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Alex Jones has said a lot of crazy shit and absolutely none of it was as wild as finding out that there's microplastic in the dickmeat.

Yeah OK, the microplastics are getting into algae and stuff, and sea turtles are choking on beer cartilage or whatever, that shit sucks for sure. But pretty el fucking rapido after an interested, concerned, literate person might start to worry about the threat of things going any farther than that, a bored researcher read an article about the most recent method

Well, I started learning piano some months ago. I wanted (another) reason to get out of the house; when one is retired, that's usually a good idea. Plus, I wanted to have some more exercise for my brain since I'm no longer pondering IT issues everyday.

I knew it'd be work, but this stuff is WORK. Trying to get my fingers to do what I want them to do, as opposed to what they want to do. And I could sort-of read printed music

Connie Willis's *The Road to Roswell*, published in 2023, is a light-hearted, delightfully clever sci-fi comedy that never takes itself too seriously. In contrast to some of her other work, this is a simple plot, with just enough Willisy twists to keep me interested. A little absurd and whimsical, the characters are real and believable, even though surrounded by the seemingly impossible.

The pragmatic Francie is

Clippy is now reborn as an AI chat interface. Don't tell me this is not Just Plain Wrong.

"Clippy let's you run a variety of large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer while sticking with a user interface of the 1990s."
—Felix Rieseberg, CLippy @ Github

Back in the day, I was writing the outline for a new training course in the then-new