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Science background, but about time I get more words out into the world.

24 degrees in my friend’s office yesterday. I bet you can’t guess…

1. The units

2. Who leads the entity she works for

@xargos32 @Patagium

Wait. It’s been increasing since at least 2011 according to that plot. It’s the nature of cloud services companies to increase every year as people keep loading them up with more data, documents, and emails. If it’s increasing more _slowly_, that implies that AI is actually helping. If AI is the power sucker people claim, the increase should be higher than pre-2020, not lower.

Welp. I miscalculated the number of small pieces I need to print for the Christmas present I was planing. It’s not 128, but 256. I guess it’s going to be a Birthday present.

Welp. If the anti-AI folks I talk to are right, literally everyone (except a tiny filter bubble of “AI-bros”) will stop drinking Coke now and the company will be bankrupt by the end of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-J0MwvBSI

Coca-Cola - Unexpected Santa (AI-Generated Christmas Ad 2024)

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@Josordoni I have no idea. None.

Youtube claims that as of the 15th, they’ve allowed shorts up to 3min, but I’ve spend the last 2hrs trying to get this 91s vertical video to be identified as a short.

CGP Grey was right. Shorts are a waist of time for the creators.

https://youtu.be/MRQ3VNSKJeU

Spooky Lampshades #shorts #shortvideo #youtubeshorts #youtubeisbroken

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Sudden thought. If Richard Ayoade ever does SNL, and they don’t do “The IT Crowd” with him playing as Pennywise, they need to fire the writing staff.

If you’ve seen the viral meme where a search for “baby peacock” is used to demonstrate that AI is taking over the internet, try this: bring up a random word generator and search of the first noun that comes up. You’ll MAYBE see one posibly-AI image.

AI baby peacocks are at the top of the search because people lately are talking a lot about AI baby peacocks. This is humans training google search, and it giving them what they want to see.

Interesting writing idea: The Greek gods are back, and trying to make a come back. It turns out that they were not actually self-serving, infanticidal, back stabbing maniacs, but rather the myths that have been handed down are have about as much veracity as the worst tabloid articles of today.

TIL that “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party” originates as a typing exercise by Charles E. Weller, the author of “An Early History of the Typewriter.”

I went searching for a source after reading Bertie Wooster use the phrase several times.