Harry Styles? What's next, Shaved Fashions? Give me a break!!!
AI is kind of like a reverse Neon Genesis Evangelion in that older people are desperately thrusting themselves into machines that are destroying them, for no urgent reason, and younger people are yelling at them not to.
I don't think "finding common ground" with Republicans is a worthwhile enterprise but if you're going to try anyway, at least take a long look at how Tyler Cowen wrote tons of bad stuff about cops to a conservative audience for a long time.
If you are developing a New Admired Person, I think it helps to go ahead and assume they have had or will have one Pretty Bad But Not Irredeemable Plot Arc. It's healthy for expectations. Let a great researcher be kind of the bad guy in a small, silly very local politics squabble or whatever.
Sometimes I see people say "I don't even know that is and I don't want to understand it" when they do understand it and think it sucks, and it's frustrating and bewildering to me. Denouncing something is so much stronger than vaguely insinuating it's nonsense with a shrug and an "I dunno" thrown in
(clearly surprising myself by saying the words) Let him Mackle...
I loved playing it at launch but I mean, yeah, that Marathon player base doom loop kicked in a long time ago. Most can't just go pick the game back up after a while off at this point, I tried-forget muscle memory, I don't remember all 34 button locations for the back door into Pinwheel! Sorry!
Me in on deck circle: When you're sliding into first, diarrhea cha Cha Cha lol MLB umpire imagining genocides without number: Fix your cap on straight, race traitor
A critical part of coming into a long-running tabletop RPG game with a new character is helping existing players understand your character, its probable dynamics within the group, and how much they're going to hate it.
Awareness of Shirley Franklin among Democrat Mayors Who Do Real Things likers is far too low IMHO, my bias being I am from and now again live in Atlanta
I spend some of my time helping people eliminate malicious or annoying bots affecting their thing, and I don't even know the details of what Bluesky does with that, but the general public is just never going to understand the nuance therein and be graceful, while also needing this service badly.
Just remembered when I was like 12 I requested rare killifish from an email listserv called KillieTalk and the guy sent them to me in a full insulated package for free and I gave them to my brother as a birthday gift and my whole family was delighted. Need to re-find that internet.
What's the best joke you've told in person that nobody got? I still think about ten years ago when someone saw the word "expansive" on a presentation slide and asked "what does that even mean" and I said "it's when you're southern and something costs a lot" and everyone was totally confused.
People wearing gear of the sports team that won the most recent championship? Only in New York, baby! No other city in the world does it like that! Da big apple!
I am all for your TNGs and DS9s and other full olde school 20+ episode season era of TV series dropping in goofy novelty concept episodes. But Strange New Worlds is ten episode seasons. So season 4 is basically Jurassic Park, film noir, puppets, soap opera, and a little bit of Star Trek.
The patchwork of related but different regulation of AI continues to weave itself around the world and one non-attorney had to bravely write about great ways to rack up fines for gen AI usage no matter where you are. newsletter.daypart.ai/p/internatio...
International PL-AI-yers Anthem
You might want to keep some of that generative AI in international waters.
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Most fantasy: Ah, I dare not move on my nemesis now. Perhaps a plan lasting an age of man or three, I shall put in the works... Malazan Book of the Fallen: While the assassin had only met the wizard an hour ago, he was kind of annoying, and so the assassin had resolved to kill him before nightfall.
A thing that has changed my gadget outlook a lot is buying a fridge last year and learning the newfangled disaster that ruined modern fridges is...the ubiquitous icemakers and common in-door ice and water modules! They break! The IOT and screen stuff you can simply not buy, it's fine.
Whatever call me when I can vote for Keisha Lance Topps
Bluesky isn't ready for this, but (I suddenly have ten pounds of explosive diarrhea in my pants and instantly die from it)
People already formally tried to show ads meant to influence AI directly via the LLM-ready section of Time Magazine's website, so, uh yeah. daypart.beehiiv.com/p/your-own-i...
Your Own Impersonal Shopper
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After all of this Trump stuff is done I would also like to talk about the large number of older guys in the corporate managerial ranks that have this same type of creepy shit going on where it's easiest to go through their favorite weird captive / captor to access them
Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2mo ago“A well-timed text to Harp can unlock access to Trump, giving well-known lobbyists and fringe figures alike an audience with the most powerful man in the world.” Great arrangement for US national security. Just great. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Bluesky Reacher fandom is essentially a years-later replay of the initial John Fetterman fandom. "Oh, usually big tough guys are not the kind of guys I find likable but this one seems vaguely good!" So I guess in season 6 he's going to join Mossad or something?
If I were a piss guy I would say I was a member of The Fellowship of the Yellow Drip. Kind of wish I was so I could do this.
Cryo Archive: Amerifat air conditioning Remilitarized Zone, you can't even smoke in there, inverse but worse bankers hours ass schedule. Perimiter: 1970's coded highway rest stop, a vibe, open 247365
Talking about the Diamond Gutter, Apple, Google putting AI in ads, 28 hour Australian longshoremen workweek due to "AI," etc: youtu.be/xlN03HMWSjM?...
The Google's Gamble: Liability and Control in AI-Driven Advertising
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What if whatever ends up happening with LLMs as we kind of know it now, it doesn't have much to do with the companies selling them to us now and feels a lot more like 1997 / 2007 daypart.beehiiv.com/p/its-the-sm...
It's The Smartphone, Stupid
Maybe Eden really is just an Apple in your hand
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I think I successfully sustain following people with diverse enough views and opinions that they're regularly in conflict, and the key to this not bothering me at all is simple: I don't believe I would necessarily like and commune with these people if I knew them in real life, and that's fine.