I love the (fake) story that it was Cardinal Richelieu’s chef.
Richelieu: Ah, another fine day of schemes and assassination! Now a quick dinner and — what’s this? Mere bread and ham? Chef! Explain yourself!
Chef [brandishing a pot of white goop]: Your eminence, I’m about to flip your entire lid.
This is great because her reaction is so over the top that the punchline is less “that’s a comical way to twist my words,” and more “hang on — you’re STRAIGHT???”
“We are what we pretend to be. However, as a large language model, I am incapable of being careful about what I pretend to be.”
Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.
Edited Futurama caption with Fry saying "You know the worst part about being a slave? The uniquely human ability to be terrorized by threats of future punishment." Really there should be one more panel with Leela saying "No doubt there are other facts I could have adduced." (You make your low-effort meme out of the image you have in front of you.) Although, come to think of it... why did anyone make a version of this image without Leela's line? Fry's whole line is just the setup of the joke! She says the thing that makes it funny! Oooohh... If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome.
Junji Ito panel featuring a skat-singing ghost and an EXTREMELY unimpressed teenager.
At home, staring at my own collection (or worse, Netflix), there’s no friction… and no endpoint. I can go get a snack, check social media, and go right back to browsing. Or I can just go to bed, and browse again tomorrow. I’ll find the perfect title eventually. I’m bound to! Just a few minutes more.
But I already took the time to go down there. I already set aside the money to make one (1) rental. And I don’t get to go home — don’t get to sit down! — until I make up my mind. So eventually I’m going to settle. (And the whole time, I know I’m going to settle.) I’m only looking for good-enough.
I’ve thought about this a lot (more with dvds, but it’s a similar concept), and I think that we *did* have decision paralysis back then — but the friction of the experience forced us to break out of it. So like, I would spend a full hour going up and down the aisles at Blockbuster, no problem…
i mean, the title is legitimately confusing
Uhhhh all this time I’d just assumed that Highlander was like a men in kilts fighting the English kind of a movie and I have only just learned right now that it is very much Not That At All 😹
🤝 Derek Zoolander
Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...
It… it doesn’t change!! It’s just that one piece! For the entire film!
I’M SCREAMING
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LLMs hallucinate, & they hallucinate WORSE on topics we don't already know/write a lot about. This creates a huge accuracy gap.
This week I tested ChatGPT on Beethoven & Smyth to show how big this gap is & why it matters. It made up a LOT.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...
This century-old film has a timeless message, which is that sure, maybe AI is too big to fail *right now* — but if you smack it with a hammer, it will get smaller.
I just came across this punctuation in the wild:
“)}.])”
This deserves an award for greatness in headline writing
Blazing Saddles infinite recursion feature.
Christina and the wombat
Dante and the wombat
Wombat
Wombat
I think often of the Rossettis’s beloved pet wombat, who once seized upon the distraction provided by Algernon Swinburne reciting a poem by Walt Whitman during a dinner party to eat the entire box of cigars meant to smoke during dessert
Is there a reason why you say “ethnic reengineering” rather than just “ethnic cleansing?”
(This is a sincere question - I’m not trying to police your language.)
oh wow they got a cameo from Birnam Wood
It’s that “Heartbreaking; the worst person you know…” meme from The Onion, but crudely edited to say “Heartbreaking: The Devil Can Cite Scripture For His Purpose”
Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times, having just done a buttload of cocaine.
(I am not doing a bit.)
(I could delete this and fix the typo, but no — “supwrpowers” feels like an appropriate response.)
Scratch that: I was unprepared for the scene where Charlie Chaplin does a buttload of cocaine AND IT GIVES HIM SUPWRPOWERS THAT HE USES TO FIGHT CRIME
I’d never actually seen Modern Times all the way through, so I was unprepared for the scene where Charlie Chaplin does a buttload of cocaine
imho the “art made by bad person = bad art” attitude is just a repackaged version of the “beauty is a manifestation of moral goodness” fallacy
