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Ernie Smith

@ernie.tedium.co

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Editor of Tedium (https://tedium.co), freelance writer, pop-up search engine maven (https://udm14.com). See my writing: https://erniesmith.net/ “Life is too short to not say exactly what you mean all the time.” — Jesse Welles

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3d

Great news: Chris was able to get tickets for this. Thanks to everyone who helped!

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 18d

Hey, can you all do me a big favor? My childhood friend Chris recently found out he has terminal cancer. He has two daughters.

One of them, Alivia, wants to go see Alex Warren with her dad in Columbus, Ohio.

If you know someone in his orbit, send it to him. If you don’t, please share this post. ❤️

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 55m

If you're willing to do Fedora, Bazzite is a nice alternative to SteamOS that does 90% of what Valve's distro does

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1h

I tried running it with niri as an alternative window system. It is so close to working out of the box in that context, but it just doesn't. I think it's very promising if they can offer a PaperWM-style experience. It feels lighter and less burdened than GNOME.

It's mostly a few software tweaks.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 4h

That's what I just installed. I'm not wild about tiling (I prefer the PaperWM style sliding) but I am curious how the new WM performs compared to GNOME.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 5h

I installed the Pop!_OS beta on an actual disk. I briefly considered the overhyped Arch install from the problematic tech executive just to see what it was about and decided against it because it wanted to nuke my whole disk. No thank you.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5h

Ragebaiting people on social media is ironically the exact kind of unproductive, divisive-for-no-reason discourse that Bluesky critics (and critics of the left more generally) claim it engages in

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 10h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 10h

The fact that they kind of backburnered Apple Silicon really upset their best users. Like enterprise cares about collaboration, sure, but I’m a guy who has been paying you $120 per year for a decade. Seems like you might want to be on top of that!

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 10h

I keep seeing an ad for Dropbox featuring Death Cab for Cutie over on LinkedIn. It is perhaps the most me-coded ad I’ve ever seen, because as a middle-aged geriatric millennial, I give a shit about the cloud service Ben Gibbard uses.

Too bad Dropbox screwed it up 5+ years ago.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11h

Kimmel probably cares about ratings, but a Sunday morning show that would likely be on the air whether or not anyone watches (thanks to the FCC’s public affairs programming rules)? Just pure laziness on Vance’s part.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11h

Journalists had long been taught to not think about their ratings when reporting. That has changed with the internet, but it is definitely not the focus of a Sunday morning show.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11h

If you point at ratings, you’re deflecting. And not very well, I might add.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11h

I gotta add. He tries shutting Stephanopoulos down by pointing at his show’s ratings. I’m sorry, but the fact that you accepted the spot in the first place is a sign that you need to have a presence there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11h

I like this fresh showing of spine by ABC. More of this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11h

That’s generally what a day atop Hacker News pulls in.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11h

Our Demento piece got linked on Citizen Free Press, a Drudge-like site, and we got a comically large amount of traffic from it. Like 7,500 visitors in two hours.

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Ten Years Of Tedium @tedium.co · 5d

Find something you love as much as our David Buck loves Dr. Demento, who’s retiring this weekend:

tedium.co/2025/10/07/d...

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

I can’t think of the last time I saw Slashdot interview someone themselves but I like it.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

Slashdot holding Microsoft’s feet to the fire over a controversial face-recognition feature. Whoa. Interesting.

hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

Dread is a really terrible accelerant for writer’s block. Ask me how I know.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This year, I've had so many productivity issues. Whole days lost, deadlines completely blown I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with me

Yeah, so for the last 48 hours I decided to tune out the news and concentrate on an article and surprise surprise: it was the fascism this whole time

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

I heard Corwood Industries has an octagon for this very purpose

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 2d

we never needed a Joe Rogan Of The Left but maybe we did need a frog

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

The $1/month plan is a nice gesture.

Hopeful you get a bunch of people to hop aboard.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Guys and ladies and everyone else: I revived the newsletter. I hope you’ll take a look. It is free.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 1d

The first edition of the new newsletter is out! Check it out IF YOU DARE (halloween)
www.howtoreadthisch.art/the-glorious...

The glorious return of How To Read This Chart

Chapter 1 So, uh, what have you been up to? The last time anyone received an issue of "How To Read This Chart," President Trump hadn't yet deployed the military to D.C., the Mets were only a game-and...

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

On an unrelated note it's nice to see that the left took back the frog in the span of a week

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

Which I think explains why they're really not meeting this moment where we're essentially playing political Calvinball

Dan, Daniel, Danny, Danford, JD, JDF, Hey You! @thisisjdf.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who was at one time somewhat on the inside of the Dem consultant world I can tell you this the fundamental problem with Democratic consultants (and I assume GOP consultants too) is that they would rather know why they lost than not have control over why they won.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

I saw a member of Tinariwen faint at a show and that was pretty weird. Bet a fight would be even more notable