TPD (Annette, if you must)
@tinypurpledemon.bsky.social
BJJ nerd, reader of all things, roadtripper, survivor, cat mom, forever 23 (hours into a 200YTT), heavily tattooed, aspiring photographer, soon-to-be ex-lawyer (a girl can dream).
A stabby bag of angry snakes.
A stabby bag of angry snakes.
I’m not afraid of AI taking my job.
Oh. My.
Let's take a look at this thing - live.
Let's take a look at this thing - live.
The First AI-Guided Federal Lawsuit: A Pivital Moment or a Cautionary Tale?
This morning I stumbled across this post on Reddit. #LegalTech #Lawsky Buckle Up, things are starting to get bumpy.
www.reddit.com/r/singularit...
This morning I stumbled across this post on Reddit. #LegalTech #Lawsky Buckle Up, things are starting to get bumpy.
www.reddit.com/r/singularit...
January 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I’m not afraid of AI taking my job.
Weebs are wild, or (yet another) story about the selective blindness of cross-cultural love affairs.
aeon.co/essays/the-l...
aeon.co/essays/the-l...
The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter | Aeon Essays
The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’
aeon.co
January 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Weebs are wild, or (yet another) story about the selective blindness of cross-cultural love affairs.
aeon.co/essays/the-l...
aeon.co/essays/the-l...
My morning: explaining again that if you don’t want to impose any penalties on a customer for them not buying a certain number of widgets, that number is not a “commitment.”
December 30, 2024 at 3:06 PM
My morning: explaining again that if you don’t want to impose any penalties on a customer for them not buying a certain number of widgets, that number is not a “commitment.”
Ways I can tell nobody has updated a template in a hot minute:
[Proposals in response to this RFP] may not be submitted by telegram.
[Proposals in response to this RFP] may not be submitted by telegram.
December 26, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Ways I can tell nobody has updated a template in a hot minute:
[Proposals in response to this RFP] may not be submitted by telegram.
[Proposals in response to this RFP] may not be submitted by telegram.
This reminds me of my college job, where I helped students get their computers onto the dorm network/internet. Somebody’s father decided I wasn’t getting to their kid quickly enough and *came into my room* to confront me about it.
December 20, 2024 at 1:53 AM
This reminds me of my college job, where I helped students get their computers onto the dorm network/internet. Somebody’s father decided I wasn’t getting to their kid quickly enough and *came into my room* to confront me about it.
Second Language Acquisition. It helped me understand my and my bio-family’s experiences, plus gave me ways to explain why English-only speaking folks need to stop trying to pronounce my maiden name.
December 19, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Second Language Acquisition. It helped me understand my and my bio-family’s experiences, plus gave me ways to explain why English-only speaking folks need to stop trying to pronounce my maiden name.
I didn’t realize there was anything scary about the approach to PHL. The real scary part is trying to find food worth eating in Terminal A.
December 16, 2024 at 11:49 AM
I didn’t realize there was anything scary about the approach to PHL. The real scary part is trying to find food worth eating in Terminal A.
I remember arguing 25 years ago that if compsci/engineering students kept talking about how only ugly women majored in those fields, then of course all women wouldn’t want to be there. I remember being laughed at for it.
Now substitute any other field…
Now substitute any other field…
This is a really excellent piece about exclusion in tech, specifically of women and "lesser" engineers in software
I think about it often. I'm thinking about it right now in the context of politics, and it applies powerfully. Makes me want to write about it.
A recommended read for anyone
I think about it often. I'm thinking about it right now in the context of politics, and it applies powerfully. Makes me want to write about it.
A recommended read for anyone
Contempt Culture - The Particular Finest
So when I started programming in 2001, it was du jour in the communities I participated in to be highly critical of other languages. Other languages
blog.aurynn.com
December 16, 2024 at 10:58 AM
I remember arguing 25 years ago that if compsci/engineering students kept talking about how only ugly women majored in those fields, then of course all women wouldn’t want to be there. I remember being laughed at for it.
Now substitute any other field…
Now substitute any other field…
It’s my Elpis!
December 16, 2024 at 1:54 AM
It’s my Elpis!
When I put mail out to be picked up, I pop up the little red flag like I have my whole life. My current mail person always leaves it up after picking up the outgoing mail. Is that the current thing or am I doing something wrong or is USPS just in that much of a state of confusion now?
December 10, 2024 at 12:15 AM
When I put mail out to be picked up, I pop up the little red flag like I have my whole life. My current mail person always leaves it up after picking up the outgoing mail. Is that the current thing or am I doing something wrong or is USPS just in that much of a state of confusion now?
She snugglin
December 6, 2024 at 2:14 AM
She snugglin
Here, templates are held and managed by the legal department. Sales sending out a template that they happen to have on hand is not helpful.
