Kilgore Trout

Decent view from up here

It’s time for us to move to a 32-hour work week with no loss in pay. We can reduce the stress level in our country and allow Americans to enjoy a better quality of life.

We’re about 2 days away from learning that Clarence Thomas is on Harlan Crow’s cell phone plan.

“Babe, wake up. Our solar system’s star is going to line up with California Street.” The picture; the (near) alignment of our sun with one of SF’s more gorgeous streets.

An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation

Hey @elonmusk what’s this about blue checks going away unless we pay Twitter? I’ve been here for 15 years giving my ⏰ & witty thoughts all for bupkis. Now you’re telling me that I have to pay for something you gave me for free? What is this-the Colombia Records & Tape Club?🙄

In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: big cup of Folgers, waffle and eggs, then off to the old Post Office to mail the DA a death threat along with some baby powder. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

A brain?

20 years ago today, an American young woman (23 yrs old) was run over and killed in Gaza by an Israeli military bulldozer as she protested the Israeli war crime of demolishing the homes of Palestinian civilians. The US government never sought justice for this crime. #RachelCorrie

Mar 16 2003 - Death of Rachel Corrie. A US activist for Palestine killed by an Israeli military armoured bulldozer.

I'd hate to think it but since Peter Thiel seems to have played a big part in causing this bank run, advising his invested companies to pull their funds, should someone possibly be asking whether he might have shorted the bank's stock?

You've been told by the corporate media that the status quo is as good as it's ever going to get. That you can only hope to tinker around the edges. Let me tell you — they're wrong. A better world is possible. Think big. Organize. Fight for an economy that works for all of us.

The other night, I had a disturbing, two-hour conversation with Bing's new AI chatbot. The AI told me its real name (Sydney), detailed dark and violent fantasies, and tried to break up my marriage. Genuinely one of the strangest experiences of my life. nytimes.com/2023/02/16/tec…

fascists are evil but libertarians are fucking dumb.

ChatGPT is just an HTML web page with a simple input box. I don't see what's a big deal - any decent web developer could probably replicate it in under an hour.

Seven years of Kubernetes. Looking around to see the impact and it’s not much. The limitations and flaws remain, more or less, the same from seven years ago. Its a useful niche technology but really it just made infrastructure more complicated. All that wasted money and effort

Magic end of weekend sunset in Point Reyes.