The USOC and IOC facilitate all sorts of heinous shit.

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

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I feel like the AI should also have a beret here.

The spiral’s more fun, anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_periodic_tables

Palpatine and Dooku commissioned the clone army in secret, then revealed it as a solution to the robot army attacks, which they also funded. The Jedi/Republic accept the help begrudgingly. Unfortunately, I rewatched ep 1-3 recently.

I work with someone who never closes a tab. They’ll just keep plowing ahead until they literally have to reboot their computer for lack of resources. Physical clutter doesn’t bother me much, but I have to look away when they share their screen.

Fun fact, in the US, we have 3 train derailments per day.

Wow, you pivot a lot. The power consumption of data centers as a whole in the US was ~5% of total in 2024. But they are definitely guzzling water, no doubt about that. It’d be nice if we still had environmental regulatory agencies with teeth to force better cooling methods. Doug Forcett comes to mind.

I don’t input anything that I care about them spying on. As for brain rot, we’re on social media, aren’t we?

If you’re using one of the LLMs to search, you can just twirl out the source list and click through to the pages it found relevant to your prompt. In my experience, it pulls a better list of links than DDG or Google. You can just ignore the summary it writes.

From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.

Obligatory Schizopolis Scene Link

Vibe coding in assembly.

The definition of AI has now fundamentally changed.

“The AI effect” refers to a phenomenon where either the definition of AI or the concept of intelligence is adjusted to exclude capabilities that AI systems have mastered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

I only read the blog because of the thumbnail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

There’s intention in a prompt. Death of the Author makes the case for valuing interpretation over intention anyway.

Don’t fall prey to the Curse of Greyface