cautious-optimism.bsky.social
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A Sundae for dessert perhaps?
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Consider a corporation as "slow AI", as Charlie Stross suggests. It has a goal function: Income and Growth. Nested in that is an AI with a set of goals set by that outer 'AI'.
Not immune to a good mixed metaphor: Water in a pipe doesn't always leak, but if there is a leak, water always finds it.
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When AI becomes consistently present in all of our lives, it will be present in the weakest moments of our lives.
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Buy ‘em broccoli. It’s gonna be a long four years.
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Camping not far from Cloudcroft NM. Thinking it was a ‘one’. Beautiful.
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Not if his ass or his ox was in a ditch he wouldn’t.
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You’re welcome! There’s a lot of chaff out there amid the wheat 😀
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Unable to find any other reference to this. Perhaps my Google-fu is not strong?
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The unbearable lightness of Elon
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The lesser known narrative principle of Chekhov's teapot applies here.
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Back in the 70s, when I was studying chemistry in the US, we were still encouraged to learn German. There was just so much old literature you could access with it.
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He’d so hoped to prove he was a real boy.
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Parodied in Life of Brian, iirc. His father was a centurion named Naughtius Maximus.
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Remind me to pick up some Fritos for the kids.
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The first step in healing is acknowledgment.
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A little known follow-on painting by Edvard Munch: “The Birthday”
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Humph! (per Kipling). Camels, but I assert humans too
'My long and bubbling friend,' said the Djinn, 'what's this I hear of your doing no work, with the world so new-and-all?'
'Humph!' said the Camel.
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They move when unobserved … en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping...
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At Costco, “max” is also appropriate.
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There’s a trick to it: go through it backward. Start at the food court. Having eaten before strolling through the palace of consumerism gives one the self-control required to pass up the 40 pound cheesecake later in the journey.
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There are THREE DOLLS. THREE. Also four lights, and nine planets by god.
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Porque no los dos?
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Independent thought. Freedom of expression.
And consumer electronics for sure.
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One suspects (prays) these pictures will age poorly. Here’s hoping those images follow the two forever.
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There used to be a service called Thomas, run by the library of Congress. It is no more. congress.gov does have information like what you’re looking for though. And I definitely second the recommendation for ballotopedia.
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Stunning performance by Bruno Ganz.
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You’re gonna need a chaser. May I suggest The Zone of Interest?
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This was, no lie, an actual mood booster. Mostly I've been looking at pictures of pussies on bluesky; this is nice for variety.
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With Hank (and J. Coulton) in this one …
“ All at once it fills up my feed
More bad news that I didn't need
I can't stop reading but I wish that I didn't know
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So I am looking at pictures of cats
I am looking at pictures of cats”
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What else, given the current political climate?