Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
The Covid Vaccine Situation for the Fall Is a Complete Mess. “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now — before the FDA label changes. Once it happens, access will be limited immediately…” https://kottke.org/25/08/the-covid-vaccine-situation-for-the-fall-is-a-complete-mess
Dan Jones shared 4 months agoWhat Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom. “Was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? […] At the end of the semester, they would decide by vote whether A.I. could replace me.” https://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom/
Reinstalling macOS:
- You have 3 hours and 30 minutes remaining
- After five minutes: You have 1 hour and 15 minutes remaining
- After twenty minutes: About a minute remaining
- Two more hours: About a minute remaining
- Until the heat death of the universe: About a minute remaining
- Startup chime
Can I just say how annoyed I am by Elon Muskrat naming his AI Grok? "Grokking" has been a word that I have used since I read Stranger in a Strange Land (probably about 30 years ago), and I really don't like that it's going to be redefined to mean "Asked Twitter's AI bot".
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Have you tried installing Linux about it?
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
DHS to NPR query regarding US government agencies posting white-centric imagery on social media: “Get used to it.” https://www.npr.org/2025/08/18/nx-s1-5482921/memes-white-house-dhs-social-media-trump
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
ask not for whom the taco bell tolls, it tolls for thee
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Did you know?
Most economists agree that by the time you're 40, you should:
- own at least one magic sword
- get advice from an enchanted bear skull
- know the ancient language of the trees
- wander the earth as a creature of folklore and legend
My 10-year-old has been strangely interested in the Cartesian coordinate system lately. Today in the car, he asked if there was an x and y coordinates for where we are on the planet.
So I'm explaining latitude and longitude to him, and after explaining the concept, I say to him, "For example, right now, we're probably somewhere around 90° west and 30° north."
My wife turns to me and says, "how could you possibly just know that?"
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I don't know. It's just a thing I know. It is a very rough approximation."
Turns out my guess was about 5° too far east, but only about 0.1° too far north, and I think that's pretty close.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
To avoid burnout at work use the 30-30 rule: after 30 minutes of work, quit your job and disappear into the mountains for 30 years.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
The road to hell is paved with thoughts and prayers.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer : NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
“Stanley, don’t forget you promised to put together the crib this weekend.”
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A pigeon stands next to an egg and a scattering of sticks.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
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Pixelart comparison on top unfishished sketch of ducks in water with brances on top and grass on the bottom with "Just make it exist first" text next to it and on the bottom finished piece with "you can make it good later" next to it
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
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On a full moon night, Captain America speeds down the street on his motorcycle thinking, “Is there really an alien wrecking death and destruction throughout the city, or are the media acting irresponsibly? I guess the only way to be SURE is for CAPTAIN AMERICA to join the search!“
Dan Jones shared 4 months agoI’m writing an honest self-help book that promotes sure-fire success strategies like genetics, generational wealth, being a white man, and luck.
My wife and I are not particularly gregarious people. So we have no idea how our ten-year-old son learned it.
Case in point: today we were at the pool. We were enjoying our time when the local college soccer team showed up and monopolized a large portion of the pool, and doubled the volume. I was finding myself a little annoyed at their presence, but they weren't doing anything really objectionable besides being a lot of people.
And then my dear little boy worked his way into the middle of this group of twenty-something men, and organized them into a game of Marco Polo with him being the first Marco. They were all having so much fun and he caught one of them in just a few minutes.
If he weren't also a sweet, kind-hearted soul, I'd worry about him growing up to start his own cult, because he would be wildly successful at that.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
No, I didn't "forget your name", I didn't store it in the first place, it's called being GDPR compliant.
I'm watching Star Trek: Generations, and noticed something I hadn't before. When Chekov introduces Jim to Demora, after realizing she's Sulu's daughter, and he hadn't seen her since she was a little girl, he flashed her a really creepy look.
Gross.
Dan Jones shared 4 months ago
Dear Companies,
If you have 100s of applicants applying for a position, and you don't list a salary, and then your salary range is actually much lower than what many of the applicants are looking for, then you've basically wasted a lot of applicants time when you could have easily posted it.
If you start the hiring process and don't mention the salary range until deep into the process, then you've also wasted your HR department's time.
And if your goal was to try to get the best applicants but pay them the least possible money possible, then you've also just let applicants know that you don't really care about your staff or their well-being, because you don't want them well paid, you want them minimally paid.
And if you say you were "seeing who you got" because THEN you might pay someone an even larger salary than is typical, then you've just admitted that you have a terrible Human Resources team who doesn't even understand what kind of candidate their looking for. If you're looking for a candidate with more skills and can then pay them more, then post THAT position.
So when you say you are dedicated to "fostering a diverse, inclusive, and respectful work culture," you're not really respecting applicants from the start, because transparency shows respect, so why would anyone expect to be respected once they start working at your organization?
Sincerely,
Applicants for Your Crappy Jobs