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Why you’re losing
Since I’m into pointless bitching tonight…. If you really want to oppose AI slop, make human writing MORE AGREEABLE and MORE PLEASANT. AI is winning for the same reason that porn is winning. Human writers are either overly intellectual (citing Plato) or overly grammatical (upon whom, in which) or boringly repetitive (FUCK TRUMP FUCK TRUMP…
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Paid by Trump
The idiot Democrats are still doing the same shit, still working for Trump. I won’t bother to explain this for the 100000000000th time because nobody is listening. Even important insiders have been explaining it 10000000000 times and the idiot Democrats don’t listen to them. I’ve concluded that they are paid by Trump. A party who…
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It’s “Earth” Hour!
I’ve missed this fake anti-holiday several times. Let’s go back to 2011 when I marked “Earth” Hour for the third time. I wouldn’t change a thing. = = = = = START UNCHANGED REPRINT: Polistra and Happystar continue their annual salute to Earth Hour, this time with a special emphasis on Edison’s light bulb. You…
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Luminous and numinous
Every now and then I notice a clear night and check to see if the aurora is likely to be visible. Nothing happening tonight, but SpaceWeather.com has a sight more beautiful and luminous than an aurora: = = = = = START LUMINOSITY: This is an AI Free Zone: Text created by Large Language Models…
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Good start, now do more.
The headline on this clip looks like clickbait but the presentation is a long well-organized wide-ranging lecture on the entire state of technology and business. The lecturer recognizes that business and technology no longer exist. Altman exists. The headline is important… Microsoft’s turnaround announcement a few days ago wasn’t the expected fake apology. They’ve already…
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We’re not using what we have
The local paper has an article about a recent bus crash. A driver was following the computer instead of his eyes, and crashed one of the new double-decker buses into a railroad overpass. I’ve been riding STA buses for 35 years, so I know something about the setup. I’ve been programming for 45 years, so…
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Solvitur ambulando
I’ve been grinding since December on ADA mandates. There’s no way to fully satisfy the Kafkan requirements. The rules are subjective and exact, a bureaucrat’s wet dream. But we still have to get “close enough” to make the product acceptable for some customers. First I spent two months filling in text descriptions for 2000 different…
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A nice helper for Windows shit
One of the nastiest obstructions introduced by Microsoft in recent years is the totally individualized file menu. EVERY SINGLE FUCKING FOLDER gets its own style of viewing. You have to stop and alter EVERY SINGLE FUCKING FOLDER to make it readable. There is a hugely difficult and tricky way to make SOME of them usable.…
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Reprint on Okies
Linked in previous Chuck Norris item, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2017 REPRINT: A couple days ago I tossed in a techy sidenote on UNARY VARIABLES, just as a random pointless pun: ANTI-WAR is the key. Left and right, liberal and conservative, had some meaning in earlier centuries, but since 1946…
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Perfect contrast
Via Hollywood Reporter, Chuck Norris decided that God needs some Attitude Adjustments. I think he’s right, and I’m sure he’ll Git-r-done. By all accounts Norris was a good and decent man who wanted to live the right way. He was born in Oklahoma to a typical Okie family, part native and part hillbilly. = =…
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Monster stopped killing. GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE.
Paul Unehrlich, the philosophical source of total genocide, finally stopped killing. Unehrlich persuaded all governments and corporations that life is exponential. Corporations loved him because their God, the Dow, is exponential by definition. Infinite orgasm for billionaires. Governments loved him because an exponential happens when you eliminate negative feedback. Governments require open-loop systems because open-loop…
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Yahoooo!
Nice comeback story via Verge: = = = = = START QUOTE: It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and basically everything has gone sideways since. After a long series…
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Language joke
This is a bit unfair but it gave me a much needed laugh on a hard day. 99 in French is quatre-vingt dix neuf, which translates as “We do not have a functional numbering system.”
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A better silly idea
Another silly idea from Andrew Yang. He says that Demon Amodei, head of Anthropic, wants his demonic company to pay more taxes. Demon Amodei suggests a 3% surcharge on revenue. Yang says this tax could be used to fund his biggest silly idea, Universal Basic Income. A better silly idea is a tariff on products…
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