Andrew Platzer

@aep.bsky.social

Practicing curmudgeon

I’m constantly reminded of this quote from the early 1900s (source unknown) — "News Is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest Is advertising”.

“On the other hand, it has been shown that one can get a remarkable semblance of a language like English by taking a sequence of words, or pairs of words, or triads of words, according to the statistical frequency with which they occur in the language. 1/2

California is about to hit licence plate 9ZZZ999. I’ve already seen 9ZR____. The DMV announced the new format well be simply reversed — 000AAA1. That means the first 3 characters increment the fastest. Yuck. I would have gone with 11AAA00.

New distance measurements for our galaxy 📏 ESA's XMM-Newton & NASA's Chandra have measured the distance to three bright explosions echoing through the outer spiral arms of our galaxy. In doing so, they found the arms to be up to 10% further away than we thought 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

One thing I mentioned in passing in my Fable post is that, for long running tasks, Fable starts to develop its own dialect as its many agents and tasks reinforce themselves and make Claudish language ever more Claudish. You need to ask it to report out in plain English or this happens after 9 hours

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🦅🇺🇦 Ministry of Defense announced the introduction of a new model of warfare - drone assault units, which combine drones and infantry into a single system. This approach has already shown results in the south, where a large amount of territory has been liberated since February.

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I’m getting somewhat exasperated by people using the phrase “war crimes” as though it’s actionable. Unless the perpetrators are arrested by the war police, tried in a war court by a war judge, found guilty by a war jury, and sent to war prison, it’s just propaganda.

My president told me Iranians keep shooting down his planes so I asked how many planes he has and he said he just goes to the airbase and gets a new one so I said it sounds like he’s just serving up planes to the Iranians and then his vice president started crying.