@Phosphenes

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Pro-Borg.

hormuzie pokey

You pull the tankers in
you pull the tankers out
you call "ceasefire!"
then you break it all about
you do the hokeypokey
and you turn those ships around

that's what it's all about!

You put some money in
you take more money out
you spook the futures markets
and you make the traders shout
you do the hokeypokey
and you flip that script around

that's what it's all about!

Polemic take:

Unit testing is guaranteed to find all of the bugs you thought of when you wrote the unit test, and all it will cost you is double the maintenance burden.

Elevation Burger implies the existence of Depression Burger.

Breaking: In prompt error, Pentagon's WarGPT launches Operation Epic Furry.

#AI

High School Student Discovers 1.5 Million Potential New Astronomical Objects by Developing an A.I. Algorithm

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope

Smithsonian Magazine

I did not know that e-books are getting overwritten. Very memory hole.

https://youtube.com/shorts/reEMUU9AopM

Books Shouldn’t Get Software Updates

YouTube

The thing is, if AI is everything its promoters say it is, it's bad.

But if AI is not what they say it is, it's bad.

You can sell your time but you can't buy it back.

#labor

Happy International Women's Day.

#internationalwomensday

We either call ourselves 'pet owners', which denigrates them as objects, or (more recently) I'm hearing 'pet parents', which wrongly anthropomorphizes them.

Our language calls everything either human or sub-human. There's no room for just *different*.

Cats are aliens. I call my cats 'friends' because that's as close as I can get.

#cats #animals #language