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Friends with teenage or young adult sons - do you talk to them about the language they see online and in person?
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Genoa also has terrific food. We toured the Mercato Orientale Genova, a very impressive food market that puts anything in the US to shame. I also found some street food snacks on my walk back to the ship. The focaccia was particularly good, stuffed with some creamy salty cheese. Probably prescinsêua or maybe stracchino.

only recently encountered this 1986 solo album by robert hunter &... it's fine. but for 1986, that's an accomplishment! sweet tunes, unassuming production, cool lyrics, david nelson on lead guitar, only mild synth damage. his first non-conceptual album of all-new songs since "tiger rose" in '76. @…

Always fun starting a new job and seeing the exact same bugs due to mocks in test code!

Once again astonished at how useful LLMs are as a tourist. My impromptu walk in Genoa today was like having a tour guide with me giving me impossibly detailed information on every piazza, church, and snack shop exactly on my route. (I'm using Gemini 3 Pro these days, but ChatGPT is good at this too.)

I've been making a point of wearing LGBT flare in the US this last year, but no one seems to notice or care. Fine! But on this trip in Rome I'm pretty sure several folks have been friendlier to me on seeing my rainbow watchband. Lots of flirty waiters.

Merz-Ankündigungen, die eher zur Besorgnis beitragen.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/groenland-friedrich-merz-will-noch-diese-woche-mit-don…

Treffen in Davos?: Merz will noch diese Woche mit Trump über Zölle sprechen
Die Europäische Union weist die US-Zolldrohung wegen Grönland zurück. Kanzler Merz will in einem persönlichen Gespräch mit Präsident Trump eine Lösung finden. Motto: »Jede Eskalation vermeiden.«

@… check out this simple Datasette app a friend of mine made with exe.xyz. His entire input was: "There is publicly available data on service requests for Arlington VA available at: https://data.arlingtonva.us/dataset/100?tab=2
Can you make me a datasette instance to explore this data?"
Not that different from other vibe coding except that exe.xyz seems remarkably easy to use.

Maybe Laurie should just stick to saying "happy new year!" in English or use his millions to hire a dialect coach.

Just saw how various websites are using 50 GB total in Chrome. A big culprit is every site with an embedded YouTube video seems to have its own copy of 313MB of YouTube crap. It's partitioned for privacy purposes and I'm guessing nothing is de-duping that storage. I wonder if every site has to download it too?