Now: Running Decoder @ The Verge. Earlier: editor/reporter for Protocol, Ars Technica, CQ Roll Call, Consumerist, and Kotaku; decades of other writing strewn across the internet. Boston-born, now DC-dwelling. She/her.
Kate Cox
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The 7yo has a habit of eating about half his meal and then coming back to the rest of it maybe 30 minutes later. It did not take the cat long to learn she could just straight up steal a french fry -- or a burger -- in this window.
And so now we have to retrain them BOTH out of this pattern lol
Kate Cox
In April 2023 the question I started asking was: "If your AI writes the email and my AI reads it, what was the *point* of the message? Have we communicated?"
But even I (and I'm cynical) didn't expect that, like, all of law and school and everything else would just be fully there quite so fast.
Finished that second playthrough of Clair Obscur I started months ago. That game is so damn pretty, let us not discuss how many hours I spent just lining up amazing shots in photo mode.
And then sometimes you get lucky and your kids make you pause the game at *just* the right moment.
Did not realize quite how much french-language media I was consuming (all my video games and books) until I started one up in good ol' english just now and was genuinely confused for a second why it sounded weird.
Somewhere out there, one of my high school teachers is so happy right now lol
(I got prettier ones today but as I was playing through the extremely tail end of the game they are all major spoilers lol)
I am constantly just so *annoyed* that the worst, scammiest people mean none of us can have nice things ever.
www.theverge.com/games/947741...
My kids are younger than Jen's so it's still "family iPad" and not "every kid's phone," but I have COMPLAINTS about how parental controls work across every tech we use in our house... except PlayStation. They're doing pretty okay.
"Parenting" should not be a weird edge case.
I am genuinely curious about this! (And if you're curious, the conversation that inspired this question was about Icelandic, haha.)
As if there weren't already enough good reasons to ban gas-powered lawn equipment, there's also "preventing your neighbors about feeling positively murderous about being woken up at 7am on a Saturday by the noise because the lawn guys need to work before it's too hot"
A question inspired by a conversation I had with one of my best friends last night:
If you speak any language(s) other than English, does said language have an approximately equivalent idiom to "brain fart," and if so, what is it?
