Mark Sherman

So the Private Chat in myChart is absolutely sending our keyword data to ad brokers, right? Because I've NEVER seen so many drug ads in a day for something that came up in a chat *this morning* I really don't think it's confirmation bias, it's like every single ad all of a sudden.

Sam is an amazing student, thinker, and doer. PM me if you need someone who can get amorphous things done www.emmanuel.edu/pulse/story/...

Was there a wild Bluetooth exploit last week? All my BT stuff just refused to work right all of a sudden and now it's (almost) all well like it never happened.

Took me almost 8 hours to beat the Prologue in Armored Core VI. That boss was HARD. You can't edit your mech or buy parts or do anything until you finish this first boss. I feel like I actually won something. Maybe I'd like FromSoft games after all. #gaming #fromsoft #armoredcore

Ordered a new safety-oriented product from a reputable reseller. Manufacturer has a sticker seal to ensure it's untampered with. Seal arrived broken, indicating box may have opened. This world sucks.

The era of Amazon being useful, I fear, has ended. 1/2 shot this past year of getting a unit that was returned or defective, sold as new. They don't care. Reliability has long been gone when knockoffs and returns go in the same bin as the genuine articles.

I installed meta's Threads app for two days, after not having used it since launch week. It's no longer wall-to-wall Zionist astroturfing but it is still chock full of self-important idiots whom I charitably hope are propaganda bots instead of living on Mt. Stupid.

How many times do I need to unsubscribe from @ecampusnews.bsky.social

thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago

www.media.mit.edu/publications... Now to figure out how to convey it to students that learning is actually good and finishing the program without learning should not be the goal. (Not all students, I know!) The next layer is the systematic issues making a degree feel like a rubber stamp

I'm calling it now from the trailer alone: in Bugonia, Emma Stone IS actually an alien and those two idiots are the only ones who are ACTUALLY RIGHT. No I haven't seen or read the original or know anything else so please let me sit in this until I get to see it. #bugonia #emmastone #jesseplemons

TikTok removed this video after 150k+ views, thousands of likes, and hundreds of shares. Before removing it, they limited shares, added a content warning, and gave people strikes for downloading and reposting. My followers over there have asked me to share it here so they can still access it.

I want to be an Adafruit slut so bad

I saw a comment "millennials deserve quaaludes" and yaknow...

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Still get sad sometimes that we are without Avicii

I saw many comments to the tune of "hey Star Wars, to whatever you try to do after Andor: good luck." They already found the right answer to how to follow Andor and it's Fortnite. Star Wars Fortnite right now whips ass. Great job.

Private healthcare can die in a fire

Shawn Levy : Adam Scott :: Jennifer Grey : Young Jennifer Grey

Lacrosse stick in the back seat of an Audi

chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists

I was investigating visual artifacts in Satisfactory the other day. The REALLY bad ones were a driver problem so I rolled back but in the process I found DLSS being wrong in ways I don't remember it being a year ago.... youtu.be/oM7gY9XqqQY?...

You ever been in the middle of something and suddenly think "wait, I don't care"?

Watching the phlebotomist swipe my credit card in the exam room before drawing my blood was a surreal late-stage capitalist experience. It's been normalized but is NOT normal. They don't even pay a reception person to do the payment, it's the nurse. Private healthcare is terrible.

Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?

Sometimes I’m late because the dog had to go out more than once and traffic was really bad and I forgot I had to get gas, and sometimes I’m late because I was sitting on the edge of the bed like this for too long

I moved to a suburb a couple years ago. The libraries are all closed on Sunday. Is this a suburb thing or a political erosion of public infrastructure thing? I can't tell.

My new headcanon: Pike had a wall knocked out between his quarters and the captain's mess to create the lavish entertaining space we see on SNW. Kirk put it back, preferring an efficient, if spartan, quarters.

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

It's a coup. And we still have to go to work.

Quick question, when did the Windows start menu become fucking USELESS

of fucking course. The memo in question is an executive order in the queue to stop ALL government grants and payouts. All of them. This would tank the economy faster than anything else yet considered, and it was written by a Heritage Foundation Project 2025 crony. Gears would shutter to a halt.

As an expert at certain things, this has been the play for decades and the results of it were an electorate misinformed enough to get here. Devaluing teachers was a huge step; remember that? Remember when anyone who posited that it leads to fascism was laughed out of the room as overreacting?

The compartmentalizing is failing today. Stress of the next four years and the endless ramifications really getting through

I love how Netflix is dumbing down its shows so that people can still scroll their phones while watching, meanwhile I’m trying to pause Severance at exactly 41:52 to try to decipher some code.

One side effect of AI being shoved into almost every internet thing I use is that I’ve grown to hate star and sparkle icons.

Going back for a new semester is especially hard this week, what with all the globally threatening doom lingering next week that we've been compartmentalizing

Wait a second.... Are people out here remembering their childhoods? Like, more than a handful of moments?

If you use facebook and are wondering "what is all this stuff on my feed that I don't care about?" here is a tool that you may find useful: www.fbpurity.com/install.htm install, follow, donate if you can! Keep the digital world as usable as we can despite the rising tide of....everything

Pour one out for the Z80 processor, which ended production in 2024. Powered a revolution. I first encountered it in the ti-83! arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

Just a reminder that your local library has more than books! Many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, internet hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and so much more! Maybe it's time for a visit! ❤️📚

The Chinese restaurant we ate at, which serves exclusively halal food and has a huge Muslim customer base, was blasting the entirety of Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n Sweet in honor of Christmas, and, honestly, this wild mix of influences is the main thing I love about this stupid country.

(me, in my head, to the pharmacist I just got off the phone with): I know healthcare is crumbling and Walgreens is a cesspool corp, and I know there's nothing you nor I can do about that directly, but if you could please mark the prescription as ready in the computer it would be *really* helpful

The question about keeping one human role and replacing the rest with Muppets in a movie to make it better - i mean the answer is obviously Daniel Craig in the Knives Out movies, right