I have an interesting take ... Fukui probably has one as well. My take is: the creative parts of software development: design, user experience (UX), and user interfaces (UI) cannot be done by AI. It simply isn't designed (right now) to be creative. So the entry level coders who wrote "rote level" code are basically done. But not the creative and clever people ... who, interestingly enough, tend to have WOKE DEGREES from university. Huh.
IT jobs are being cut just about as much as admin jobs were cut a decade ago.
And as with the admin jobs, it is gonna fall on everyone else to pick up that slack. I dunno how many man hours we waste trouble shooting printer shit or doing purchase orders but it is enough that it goes down on our monthly reports now
I am planning on making a linocut based on a tattoo of a starling that I saw. For me, starlings are the symbol I have chosen to represent Rome, and I think the iridescence* of their wings is going to allow me to play with combining print and watercolour.
This got me to looking on google books for a book about starlings, because I also really like reading books on the cultural history of various animals, and it was then that I found out that apparently starlings are just totally hated in the US.
Invasive species tend to be hated, for fairly good reasons. I've seen people with purple martin houses check them and kill the baby English sparrows that have nested there. It's very odd to see a "bird lover" throw a naked nestling onto the ground and step on its skull.
They're all over the place in NYC. They love imitating the local birds--there's a colony of redwing blackbirds that nest nearby every spring/summer, and the male starlings just go off the deep end trying to replicate those distinctive calls. Male starlings are excellent mimics, but they never get this one quite right--if you grew up around redwings you can tell the difference. I don't hate them, but I prefer cardinals and robins.
To be fair, I think most species find it incredibly tempting if they're in New York to at least once shout "I'm walking here!". Starlings are no different.
Not sure why you read about em being hated in the US though, that is a new one on me. Blackbirds get a bad rap, but they are not the same. Unless it is because of their invasive presence here
Starlings have become a real pest species here on the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Especially the one that flew in through our kitchen window and crapped into the kitchen sink.
There were very few books about them, as opposed to books with "starling" in the title (usually gothic romance), and those books' descriptions all included a phrase akin to "these fucking things are just horrible invaders in the US and everyone wants them dead, their families dead, and to burn down their nests, go over and piss on the ashes, but this book will explain the interesting details of these horrible bastards".
There were no books from European authors, except for said gothic romances.
lol lol yeah that makes sense then XD They are invasive and invasives do bad things to locals unfortunately.
*eyes the kudzu. Shudders*
True story: my co worker wanted to plant wisteria because "it is so pretty"
I basically told her if she did she was going to hell, but nicer like. Then gave her a list of native substitutes. But they are not as "pretty" as the strangle vine so she was not sure.
And she's an educated person who understands environmentalism.
I hate starlings. They are native to Europe, but brought to the US during the colonial era by a man who sought to bring all of the birds mentioned is Shakespeare to the new world. They are now the most populous birds in the world.
How's that "Kamala is incompetent" working for ya? The potential sales to China must dwarf all US & other markets. And how is this bringing jobs to America again?
“Beijing must be gloating to see Washington turn export licences into revenue streams,” Liza Tobin, a China expert who served on the National Security Council in the first Trump administration, now at the Jamestown Foundation.
I hate to be repeating myself, but Mister Covid will be an uninvited house guest for a long, long time. RFK the lesser may add 20 years to that all by himself.
A defence being made of this is, predictably, that it's a joke, and boys will be boys. My response is to ask why this isn't being done at male sporting events.
A lot of MAGAts regularly accuse WNBA players of being trans. This is no "general protest, to get the word out about our great product" (that is not even what a protest IS you chucklefucks).
This writer has it nailed. It's all about the misogyny, not "just a joke"
There are many excellent comments (they allow them), including this one:
"Surely the men so concerned about the purity of women's sports and keeping trans girls and women from playing will take up arms against this even more foul mockery, right?
Wrapping up my insomnia hour at chez Birb. Tonight it was about playing Wordle, Connections, and Worldle, and browsing sports and the bad news. Now I am getting sleepy enough to go back upstairs. See you at half past TABS.
A determined girl guide troop could probably make short work of a bunch of ICE bozos in either woodland or urban warfare.
To be fair, the cookies are, in fact, habit forming.
