Mike Lee Williams

@mlw.bsky.social

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my favourite directed graphs are webrings

Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement Administrator paid you $4.67. Your Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation settlement payment is now available in Venmo.
Acme Weather app settings, showing notifications for rainbow, sunset and aurora
Screenshot rendered in beautiful Computer Mordern: "Plus, I am not a cop; ACAB."
Photocopies are indispensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labour he (sic) exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neo-capitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap; as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.
ASP is suspended today through Sunday, March 1 to facilitate snow operations.
cover of nuclear war: a scenario
cover of a short stay in hell
cover of hum
Chart showing "Percentage-point change in share of median US household income spent on different categories", 1985 to present. Food and Household Goods down 5-10%. Housing and essential services up ~5%.
The Saturday FT magazine How To Spend It main article: How Warhammer Won
The drei Gläser meme.
Bad New Yorker article: "But matrix multiplication, to which our civilization is now devoting so many of its marginal resources, has all the elegance of a man hammering a nail into a board. It is possessed of neither beauty nor symmetry: in fact, in matrix multiplication, a times b is not the same as b times a."
Balatro screenshot: “Deck Stake Wins 100% 120/120”
Screenshot of email with subject “Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement Administrator paid you $23.46”
t shirt with the "I ♥️ LYING" written on it
A notification informing me that Sheffield United have lost by four goals to one at home on the first day of the season.
A tweet that reads: Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
Precinct map of the NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary showing that Lander got one (1) vote in the Navy Yard and everyone else got zero.
The cover of A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
A screenshot from the VS Code extension Cline. Reads: "Let me analyze the task and the environment to understand what I'm working with. The user has sent a message with just ":w", which appears to be a Vim command to save a file. However, I'm not in a Vim editor, so this command doesn't apply directly. I need to understand what the user is trying to accomplish."
Chart of mortgages by length of initial fixed rate period in a group of 11 developed countries. In most countries most mortgages are fixed for < 5 years, and often < 1 year.
Two four and twenty blackbirds pies in boxes in a refrigerator.
Jacob Wohl tweet: “I just a left a hipster coffee shop. It was packed with liberals, whispering amongst each other about what a commendable job President Trump did with Vladimir Putin this morning in Helsinki -- America is PROUD! 🇺🇸”
Blue socks with LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY written on them
"Does this odd and annoying mix of weepy fragility, oblivious self-importance, and obscene corniness sounds familiar? It should, because as a matter of tone it's identical to--here imagine me talking over you as you attempt to finish my sentence with "the emotional register of 20th-century European fascism"--the psychotically annoying way that Gamergaters tweeted in 2015."
Photo of Earth from space. Earth takes up the bottom half of the frame, space the top half. Caption from the photographer: "Milky way, Zodical light, Starlink satellites as streaks, stars as pin points, atmosphere on edge showing OH emission as burned umber (my favorite Crayon color), soon to rise sun, and cities at night as streaks"
Screenshot from the department of sanitation website: “Naked trees – trees without decoration, ornaments and stands – can go to the curb for collection on your Curbside Composting day”
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
miranda july - all fours
Clue board
A relatively mundane set of requirements for an office job with "A willingness to work hard and a high pain tolerance" hiding near the end.
Map of a walk from the northern tip of Manhattan to the southern tip, gets a bit wiggly in the Chelsea/village area. 16 and a bit miles.
8 library cards in the Libby app
Screenshot of https://adamj.eu/tech/2024/09/18/python-uv-development-setup/: "I believe it is pronounced as written, “uhv”, rather than spelt out like “you-vee”. This saves a syllable, fitting the tool’s ethos of speed"
Chess.com puzzle for Oct 31 2024
Midtown Manhattan from a ferry
I voted early sticker
Tweet from @erinkwoo @ariellezuck on stage at @theinformation’s Women in Tech, Media and Finance conference says she looks for “rizz” (charisma) and “tizz” (autism — sufficient neurodivergence to pursue an idea!) when investing in founders
Screenshot of the Values section of a job description at https://icon.me/careers
@GasBuddyGuy on Twitter: BREAKING: Georgia and Ohio have become the 13th and 14 states, respectively, to see average #gasprices fall below $3 per gallon. GasBuddy now counts over 50,000 stations below $3 in the US. 9:48 AM · Sep 12, 2024
Screenshot from I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again “We have a few key things that a grifter does not have, such as job stability, genuine friendships, and souls. What we do not have is the ability to trivially switch fields the moment the gold rush is over, due to the sad fact that we actually need to study things and build experience. Grifters, on the other hand, wield the omnitool that they self-aggrandizingly call 'politics'2. That is to say, it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is highly transferable.”
538 methodology: "Is this a tracking poll? Some pollsters release daily results of surveys that may overlap with each other. We account for this potential overlap in these “tracking” polls by running through our database every day and dynamically removing polls that have field dates that overlap with each other until none are overlapping and we have retained the greatest number of polls possible for that series and firm, paying special attention to include the most recent poll."
Don't cry because it's Joever, Smile because it Kamalappend.
Quote from man stabbed: What Are You Gonna Do, Stab Me?
Screenshot of response from Governor Hochul that reads: "Thank you very much for your email. As New York State's 57th Governor, I look forward to working together to rebuild our communities and continue to move our great state forward. Over the past seven years, I have traveled throughout the state and continue to be inspired by the strength, diversity, and perseverance of New Yorkers. I promise to do everything I can, every single day, to create a stronger, safer future for you, our families, and our communities and to make government a force for good once again. Thank you again for writing and for helping to make New York the beautiful and diverse state that it is. It's my great honor to serve you as we lead the way forward."
A copy of the Declaration of Independence, a little American flag and a form letter from Joe Biden welcoming newly naturalized citizens of the United States.
Sam Altman tweet with pictures: "i try not to think about competitors too much, but i cannot stop thinking about the aesthetic difference between openai and google". Pictures show recent OpenAI and Google marketing events. The Google event admittedly looks like shit, but the OpenAI is bad too.
Sky News projection: Labour on course to be largest party - but 32 seats short of overall majority
Screenshot of Frontier: Elite 2 on the Commodore Amiga.
Field of Erthos "earth-mounted" solar panels
Empty cereal box with top right corner cut open, and top left corner cut open but covered with aluminum foil with a pinhole punched in the foil
Screenshot from the NYC AI chatbot that advises city businesses. Can I fire an employee who parks his lifted Ford Raptor on the sidewalk outside the police precinct, and then spends most of his day on his phone, barely acknowledging the existence of the public? Yes, you can fire an employee for parking on the sidewalk and not doing their job. As an employer, you have the right to set expectations for employee behavior and productivity. If an employee is consistently parking on the sidewalk and not fulfilling their job responsibilities, it can be considered a violation of their job duties. However, it is recommended to consult with legal professionals or refer to your company's policies and local employment laws for guidance on disciplinary actions and termination procedures.