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@lallisonblack@vmst.io As per Jason's request...

Two dogs, an Australian Shepherd and a Chocolate Lab are on a deck that's above eye level. they both have their heads jammed between the fence and the deck and are looking down at the photographer, clearly sad and wishing they were with the photographer instead of sucks on the deck.
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We are experiencing a level 1 drought here. Even the tree frogs are looking for a little luck.

A tree frog sits at the bottom of an upturned horseshoe. The horseshoe is attached to a white column.
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Damn. My "email support team" has just messaged my email support account saying that if I don't reconfirm, it will be shut down. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

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I'm waiting for my fifth service call from my internet service provider, in search of a solution to a particularly vexing problem. So far they've changed just about everything and while things have improved, they're not quite stable yet.

When the tech arrives, I plan to greet him with "We have to stop meeting like this."

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The only way to escape criticism is to do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
[origin attributed to multiple sources]

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Also, on the subject of comment form spam: a big spike in July, 1,235 form submissions. Zero valid. Zero false positives.

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HOLY FLYING F*CK!!

After 2025-06-12 14:48:45 UTC, comment form spams from "Eric [fucking] Jones" (clearly not a real name) stopped. Nothing since!

Could at least 15 years of filtering that garbage, which came in as often as five times a day, actually be over?

I'm amazed that the scam lasted that long. Hopefully whoever was behind it has finally shut down.

Not about to remove the filters though.

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Some idiot AI sales lead generator just spammed my contact form with a very human sounding message, except it said it just looked at my website and totally guessed wrong about what it does, so no, I'm not interested in having it send similar messages in my behalf, thanks.

#LLM #AI #Bubble

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That time when you look at the preview frame for a trailer and think "oh my this looks like a car crash" but you have to look and really it turns out to be a massive train wreck and you think "how is this even possible?"

It's possible because of Generative AI, which enables the sort of "unbridled creativity" that would have been curated out of existence in the past.

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Q: "What does Canada, as the 51st state mean to you?"

A: I don't know, because I would have died in the war to defend my country. Next question please.

#Canada