Al Dimond

broken handle of ludd's hammer

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-10-16

jokesoftheday.net/joke-Eating-

this just came to mind, no reason really

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Paco Ho Ho Hope 🎄paco@infosec.exchange
2025-10-07

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”
Al Dimondaldimond
2025-10-03

... the world's first rollercoaster built with standard, highly available, low-floor (accessible!) light-rail technology ...

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-09-29

@carnage4life in order to scold it when it gets things wrong you have to understand the langage it's writing in

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-09-24

@Andres4NY i know security security security but ... the fact that, as leaders get more important, they increasingly can't be in public places in genuine ways is low key a problem ... it makes leaders and public places worse

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-09-23

after about a year using it every day i am pleased to report that grip shift is good and i have no idea why it was so maligned

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-09-14

@carnage4life mostly relevant if your "unicorn" company is a parasite

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-09-13

@Andres4NY this seems more like a short reprieve from killing everyone else

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Ian Campbell 🏴neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
2025-09-11

This is a hilariously harmless “fucked around and found out” story.

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Pic of a Washington state drivers license with a lot redacted and wall 'o text. Face blotted but attractive young man in a fancy red collared shirt leans sauvely at the camera. Below that are three cartoon cat faces in a row partially overlapping the photo. Text: 2015 I had to renew my license and thought it would be funny to do cat heads as my signature, so I did. For the past 3 years, I just forgot about it unless I had to show my ID and they pointed it out. They would laugh and say, "haha I can't believe they let you do that!" and I would be like, "yeah, yeah, yeah, let me in the bar now". I have alawys signed my name with my regular signature/scribble, not cat heads. This hasn't been a problem until today when I had to sign my mortgage papers. The signing agent looked at me ID and shook his head, he was not amused. I tried to explain that 2015 Brad never imagined he'd own a house. So the dude had to call the title company headquarters and explain the situation all while my real estate agent is laughing her ass off. I had to sign 3 cat heads over 30 times
Al Dimondaldimond
2025-09-05

@Andres4NY when i was a kid we got amoxicillin as a liquid and iirc it was a lot of liquid ... and better tasting than the other antibiotics i had, too, a nice little snack

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-08-23

@carnage4life what a surprise, american corporate leadership is a bunch of cowards

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-08-21

is gavin newsome looking more like vince mcmahon these days or posting more like him create poll

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-08-19

home buyers all want the same thing (and it's disgusting)

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-07-29

@carnage4life people like feeling like they're a part pf something ya know

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-07-29

quick update: i got annoyed by the repeated emails from my employer asking me to link my linkedin profile to my work email when i haven't even been on linkedin since The Incident, so ...

i'm quitting my job to start a serious-toned drama series called "the goodspacewife"

Al Dimondaldimond
2025-07-27

@carnage4life given musk's history was it a scoop or was it more of a broken clock situation?

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt
2025-07-27

I was walking today and saw a window cat. I started meowing at the window cat.

All of a sudden, the owner came to the window.

She started meowing back at me. Now two humans are meowing at each other while the cat is sitting there like "wtf is wrong with you two."

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Prof. Sam Lawlersundogplanets
2025-07-25

Oh this is delightful writing: "Musk has a powerful reality-distortion field, but the fact that physics hates satellite broadband cannot be overcome by shitposting, cosmetic surgery, buying elections, or wanting it really badly."

"Even space travel is useful as a scientific enterprise, while space colonization is unbelievably stupid and impractical, and has dogshit unit-economics that put even AI in the shade"

pluralistic.net/2025/07/24/geo

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2025-07-24

For the posts in my "LLMs don't actually know anything" thread, I do my best to verify them. These are four that I'm pretty sure used to work but no longer do. That suggests to me that there's some poor team at Google whose job it is to keep track of when people are mocking their "AI" and suppress the bad results.

I think that is hilarious. I would love to know how many individual fixes they've accumulated like this. It reminds me of a competent secretary endlessly covering for an incompetent boss.

Screenshot of an "AI" failure where is says,"The main difference between a sauce and a dressing is their purpose: sauces add flavor and texture to dishes, while dressings are used to protect wounds."Twitter post from  @rose_matt:

 Learnt today that you can type any nonsense into Google followed by "meaning", and Al will assume you're searching a well-known human phrase and frantically come up with what it thinks it could mean. 


Screenshot of Google search  for “two dry frogs is a situation” meaning

AI Search response:

The saying "two dry frogs is a situation" is a metaphorical expression often used to describe a difficult or awkward social situation. It's a playful way of saying that a group of people, particularly two, are in a precarious or uncomfortable predicament.Screenshot of a Tumblr post fro m@ aquar-io 

i really love googling “i am a small baby deer where is mama” and google ai reassuring me that mama is nearby

Screenshot of AI search result:

You might be feeling lonely, but your mama deer is likely nearby. It's very common for mama deer to leave their fawns alone for extended periods, up to 10-12 hours per day. Why do they do this?

» To protect you from predators. A mama deer's presence might attract predators, while you are well- camouflaged and have very little scent, making you harder to detect.

« To go forage for food. Mama needs to eat to keep up with milk production to feed you.Google search for: the pool of the Titanic is still full

AI response:

No, the swimming pool on the Titanic is not full of water. The pool is empty due to the ship's sinking and the immense pressure at the depth where the Titanic lies. The pressure would crush any voids within the ship, and the base of the pool cracked as the ship sank, letting out the water.
Al Dimondaldimond
2025-07-23

@enobacon (it was claiming that it did work this way of course, not commiserating with me that it doesn't)

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