jkestner

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by jkestner 7mo ago
Maybe he’s justifiably paranoid? He got burglarized before, and got threatened with arrest after demanding police investigate. https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/22/afroman-home-raided-police-oh...
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by jkestner 7mo ago
The term I learned for this yesterday is “crybully”.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
I don't feel like that's working out so great in Iran.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
But they’re a subset. It can happen. The more critical, and yet smaller, subset is the people making bank from the current system. Get their money out of politics and watch resistance crumble.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
> They also know that web surfers like you would never actually buy a subscription I subscribe, and yet they still bombard me with ads. Fuck that. One reason I don’t use apps is that I can’t block ads.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Maybe everyone’s got a different situation, but when a different department tried to put ActiveX avatars all over their site, though it offended me from a UX perspective, I was able to get higher ups to reject it by pointing out that it wou
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Your sister has 11 kids? Smart of your parents, then. That’s a good pool of caretakers for them to live around. But I’m surprised they didn’t move sooner to help raising that many kids. I live in Texas now, and think I’d ultimately prefer C
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Yeah, if people were still doing LAN parties, I’d want to bring the equivalent of a sleeper car. Maybe empty out that beige AT case with the turbo button on it.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
> the death of their brain before reproducing La not-so-petite mort.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Sneaky use of an almost Garamond, but the copy ain't Chiat\Day.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
> A lot of that is just that English along with much of western vernacular wasn't given standardized spelling until fairly recently As many of us learned recently from this great article: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.c
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Hey, Chiquita needs to start paying for its own wars now.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Hmm now I want to see this done in a PowerBook 100 chassis with a Sharp Memory LCD screen.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
> - Where did they find subjects? Volunteers, interns, exit-interviews from layoff rounds? Standard issue for field agents in the corporate acquisitions and consulting divisions. (Hey, Eric!)
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Not even ADA - kids all get headphones to listen to education materials. Wired headphones are way, way easier to manage.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Like the little buff 12” PowerBook https://www.macworld.com/article/225194/ode-to-the-12-inch-p...
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Back in the day, or even now. Kuwait’s US-supplied air defense shot down three US F15s this weekend.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Look, they’re only keeping those videos to train their model to identify CSAM and definitely not accidentally generate it.
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by jkestner 7mo ago
Mostly, they want to be lied to. If we start holding power accountable, it might come around to them!
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by jkestner 8mo ago
My favorite is https://pinouts.ru/
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by jkestner 8mo ago
Mostly, yeah. "Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true." https://www.npr.org/2020
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by jkestner 8mo ago
If your company makes a product that does thinking for people, it’ll be easier to just gradually change its definition of evil.
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by jkestner 8mo ago
It’s not the CEO’s fault - they had to take all that money to keep their org a non-profit. B corps are like recycling programs, a nice logo.
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by jkestner 8mo ago
A relative’s business has had Google reviews frozen for years. Search results show the bad rating after some former customer and spouse left bad reviews several years ago. Appeal went into a black hole. Running a small business is at the pl
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by jkestner 8mo ago
Good question. Quite a few, publicly. https://withpersona.com/customers
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I Caught Politico and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"(spinclass.substack.com)
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by jkestner 8mo ago
For you, maybe, but outsourcing ambient awareness of my environment is what’s finally enabled me to take that leap to a 10x dev. Well, that, and cranial cooling fins.
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by jkestner 8mo ago
Cool, innovating in ways to make Siri functionally worse. Didn’t think they had another gear.
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by jkestner 8mo ago
Humans can adapt more quickly than wildebeest. Join advocacy groups for your own morale, continue to get better at communicating these dangers to the mainstream, be that person who offers alternatives to your non-technical circle. Yeah, it’
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by jkestner 8mo ago
At least for conservatives who still value those principles when their party is in office, true. Sedona’s successful anti-Flock effort was led by Trump voters. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/flock

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