Philip Borenstein

Bluesky has four kinds of users

When my son's school asked something like this, I just answered "xkcd 242"

Look, all I'm saying is that the last time Obama got some good zingers off of someone, this is where we ended up.

I just realized I have no mindset

The panhandlers who work the medians in Manchester are out there every day, for hours, rain or shine. Their work ethic puts me to shame.

Technical writing has ruined my ability to write anything but dense explanations and procedures

If you ever have a problem with Google Calendar you just can't figure out, ask a poly person. They're wizards at it.

I don't often repost, so you know this is good stuff from @stephango.com and the @obsidian.md folks.

Why do I use Discord? Because my son responds to Discord messages much more readily than to iPhone messages

zacharia = scaramucci / 2

oh look a new chapter of The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

the human condition: reading faster than listening speaking faster than writing

GitHub unicorn is today's Twitter fail whale

words that annoy: epistemology ontology hermeneutics

times I've been mellow: 0 times I've tried: 0

Just because it's AI slop doesn't mean it's not true "Append-only isn't sentimentality; it's the only tamper-evidence that survives context loss."

like rotary dial spoken poetry needs a retronym

Every time I have to update the firmware on my lightbulbs -- one at a time at 5 to 10 minutes each -- I try to remember that tallow had to be rendered and wicks trimmed, and I'm actually saving dozens of 1837 hours. Which, taking inflation into account…

depends on what "meaning" means

Looking for a new syndrome. Will consider tendencies and neuroses but not tics or habits.

When you complain about restaurants using AI art, just remember that these are the people who kept Flash alive until Steve pried it away from them and shut it down.

people taking extreme positions on narrow issues has been the cause of implosion in every community I've ever been involved with

"It's worth noting" is worth noting

Two attractive young women excitedly said hello to me on the street. This never happens. It took me a second, but I spied the trademark name tags. "Hey, how's the mission going?"

renew us with a sweet new year

I look at the front page of the NYT about once a week. That's the extent of my news consumption nowadays. It's always crappy news.

a phrase from the 80s I suddenly miss: Eponymous EP

Voting in a small town is a lot more convivial than voting in a city.

I now have the full picture

We recognize that the project is strongly associated with its founder, who has hateful exclusionary views. But we're funding the project, OK? We would never fund someone like that DIRECTLY. @1password.bsky.social

Is Claude taking the piss with the load bearing in italics?

'cause I've seen blue skies through the tears in my eyes and I realize I'm going home youtu.be/j8bmjDoziaQ?... (Weirdly enough, this one has hit me harder than Dolly did)

In observance of Tim Curry's death, a 🧵 rendering Science Fiction Double Feature in Hebrew

… -pation.

Well, that was much too soon

All of the sudden people are hoping to find me well. Peace out.

I don't usually post links, but I had to make an exception for the most beautiful storrowings I've ever seen www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/z...

Of all the Bobs, it's clear that The Builder came in a very distant second to Sponge.

I don't often have political opinions in public. Please excuse me.

When Kamala & Tim went back to their dayjobs after losing the crucial battle for American democracy is when it dawned on me that even the kayfabe was kayfabe. AOC and Mamdami are epic "faces", to be sure, but they're still just clowns in the business.

"... and I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your rubber after all ..."

I think it's incumbent on writers to avoid using LLM-isms nowadays, not to avoid detection but as a sign of respect for the reader.

Steve Jobs was Steve Jobs before he was an asshole. I worked for a lot of people who thought s/before/because/

"Lightning is a superior connector to USB-C" "How so?" "USB-C doesn't make your tongue tingle."

Almost everything I read on line sounds dehydrated. And everything ends with a question. Have y'all noticed this?

no one is happy and everyone is mad

Remember when companies used to pivot? I could go for a good pivot right about now. A really good pivot.