AI isn’t taking all of the jobs just yet. Enjoy this generated nightmare fuel of a “beer commercial.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geja6NCjgWY]
Author Archives: Eric Beavers
Scripting News: I want Bluesky to go away
Scripting News: I want Bluesky to go away: I definitely want Bluesky to just go away. I don’t like it because if it gains traction it has potential of replacing Twitter as the festering turd in the middle of what should have been a vibrant growing market that keeps anything else from rising in competition …
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Dark Thoughts for a Tuesday
Reading some dark thoughts from The Atlantic this Tuesday morning in re the possibility of a second Trump presidency in the face of the ongoing war in Ukraine. These two battles are inextricably linked. If America stumbles even deeper into authoritarian darkness than it already has, Ukraine is lost. If Ukraine is lost, Europe and …
Expulsion Hearings for the Tennessee Three
From my catbird seat in Georgia just south of Chattanooga, Tenn., I watched agape on April 6, 2023, while racist Tennessee legislators kicked fellow elected officials out of their club. Democratic legislators Justin Jones, Gloria Johnson, and Justin Pearson sat through hours of “debate” about their offenses. What did they do to garner what may …
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On Working from Home
At my previous job, I spent some time working from home in 2020–2021 after the COVID pandemic really hooked its tendrils into the globe. My current job doesn’t even have an office so working from home is the only option. Overall, it’s been terrific. If employees have no need to meet directly with each other, …
Videos I Like a Lot
These are two videos I stumble back on to rewatch from time to time. Maybe you’ll like them too. Probably NSFW.
One of Many Posts about the Rise and Fall of Twitter
While it is probably too far to say Twitter is important to me, I can say I have found and followed many internet acquaintances through their tweets. Some of these pals I found from their blogs showcasing then-new links to their Twitter feed. Others I found through the web Twitter wove among those users’ follows …
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Dressing Up Your Terminal
My terminal was already pretty cool thanks to zsh and oh-my-zsh (see Tricking Out iTerm2, but I recently found a fun little app that make working in the terminal a lot more fun (and colorful)! Meet lolcat. rainbow coloring effect for text console display It doesn’t do much by itself, but make a few aliases …
Against the Death Penalty
Daniel Jalkut posted via Twitter: The Parkland shooter will suffer the ultimate consequence: life in prison. The death penalty lets the worst criminals off too easy, and makes the greatest miscarriages of justice irreversible. Note: This was posted using Daniel’s remarkable MarsEdit. Check it out!
BBEdit Preference Fix
After finding trouble updating the Preview preferences in BBEdit (the venerable text editor from Barebones Software), the company shared the fix. My problem was the preference options didn’t recognize items I knew I had installed in /opt/homebrew/bin using Homebrew. It turns out BBEdit runs as a non-interactive shell so it never loads my $PATH from …