It’s a computer* run by a company (don’t forget, companies are people too!) comprised of many, many humans.

I live in NYC where self checkout is a disaster; as a result only forays into the distant suburbs for chips and some water result in a good checkout experience with the self checkout. And I feel like I’m living in an alternate reality when that happens, because basically I am.

I feel like women realized they were at risk of getting raped, murdered, or both if they upset a man, and then men JUMPED on it.  Kinda feel like a society with weak social ties and no support net may contribute too .. 

While SF may allow for soft plastics recycling, the market overseas that used to actually process these materials has completely tanked (in part due to Trump!) so a lot of it ends up as landfill. Since this is the internet and everything is a politicized lie here is one lazy citation example, you will find lots more…

So glad I tossed my vote away to vote green party.  Just kidding, thanks to all the great candidates who ran opposition to this dork.  Glad he felt the pressure and hope it works out.  

My experience for kindergarten was the reading level was all over the map from “just looking at pictures in a book” to “the hobbit”. Seemed like the expectation was by first grade you’d more or less know how to read. We definitely did cursive too in first grade. So maybe the milestones haven’t changed much but they…

I was super pissed to find out in middle school you could just write to nasa and they send you tons of photos and information. For a big science project I picked how the brain works and my friend picked “cool photos of hubble” and guess who got the better grade? Hours of reading incredibly boring dry science vs having…

Honestly I’m going ahead and being real polite to the robots, even the vacuum which isn’t connected to anything. Actually especially the vacuum. I love u my precious robovac baby <3

This is why I got an ipad pro - really wanted a cintiq for my hobbyist digital art, couldn’t justify the price. The ipad was less than half the cost and also can be used for email in bed.

I’ve been thinking on this for a while but now sorta wondering if the abysmal design, user experience, and customization on amazon are intentional - to trick the overly savvy wage slave into thinking they aren’t so smart for all their 300k a year corporate salaries and rapid diversification from a book seller to the…

All that means is that if you have the money for a lawyer and the ability to access enough proprietary information to prove your case, you can get some money for your genetics resulting in insurance discrimination.

this is super dumb but I am suddenly tempted to pay to give away my most personal of informations in order to see if the test says I am likely to get asparagus smell urine. I have gathered a lot of data, over the course of decades, and I’m dying to know what the science says.

GDPR is a vague and wide sweeping, albeit likely well meaning, bit of legislation—may be more mealy-mouthed than Zuck. The penalties are super steep which is nice, but good luck proving a violation in court.

Failsafe reboot for frying the power controller? Lemme guess, you approve engineering budgets for a living .. :(

Amazon prime fresh was for me a failed experiment; it cost about the same as similar services (mainly FreshDirect around here) for the same quality of items but I had to order a day or two in advance and .. they never picked up those giant reusable totes ? Plus it’s an extra $15/mo which is insane to me just to use a…

A kitchen scale is a really useful thing - but weighing fresh herbs? Are these photographers even trying??

A kitchen scale is a really useful thing - but weighing fresh herbs? Are these photographers even trying??

There have got to be over 5 “devices” at my mom’s that can stream things and she has been low income most of her adult life and isn’t particularly tech-lusty or materialistic. In what I’m sure is not an uncommon situation nowadays she tends to have 1-2 millenials sharing the household. Her tv isn’t even HD. How many…

Of course it’s not the same. Pale people isn’t a race. Pale people haven’t been subjugated by traditional western society as a whole. Pale people, sit down and shut up. Right?  

To be frank I have had to send similar (but nothing so serious because I’m a pawn thank goodness) emails and .. that’s about what mine would sound like.

Thought experiment time. Imagine two USAs of the near future.