I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.

She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"

And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.

I can't think about it without crying.

(The original article: https://authory.com/SwapnaKrishna/On-Star-Trek-Discovery-and-Michelle-Yeohs-accent-aa6d2eb01b3a24970abf406c39146df33)

#MichelleYeoh #StarTrek #Oscars

"ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" by Ted Chiang. This is easily the best piece I've read about large language models.

Has a bunch of great new metaphors to seek your teeth into.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

Just edited a workflow that is kicked off by a one-line JavaScript (in Audio Hijack), which runs an AppleScript, which itself runs a shortcut, which then processes the output of that shortcut, and ultimately runs another shortcut. (The AppleScript is very old and works fine and would be a pain to rewrite as a Shortcut, so I'm just slowly patching it with shortcuts.)

tell application "Shortcuts Events" to run the shortcut named “XXX” with input theInput