dylanmorgan @ dylanmorgan @slrpnk.net

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I grew up in Hawaii, I got called a haole by everyone. It wasn’t hateful.

One of my favorite anecdotes is about a class at UH-Manoa taught by a haole woman who had moved to Hawaii in the late 60s. A student complained about being called haole, and the professor responded “if you’re white in Hawaii you can be one of three things: a haole, a dumb haole, or a dumb fucking haole.”

He’s more or less said that exact thing.

I feel this a lot. Between people moving away and turning inward, I have maybe one or two really good friends.

I remember reading about a hotel in Japan that has been open for over a millennium, and IIRC it’s owned by the same family who has owned it for most of that time, and that’s their only business. We need more of that: steady-state businesses that operate but don’t pursue permanent growth.

What are the stretch goals? I mean, we have a whole slew of shitbags the world would be better off without.

It’s not about waiting, it’s about enticing people to use Amazon fresh rather than the other grocery options they typically use.

My guess is that Amazon fresh makes its prices even more absurdly low to get more people buying.

Goddamn it, now I feel like I have to see it even if it’s not a good movie.

Texas?

That’s literally how “AI agents” are being marketed. “Tell it to do a thing and it will do it for you.”

What are you checking against? Part of my job is looking for events in cities that are upcoming and may impact traffic, and ChatGPT has frequently missed events that were obviously going to have an impact.

Sadly a lot of that is probably marketing, with little to no LLM integration, but it’s basically impossible to know for sure.

Claude why did you make me an appointment with a gynecologist? I need an appointment with my neurologist, I’m a man and I have Parkinson’s.

I’ve known a number of homeless folks, and not a single one has made anywhere near that flying a sign, but plenty of them have had everything they owned trashed by the cops, who also confiscated any cash because the homeless folks “couldn’t explain where they got it.”

That sounds like an urban legend. The Sherlock Holmes story “The Man With the Twisted Lip” includes a wealthy man who had made his money by begging. The “beggar king” trope goes back further than that, and as far as I can tell it’s just a comfortable fiction to excuse society’s failure to care for its most vulnerable members.

Same. The headline is journalistic malpractice at best. Joss was murdered by a homophobic terrorist.

Before spending all that money talking to another doctor, talk with a lawyer who knows healthcare related law. If your full time job has an employee assistance program, it may cover a consultation with a lawyer. A lawyer will be able to tell you what rights you have at a federal, state, and local level, and should know if there is a process to compel the hospital to restrict your records.

The mayor is an elected official, the governor can’t just fire him. The fact the US DOJ was investigating and probably going to prosecute likely led to any state investigation being ended, due to federal investigations taking precedence.

I’d say just don’t engage with it at all.

If someone talks about it, pretend ignorance. Like total ignorance of any aspect of the stories.

Or, if someone mentions it, just say you don’t give bigots money.

Editing to expand: by pirating you are perpetuating the cultural impact. The majority of people pay for access to this media, and by engaging with it you make it more costly for other people to skip it.

Got kids? Percy Jackson (and the other Rick Riordan written) series are great. Older kids? Get them reading chuck wendig or Margaret Killjoy.

Introduce yourself to Kafka and Marquez and Butler and Morrison and so many other great great writers who make JK Rowling look like the utter hack she is.