'What I'm saying is, back when we first met, you were all like "Oh phooey, I burned the darn muffins." Now, you go into a bar, ten minutes later, sailors come runnin' out. What up with that?'
Larry has been able to beat up Oracle's customers for years. Time has run out on that ... there are too many alternatives that perform equal to or better. The switching cost is very high, so many just stick with Oracle and accept their punishment.
I know they made opera neigh unusable with that shit. Takes forever to load and freezes no matter if you turn off all the AI shit or not. So I stopped using it.
I doubt the women at the top do feel trapped in the soulless corporate bullshit. She just insists they must because the Children- that she herself is rarely around- are everything
Oh, I'm sure some people enjoy it. But I am sure there are women out there who do feel trapped in that world, just as there are men who do. Her message is, intentionally or not, aimed straight at those women, trying to convince them it was feminists who lied to them, not broken unregulated capitalism fucking things up for everyone.
So, because my new Surface Pro has line stutters and skips with all my existing pens, I swallowed my pride, got a Slim Pen 2 in hopes it will work better, and that meant I had to order a charger cuz Microsoft doesn't sell them together cuz fuck everything.
I loved - LOVED - my Surface Book which was a tablet with detachable keyboard w/extra battery. Also had pen with size AAAA battery that lasted a good 3 years or so.
Unfortunately, the battery inside that tablet portion started swelling and it did not survive my attempt to replace the battery. That thing was SO VERY glued together.
I woulda probably broken that up rather than sit there and film it. I got a rule :so long as no one is hissing, they're just playing. But that one hissed at one point
Went looking at Brigitte Bardot's life and legacy, out of curiosity. Acted in a shitload of movies, sang a shitload of songs, advocated for animal rights, and espoused anti-immgration and right-wing views, even endorsing Marine le Pen, calling her a modern Joan of Arc.
We've all grown up with bigoted ideas pushed on us by the sick fucking society we live in. Most people - even those who later become reactionary assholes - shed some of that as they grow up, but other bits stick with us, unrecognized. When the day comes in middle age when someone calls out those bits that stuck, some of us learn and be better, others decide to go all-in on bigotry instead.
Just drives me batty that someone can advocate for animals and yet disdain humanity. Humans are also an animal! Lots of them are mistreated! What the fuck, fellow humans. I do not even LIKE people and I get that, so no one else has got any excuse.
We often went out to a place near our house in Maine after storms to watch the adorable harbor seals surfing with delight. They didn't come out of the sea on our cove to beach, but much of my childhood was at the sea. Or in it.
I've yet to take any of our Newfies there, but it's a goal. *I think i'm actually a Selkie*
I went on a whale watching trip once, like in 1990. It was a few hours long, out of Provincetown MA. We only saw one humpback, but we did see a whale up close. It was way cool.
In Maine, we call those "fog watching tours" and cautioned our guests against them 😹 They also sometimes treat boats like bathtub toys around our old place, including one trip with Dad at the helm, which we enjoyed but upset Mom a lot when we told her about it delightedly 😳 They just lightly bump the hull a bit from below, no harm.
I adore Sperm whales and Belugas, which are your favorites?
*also got to see the African penguins south of Cape Town 20 yrs ago this time of year [after that awkward waddle to shore, they hit the water and shoot like ***missiles***!!!], and related that and other stories of our trip, again, to the TeenX last night at dinner. It was the trip during which she was conceived with the miracle of science, at a famed clinic. She is the Christmas Miracle.
Good morning Wonkers. Watched a good 'bad' SciFi flick last night. The special effects were just bizarre. It was kind of fun.
First Spaceship on Venus
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053250/
Brigitte Bardot has died at 91.
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/brigitte-bardot-death-age-films-b2872368.html
Eggs Benedict for breakfast.
Second time this week.
Because we're posh like that.
pinky out!
Dang, I'm coming over to your house. I haven't had Eggs Benedict in ages.
You fancy!
{{{Hamilton looks up from his tub of cottage cheese. Grimaces. Resumes nomming.}}}
I suspect that the Ellisons (father and failson) and Oracle will be the first casualty in the AI meltdown.
𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲'𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗜-𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴
The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/oracles_new_aienhanced_support_portal/
Yeah, daughter.tek is a 3rd party oracle consultant.. she says it's a total shitshow..
Larry has been able to beat up Oracle's customers for years. Time has run out on that ... there are too many alternatives that perform equal to or better. The switching cost is very high, so many just stick with Oracle and accept their punishment.
I know they made opera neigh unusable with that shit. Takes forever to load and freezes no matter if you turn off all the AI shit or not. So I stopped using it.
Support portal? LOL! "Please rate your experience!"
And you can't enter negative numbers! How is that even fair?
Another "Do as I say, not as I do" proponent of the trad wife life.
https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3maz7dsdyvc2u [image]
“Woman Enjoying Career Literally Made Possible by Feminism Declares Feminism a Failure”
She's got like nannies to tend her kids so she can career, and by lots of accounts, fucked off for months to follow Elon like a groupie.
But sure. Sure.
surejan
That 'corporate ladder' shit isn't feminism, it's capitalism.
Feminism never said that anyway. Just said women should have the choice, and also, be paid the same.
Precisely. That women feel trapped in the same soulless corporate bullshit as men isn't feminism's fault.
I doubt the women at the top do feel trapped in the soulless corporate bullshit. She just insists they must because the Children- that she herself is rarely around- are everything
Oh, I'm sure some people enjoy it. But I am sure there are women out there who do feel trapped in that world, just as there are men who do. Her message is, intentionally or not, aimed straight at those women, trying to convince them it was feminists who lied to them, not broken unregulated capitalism fucking things up for everyone.
As Randy says, strap in, this thread is quite a ride.
Randy Mulholland (@choochoobear.bsky.social) (Something*Positive)
"Holy shit, y'all.
So, because my new Surface Pro has line stutters and skips with all my existing pens, I swallowed my pride, got a Slim Pen 2 in hopes it will work better, and that meant I had to order a charger cuz Microsoft doesn't sell them together cuz fuck everything.
Buckle in. (1/?)"
https://bsky.app/profile/choochoobear.bsky.social/post/3mayrtn7xis26
I loved - LOVED - my Surface Book which was a tablet with detachable keyboard w/extra battery. Also had pen with size AAAA battery that lasted a good 3 years or so.
Unfortunately, the battery inside that tablet portion started swelling and it did not survive my attempt to replace the battery. That thing was SO VERY glued together.
"Item is not user serviceable"
https://bsky.app/profile/number10cat.bsky.social/post/3mb27bqlwhc2h
Au revoir Brigitte x
Morning Kittens, Wrapping Paper Edition!
https://bsky.app/profile/democratcats.bsky.social/post/3mb2dl53obc27
I woulda probably broken that up rather than sit there and film it. I got a rule :so long as no one is hissing, they're just playing. But that one hissed at one point
The Orange One is a brute!
Tuxie was absolutely asking for it though with those drive bys XD
dang that was weird.
ANYWAY when Mei hisses, I hold Percy in time out on my lap. Cause 9/10 times, he started it
Cats. Who can explain 'em?
Ginger weirdos.
Cute little kittens!
Murder Kitties in training.
Went looking at Brigitte Bardot's life and legacy, out of curiosity. Acted in a shitload of movies, sang a shitload of songs, advocated for animal rights, and espoused anti-immgration and right-wing views, even endorsing Marine le Pen, calling her a modern Joan of Arc.
Quite a life.
It's a slippery slope, from advocating for animal rights to calling people animals that have to be packed off.
*just eats own brain in frustration*
We've all grown up with bigoted ideas pushed on us by the sick fucking society we live in. Most people - even those who later become reactionary assholes - shed some of that as they grow up, but other bits stick with us, unrecognized. When the day comes in middle age when someone calls out those bits that stuck, some of us learn and be better, others decide to go all-in on bigotry instead.
Just drives me batty that someone can advocate for animals and yet disdain humanity. Humans are also an animal! Lots of them are mistreated! What the fuck, fellow humans. I do not even LIKE people and I get that, so no one else has got any excuse.
