Mededitor

All right — Skelly is in the heezy:

The ciabatta also rises.

“We live for the exchange of energy between brands and audiences, you should too, and we’ve made it our mission to expand every brand’s market share and heart share.” Heartshare. <puke>

This dude has been the stock image of thousands of finance articles about the stock market. The dude should have been a billionaire by now except Getty owns it. More importantly, using it again is beyond lazy. Anyone recycling this should be sacked on the spot.

Meet Bezzy, the data center plushie: youtube.com/shorts/oLym1...

Locale for tonight’s entertainment:

Gotta say, today’s mixologists are stepping up their game.

Somebody pitched the idea of turning the Stanford Prison Experiment into a reality TV show and Netflix greenlighted it. Filed under “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”

In most cases, epicene ‘they’ functions well enough. Here? It’s a dog’s breakfast:

From a discussion about pluralizing Walkman, Ngram Viewer settled the matter: Walkmans. Honorable mention to “Sonies Walkman.”

Classic. Act first and think never.

My shrine of the macabre is coming along nicely:

Pursuant to a project I’m working on, I’ve started replying to scam texts with “I’m sorry. I dialed your number by accident.” Because that’s the next box on the conversation flowchart they’re following. Really messes them up.

For $6, Temu has a miniature execution gallows for family game night: "Kika, get your Barbie..."

Tommy is becoming a meme: “Please hand my ass to me.”

What day is… It’s Faceplant Sunday!

Finally! Wall damage patched. Almost ready to paint. Lessons learned: Get the right tools and materials. Don’t try to jerry-rig some bogus scheme that won’t work (like I did).

Following a home construction project, I now need to patch some drywall and paint over it. Turned out to be a larger task than I’d imagined.

#Wordwatch: Robogroping (v). Using a robot to assault or harass a person. apnews.com/article/robo...

Yes, Jynx, it’s Thursday.

I’ve been seeing this image a lot in digital chaff ads so I was curious. It’s AI; a lure to make you click, but the product isn’t there. A lie that breaks a promise. The destination is a long list of women’s skincare products.

Edit note: “For many municipalities, getting rid of useful changes proves far easier than simply implementing them in the first place.” Something is gang aft a-gleying here. The words ‘easier’ and ‘simply’ are in conflict. Consider replacing simply with “the effort of” or deleting it. #amediting

A bit of trouble, but here it is — the portrait of Vivian Usher (forger, adulteress, murderer, from the movie set artwork created by Burt Shonberg. Paint on canvas:

The only work I'm finding lately are jobs that require me to train an AI. To train it to do my work. This is a bad job market.

I appreciate that Columbus is a controversial figure but at least we can all agree that he solved a lot of crimes

Ohfergawdsake: “President Trump, a consummate showman, has authorized the country’s first public execution in 90 years.” Have we seen a speck of evidence that he is a “showman”? Every spectacle he has attempted to create has been a shocking embarrassment and failure. Like this horror.

Yeah, we have to stop SNAP recipients from blowing that money on “luxury watches.” apple.news/Aq5UHQeO8RZO...

Baltimore is so Goth.

Stopped in at the Annabel Lee Tavern, then toured a haunted house of terror.

Life imitates the Onion.

No matter what you score on this quiz, it's not an easy task. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Texas Pete thought he was a rip-roaring cowboy, all macho on the range. C’thulhu had another idea.

Mr Jynx is my editorial assistant. He makes sure I get up and move around every now and then. @stetchat.com #Stetchat

“Getting frustrated with your husband for taking too long to do something you asked him to highly relatable. At worst it typically causes an argument.” First, let’s kill all the editors.

It’s so stupid. No, socialism isn’t taking your house. It’s letting you get through college and covering your healthcare.

Etymology note: The word pale in the phrase “beyond the pale” has an archaic meaning of a spiked fence around a camp. Thus if something is beyond the pale, it’s out of bounds.

Shopping at B’More Lexington Market. A local institution:

You’ve seen this type of ad before. They all share a common property: Whatever is shown in the photo will not appear at the link, which will be mostly women’s skincare products.

What did you do today, Doug? “I put various LLMs into digital torture chambers and went full-Jigsaw on them! Isn’t that cool? Hey, where ya going?” researchchamber.fun

The Meridian Project seems to be AI military robots. The 3-member board the Thing announced is: Elon (robotics, AI) Palmer Luckey (tech, weapons) and… Newt Gingrich (TK)

Usage note: Ran across this today: [That’s because while many folks use “peruse” as a synonym for “to skim,” it means the exact opposite.] This is how people get led astray by “experts” who are all too willing to parrot nonsense. Peruse is a contronym (Janus word) like sanction or cleave.

What’s happening is that the people in charge don’t work. For them, government work is collecting money and benefits. If they need to do something, they turn to the intern and yell, “Use ChatGPT! Do it! Hurry!” That’s exactly what we’re seeing.

I grew up in the Bay Area, and I’ve made this dish many times. You can do this for about half the price. Or feed 4 for this. But going to the Tadich is worth it. www.sfgate.com/food/article...

Todd Rungren needs to return his pie-hole to the upright and locked position.