Grimace is a tastebud.

These categories tend to be fairly noisy. I used to work in ad targeting back when I was a fledgling data scientist. We’d get a seed segment based on behavioral data — folks would actually be searching for a thing, or we’d have location data that put them in the ice cream aisle of their grocery store; and then from…

I really like these design elements! And I especially like the grading rubric.

Guest worker visas — like H1B — are not quite slavery, but they are extremely precarious and significantly advantage the employer over both domestic workers, and workers who are employed on these visas. As someone who was able to get a green card through marriage rather than trying to stay in the US on a non-immigrant…

Or just spray it with vinegar. It’ll kill the plant by pickling it (particularly if you can get the roots) but it won’t carry the danger of burning things down. (Even though I agree, fire is fun.)

This is actually the continuation of a curbside composting program that began in 2015 (or 2013, depending on how you want to measure.) Here in Queens, we were sad to see curbside composting stop in June of 2020 — but those were scary times, and we understood why it was happening. Since then the rat population here…

Sometimes the insurance company forces you to sue.

There’s been a lot of breathlessly credulous coverage of LLMs in the popular press lately. I recently unsubscribed from the podcast the Daily because of their coverage of the “dark side” of ChatGPT, which failed to discuss with any depth the fact that the training data is what leads to any such “dark side.” Instead…

Heads up that one of the tells of AI-generated text is repeating words and phrases “unnaturally” — ie, in ways that human writers would not tend to. Re-pasting the same content 3x seems like a great way to get a false-positive result.

The long term cost of living in communities that heavy industry has abandoned can be calculated in terms of cancer and birth defects. Do people really want to move to Flint?

I’m pro-porn, but that image is extremely rapey and I expect there are a number of survivors who will see that and be triggered. So, thanks, Elon.

The towel gets pulled out during the cycle and air-dried external to the dryer. It takes some amount of water out of your clothes and so your dryer runs for less long. But you wind up with a crispy towel.

And yet, yesterday, when I tried to search for information about folks killed by the NYPD, all I got were results about NYPD officers who had been killed, as well as incidents where one civilian killed another and the NYPD investigated.

Having grown some creepy molds on tea left in the pot for too long, I’m probably gonna pass on mopping my hardwood floors with it.

Vinegar isn’t safe for a lot of surfaces -- it may eat away at your granite counter top over time, for instance. Using soap isn’t bad!

Honestly, my PoV on this is that the tech world is going to be rocked by AI very, very soon. Computer programming languages are a strictly simpler class of languages than human natural language. If a chatbot is good at human language, it will be phenomenal at coding.

Let’s choose to live in their world for a sec. The world where we can nudge people’s orientations around like this.

unf, tax returns

Yep. When you look closer at a lot of this shit it turns out to be comprised of white genocide/supremacy, just like every other part of republicanism that isn’t oligarchy trying to maintain its cashflow.

I’ll bite: what’s grosser than possible accumulated mold and algae with dust bunnies mixed in for good measure? Oh, and remember, to get there you have to get yourself dusty as well because you have to pull the fridge out to access it.

oh, you mean pitch as in angle, not pitch as in note, which would also be a function of RPM.