Esteban
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
Okay, attempt 4 or 5 of being more consistent on here
I just kept myself awake for 3 hrs b/c I fell down a spreadsheet rabbit hole and idk how to like… map out a financial future.
I’m watching my elders scramble as retirement age looms over their near futures, only to look at my own and feel fear
I just kept myself awake for 3 hrs b/c I fell down a spreadsheet rabbit hole and idk how to like… map out a financial future.
I’m watching my elders scramble as retirement age looms over their near futures, only to look at my own and feel fear
May 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Okay, attempt 4 or 5 of being more consistent on here
I just kept myself awake for 3 hrs b/c I fell down a spreadsheet rabbit hole and idk how to like… map out a financial future.
I’m watching my elders scramble as retirement age looms over their near futures, only to look at my own and feel fear
I just kept myself awake for 3 hrs b/c I fell down a spreadsheet rabbit hole and idk how to like… map out a financial future.
I’m watching my elders scramble as retirement age looms over their near futures, only to look at my own and feel fear
Got a new job, and as the newest team member I’m invited to sit-in on everything I can so I can learn how we work. We interviewed a potential intern the other day and when asked about AI I went on a small rant about its dangers, risks, and inefficiencies, and my new boss backed up everything I said
March 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Got a new job, and as the newest team member I’m invited to sit-in on everything I can so I can learn how we work. We interviewed a potential intern the other day and when asked about AI I went on a small rant about its dangers, risks, and inefficiencies, and my new boss backed up everything I said
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this is a very cool piece of scholarship especially since previously I'd have just had to make this argument by saying, "c'mon, have you ever met a soldier?"
New article out on First World War Studies: how and why did a theory emerge that alcohol played a central part in the failure of the German offensive in 1918, and is there really any evidence that supports it?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
“Our Offensives Got Stuck in the French Wine Cellar!“ the Influence of Alcohol Consumption on the German Spring Offensives of 1918
The defeat in the First World War led to an intense search for causes in interwar Germany. One suggestion insinuated that captured alcohol stocks were responsible for the failure of the German spri...
www.tandfonline.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
this is a very cool piece of scholarship especially since previously I'd have just had to make this argument by saying, "c'mon, have you ever met a soldier?"
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March 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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I’m slowly becoming convinced that Delaware and/or New Jersey are killing their scanners on the memorial bridge when they’re running low on funds b/c I have a damn EZ Pass and this is the 2nd time in so many years that I’ve been flagged and a $5 charge turns into $30
March 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I’m slowly becoming convinced that Delaware and/or New Jersey are killing their scanners on the memorial bridge when they’re running low on funds b/c I have a damn EZ Pass and this is the 2nd time in so many years that I’ve been flagged and a $5 charge turns into $30
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This! If you can switch from Whole Foods to a different grocery store and buy your books from bookshop.org instead of Amazon, that’s still a big step even if you feel tied to Amazon for other items. If everyone divested 30% that’s more than if a few people divest 100%.
When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.
February 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This! If you can switch from Whole Foods to a different grocery store and buy your books from bookshop.org instead of Amazon, that’s still a big step even if you feel tied to Amazon for other items. If everyone divested 30% that’s more than if a few people divest 100%.
I’ve been reading a lot more consistently since my friend showed me an app that basically gamifies it lol
And I decided to go back over a decent chunk of fiction I loved growing up
1) yeah, I can see how I grew into me lol. How we got from A to B
2) omg these protagonists are all babies
And I decided to go back over a decent chunk of fiction I loved growing up
1) yeah, I can see how I grew into me lol. How we got from A to B
2) omg these protagonists are all babies
February 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I’ve been reading a lot more consistently since my friend showed me an app that basically gamifies it lol
And I decided to go back over a decent chunk of fiction I loved growing up
1) yeah, I can see how I grew into me lol. How we got from A to B
2) omg these protagonists are all babies
And I decided to go back over a decent chunk of fiction I loved growing up
1) yeah, I can see how I grew into me lol. How we got from A to B
2) omg these protagonists are all babies
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alright you wanna know how to support trans people?
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
January 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
alright you wanna know how to support trans people?
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
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The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
Can someone explain it to me like I'm stupid?
January 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
Having braces as an adult is so weird
I’m either clocked as my age exactly or thought of as half a decade younger
I’m either clocked as my age exactly or thought of as half a decade younger
January 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Having braces as an adult is so weird
I’m either clocked as my age exactly or thought of as half a decade younger
I’m either clocked as my age exactly or thought of as half a decade younger
Some days I want to take my brain out my skull and shake it. Run my fingers through the wrinkles, see if that helps.
January 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Some days I want to take my brain out my skull and shake it. Run my fingers through the wrinkles, see if that helps.
I’m reading through The World of The White Rat by @tkingfisher.com
I discovered these books out of order and started 2025 by rereading them chronology.
To the author, I just want to say:
These stories are fantastic! Such fun reads!
And also, thank you for Gnoles.
A human finds them very endearing
I discovered these books out of order and started 2025 by rereading them chronology.
To the author, I just want to say:
These stories are fantastic! Such fun reads!
And also, thank you for Gnoles.
A human finds them very endearing
January 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I’m reading through The World of The White Rat by @tkingfisher.com
I discovered these books out of order and started 2025 by rereading them chronology.
To the author, I just want to say:
These stories are fantastic! Such fun reads!
And also, thank you for Gnoles.
A human finds them very endearing
I discovered these books out of order and started 2025 by rereading them chronology.
To the author, I just want to say:
These stories are fantastic! Such fun reads!
