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Christopher OwenUTF-8 should be on the Sid Meier’s Civilization tech tree
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C Silva@grrlscientist I once met a Laysan Albatross. It was nearly a religious experience, such a beautiful bird! She had ridden into the Port of Oakland on a fishing vessel. I was working as a volunteer at the Lindsay Museum where she ended up. She needed a ride back out to mid ocean so we arranged to have her ride on a large freighter headed for Asia with someone on board who agreed to release her midway. I was delivering her to that ship.
When I arrived at the port, the security guard had been advised that I would be coming.
He greeted me with,”Are you the gal with the apple sauce ?”
I corrected him. He didn’t care 😂
When I arrived at the port, the security guard had been advised that I would be coming.
He greeted me with,”Are you the gal with the apple sauce ?”
I corrected him. He didn’t care 😂
Baldur BjarnasonLLMs are not automation. That would have economic value. The generated text artefacts look coherent and we, as a society, don’t even value the coherent kind. We underpay most forms of writing. Even code has no inherent value (see open source) outside of the associated integration and expertise
PugJesusInuit girl entering an igloo, Nunavut, Canada, ~1950
https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1514766/inuit-girl-entering-an-igloo-nunavut-canada-1950
Martin SeegerUpdated "greek task list":
orphean task: when you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.
daedalean task: when you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.
medusan task: when your project becomes so horrifying that everyone involved freezes in place rather than deal with it.
tantaline task: when success is right there, but bureaucracy or budget cuts keep snatching it away at the last moment, forever.
pandoran task: when fixing one small issue unleashes a thousand new ones, but hey — at least there’s still hope somewhere in the ticket backlog.
odyssean task: when the assignment technically has an end, but it’s buried under so many side quests that you forget what the original goal was.
narcissian task: when the entire effort is about maintaining appearances rather than achieving anything of substance.
promethean task: when you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — and are punished eternally for doing so.
orestian task: when the mess you’re cleaning up is the direct result of the last cleanup you performed.
thesean task: when the only way to finish is to disassemble everything piece by piece — until you’re no longer sure if what’s left is the same project you started.
achillean task: when your work is flawless except for that one fatal oversight that will, inevitably, destroy you.
penelopean task: when you diligently undo by night what you accomplish by day, just to keep the stakeholders pacified.
midasean task: when everything you touch turns into paperwork, compliance documents, or gold-plated nonsense nobody actually needs.
gordian task: not intended to be actually done, but violence is the answer.
Colin the MathmoIf you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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