Ben Johnson

Staff Engineer at Prodigy Education. Options my own (and without quality guarantees). Mastodon: @[email protected]

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@grimpost @boogreal You have no idea.

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It’s amazing how fast we’ve gone from “ugh, AI is going to destroy the world” to “ugh, I can’t believe there isn’t an AI that can just do this”.

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The kid: “I’m daring. I’m not afraid of anything. Except cheese strings.”

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For full effect, it helps to read this interview with the Reddit CEO in the voice of Justin Hammer from Iron Man 2. What a terrible communicator. https://t.co/ooSkg17RsV

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You could solve a lot of problems in Star Trek by making the doors manual.

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For the last few years I’ve been crossposting to Twitter (and Mastodon, etc) via https://t.co/pjQMFxW4H5. But, because of the new Twitter API limits, this will no longer be possible. Will have to decide if I’m willing to keep Twitter.

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Star Trek: Resurgence is a must-play for any Star Trek people. The format fits Star Trek perfectly. A great old-fashioned story. 5/5 would play again. https://t.co/1TuxGTxdq9

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This is the first Apple keynote in more than a decade that I just totally forgot was happening. Can’t tell if that’s because I’m so busy right now or if I’m not excited by the headset. Maybe they finally improved the SwiftUI docs.

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It’s 30 degrees outside and it’s currently hailing. This is totally normal. Everything is fine. There’s no way climate change is a problem. Right?

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A book club where you buy books but you don’t have to read them.

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@elonmusk I upgraded from a Honda CR-V to a Model Y. Absolutely love it so far -- so fun. Only feature request: the CR-V had an option to hold down the voice button to get Siri. This made it easy to do FaceTime Audio and ask questions. Normal Bluetooth, not CarPlay. Any chance?

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Remaking Iron Man: https://t.co/DnsuajOTLJ

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My 7-year-old is trying to convince us that the only way it’s fair for him to take a COVID test is if his two non-symptomatic parents also have to take a COVID test.

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"“All Perils combines Collision and Comprehensive coverage. With All Perils you will be covered if someone living in your household steals your vehicle.”"

That seems… very specific.

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On April 15th I pulled a yogurt out of the fridge. The Best Before date says “MA 18”. Is that March? Is it May? Could we really not shell out for one extra character?

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It named it: “The Calendar Crush Incident”. https://t.co/q6mOFDC6Rg

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Someone needs to sell placebo kids medicine.

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There’s no way this can go wrong.

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The 7-year-old apropos of nothing: “Who would win in a battle? Moses or Jesus?”

Let the Passover and Easter celebrations begin!

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The Beaverton nails it. https://t.co/Bt4DkgTAj2