joshjs

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[joshjs @joshjs]

You can have my puns when you pry them from my cold dad hands.

[joshjs @joshjs]

@tszzl https://t.co/FK6Oq494no

[Brown Panther @drilliebobby]

Nobody in the tortilla industry has the balls to make a corn tortilla the size of a flour tortilla

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

I'm sure you're all wondering why I've gathered you here today.

[Mason @webdevMason]

Interesting to watch a self-sort happening across various non-tech corners of the internet, where people are moralizing AI use for a wide variety of reasons and essentially opting themselves and their kids out of the next economic paradigm

[Jesse Genet @jessegenet]

Me to 4yo: “if you come to the dentist with 2yo you need to be supportive”

4yo: nods

4yo to 2yo at dentist office: “you know what the dentist isn’t? It definitely is NOT very bad and very scary, its not that stuff”

4yo looks at me with a knowing glance like he nailed it

😆

[Matt Stockton @mstockton]

Stepping away from the dopamine chat box and recording a long, rambling, yet intentional voice memo covering everything you want to accomplish in whatever project you’re working on. Then transcribing that and using it as input to the model, where you then ask the model to ask you questions exhaustively until it knows exactly what to do in order to accomplish your goal

[Luca Dellanna @DellAnnaLuca]

Imagine a gym whose goal were to shrink the gap between the top and worst gymgoers

And yet, that’s what many schools aim for

[🌷🐰 sonya serendipitously 🐇🎀 @sonyasupposedly]

God bless the USA

[Brad Lemley @BradCLemley]

Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press.

I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it.

It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix.

There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views.

Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it.

I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on...

I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube.

Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing.

Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.

[Papii🥤 @ammalusty]

god damn it.... son of a bitch... I just realized that Blueys mom works in airport security... and Blueys dad is an archaeologist.... Bluey's mom's job is sniffing, and Bluey's dad's job is digging up bones.... because they're fucking dogs.....

[Dissproportionately @dissproportion]

Me: It’s raining, you might not be able to do a nerf battle
12yo: we can do it like Vietnam

[joshjs @joshjs]

@Gena_I_Gorlin Unburdened by convention

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Before Keanu Reeves became a Hollywood star, he worked as a reporter for CBC and covered a teddy bear convention in 1984.

The footage somehow makes him even more likable.

[Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 @DStrachman]

Not only are these tools more efficient, they are endlessly patient.

I love a great teacher. But great teachers are few and far between. And a teacher that can handle a class of high octane children and not label them with disabilities/malfunctions, is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Especially for these children, AI teachers will not only help them excel but keep them from being stigmatized.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

[Women Posting W's @womenpostingws]

A mother otter proudly showing off her baby while the dad showed off a rock

[seyi @leveredman]

They're laying off the seniors; pouring them into the market to compete for jobs that the new guys should've taken to learn the ropes.

In a few years, everyone will wonder why no one knows how to do anything any more.

[joshjs @joshjs]

@ifandelse Been enjoying Matt’s channel/content lately. 👌

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Director Sir Peter Jackson gave one of the rings used in the movies to Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis as a gift when the shoot was finished. They both thought they had the only one. But both of them were deceived.