D J Capelis

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Well. It happened. I finally got mold in my spackle.

Some people use virtual backgrounds for pride, some people use foregrounds. We all play our part.

I hate the discourse but I’m wildly in favor of bringing back asking people what they do for a living and avoiding the people who can’t square their ethics and their conduct. For some of us—we actually never stopped.

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That foreigners want to come to America, and that some of those foreigners are the best in the world at the things they do, and then because of that, America gets to be the best in the world at the things those immigrants do on behalf of everyone, is literally the super power part of the super power

The thing that creeps me out about polycules is how monogamous they are. I have no idea who all my partners’ partners’ partners are. … why do you? How is that list so small? The idea that polycules are normalized online as a thing that most non-monogamous people do or construct is wild to me.

The humans must solve puzzles to prove to the machines they are worthy. But the machines don’t have to prove anything to anybody.

The unshielded nuclear reactor I hung out under last weekend put uneven radiation marks on my skin during my bike ride and now maybe I want to even them out a bit… 🤔 Tanning is admittedly a weird concept.

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With it looking like the Tiktok ban is going to become law, I wrote yesterday about how this will backfire badly, as we signal that the US no longer believes in an open internet. www.techdirt.com/2024/04/19/t...

The US Banning TikTok Would Play Right Into China’s Hands, And Destroy Decades Of US Work On Promoting An Open Internetwww.techdirt.com Apparently, the TikTok ban bill is back. Speaker Mike Johnson plans to include TikTok divestiture legislation already passed by the House in a fast-moving aid package for Ukraine and Israel that th…

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Happy Birthday to THE icon, Naoko Takeuchi, creator of Sailor Moon! Born March 15, 1967. Here's a photo of her from a shoot she did in '94, sitting on top of her own Porsche Carrera II.

How are there still available rooms at Arcosanti on the way back from the eclipse? Well let me help take care of that…

"She's not giving bestie vibes" is one of the stranger ways yet I've heard someone say she thinks a girl might want to rip her clothes off—she hopes.

Oh wow I hated this article because it was bad let me go immediately tell all my friends about it, make sure to amplify it, amplify the people talking about it, and keep sending traffic at it! That’ll show ‘em!

Glad to see invites removed, that weird barrier was obnoxious.

I sometimes miss being as wildly unafraid of what people think of me as these folks off using AVP everywhere in public. That said, I suspect I’d make different choices about what I’d be unafraid to do.

I’m starting the new year with a two day streak of getting tradle right on my first guess.

I love how they preboard families with infants mostly just trying to get themselves and their bags down the jetway between the two highest elite tiers of frequent travelers. This really maximizes the humor of the boarding process and I’ve grown to love the reliable comedy.

I have to say, having been in Hong Kong recently in the lead up to the latest district council elections… I find it extremely hard to be excited about anything related to disqualifying someone from a ballot.

“Stop panicking and run my tests” and other laments of prototype devices.

@cara.city while we’re waiting to get cute on ice any Lisbon recommendations?

For my own part, I promise to set a bottle of champagne on standby as soon as I return home.

“My hot towel was a bit too hot—and other laments: a memoir”

Monday has me in its sights but I’m preparing to take evasive maneuvers. Unfortunately I’ll be flying west, so it’ll very much be a losing battle and my plane hurtling towards Europe (by way of India) will be more of a herald of Monday than an evader of it. Oh well. We take the roles that come.

Hell I am going to need a jacket on this plane because someone set the AC for temperatures calibrated to the broad preferences of men again. This is a flight between Thailand and Hong Kong come on find the thermostat and hit that sucker away from freezing just this once.

OpenAI’s board still has hours left to install a fourth CEO before start of business on Monday. Come on folks, get to it!

That last night before travel where you’re cooking what’s left in your fridge and eating everything ripe in the plantry

Getting cited for improper lane use at the intersection of technology and liberal arts

I wish we had enough surveillance to have a better clue what the current R value of COVID worldwide is. There’s a world where it’s dropped under 1 and we’ll have no idea if we’re living in it for quite some time.

Team just finishing running down an issue where someone needed to push a part into their board further. Software development is definitely one of the most glamorous jobs in the janitorial sector.

There’s something satisfying about showing up to a party months late and still getting my normal username. Hi everyone, does this place spark joy? How shallow or deep are the waters here?

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