@wiersdorf @ricci
*Cobert's imitation trump voice*
We’re doing fantastic things with candy imports. Tremendous things. Two Snickers bars for every one that crosses the border. It’s called leverage-- very smart people are talking about it.

- Poe's The Raven is canonically set in December.
- The narrator is reading at night by the light of his fire.
- The narrator hears a rapping on his chamber door.
- The caller turns out to be a raven.
- The Norse god Odin is identified with ravens.
- Odin is also identified with Santa Claus.
- Ergo: the poem is about a December night visitor associated with ravens who, upon finding the chimney impassable due to fire, comes to the door and leaves a black gift as repayment for the occupant's ill deeds.

The Raven is a Christmas carol. QED.

Most people don't know this, but Himalayan salt lamps come from the small town of Himalaya, South Dakota.

Family generations successively having fewer and fewer kids is called a receding heirline.
I will not be taking questions.

My work #EMR at now has integrated #AI that summarizes a patient's chart whether I want it to or not. This week it told me the wrong reason for admission, the wrong hospital course, and the wrong medications as compared against the human-written discharge summary. To review it and find the error took 3 minutes; to document the error and report it took another 10.

Anchoring bias exists. What we read stays with us, truth or lie, influencing decisions.

And I can't turn it off.

#LawsuitBait

This government #shutdown is literally the dumbest thing on Earth.

And to think-

All they had to do was give funding to needed #healthcare so people don't die.

Why even have a government if it doesn't do anything for you?

We should just get rid of them at this point.

#writing #uspol

You can pry the Oxford Comma from my cold, dead, and third adjective hands.

It's November, so I won't be vembering for 30 days. Thank you for your support.

No Kings November.

A visual summary of inequality. Cartoon from last year.

#wealth #poverty #inequality

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Grill my cheese, baby.

Very 2001-coded joke my friend told me as a kid:

Shaggy, Craig David and Britney Spears are sitting in the car.

Suddenly there's a fart.

Shaggy goes "it wasn't me"
Craig David says "I'm walking awayyy"
Britney whispers "oops, I did it again."

All of these dummies are playing checkers while I’m playing Connect4.

Parents, please check your kids' candy this Hallowe'en. I just found a Lisp interpreter pretending to be a text-editor inside one of their chocolates.

I recently learned that I will likely lose my job in the next 3-12 months for refusing to use the planet-destroying plagiarism and lies box that is "AI" technology.

If anyone is hiring for a fully remote US-based logistician at a company that will not require me to use AI tools, please reach out! I'm educated and experienced in the field, and I'm passionate about what I do.

#JobSearch #FediHire

Opinions on LLM tooling use seems like driving, at least as it's seen in the US.

Anyone going faster than me is too fast and dangerous, anyone going slower than me is too slow and hazardous.

Anyone using AI for more than what I'm using it for is an idiot, and anyone using it less than what I'm using it for is hampering themselves and the team.