Congus 🐓 @courtney@friend.camp

Oh God! that man should be a thing for immortal souls to sieve through!

now there's a sentence you don't see every day:
> BRIEF OF THE ONION AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER

Thou art a full ship and homeward bound, thou sayst; well, then, call me an empty ship, and outward-bound.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried

the whale has no voice

[to the tune of Roxanne by The Police] Roxanne

just printed a business card for someone who's title is "Spiritual Coordinator"... you can just say Necromancer my guy

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me?

I read a review once of a new model of Tesla that had a bug that caused it to slam on the brakes at unpredictable intervals. The reviewer said it was unsafe and undriveable.

And then, according to their metrics, gave it high marks for being comfortable and stylish and having trunk space and affordability and the stereo system. It scored a 7 overall.

Maybe if it exploded into a fireball, it would decline to a 6.5.

Metrics are meant to increase "transparency" and fairness, but they fail spectacularly at both. Ethical investment indexes become a way to hide worker injuries and wage theft. Or carbon that's consumed in unexpected ways, like driving truck around in circles because it's cheaper than warehouse space.

Every metric we have is an abstracted lie. And meta analysis only makes it more lying. And these are the metrics we're trying to use to make the world better and to cut carbon.

Capitalism cannot fix itself.

I have been running into a situation where I keep using "RTX" to refer to hardware raytracing acceleration, but this is misleading because RTX is actually NVidia's trademark for their specific implementation and sometimes you want to contrast NVidia with AMD. To solve this, I would like to propose we now refer to the underlying technology as "HRT", for "Hardware Raytracing". "Within ten years all gamers will have access to HRT", et cetera

Drawn

Happy Gerald Ford Trapped in an Elevator Day

unspeakable horror

There are about to be union contract negotiations that are huge. The rail workers were just a prelude.

As the inevitable reactionary BS starts to spread, just remind workers who think they are being harmed by worker pressure that the can literally join or start a union right now. They can join the fight and reap the worker wins too.

I'm finally finishing the placemats that I started #weaving last year! Hand sewing currently takes me about half an hour *per hem*, but I am getting a little less crap at this with practice.