Sounds like the Girl Scouts are making good choices.
Eat the rich. Zuck really is a creepy little fuck.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 — 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘺𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘦̀𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘦́𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦: 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯-𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘴.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗭𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴’𝘀 $𝟭𝟭𝟬𝗠 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/the-hidden-cost-of-living-amid-mark-zuckerbergs-110m-compound/
So anybody else thinking about the swimming pool scene in "It's a Wonderful Life"? Just me?
Only this time we remember to close the floor back...
The hidden cost: one soul and all the faces of the working class
My morning post got eaten but for all who are wondering, I had a lovely assignation this weekend. Still blows my mind that I'm a furry, LOL.
I have an interesting take ... Fukui probably has one as well. My take is: the creative parts of software development: design, user experience (UX), and user interfaces (UI) cannot be done by AI. It simply isn't designed (right now) to be creative. So the entry level coders who wrote "rote level" code are basically done. But not the creative and clever people ... who, interestingly enough, tend to have WOKE DEGREES from university. Huh.
𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 6.1% 𝘵𝘰 7.5% — 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘍𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺. 𝘈 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/the-computer-science-dream-has-become-a-nightmare/
IT jobs are being cut just about as much as admin jobs were cut a decade ago.
And as with the admin jobs, it is gonna fall on everyone else to pick up that slack. I dunno how many man hours we waste trouble shooting printer shit or doing purchase orders but it is enough that it goes down on our monthly reports now
I am planning on making a linocut based on a tattoo of a starling that I saw. For me, starlings are the symbol I have chosen to represent Rome, and I think the iridescence* of their wings is going to allow me to play with combining print and watercolour.
This got me to looking on google books for a book about starlings, because I also really like reading books on the cultural history of various animals, and it was then that I found out that apparently starlings are just totally hated in the US.
*probably not the right word
Invasive species tend to be hated, for fairly good reasons. I've seen people with purple martin houses check them and kill the baby English sparrows that have nested there. It's very odd to see a "bird lover" throw a naked nestling onto the ground and step on its skull.
They're all over the place in NYC. They love imitating the local birds--there's a colony of redwing blackbirds that nest nearby every spring/summer, and the male starlings just go off the deep end trying to replicate those distinctive calls. Male starlings are excellent mimics, but they never get this one quite right--if you grew up around redwings you can tell the difference. I don't hate them, but I prefer cardinals and robins.
To be fair, I think most species find it incredibly tempting if they're in New York to at least once shout "I'm walking here!". Starlings are no different.
Speaking for myself, it's true. I hate them.
Think it is the right word ^.^
Not sure why you read about em being hated in the US though, that is a new one on me. Blackbirds get a bad rap, but they are not the same. Unless it is because of their invasive presence here
Starlings have become a real pest species here on the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Especially the one that flew in through our kitchen window and crapped into the kitchen sink.
That bird had a mission XD
There were very few books about them, as opposed to books with "starling" in the title (usually gothic romance), and those books' descriptions all included a phrase akin to "these fucking things are just horrible invaders in the US and everyone wants them dead, their families dead, and to burn down their nests, go over and piss on the ashes, but this book will explain the interesting details of these horrible bastards".
There were no books from European authors, except for said gothic romances.
lol lol yeah that makes sense then XD They are invasive and invasives do bad things to locals unfortunately.
*eyes the kudzu. Shudders*
True story: my co worker wanted to plant wisteria because "it is so pretty"
I basically told her if she did she was going to hell, but nicer like. Then gave her a list of native substitutes. But they are not as "pretty" as the strangle vine so she was not sure.
And she's an educated person who understands environmentalism.
I just checked on wikipedia, and bugger me it is the right word.
They are less interesting looking than grackles.
grackels -you can hear the dinosaur in them
I hate starlings. They are native to Europe, but brought to the US during the colonial era by a man who sought to bring all of the birds mentioned is Shakespeare to the new world. They are now the most populous birds in the world.
They’re a declared pest here and as such they are “managed”.
I'm surprised your native fauna let them get a toehold. I think even a quokka wants to kill us, they just can't.
Oughta be "mangled".
Oh lord, Australia has so much of that!
Are you ready for some Monday Morning Fascism?!
