Nate Tharp

@natetharp
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Buried in the House NDAA bill is automatic registration for 18-26 year olds for selective service, i.e. a potential draft.

Amazing how we can automatically register young people to go to war and die but not automatically register young people to go to the polls and vote. smh

We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans

When I was a kid the low bar for an elementary school student was copying the encyclopedia entry to write a school report.

As an adult, I see that Google, which once had the noble mission of indexing all the world's knowledge, offers bullshit answers it scraped off Reddit.

Google AI just telling people to drink piss. Perfect, no notes.

https://x.com/dril/status/1787041991391584549

ban goalies from hockey (@dril) on X

perfect. ready to go. ship it out

X (formerly Twitter)
Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
AI writing assistant: This should be changed to "It was an average time."
This is a reminder of how much modern tractors rely on satellite and internet connections. Many farmers can't or won't plant right now bc tractors have been highly automated to increase yield. Rows are planted so tightly together that humans can't navigate them w/o killing crops
This is funny. OpenAI, who scraped the entire internet to build its product, is now enforcing copyright via notices. They still don’t give credit for stealing content from everyone, yet now acting like holier-than-thou https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cnvyzp/
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement. - "What podcasting holds in the promise of its open format is the proof that an open web can still thrive and be relevant, that it can inspire new systems that are similarly open to take root and grow." https://www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/ @anildash
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

Oh my god. “Pulling out all the stops” of an organ means opening all the valves to generate maximum sound, absolute full power.

Well into my 40’s and it’s the first time I’ve connected this expression. Thanks, random TikTok.

Convenience is the slow and costly death.

Cancel your account.
Shop local.
Wait until it opens tomorrow.
Fix that old tool.
Borrow from your neighbor and make a friend.
Slow down.
Do without.

Overnight shipping is not necessary.