Bimoo

Want to give a shout out to my favorite set of free courses called Language Transfer. The way this guy teaches _just makes sense_ to my brain...and he gives them away. Amazing

https://www.languagetransfer.org/

For so long I've seen/read bits of this mythical place called Cavasso Nuovo, where I was pretty sure my grandfather, Aladino Franceschina, was from. I had a long video of a trip that Dad made here in 1980 that cataloged some of it, and I only recently digitized it and sync'd the sound and walked through it all to try and determine where he traveled and who the people were in the video. For years I've seen this little "borgo franceschina" street on Google Maps inside of Cavasso Nuovo, and kept telling myself "One day I'm going to go there and declare myself the mayor" 😂 Then this year, I finally got moving on my Italian citizenship through descent and on Saturday it all happened! I met distant family and we ate and drank and ate and drank and drank… and drank... and it was so very pleasant and fulfilling! All of those puzzle pieces were finally in place, and I was happy

Dad’s 1980 video for reference
https://youtu.be/ggwiLYwS8cg?si=nDAnNIdUM9P67kEl

@erikvoorhees - I believe the space in the middle of the rainbow disc was supposed to be for the holder to write their pronouns… not that “JP Morgan” was meant to BE the pronoun. the branding is still creepy, but I believe the disc is being misrepresented

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr3wFGoowUk

I wish I could buy one of these Citroen in the States #bologna #italy

WEN 5k

Tomorrow would be when the SEC's twitter account gets hacked, yeah?

“We have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history, in English, and things that have nothing to do with finance or technology,” said Goldstein of BlackRock’s new hiring strategy.

https://fortune.com/2024/05/17/blackrock-coo-robert-goldstein-english-history-liberal-arts-hiring/

“We’re here to seize your assets. Now, tell us your password"

“Lol. No"

https://cointelegraph.com/news/welcome-united-kingdom-please-hand-over-your-crypto

https://twitter.com/ohaiom/status/1790394403032371585

ChatGPT-40 is _definitely_ using a knock-off “Scarlett Johansson” voice from the movie Her. Love it ❤️

I'm very much looking forward to watching these AI music generators force humans to reckon with the fact that music is nothing more than pattern matching against our stupid moist money minds to trigger chemical release of "feelings"... and it can do it better than any of ever could

The latest AI music generation is literally blowing my fucking mind..."human creativity" is a thing of the past

https://www.udio.com/songs/8JxYbHqpuDwJyg8247Br2y

Yikes… started typing commit message into VSCode using #1234 to link to story and co-pilot #ai auto-completion suggested this commit message. None of that has anything to do with anything we have ever done… I dont know who *Meda - Superior Import* is 😮

Simply amazing event today... We'll never be the same

Is there a max FID for this channel?

tried to pay my mom’s neighbor using Zelle for some help they provided, but I can’t send them the entire amount because Zelle is limiting my transfers to $500 “for my protection” 😡