Thanks so much for putting me on my negotiating back foot right off the bat!
Thanks so much for putting me on my negotiating back foot right off the bat!
December 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Here, templates are held and managed by the legal department. Sales sending out a template that they happen to have on hand is not helpful.
Thanks so much for putting me on my negotiating back foot right off the bat!
Thanks so much for putting me on my negotiating back foot right off the bat!
Making jokes about PTSD to an audience of employees you don’t all know (or even if you do) is in outrageously poor taste.
December 3, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Making jokes about PTSD to an audience of employees you don’t all know (or even if you do) is in outrageously poor taste.
One would think that a Procurement department would know how to procure goods and services.
One would be mistaken.
One would be mistaken.
December 3, 2024 at 6:53 PM
One would think that a Procurement department would know how to procure goods and services.
One would be mistaken.
One would be mistaken.
If you insist on text-heavy slides, please at least show the deck in presentation mode so we have a chance of reading them.
December 3, 2024 at 5:22 PM
If you insist on text-heavy slides, please at least show the deck in presentation mode so we have a chance of reading them.
The white noise generators here aren’t actually covering any noise to an appreciable amount and are distracting/distressing.
December 3, 2024 at 1:52 PM
The white noise generators here aren’t actually covering any noise to an appreciable amount and are distracting/distressing.
Also. Don’t call it “return to office” when you’re forcing employees who were hired remote before the pandemic to become hybrid or on-site.
Be honest. Call it avoiding layoffs via attrition. Especially when you pair the mandate with below-market compensation that falls further behind every year.
Be honest. Call it avoiding layoffs via attrition. Especially when you pair the mandate with below-market compensation that falls further behind every year.
December 2, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Also. Don’t call it “return to office” when you’re forcing employees who were hired remote before the pandemic to become hybrid or on-site.
Be honest. Call it avoiding layoffs via attrition. Especially when you pair the mandate with below-market compensation that falls further behind every year.
Be honest. Call it avoiding layoffs via attrition. Especially when you pair the mandate with below-market compensation that falls further behind every year.
This return-to-office is the most disorganized and tone-deaf policy push I’ve ever seen in corporate America. Which is saying something. They can’t even get their acts together to have office space prepared, but expect employees will have rearranged their lives in the same amount of time.
December 2, 2024 at 9:56 PM
This return-to-office is the most disorganized and tone-deaf policy push I’ve ever seen in corporate America. Which is saying something. They can’t even get their acts together to have office space prepared, but expect employees will have rearranged their lives in the same amount of time.
Why is it that I, the lawyer, know how to use and fix spreadsheets better than the salespeople?
December 2, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Why is it that I, the lawyer, know how to use and fix spreadsheets better than the salespeople?
Hidin is hard work
December 2, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Hidin is hard work
Music licensing is incredibly complex and arcane. Even in-depth, detailed, good faith attempts to comply can fail.
When compliance becomes so difficult (and expensive!), it may as well either be a ban or completely ignored.
Now substitute the legal maze of many other areas for the same results.
When compliance becomes so difficult (and expensive!), it may as well either be a ban or completely ignored.
Now substitute the legal maze of many other areas for the same results.
Gymnasts, Figure Skaters, and Other Artistic Athletes Are Up Against an Unlikely Foe (spoiler: it's copyright)
Gymnasts, Figure Skaters, and Other Artistic Athletes Are Up Against a New, Unlikely Foe
Athletes, coaches, and choreographers are facing the fact that they’ve been unintentionally breaking the law nearly every day.
slate.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Music licensing is incredibly complex and arcane. Even in-depth, detailed, good faith attempts to comply can fail.
When compliance becomes so difficult (and expensive!), it may as well either be a ban or completely ignored.
Now substitute the legal maze of many other areas for the same results.
When compliance becomes so difficult (and expensive!), it may as well either be a ban or completely ignored.
Now substitute the legal maze of many other areas for the same results.
I feel this deeply in my soul.
But the thought of singing still terrifies.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/a...
But the thought of singing still terrifies.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/a...
December 1, 2024 at 12:30 PM
I feel this deeply in my soul.
But the thought of singing still terrifies.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/a...
But the thought of singing still terrifies.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/a...
All laws come with a potential death penalty. Even laws against shoplifting.
can you imagine walgreens execs in a board meeting going “no. wait. lock up the merch so we can kill people”
i swear, the further left or right people get the more they live in some guerrilla warfare fantasy
i swear, the further left or right people get the more they live in some guerrilla warfare fantasy
December 1, 2024 at 10:03 AM
All laws come with a potential death penalty. Even laws against shoplifting.
Hideous, for any woman, not just those needing obstetrics care.
"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Hideous, for any woman, not just those needing obstetrics care.
On Fridays, we deadlift.
November 29, 2024 at 1:44 PM
On Fridays, we deadlift.