Next time I’m feeling useless, I’ll remember that it’s somebody’s job to blur out blue jeans for North Korean television. Sucks that a frame of the forbidden fabric could land multiple generations of their family in prison for life though, bit of a downer.
You’ve already given the plan more thought than the discount Karl Wallenda featured in this article.
Article without the [pay | login] wall here.
I can’t decide whether “Asbestos industry lobbyist, 1970(ish)-2024” is like mesothelioma for one’s resume or a sign to prospective future employers that they’ll keep up the fight for the almighty dollar until the last dying gasp of their cause is extinguished. Either way, that’s a bunch of carcinogenic old garbage heading for retirement.
Sounds like A Nice Morning Drive. As noted in the archived page above, that story inspired the song Red Barchetta by the band Rush.
Sounds like Facebook’s going to get some new features.
It’s a reference to this scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
Scotty, having traveled back in time to the year 1986 as part of a mission to rescue some whales, attempts to use a computer by speaking to it and then mistakenly tries to use the mouse as a microphone when the machine does not respond. He is prompted to use the keyboard instead of verbal commands and gives information on how to manufacture transparent aluminum. This material was not invented until about 150 years later according to the pre-trip history of the Star Trek future but Scotty has given it a head start.
The AI said I could have the pilot’s seat. Open up, let me in and let’s light this candle!
Pons_Aelius is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Shit company is capable of doing the right thing once in a while. Now they can go right back to being evil.
You can go here to see what it sounds like played on a more human time scale.
They think they do but they don’t. They really, really don’t.
Yeah, otherwise they wouldn’t be much more than skeletons.
Apropos of nothing, who’s up for some ice cream?
Sheesh, kids have it so easy now… Back in my day, we had to set sail along the Atlantic trade routes looking for ships full of the latest wax cylinders out of Europe and Asia. Didn’t have anything to play them on but at least we owned our collections.
It’s a lack of supervision, mostly. They assigned Jim to do the bolting that day but didn’t check his qualifications or work. At least this explains the hours of security footage discovered early in the investigation showing Jim sprinting back and forth between the work stations.
Somebody’s playing with the cursed Mad Libs booklet again.
Search around for “scambaiting”, there are people doing similar things ranging from tying up (figuratively, unfortunately) telephone scammers for hours with pointless conversations to more tech-based efforts. Kitboga on YouTube is a good place to start, he usually just sits on the phone with scammers and takes them through some wild scenarios but has some videos showing tests of an automated system that uses an LLM to interpret and respond.
It could be irony but, aside from the plastic, I’d expect it to be a little more coppery and silicony.
Meanwhile, the Beekreeper escapes the scene unnoticed and prepares to summon its apian horde elsewhere.