We have all these new video conferencing systems and not a single one that can finish a call and then put a big “END TRANSMISSION” on the screen with some kind of friendly but subtly ominous logo

Well that’s enough looking at my phone in bed for today. Time to go look at my phone on the toilet and then go look at my phone over a bite to eat

Anybody wanna get on the internet tonight? I heard there's a new site

What LLMs lack is the unspoken, unwritten knowledge of experience. It's getting better at emulating reasoning ("I see you mentioned X and Y, likely therefore you must be Z") and inferring things based on Reddit threads ("Others who did X and Y also did Z, would you like me to do that also?"), but the semblance of comprehension is still just out of reach for anything that isn't likely to have been scraped from the web or written literature. It's never going to give you the knowing look of someone who's been where you are before. It's never going to think to itself, sure I could give this human the answer, but I know some lessons are only learned by experience. It can tell where you're going only if someone else has written about going there, but it cannot tell where you're going because it has ever been there itself.

It's like thinking you know how to drive because you read every driving course, the laws around driving, and all the car manuals ever published, despite never having been behind a wheel.

Artificial knowledge, I suppose, and maybe artificial intelligence, whatever that might mean, but not so much artificial wisdom

Any technology, sufficiently sautéed with flour and oil, is indistinguishable from gravy

All of human culinary history can be told in the stories of struggle — the desperate quest of each new recipe — to find any meal of bread and cheese with sauce not unworthwhile to eat without ranch dressing

It's all fun and games until something wants to build OpenSSL from source

I want to configure my Cisco 2520 for #GlobalTalk … I see some have done it… anyone have notes? Thanks!

The new Siri has the voice of a late night local radio ad for a strip club

Or at least at this hour she does

Daypart-aware Siri voice?

Gets all sultry at night. Like, “Mmmmh, some accessories in the kitchen did not respondddddddd” and “I’m having trouble with my Internet connection… could you get it back up for me?”

Science tells us that any retrieval of a cup of coffee in proximity to a tiny pastry precipitates a tiny pastry in the coffee-retriever's mouth

If everyone is Chris, then nobody is

“How’s it going at school?” Dabney pauses. He reads the kid’s face in a moment of warm, understanding silence. “Look, kid, it’s been rough. After I get home from work, we can talk about it, just you and me.” He lays his hand on the kid’s shoulder, with a soft, reassuring squeeze. “Come on, champ. It’s time to go. Finish up your gravy”

The ghost of Dabney Coleman appears to give you earnest, worldly advice from The Great Beyond. He calls you “kid” and “champ.” He’s on the lookout for ghost communists

Mind if I meme?

Cool new anti pattern at Nextdoor: provide three opt-out switches for each of dozens of notification options, but don’t offer an “unsubscribe from all” option until you try to delete your account. Serious innovation right there. “Fuck you, customer! I mean, don’t leave me, I can change! I promise!”

The Atlantic, this is a story for another time.

Fucking hell, I wish I could give a shit about LED CRI this week.

Drunkenly slapping your own drink out of your own hand is a game of SKILL, NOT chance

And is therefore suitable for wagering

What is a good web site for news about which news web sites are good