How's that "Kamala is incompetent" working for ya? The potential sales to China must dwarf all US & other markets. And how is this bringing jobs to America again?
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰 𝘲𝘶𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘯𝘰 𝘜𝘚 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘣𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘫𝘰𝘣𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢.
𝗡𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗠𝗗 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟱% 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗨𝗦 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration
https://archive.ph/MUjhS [Financial Times]
“Beijing must be gloating to see Washington turn export licences into revenue streams,” Liza Tobin, a China expert who served on the National Security Council in the first Trump administration, now at the Jamestown Foundation.
Much art. Much deal.
Unprecedented! Unusual!
IT IS FUCKING ILLEGAL AS SHIT THE PRESS
Jesus fuck what will it take?
And if not illegal, CORRUPT AS FUCK.
No, illegal. Government is not sposed to pick winners and losers based on cash payouts. Very very very not legal.
Soooo...eldest was complaining of feeling hot and a sore throat. I told them to take a couple tylenol and test for covid
But I am not coughing, they say. Test anyway, gotta be careful around your dad.
It is the covids. Thus far, youngest, hubby and I are negative so there is the silver lining thing.
Protocol is not what it once was: Apparently if there is no fever, they are allowed at work with a mask on.
We all got boosted up last winter so expecting this to be a mild shot and just hoping to mitigate the spread.
What we gonna do next year when there is no booster?
I hate to be repeating myself, but Mister Covid will be an uninvited house guest for a long, long time. RFK the lesser may add 20 years to that all by himself.
There is no good answer to that question, is there?
No. Especially with MAGA declaring "it's no big deal! I don't care if you get sick!" and forcing everyone to go back to work sick anyway
Still on track for a tropical storm in the Atlantic this week.
https://hurricane.terrapin.com/text/1097138453664399363
I guess we need to smile more, right ladies?!?
https://defector.com/why-a-bunch-of-real-dicks-keep-throwing-fake-ones?giftLink=d768aebe6e69cc56a111bea29cda58a1
A defence being made of this is, predictably, that it's a joke, and boys will be boys. My response is to ask why this isn't being done at male sporting events.
You can't have a group of women do a damn thing without someone involving dicks. I am surprised they don't throw them at our period huts.
Your huts should be contemporary.
Not as any excuse, but the probable inspiration for this was Buffalo Bills fans. They yeeted dildos during a couple of games against New England.
But the homosexual undertones of American football, right.
naw that is just their excuse.
The actual inspiration was hur hur girls playing sports
It's amazing how adult grown human men suddenly become boys whenever they do some sexist shit
Almost a super power
They are boys when throwing dildos at women, they are men when threatened by a dildo a woman has bought herself.
A lot of MAGAts regularly accuse WNBA players of being trans. This is no "general protest, to get the word out about our great product" (that is not even what a protest IS you chucklefucks).
This writer has it nailed. It's all about the misogyny, not "just a joke"
There are many excellent comments (they allow them), including this one:
"Surely the men so concerned about the purity of women's sports and keeping trans girls and women from playing will take up arms against this even more foul mockery, right?
Why is everyone groaning?"
I read removing homely people from DC. This means you Ron Johnson.
Fuck Ted Cruz
Empty Green
Don't forget Representative Pigfuck!
I have a feeling a lot of those homeless will end up on a flight to God knows where.
I hope the word is getting out to them.
Israeli Dancing With the Stars routine mimics trump and Melonoma. He wishes he could move like that https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/israeli-dancing-with-the-stars-viral-routine-mimics-donald-trump-and-melania-s-rally-moves/vi-AA1Kipxk
Eek! Someone dressed like Melania Hamburglar is too far
As if Trump could dance.
He’d win the grand prize and the golden trophy if they would just rename it:
“So You Think You Can Dunce”
That's just plain mean. Can I buy you a hot chocolate?
Sure! Can I offer you some
Just out of the oven biscotti?
I have mini marshmallows too.
Moar of a flag humper than dancer.
Morning all. ☕️
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Morning, Diane!
Good morning, Diane!
Morning, Diane.
Wrapping up my insomnia hour at chez Birb. Tonight it was about playing Wordle, Connections, and Worldle, and browsing sports and the bad news. Now I am getting sleepy enough to go back upstairs. See you at half past TABS.
Whar tabs?