Wandering Adventure Party

If someone who appeared in Home Alone 2 was going to die today, Catherine O’Hara is not who I would’ve picked.

@davidnjoku I don’t recall firsthand but I’m familiar with the history (and ALL TOO familiar with the one-hour daily “stand-up” phenomenon).

@davidnjoku I think it can be any of those or a combination, plus several more: no education on how to run a good meeting, a desire to CYA, a different lack of perspective (not thinking about how expensive an hour of all of those people’s salaries will be), etc.

LinkedIn is social media the same way that thing with cake in the conference room last Friday was a “party.”

Forgot the term "thread count" so I just asked what resolution these sheets were.

I did something this year that I would like to recommend to everyone for the new year. Call it a Fedi Resolution if you like.

Find someone whose work you like and become their champion. Not in a creepy way, but make a point of boosting them every time they post (or post about) their work. Recommend it to people you think would like it.

The Fediverse works if it works for the people who use it. If you see someone who does something you like, lend your voice to help make it work for them.

According to tradition, there was no room at the inn for Mary and Joseph, so Joseph had to use the baby Jesus’s lightsaber to slit open a dead tauntaun in order to keep Jesus warm.

Mastodon may be the only online service I use literally every day that clears the admittedly low bar of not being engineered to extract anything from me.

Last night, I was visited by three spirits, and now I understand the true meaning of Toyotathon.

Four-year-old: I don’t know what I’m doing!

Me: Ah, yes. The family curse.

A woman waiting on the platform with us looks at her phone and furrows her brow. “Uh-oh,” she says, “Looks like there’s a problem with the trolley.”

I, a former philosophy student, snap to attention. “This is it. I’ve trained for this.”

You’re telling me this heater is from space?

Weird question: who is doing something new and different here? Not new as in “just started,” but new as in you have never seen anything like it elsewhere on social media. Someone using the Fedi for something you haven’t seen done on Twitter, Bluesky, etc.

Ok. Jesus. You people know me. You know I'm, like, a big Microsoft dork. I have been very clear I make my living knowing my way around Microsoft 365. I have even admitted to [whispers] liking the Office apps.

But I may have just had my Jokerfying moment.

I'm writing something. Something I've been working on for a couple of weeks. Something about AI, and its power and water usage.

And I've been drafting it in Word. Mainly the iPad version. But tonight, putting the finishing touches on it in the desktop Word, I notice a message at the top of the window. Some obscured text and a button I've never noticed before.

I click. It unrolls.

And presents an AI-generated summary.

An AI-generated summary that I didn't ask for.

An AI-generated summary that I didn't ask for, summarizing the article I'm writing about being conscientious about using AI BECAUSE OF ITS COSTS.

FUCKING MICROSOFT. You make your haters' points better than they ever could.

Reply to this and say a nice thing about somebody on the Fediverse. (Not me. I'm not fishing for compliments, I'm spreading good vibes.) Or boost if you're feeling shy.

I heard your mom doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements for Windows 11.

Any corporate meeting without an agenda.

You don’t need to understand the math behind large language models in order to get that they are not minds.

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Archeologists have puzzled for centuries over how the Great Pyramids were built by the ancient Egyptians, a civilization that hadn’t yet discovered white people.