Rene Vielman

When the human writers can’t progress between the Bee’s *one* joke, of course they’d turn to LLM-slop for “help”

Ajax and PBSuccess beg to differ

Pressure cookers and sous vide circulators fall in the same category

Our Zojirushi has been life-changing

Even better is that, yeah, Linebacker II got the North Vietnamese back to the table… to agree to their previously established terms with no concessions on their part (ol’ Jim could probably extrapolate the rest to the current war)

LOLWUT (Muslim moors were as native to the Iberian Peninsula as the christians fighting the reconquista, and if you start making that distinction, then you get to questions like “are vandal and visigoth-descended people really native, or does that just apply to celtic-origin and basque peoples?)

LMAO… gee, I wonder what the end result of Linebacker II was? 🤔

Yeah, these references work when they’re an easter egg that helps flesh out the world (Rakatan relics in Andor, Stephen Root mentioning Tatooine having water in BOBF) and not “We’re building a story around this one EU character” which just ends up making the universe smaller and less interesting.

That’s exactly it, and that’s what makes it awesome

The alt-text is just describing Mr. Beast in his normal state

To be even fairer, this is exactly the type of moron Sun Tzu tried to write for (but apparently failed to reach).

Big Linebacker II vibes here

Tangentially, I really really REALLY hate how the discourse has framed ASD as a negative outcome that is to be avoided at all costs.

Smaller sibling matched analysis.

LOL Birth order is already a known association for ASD risk. I wish I could read the actual paper because I have so many questions about possible confounding factors here (reading the abstract, they just looked at overall acetaminophen *prescriptions* in the general cohort and then did the /1

LMAO this paragraph is wild

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“Sola Fide” was a mistake

Going a bit obscure, but there’s a 2001 game called Ballistics that was (in my recollection) 🔥🔥🔥

Common Wittgenstein W

Excerpt from “The Sleepwalkers” by Christopher Clark talk

Space John LeCarre? But then Andor took that bit and ran away with it

Even though you still have to stay on top of them, but the actual use cases vs the hype, investment and societal tradeoffs gives off a lot of bad vibes and not sure it’s worth it.

And finally, knocking off a few rungs in organizational ladders by taking over entry level jobs and what that could mean for labor markets and mobility going forward. I mean, they’re great tools for what they are (I’ve used them a lot for bioinformatic analysis, and they really cut a lot of work 4/

Critical thinking going forward (and related to that, and circling back to regulatory capture and barriers to entry, how having a few big all-in-bed-with-one-another and politically compromised companies taking over so many decision points, big and small, in day-to-day activities. 3/

Capture in their favor (Anthropic notwithstanding). There’s also the fact that paradoxically as it gets better its hallucinations aew more difficult to spot and more and more SME is needed to stay on top of it; relatedly the whole “put your brain in a jar” thing and how that’s going to affect 2/

Totally, that being said I still have a lot of misgivings. First and foremost is that the current big models built with effectively limitless resources means that there’s a huge moat for entry requiring huge expenditures in capital and how the currently operating companies are getting regulatory 1/

Awww look at tankies supporting the Galtieri-led military junta

“Unleash Chiang!” *cue 1938 Yellow River Flood*