Notices by Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems), page 5

Garden updates:
1. tree peonies starting to open
2. lily of the valley survived front yard getting torn apart last fall
3. bulbs great success
4. toad!!!

Some more tree peonies

This punk thinks they’re a radicchio.

The whole peony plant, for a change.

Bee friend

Herbaceous peonies starting to open up.

@inthehands I would like to sign up to teach an advanced course, “How to not dig up a tree that is, in fact, not dead, but very clearly still dormant, you fucking asshole.”

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10149

Still bummed they didn’t let us go with “Observe Observation in SwiftUI”

I have questions

https://nh.craigslist.org/fuo/d/lebanon-item-941-george-washington/7626320386.html

“I believe HN has around 1.5-2.5 million and the content here is way better than Reddit.”

- someone who has clearly never used Reddit

@shriramk Also seems like we should maybe build a self-sustaining colony in, like, Greenland first, since that's a hell of a lot easier.

@shriramk I'm not convinced that we're even capable of a self-sustaining closed colony in Montana, TBH.

Hot take: All this hand-wringing about AI being too powerful is just an elaborate way for people to pat themselves on their own backs for their alleged cleverness.

Continuing my survey thread of Swift blog announcements from Twitter

Cumulative tally, as of today's Foundation announcement
(https://www.swift.org/blog/foundation-preview-now-available/) for "_______ to announce":

Excited x4
Delighted x2
My pleasure x2
Pleased x2
Thrilled

That's a good thing, right?

The music selections for the new episode of Ted Lasso are ??.

@shantini never thought I would hear Prisencolinensinainciusol on a mainstream TV show.

@finestructure @thomasfuchs @vowe the “sie” confusion is such a hallmark of new-style translation shittiness. They weren’t perfect, but good-old structured language models got this right most of the time.