷♂️
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