R.I.P. Daniel Ellsberg

Am I being unreasonable or unscientific to presume that quarry blasts on the San Andreas fault are not a good idea?
Is it at all likely that the 4.5 magnitude earthquake a couple of hours later about 25km away could be related?

When you hear about the singularity, you think of something that's far away in the future.
Now think of all the media attention on LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard, and all the things being built on top of them, and how that's following on from the image generation stuff that became prominent less than a year ago.
The first signs of the singularity are that we can't even keep up with the progress that's happening, before the next rounds start grabbing our attention.
I feel like we're at the start of the part of the curve where this is becoming noticeable.
Once the curve becomes noticeable, it quickly becomes un-ignorable.

What the kids do nowadays: Play Axel F by Crazy Frog on three phones at once.

I just joined truth social. Who do I follow, other than Trump, to find people to start trolling?

Snakes and ladders is harder than chess. The outcome is random, but it's mentally grueling. I'll play chess down to a loss on the chance I can eke out a stalemate, but I just resigned a game of snakes and ladders against my 5yo, because there are so many snakes that I just can't keep going with the repetitive, mental dullness.

It feels ironic how painful this injection of ibuprofen is. It's meant to be a painkiller, but the injection site is really sore.