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forget the strategic petroleum reserve

why have we never made a heist movie about the GOVERNMENT CHEESE CAVES

Unfortunately due to the collapse of the stock market, your daylight savings have been wiped out

Corporations demand perfection from workers, but AI gets unlimited slack. LLM users have bottomless patience for inconsistent tools, and no grace left for their colleagues. What if we could flip it around?

“AI can make mistakes” might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot.

An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired.

So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?

What's funny is that we know from generations of experiments that human memory is ridiculously, cartoonishly malleable.

People manipulating their pictures like this are literally fucking with their memories. They will remember that event differently, because of the meddling afterwards.

There's an interesting cognitive bias called the Misinformation Effect.

It is very easy to study this. Take people, show them a video of, say, a man buying a hot dog at a street cart.

Then, make them read very confident but very wrong descriptions of that event.

With the popularization of AI agents, I look forward to non-programmers discovering the joys of spending more time automating a task you’re going to do infrequently than it would have taken to just do it yourself.

I mean

there's probably some kind of life lesson in this, idk

I've avoided it so far because that's exactly how I expect to feel about it

I taught a man to fish, he ate for a day

I taught a fish to man, he stood up straight, gave me a firm handshake, and handed me his resume

It’s my pleasure to introduce our new CFO Mr. Sunfish

A screenshot of a bit of text. The headline reads "Tiger, tiger, kerning right" in a horrible parody of William Blake.

For goodness' sake, @failbettergames.com, have you no decency?

...I have to admit, I sort of admire that one.

An abandoned house that has collapsed.

Another former house.

It is interesting the way structures slowly disintegrate when abandoned.

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #window #door #concrete

hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

Oh, someone got the same result as you from the plagiarism machine?

visenyaism on tumblr: "Honestly fuck A1 for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I'm some kind of protestant"

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are

1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

new anxiety unlocked

goals

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

Chernobyl promo poster, using an awkward, lumpy typeface.

Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?

Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.

One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."

I love how the premise of trying again with a socially rejected product is now it's harder to recognise it

Мне страшно что я неизвестность,
мне жалко что я не огонь.

Letter to the Guardian. The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

New features Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI" AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally

the fucking Calibre e-book manager has gone AI slop

calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

mātr, by Paul Jebanasam 7 track album

HE IS BACK
pauljebanasam.bandcamp.com/album/m-tr

From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal The discovery and development of metals as tool media is a topic of global interest. This phenomenon is generally associated with sedentary, agricultural societies; however, in North America metal use...

This is the best-titled academic monograph I have seen in awhile:

From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America, edited by Michelle Rae Bebber and Christopher B. Wolff.

Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."