From a Starbucks in Lisbon. Kinda beats all to hell whatever lame pastries the US Starbucks offer.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ixm3sb7fcy7u6tnxhkrvo32u/bafkreihesp22cfmk76kmdvebn2ftl6p2pegcaw4a72m4rof2qzs4mrhnse@jpeg
Wow! :)
(drools)
Afternoon spuggers, all well? Quiet day at home today sorting and doing the dhobi. And the rowing machine of course, next season starts here.
Hi, Saviour! Slow and quiet start to the day here; foggy outside but that's burning off.
Bit misty here but above freezing, maybe 8C. The M6 was a shitshow yesterday but we made it safely which is the important thing.
Glad you made it.
Uh, huh.
https://gizmodo.com/draft-chinese-ai-rules-outline-core-socialist-values-for-ai-human-personality-simulators-2000703772?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
All those prohibited activities are kind of cute, it's like the silly rules mom and pop gave you when you hit 16-17.
Except in that household, they shoot you in the head for breaking the curfew.
Nice guidelines or polite suggestions.
I'm picturing the young punks in Repo Man
I blame...society.
"It's a fair cop, but society's to blame."
terribly socialist to keep all the money at the top.
I know, right?
Elon Musk is making planets now?
Impossible Lemon Shaped Carbon Planet Shouldn't Exist
Anton Petrov (14:22) : https://youtu.be/lNUWQcqpu4U
🙄
𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝘆, 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘆
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/microsoft_frightening_babies_for_50/
"It looks like you are tying to change a diaper. I can't help you with that."
Whichever Attenborough is showing whales in the Antarctic sea. I heart whales so much.
*also, he is a nice person and even wrote an intro for my friend's children's book about animal protection.
*Now he's doing the ridiculous and phenomenal Emperor penguins. And there was a fat seal lyin' there scratching it's side with it's funny paw.
The seventh photo down makes me laugh, yes it’s a shame for the seal but they do the same to fish.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4vn40xr5o
Also, the cited picture reminded me of what lederhosen are for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRsqZL7u9Ug
Really? Jack Murray-Bird takes a picture of a bird?
That sounds bad and you should feel bad! I am not clicking! Love seals!!!
Click but stop on the 4th one down
:D
Fair enough, I like them too and we often see them from the boat but nature is red in tooth and claw.
We often went out to a place near our house in Maine after storms to watch the adorable harbor seals surfing with delight. They didn't come out of the sea on our cove to beach, but much of my childhood was at the sea. Or in it.
I've yet to take any of our Newfies there, but it's a goal. *I think i'm actually a Selkie*
I like yacht-biting Orcas.
Yep, me too. Fortunately we are too slow and boring to interest an Orca.
Read downthread a bit for description of my own fun with whales :-D
Do you ever see orcas while you row?
Imagine Attenborough narrating whales going batty after meeting windmills. (I can't come up with the dialog because I'm out of weed.)
He could absolutely do that mockery justice and I hope he does.
I went on a whale watching trip once, like in 1990. It was a few hours long, out of Provincetown MA. We only saw one humpback, but we did see a whale up close. It was way cool.
Some people got motion sick on the trip.
In Maine, we call those "fog watching tours" and cautioned our guests against them 😹 They also sometimes treat boats like bathtub toys around our old place, including one trip with Dad at the helm, which we enjoyed but upset Mom a lot when we told her about it delightedly 😳 They just lightly bump the hull a bit from below, no harm.
I adore Sperm whales and Belugas, which are your favorites?
*also got to see the African penguins south of Cape Town 20 yrs ago this time of year [after that awkward waddle to shore, they hit the water and shoot like ***missiles***!!!], and related that and other stories of our trip, again, to the TeenX last night at dinner. It was the trip during which she was conceived with the miracle of science, at a famed clinic. She is the Christmas Miracle.
I don't know if I have a favorite. Maybe orcas or sperm whales.
𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 2001 𝘢𝘯𝘥 2014, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘲 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘧𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 $1.5 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 $1.7 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘐 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳, 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 $1.5 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺'𝘴 𝘈𝘐 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘩-𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘴.
𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗯𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗲𝘁
Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/ai_spending_cooling_off/?td=rt-3a
"Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return?"
As long as it continues to mostly be someone else's money, SIGNS POINT TO YES.