Karate Gum

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Run-of-the-mill bearded middle-aged web developer.
LocationMPLS, MN
Karate GumMar 11
@marcoarment I’m a few @atpfm episodes behind so maybe you’ve already addressed this, but I’m really struggling with your AI takes. You celebrate the sophisticated algorithms you don’t have to write yourself but also don’t seem to respect or consider the humans who put in the years of work to research and develop them in the first place. LLMs, practically by definition, cannot come up with novel solutions to problems: a human had to do it first while OpenAI/Anthropic/etc reaps the benefits.
Karate GumFeb 16
Casey LissFeb 16

I’ve had mixed experience with AI. Sometimes my mind is blown by how impressive it is. Sometimes my mind is blown by how useLiss it is.

I have been using it more and more for my work.

What bums me out, I think, is that I don’t want to proofread for a living. I want to _create_ for a living. [1/2]

Karate GumDec 15
Bring it back!
https://mastodon.social/@MplsPhotoBot/115725829957123571
Karate GumOct 7
The OatmealOct 7

Let’s talk about AI art.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Karate GumSep 21
Mark Jardine Sep 20
Found my shirt. 😅
Karate GumAug 20, 2025
mpls photo botAug 20, 2025

Looking Across Nicollet Island to West Side (1860s; 1870s)
Source: Hennepin County Library.

View directed towards the southwest of Minneapolis with the Hennepin Suspension Bridge in the background. Photo likely dates from 1867 to 1872.

Karate GumAug 4, 2025
Colin CornabyAug 3, 2025

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

Random Thoughts
Karate GumJul 14, 2025
Ellen's Very Southern VoiceJul 10, 2025

Robots won't be taking peoples' jobs. Corporate owners will be taking peoples' jobs and giving them to robots.

Can we get the wording right on this?

Karate GumApr 25, 2025
Wookiee Parker Apr 25, 2025

Just got out of my last chemo session. I am all done!

Fuck you, leukemia, and the horse you rode in on.

Karate GumApr 22, 2025
Chuck DarwinApr 22, 2025
Absent in the long obituaries for Pope Francis in both the New York Times and the Washington Post were mentions of his deep concern for the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
In Francis’s last public message on Easter Sunday, just hours before he died, he had called for a ceasefire in Gaza, and condemned the “deplorable humanitarian situation” there. 
The obits also failed to note that Pope Francis had personally telephoned the Holy Family Church in Gaza just about every evening since Israel invaded the territory in October 2023
— including the Saturday night before Easter
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mainstream-obituaries-are-erasing-pope-franciss-deep-concern-for-palestine/
Mainstream obituaries are erasing Pope Francis’s deep concern for Palestine

Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.

Mondoweiss