Aaron Parecki

“Nobody wants to work anymore” headlines generated by “disgusted business men” from 1894 - 2022 as people do not want to work for poverty wages.

I love cars!! They make our cities so accessible!

I wonder what would happen if someone released a DALL-E style AI for making music, trained on existing commercial recordings?

The legal response from the RIAA would be a very interesting thing to observe!

bi women with straight boyfriends are like "yeah I'm totally queer" and I'm like damn right you are, your partner doesn't define your orientation and being with a man is just part of the bisexual experience for many

The identity conferences density in Q2 is ridiculous- @secworkshop, @RSAConference, #EIC2022, @Identiverse - we owe you an update, bit time!
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Here is the Republican message on everything of importance:
1. They can tell people what to do.
2. You cannot tell them what to do.

This often gets mistaken for hypocrisy, there’s an additional layer of complexity to this (later in the thread), but this is the basic formula.

Breaking News Creators!
You can now connect your @Shopify store to your YouTube Channel and Enable YouTube Shopping!

This is going to be great for monetized creators!

I'll be making some content around this in the coming weeks!

Does the dial pop off like the one on the stove? 🙃

my parents bought their house in 1976 for $58,000. in 2022 dollars, that would be $279,160.

their 2022 assessment valued the house at $2.09 million.

i don't think getting married at 34 instead of 24 is the reason my generation can't buy homes. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

That actually go against your community guidelines.

This isn't the first time this has happened but tbh, this is what drives people away from using YouTube to build their businesses and makes us turn to building our own email lists and promote Patreon over YouTube memberships.

Urgent reminder: the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment. Fixating on short term growth while the parent company teeters on the brink of collapse is a myopic as it is negligent.

holy shit. how is netflix able to stream such detailed film grain on highly compressed video? bc it's made dynamically client-side.

they interpret the film grain characteristics from the source video before compression, then rebuild it on decode

We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

Welcome back! You haven't checked in to George Bush Intercontinental Airport since March '20.

Need some inspo for a small YouTube office. Who has some cool setups? Share some images in the thread!

me: when I was your age a paperclip named Clippy would help me write letters to my friends

kid: sure grandpa let’s get u to bed

So I think it’s a decent question to ask whether settling Mars really reduces existential risk or not. More on that below. But 1st I gotta ask whether Mars-skeptics have actually run economics models on it or not. I have, and AFAICT it will not be that hard to settle Mars. 🧵 1/n

We're riffing on that "they're an x" meme at work and it is very funny that my "they're a 2.7 but they're python" joke is performing better than "they're an 11 but there's an off by one error" joke.

looks like discord is testing a per-server subscription thing, as in, the subscription fee goes to the server owner

discord access is a hugely popular (but clunky) patreon reward so this is kind of a genius move??
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415163187607-Premium-Memberships-for-Servers

I seriously do not understand the pearl clutching going on about this story. Oh no! The youngs don’t use Google! Some other corporate algorithm might sway them!

Get a grip, people.