KRAZAM makes videos about working in tech and, more specifically, about working in a tech team that has been scrummed out, with lots of layers of management.

This is one of the more recent ones.

Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers by KRAZAM (YouTube)

“Your friends and family understand what you do.”

“Your friends and family appreciate your humorous work stories…”

“DevOps is a meaningful term.”

“That joke you told in your meeting was funny! If your coworkers were not on mute, you would’ve heard them laughing.”

At the beginning, it shows that... [More]

Malta

Body suit. Naked-looking. Getting dragged around by a bunch of 90s-era-looking background dancers. This is just f*%ing awful. My ears hate me already. Jesus Christ, anyone who thinks this is good should reevaluate their life choices. This is how we’re starting off? No-one will notice when the robots take over. They’ve blindfolded her, flipped her around, they all threw their shorts off, now they’re porn-dancing. She’s got quite a Madonna-style tooth-gap going on. Good for her. There was... [More]

Cyprus

Dances way better than Dua Lipa. But, then, doesn’t everybody? She’s 17 and lip-synced in English. Her backup dancers all look like they go to high school with her. She’s very, very cute. Gorgeous, actually. And, for ESC very special: not in a porn-y way. Good for them.

Serbia

Alone on the stage. Goth-y. Low, slow song. She sang in what I assume was Serbian. She was barefoot. Utterly forgettable. We won’t have to hear her again.

Lithuania

Not English. Rappy. Boys got some backup... [More]

I was chatting with someone about some picture and I noted that maybe we could find something appropriate.

I prompted DuckDuckGo with “raccoon trash panda digging in garbage can”. It gave me a whole grid of pictures, of which I quickly picked the following as my favorites.

Trash panda relaxing in a garbage can as if were a hot tubTrash panda peeking out of garbage canTrash panda living its best life in a trash canTrash panda head down up to its hips in a trash can.jpg

My interlocutor had never really used any of the LLM-based machines before, so I gave GitHub Copilot a whirl. I prompted GitHub Copilot: “Show me a cartoon of a raccoon digging in a trash can with its butt in the air”.... [More]