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I received mail from insurance company asking me to set up Voice ID. "Imagine a world with fewer passwords and verification codes, where your voice becomes the key to effortless access." And I'm like, "Imagine a world with AI audio fakery making it that much easier for someone to hack my account!"

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Dude adobe is just straight up evil 😭 I thought they couldn’t go lower but whelp

Does your colo have someplace for you to nap? WHY NOT? If they have crash carts, why don't they have crash COTS?

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Trying to build up my follow list here. Who are some good space and science accounts to follow here?

@risingpun.bsky.social I'm sorry the sky didn't work out for your viewing of the northern lights. WTF? I didn't see shit down here either.

To be clear, this is for your suite www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

I have once again been radicalized by the Miami Grand Prix food menu

F1 Miami food prices circulated lacked context. Here's why $280 lobster rolls were on menuwww.usatoday.com F1 race organizers in Miami and Las Vegas are aware of expensive prices, particularly in suites, but hope lower-priced options help fan experience

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My 95-year-old client and I just found out that Verizon charges her $2.99 for every directory assistance call she makes from her home phone. Highway robbery.

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Yup. In plain language, folks: A leveraged buyout is when you borrow money to buy a company, buy the company, then put that debt on the newly-purchased company's books. If/When your newly-bought company fails, it takes your debt with it, and you get to walk away. This is what did in Toys 'R' Us.

Leveraged buyout is some class A rich people bullshit. "I'd like to buy this company" "How are you going to pay for it?" "WIth the company I want to buy" "Fine" What the gibbering fuck is that all about?

I am alternatively amazed and terrified of Las Vegas.

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Erin Fogg

We teach the kids. They should totally teach us! (I got one learning fishing to teach me)

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Me teaching the Library of Congress classification system to users: “So the call number starts with a letter…😬”

If my PIN needs a LETTER then it stops being a Personal Identification NUMBER.

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Hi from rural America. Nobody shoots a high dollar hunting dog. They cost real money. You either offload it to a family friend or make it a house pet. You could also use it for breeding,l, assuming it was registered. Beyond being cruel, and cowardly, it was financially stupid.

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Ultraklystron 🏖️ Karl Olson

Mr B!

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#OTD in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope, perhaps the most famous science instrument in history, was deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery.

HAPPY TAKE YOUR KID TO WORK DAY!

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if you email someone at 4:47 on Friday and then send another angry email at 8:13 on Monday you have not been waiting three days, you have been waiting 26 minutes

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If you’re going for a job interview and you tell HR you have to have TOTAL IMMUNITY or you can’t perform the job, they aren’t going to hire you.

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Free on the street, gallon ziplock with seven or eight different old TI graphing calculators. Kind of wish I had some reason to pick it up.

Windows is trying to look at my face with the camera for authentication. The thing is, I have to click OK on a monitor far away from the camera. The OK goes away when I stop looking at my camera. :)

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