Congrats to THE BOOTS ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Thomas Biamonte,
Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅

This anti-war short draws from 1930 Best Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front, paired with a reading of Rudyard Kipling’s 1903 poem “Boots.”

Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/all-quiet

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

What bothered me about LLM use growing, and why people would ever ask it anything at all when it only gives an answer that sounds like an answer might, had me missing something glaringly obvious until this week.

I realised it while on my eighth google for the purpose of diagnostic LEDs on a Mac Pro 4,1 CPU board - and getting links to bad forum answers, and videos (some AI generated themselves) I realised…

Search engines today also only give shitty approximations of what answers are like.

The serving suggestion images on food packaging have always been a carefully staged lie. But I guess now they don't even need to be "carefully staged".

Is it time for the Bultlerian Jihad yet?

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.