@mjc0961

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I otherwise hate writing these things so I'm just not going to

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The Crazy Story of my Favourite Street in Amsterdam

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I'm in my 30s and a friend a suggested I had autism. I spent a few weeks learning everything about autism to prove I wasn't. In hindsight, they may have had a point.
Office has a censor filter in internal comms to replace swear words with other terms. Added a rule changing "AI" to "my cat", so we get "According to my cat..." and "I asked my cat and it said..."
it's a category of one
"While Trump is trying to reverse the coal industry’s decline, solar has been the top source for new power for five years...solar and battery storage were practically the only energy resources being built in the first quarter, making up 91% of all new generating capacity."
#uspol #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal
Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy

The Guardian

Remember when you could move your mouse cursor to a position on the screen over a target, and could reliably click on said target without it moving out from under your cursor because the underlying data changed (or more accurately: wasn't actually finished loading, slowly)?

That was cool.

First The Verge spotted the resemblance. Then NBC brought the Trump Phone to our San Luis Obispo office so we could get past the gold paint.

CT scans and a full teardown confirmed it: the T1 is nearly identical to the HTC U24 Pro. Same internals. Same layout. Same story, just with a louder outfit. Check out the full blog below and their teardown on YouTube!

https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHpP5otFv4M

Over on Whatever, I talk about the legit business email I got that was written with "AI," why I thought it meant the sender's domain was hacked by scammers, and why using "AI" in business emails automatically lumps you in with spammers and frauds. Don't do it!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/please-i-beg-of-you-do-not-use-ai-in-your-business-communications/

Please I Beg of You Do Not Use ā€œAIā€ In Your Business Communications

The other morning I was clearing out the multiple daily emails I get from scammers who have used ā€œAIā€ to praise one of my books in order to get me to use their ā€œmarketingā€ s…

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