Andrew Dupont

@savetheclocktower
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apologies to all you programmers who followed me thinking i was going to post about programming
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Why did I get this email. Why did anyone get this email. Can you please just send me things related to my money or lack thereof

I’m glad Dick Van Dyke got interviewed on _Today_ this morning — and that he’s so healthy for a guy who turns 100 in a few weeks! — but news outlets must realize that any headline I see that starts with “Dick Van Dyke” is going to make me think “oh-FUCK—oh-wait-he’s-okay-never-mind.”

It’s OK, though, because I got this tidbit

I could give you context to this NextDoor comment, but I think we both know it won’t make much of a difference

Oh, OK. So first you need Democrats to relinquish all their leverage… and _then_ you’ll be more open to giving them what they want?

I’ve read scam emails that make more persuasive pitches than this

Willful idiocy from someone who, if she thought about it for a moment, would realize that _everyone_ has the right to critique someone’s views; it rises to an “obligation” for Emma and Daniel because they get calls from journalists whenever Rowling opens her mouth
In all seriousness, I appreciate that Peacock talks to me like I'm an adult instead of vainly trying to soften the blow. Other services might've tried to bury the lede by calling this a "Rate Adjustment" or "Plan Right-Sizing" or similar nonsense.
What the fuck is this? What the fuck are we wasting our limited time on earth talking about? Do I avoid daily reckonings with my masculinity simply by not having the energy to care about dumb shit like this?
If I were an Emmy voter I think I'd just stare at this list for 20 minutes and go “can we make it a six-way tie?”
This is a very strange way of saying “not enough people are paying for our magic-wand icons; hence we are bundling them so we can claim more revenue from delivering features users did not ask for.”
This feels part Faustian and part, like, incredibly lazy. AIs aren’t sentient and can’t write code without supervision… unless they’re offering to do chores I hate, in which case THANK GOD and here are all the repo secrets and see if you can fix the CI config while you’re at it