Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

So my online banking no longer works on Firefox so I used (ugh) Edge and got instantly hit in the face with a backlog of “WE HAVE PUT AI INTO EVERYTHING; INTO YOUR TABS, INTO YOUR SEARCHES, UNDER YOUR SEAT AND IN YOUR TEETH, SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT PLEASE THIS IS MINDBENDING TECH DON’T YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF THE FUTURE OF OUR SHAREHOLDERS” bullshit while I’m just trying to pay bills.

I find that weirdly the Scottish and Japanese mindsets are actually quite similar in a number of interesting ways (extensive Scottish-Japanese cultural exchange goes back to the 1700s)

Look at any number of historical Japanese figures, and the sheer number educated in Scottish universities is fascinating. The modern understanding we have of Geotechnical engineering was founded by a Scottish educated Japanese guy from the 1800s.

Also, modern Japanese whisky comes from a Scottish woman who married and moved into Japan and started her own distillery.

Just a huge amount of cultural overlap.

#StarTrek

@emmreef Growing up, I used to think that people in high paying jobs were, if not skilled at their craft, at least they were so good at schmoozing with people and making them -think- they knew what they were doing that it kinda didn’t matter that they weren’t business or legal or medical geniuses.

Ha.

Haha.

I know better now just how many people who are mind numbingly incompetent in any given sphere get where they are because of connections and dumb fucking luck.

Rest in Peace, Jimmy "Vic Fontaine" Darren

(TrekCore just reported it)

Happy Labor Day 🙂

In discussions with our nigh-14-year-old about whether or not their cell phone is allowed in their bedroom for use as a morning alarm:

Me: "I'll get you an alarm clock."

Kiddo: "I'd rather have a cell phone for a clock like normal people, not have an alarm clock like I'm in a Disney movie."

😂

Happy Labour Day!

That wouldn't take much.