? Humour
🔗 Honestly, Stop Saying Honestly
We already killed the slop in our writing . The em dash, “delve,” “tapestry,” “in today’s fast-paced world” - the measured lexicon of words that spiked in published text the moment the models got loose on it. “Delve” alone rose about 1,500 percent in scientific abstracts between 2022 and 2024. These words are not wrong. They are tells. A reader sees three of them and stops trusting the page, even when the substance is fine.
💬 Adventures in Claude
Two Thoughts
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Very self aware 😂 and interesting to see how anyone can control the LLM’s output if they spend time on the problem - something which we don’t typically do - used as we are to our world of ‘instant gratification’.
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Just a couple of months ago 🖇️ I wrote: “but no one can deny that we have seen a bucket load more of them ( (em dashes) ) since LLMs turned up.
🔗😂 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Not in the cartoon ….
This is what is meant when AI Alignment researchers refer to “PhD-Level Intelligence.”
💬 Zach Weinersmith
… it’s his usual additional punchline - with emphasis on ‘punch’ today.
🔗😂 Not now, Almighty Zorg! I have to file this report or I’ll lose my health insurance.
Personally I would modify this particular ‘Indexed’. I feel that as work gets more stressful - I think aliens do start becoming a bigger deal to you.
🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers today.
Seems that 🍎 are pushing more Peanuts programming into 📺.
🍎📰 is missing a ‘comics’ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential. (With their permission - and payment - of course.)
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Inventing the modern world while pretending not to ...
Between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Reformation, society underwent significant changes while quietly laying the foundations for the modern world. Or did it?
🔗 GDS weighs in on the NHS’s decision to retreat from Open Source – Terence Eden
a meeting _without_biscuits.
💬 The UK's Civil Service
😂 Perfect - only the British.
BUT - please don’t ignore this article - particularly if you are in the UK - and as I track the latest moves in New Zealand - also there.
Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, ‘What the hell just happened?"
💬 Carroll Bryant
It’s bad enough being in the second category, but too many people are in the third.
Not so much the article (🔗 1Password is stepping on the rake again)
.. as his close 😂
Please note: If you have come here to recommend a different password manager, I implore you to not do that, as I just do not care. This is what I did. If something else works for you, good for you. Write it up on your own blog.
💬 Jamie Zawinski
All my life I’ve suffered from ‘MOBS’. As the name suggests, it only affects males, and in my case is particularly severe.
So when Jax asked me last night to get her AirPods from her desk, I immediately said yes, while my internal alert system moved into overdrive.
I searched the desk, surrounding area, even where they would normally be charging, eventually returning to the kitchen, head hung low - to report an ‘F2F’ - that would be Failure to Find to you rookies.
She was quick to reply: “On the right-hand side of the desk, by the journals.”
Back upstairs I went. Nope. Not there. I searched the whole room. Nothing. Nada. Null.
Back downstairs I came.
“Still not there,” I reported.
“Good grief, do I need to go?”
“Yes,” I said. “Clearly I am incapable.”
She downed tools, walked two steps, and announced: “They’re in my pocket.”
Of course to Jax it was hilarious. Me? Still working through the emotional roller coaster that I typically ride in these situations.
MOBS? I hear you ask … Male Object Blindness Syndrome
🔗😂📼 Fridges tend to be the first experience of a man experiencing MOBS