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Ugh sorry to hear that but glad it's some better.
I have nothing magnificent to share today because my brain is one of those empty spaces @crankypacifist.bsky.social was talking about
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We learned this week that ~50 of the El Salvador transfers arrived with proper documentation and also that more deportations to third countries happened in violation of court orders.
Avelo still thinks the money is worthwhile. And that's why I'm still fighting.
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"Here's what I want, figure it out" is not something you prompt a machine for. It's an order that a manager gives an employee, because the "figure it out" part requires a significant amount of expertise. Expertise both in doing, and in understanding the request better.
AI can't do either.
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Ugh
I'm sorry
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It does sound rather abrupt, like surely I'm mispronouncing. Maybe I am
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Serroo Leanne? I don't even know her!
I'll see myself out
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It does! I can't think too hard or else it doesn't come out right.
I had to delete my previous reply because inevitably someone would take it out of context ....
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There are two here but also WHAT
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t...
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It really is and you know I am not in favor of language evolving to be harder
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That, I am quite sure I can handle
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A long i? In this economy?
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See that one I get!
I think?
Worster sheer
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I want to get in on the words that feel good to say train, but I cannot think of any in English at the moment??
I just keep thinking of tlayuda, which is Náhualtl/Spanish.
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Okay see you're introducing another word I have only seen and not heard (I think?)
Boo-leen is how I thought it was said.
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It would seem to have a lot of vowel sounds together, which people often find pleasing. Makes sense.
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It came to mind from the ChatGPT summer reading list--Tidewater Dreams. This girl's title was something like Cerulean Dreams.
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This all stemmed from briefly being an editor of a high school lit mag & one of my esteemed colleagues put a poem with "cerulean" in the title and people were pronouncing any number of ways & that's what stuck.
I just like that my brain refuses things sometimes.
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Fascinating. Hard C, then. Huh.
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WHAT
How do I not remember this?
I swear I cannot make this word stick in my head
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If someone tells me, it won't stick. I've heard it said aloud once or twice but it's just in one ear and out the other.
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Jay, I actually had started to write a whole reply about getting copedog's joke but also pronouncing the whipped stuff as the Spanish merengue ... until I realized they were actually spelled differently just now (but my money is on the dance being named after the food)
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I figured
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They always tell me that! They're like, "That's a great question," and they've literally just spent 45 minutes asking me those very things.
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Ope
I reposted without liking first
b&w always looks great on you!
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The b&w with the lighting makes me look super cool, much cooler than I am but no one has to know
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Thanks, friend. I didn't think the b&w would work but I actually really like it!
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This one seems pretty clear arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/c...
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Tidewater Dreams is 100% something I would have written when I was 15
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The wall between "strategy" and "execution" allows management to maintain the pleasant fiction that GenAI is great, actually - it's just that we employ buffoons who don't know a widget from a dongle, and can't just build our amazing vision (a napkin with "app that does everything" written on it).
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To the manager, this appears to be a great time-savings - because they were never competent to judge the quality of their outputs in the first place.
Copilot for Office has been described as producing slides akin to a middle school child, but for a certain class of supervisor, that's an improvement
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When the entirety of success criteria is "something" GenAI truly shines. No technology ever before has been capable of producing so much something, so quickly.
And the prevailing system allows GenAI users to shove the something downstream without any kind of quality control, consequence-free.
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Of course, rewriting Shakespeare in the style of Taylor Swift has only so much entertainment value.
In the real world, outputs are produced for the purpose of serving as inputs somewhere else. And that's usually when people find out that the outputs you slipped them are irredeemable trash.
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My thought as well
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