| Like | Football (the real one, not handegg) |
| Used to like | Photography |
| It's complicated | All things tech |
Playing RPGs as a kid: ok I get fire damage and lightning damage, and I can even see cold damage, but wtf is water damage
Playing RPGs as an adult homeowner: oh fuck
People are catching on to Trump's plan to gut NOAA and commercialize its weather forecasts, but Dharna Noor wrote about it in the spring. This is terrifying stuff.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/trump-presidency-gut-noaa-weather-climate-crisis
Two consecutive stories on my Mastodon feed show the dichotomy and dissonance that we are currently experiencing. On the one hand, a major cloud hack has compromised the information of countless Americans, and on the other hand a technology publication encouraging businesses to not soft pedal on AI.
I just recently realized that what I truly hate about LLMs is that it devalues language. I love language, I love using it very intentionally, I love how different people wield and work language differently. A well forged phrase can cut right to the soul. Language is literally magic. It can do things where man and machine all fail.
But now with the press of a button you can get sugary pink language goo in any shape you like. And this is sold as an equal replacement to real human language. The insult! The depravity!
I think it might say something about how far language is already devalued. We live in a morass of content marketing and business process documentation and terms and conditions and propaganda and spam. All soulless language that nobody asks for but that people are compelled to create. We can't imagine not creating such language goo. And so we're grateful for the pink goo machine.
You know those stories about how there was once magic in the world but it was lost? This is it. This is how it happens.
#MNUFC game story for the Star Tribune, as the Loons get back in the win column:
David Smith
Sean Tilley
Anil Dash
Mike Prior-Jones
David Ho
Critty Cat
Arne Brasseur
Jon Marthaler