And also, thank you for Gnoles.
A human finds them very endearing
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Just in case your elderly relatives are talking about it: there are no looters. It’s simply not happening
I can’t get over how many people fully invented a false Los Angeles this week, one that isn’t coming together to take care of each other in the face of this tragedy.
January 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Just in case your elderly relatives are talking about it: there are no looters. It’s simply not happening
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but became a meme which was honestly maybe worse
December 26, 2024 at 2:24 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but became a meme which was honestly maybe worse
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Yes, the name "poinsettia" is problematic (Google Joel Roberts Poinsett). An Indigenous name would be better. But folks citing the Nahuatl word "cuetlaxxochitl," calling it the "original," ignore 60+ Native languages spoken in Mexico & other flowers w/ fraught colonial names.
Here's a handy chart.
Here's a handy chart.
December 24, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Yes, the name "poinsettia" is problematic (Google Joel Roberts Poinsett). An Indigenous name would be better. But folks citing the Nahuatl word "cuetlaxxochitl," calling it the "original," ignore 60+ Native languages spoken in Mexico & other flowers w/ fraught colonial names.
Here's a handy chart.
Here's a handy chart.
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It always amazes me, how much of a piece of shit Reagan was.
Reminder—the sole reason student loans exist is because Reagan was a racist & misogynist who didn't want "undesirables" (women & minorities) to get higher education so he defunded public education & forced privatization—thus canceling student loans is an economic, racial, & gender justice necessity.
December 22, 2024 at 1:11 AM
It always amazes me, how much of a piece of shit Reagan was.
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Folks who know me can testify to the fact that I'm a sappy softie. So when the holidays roll around, I spend a lot of time watching queer Christmas romance movies.
Are lots of them chock full of schmaltz and glitter? Hell, yes. That's part of the appeal!
Here are some of my favorites.
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Are lots of them chock full of schmaltz and glitter? Hell, yes. That's part of the appeal!
Here are some of my favorites.
1/
December 15, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Folks who know me can testify to the fact that I'm a sappy softie. So when the holidays roll around, I spend a lot of time watching queer Christmas romance movies.
Are lots of them chock full of schmaltz and glitter? Hell, yes. That's part of the appeal!
Here are some of my favorites.
1/
Are lots of them chock full of schmaltz and glitter? Hell, yes. That's part of the appeal!
Here are some of my favorites.
1/
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Me: I’m sorry I’m too broke to get your baby a gift but I’m pretty sick at drumming so I’ll just do that for him
Mary and Joseph (wincing): that’s lovely sweetheart
Mary and Joseph (wincing): that’s lovely sweetheart
December 13, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Me: I’m sorry I’m too broke to get your baby a gift but I’m pretty sick at drumming so I’ll just do that for him
Mary and Joseph (wincing): that’s lovely sweetheart
Mary and Joseph (wincing): that’s lovely sweetheart
It’s boggling to talk to some of my conservative colleagues at times b/c they’re like “wow, Nintendo must really hate the fact the guy is named Luigi and McD’s must love the free press”
1. Why do you care about these companies?
2. I promise it’s the other way around, at least amongst my demographics
1. Why do you care about these companies?
2. I promise it’s the other way around, at least amongst my demographics
December 14, 2024 at 3:31 PM
It’s boggling to talk to some of my conservative colleagues at times b/c they’re like “wow, Nintendo must really hate the fact the guy is named Luigi and McD’s must love the free press”
1. Why do you care about these companies?
2. I promise it’s the other way around, at least amongst my demographics
1. Why do you care about these companies?
2. I promise it’s the other way around, at least amongst my demographics
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Can we talk people out of donating to Salvation Army entirely, please!
They force their charity recipients to attend religious conversion sessions as part of receiving assistance.
AND they're wildly transphobic and homophobic!
Fund better charities!
They force their charity recipients to attend religious conversion sessions as part of receiving assistance.
AND they're wildly transphobic and homophobic!
Fund better charities!
Salvation Army says holiday donations down 50 per cent since mail strike began (Canada)
Salvation Army says holiday donations down 50 per cent since mail strike began - Canada News
The Salvation Army says holiday donations are down 50 per cent since the Canada Post strike began, amounting to a drop of roughly $9.3 million in seasonal giving compared to this time last year.
www.castanet.net
December 9, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Can we talk people out of donating to Salvation Army entirely, please!
They force their charity recipients to attend religious conversion sessions as part of receiving assistance.
AND they're wildly transphobic and homophobic!
Fund better charities!
They force their charity recipients to attend religious conversion sessions as part of receiving assistance.
AND they're wildly transphobic and homophobic!
Fund better charities!
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i just want to double down on this. d’onofrio’s “egger” performance is unreal. like, you immediately accept with no hesitation that this man you are watching is a giant alien cockroach in a human suit, and it’s all done with make-up and physical acting. a top ten hollywood physical performance.
also vincent d’onofrio was robbed of his best supporting actor nomination and win
December 10, 2024 at 2:04 AM
i just want to double down on this. d’onofrio’s “egger” performance is unreal. like, you immediately accept with no hesitation that this man you are watching is a giant alien cockroach in a human suit, and it’s all done with make-up and physical acting. a top ten hollywood physical performance.
Kinda disappointed that the “quirked up white boy, goated with the sauce” memes haven’t made a resurgence in the wake of the CEO being shot
December 7, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Kinda disappointed that the “quirked up white boy, goated with the sauce” memes haven’t made a resurgence in the wake of the CEO being shot