Mix of both. My job requires a lot of collaboration on some things, and others require deep dives into really dry texts that I prefer to do solo.

I prefer remote work. I’m on video calls with people all over the world most days so there’s no reason to be in any specific location. Home allows for no commute time, privacy, better lunch, so many reasons.

No AI replacement for tasks so far. The company I work for has an internal client that is supposed to answer queries based on all those dry texts mentioned above. But when I tested I found 16/20 attempts came back with inaccurate information on initial query and I would say roughly one third of those would not be reasonably caught by someone not very familiar with the texts like I am.

I think there are some opportunities for AI, more along the lines of automating standard workflows, but I have no time to build them because they’ve already fired 3/4 of my team in advance of “expected efficiencies thanks to AI”. I’m also not an IT / Digital Tools person. Nothing about my job is related to building AI tools and they haven’t provided us with skills-appropriate tools. So my team is just prioritizing and saying “no” to the bottom half of the list we no longer have capacity to support. I feel increasingly insecure in my job every time we say “no” but I also won’t push my team to work an obscene number of hours per week.

Sink. I brush my teeth twice a day. Brushing only when I shower would be revolting.

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Some yes, some no. For those I do stay friends with, I still take a break and go low/no contact with them for a while before resuming friendship. I need it to draw a line, so to speak, between the old relationship and friendship.

I’ve also had guys want to “remain friends” while they really meant hookup buddy. A break helps suss out those who are disingenuous with their stated intentions.

Curing versus cured. You don’t need goggles and respirator and gloves once the resin is cured.

I would not get into a pool blindfolded. There might be corpses in there.

Large enough I am not faced with the reality of a corpse.

I don’t see any corpses when I’m at the beach. I know they’re out there in theory, but they’re a distant enough concept I don’t worry.

Great Lake sized lake with body on other side? Same.

A small lake/pond where I can see the area in which the corpse is floating? Perhaps even smell it? Or speak with a person who saw it? Hard pass.

Olympic sized pool? I can see the corpse. Hard pass.

Dal or similar? Lots of lentils for protein and fiber.

liberals will never view cops as human enough to have mental health issues

I take issue with this. It’s because I see cops as humans with all the mental issues and trauma that I think we load too many expectations on them while simultaneously absolving them when they abuse their power.

Narrow the scope of policing. Have more social services and emergency mental health resources so cops aren’t expected to do all that. And hold cops responsible when they do abuse the power they have.

Just popped up in my rss feed about the Gracias donation. $20 million from Musk’s buddy and DOGE douche. Keepin’ it classy, UofC.

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World" by Joseph Menn

If just looking for a casual, non-technical read, this is a good one. It led me to a few rabbit holes to dive down deeper.

Smaller towns are still a little more open to tours. It’s worth asking.

I had portraits taken above a clarifying pond for… reasons. The folks at the plant were very accommodating. I sent them a 4x6 print and a thank you card; I assume it will stay on their break room fridge until someone comes along with a weirder request.

Door handle design that makes it intuitive whether it requires pushing or pulling to open.

Emergency situation like fires or bad weather? No, a prison should have robust protocols for handling emergencies.

Failed state? Still makes no sense to me as a situation for the death penalty. A state is dying and what, with their last gasps of power they’re going to kill all their violent prisoners? Instead of letting whatever leadership that takes over after them take care of the prisoners? That sounds like something a horrible autocrat would do.

I’m against it. It does nothing to protect people that a life sentence doesn’t do. It’s permanent, there’s no correcting for mistakes. It’s about punishment, not deterrent.

Killing even a killer when there’s an option to lock them up instead is unnecessary. It smacks of religious/moral judgement that is beyond what a justice system should be focused on. If an afterlife exists and is run by some supernatural deity(ies), they will take care of punishment.

Not to mention different economic classes. Like people for whom travel to a different continent would be a luxury beyond their financial capabilities.

Mike Flanagan was slated to adapt the graphic novel *Something is Killing the Children" for Netflix. It fell through, I believe. It could have been great: Buffy-esque without the creepiness of Joss Whedon. I like almost everything Flanagan has done. I would also just accept Flanagan adapting anything more in the similar vein as Haunting of Hill House and of Bly Manor.

I think it’s dumb how much cultural weight the Nobel Peace Prize is still given. It’s a popularity contest judged by 5 Norwegian politicians.

Obama getting the prize less than a year into his presidential term, only to airstrike Libya two years later. And the entire EU winning the prize in 2012 for existing.

I’m similarly unimpressed with prestige awards elsewhere, like the Oscars for film.

I don’t have photos but used to have two cockroaches that I thought were both female but whoops, eggs laid and hatched into way too many more roaches.

I’m in design and manufacturing aerospace systems/components. And before that, design and manufacturing of laboratory instrumentation. Both were similar: options were 1) default Windows build for engineering functions and 2) default Windows build for non-engineering functions, or 3) an act of god to get something else approved. Security, monitoring, retention, I’m sure were all reasons. Also just simplifying the number of builds IT would have to accommodate.

Ive know one person who managed to get a Linux box approved. It was so they could use a particular aerodynamics software package, iirc. IT made them keep it off network and would not support it in any capacity.