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Colin McMillen

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He/him. Previously: Google, reCAPTCHA, Carnegie Mellon (Ph.D., Computer Science).
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me doing two hours of yard work during a heat advisory:
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have you tried fastmail? it's so good. like gmail from before they enshittified everything. and, as its name implies, noticeably faster
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i pine for the days when i considered *this* a completely unacceptable waste of space
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i love seeing this in my stream when it's already happened
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maam you are "the press"
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hey, who wants to open an array of micro-schools that tessellate across the entire state of Louisiana
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yeah lmao at this list of recommended articles
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i'm not trans but my bikeshare is gay this month
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Did you know they made a whole cemetery just for reply guys?
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Thaila Flores from New Hampshire for president tbh
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I played pirated music on this guy:
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they really, uh, cocked this one up
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IT IS CRIMES TIME
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It's also how they implemented this circular "shrinking spotlight" effect at the end of every stage in Super Mario World! It's otherwise impossible to draw something like "a big black circle" over an arbitrary background.
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cowards.
lmao Google's AI is eating itself already -- telling you how much glue to put on pizza, citing a @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Business Insider article about Google's AI telling people to put glue on pizza
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If you see this … post a photo you made at sunset (Hakodate, Japan)
If you see this … post a photo you made at sunset
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Here is what I wrote. Please don't take it word-for-word, but feel free to touch on some of the same points, if it helps.
the CDC is again trying to limit the 2024-25 booster availability to provably immunocompromised and elderly people. they’re taking written comments through the 17th. please take a minute to let them know boosters should be available to all who want them: www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD...
Regulations.govwww.regulations.gov
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Presumably this is Annette on Google Street View.
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Issa is my favorite haikuist.
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I came to Boston via a Midwestern public university (with some detours along the way) and had never really understood how *small* Harvard is. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus: 1200 acres Harvard main campus: 200 acres
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"The O" in Pittsburgh (closed 2020, rip) had fries that were first described to me as "a large has enough calories to feed an undergrad for a week". A "small" was more than I could personally eat; I believe a "large" was actually an entire fry hopper.
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haha this is even better
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lmao Google's AI is eating itself already -- telling you how much glue to put on pizza, citing a @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Business Insider article about Google's AI telling people to put glue on pizza
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free idea: chrome extension that replaces the text "AI Overview" with something like this