๐ Humour
Gallagherโs ๐ Self Distract is all about his piano lessons .. well really more some absolute zingers from his piano teacher. ๐
I was wondering what would happen if I โDuffiedโ myself.
He made the invisible visible, and nobody noticed.
That works ๐
thank god we can start infighting again, by Paul Ford (Ftrain)
๐ Truth in humour .. FFS dudes โฆ FOCUS.
Satire Site Gets Ridiculous Threat Letter From Baseball Team; cc’s Barbra Streisand In Its Response
Somehow this has to stop. The lawsuits - not the responses.
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๐ John Ternus is already doing it all
Alas, Apple customers will not know the joys of having an AI ask us to do all the things we’ve already tried all over again before advising we log out of iCloud and then back in.
๐ฌ The Macalope
๐ผ Brilliant
Unclear what Count Binface was doing with this promotion in Auckland or how much Disney are paying him for the appearance - but clearly there is something going on.
Every ‘Differality’ I have ๐๏ธ๐ ever posted (these just on Micro.Blog) - and more - all put together in ๐๐ผ a single SNL sketch - brilliant. ๐
.. Also via ๐Matt
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If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.LATER (260711) - ๐๐ผ more ‘differalities’. (Also SNL).
Seems to have been floating around LinkedIN since the middle of May - but no clarity on how to credit. Still truth in humour?
Mathew Ingram: ๐The light - reminded me of an old limerick.
Things that go bump in the night.
Shouldn’t really give one a fright.
It’s the hole in each ear,
That lets in the fear.
That and the absence of light.
๐ฌ Spike Milligan
๐ Honestly, Stop Saying Honestly
We already killed the slop in our writing . The em dash, โdelve,โ โtapestry,โ โin todayโs fast-paced worldโ - the measured lexicon of words that spiked in published text the moment the models got loose on it. โDelveโ 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.
๐ฌ Adventures in Claude
Two Thoughts
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Very self aware ๐ and interesting to see how anyone can control the LLMโs output if they spend time on the problem - something which we donโt typically do - used as we are to our world of โinstant gratificationโ.
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Just a couple of months ago ๐๏ธ I wrote: โbut no one can deny that we have seen a bucket load more of them ( (em dashes) ) since LLMs turned up.
๐๐ Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Not in the cartoon ….
This is what is meant when AI Alignment researchers refer to “PhD-Level Intelligence.”
๐ฌ Zach Weinersmith
… it’s his usual additional punchline - with emphasis on ‘punch’ today.
๐๐ 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.
๐๐ XKCD and ๐๐ Existential Comics are both crackers today.
Seems that Apple are pushing more Peanuts programming into shows and movies.
I think Apple News is missing a โcomicsโ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential.
(With their permission - and payment - of course.)
๐๏ธ 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?