Notices by adamrice (adamrice@c.im)

@cstross in Accelerando, 2005:

"The president of agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.AB5 is agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.201. The secretary is agalmic.holdings.root.184.D5, and the chair is agalmic.holdings.root.184.E8.FF. All the shares are owned by those companies in equal measure, and I can tell you that their regulations are written in Python. Have a nice day, now!"

E-mail I received from my bank, yesterday:

"AI agents can now form your company, get an EIN, open a bank account, issue cards, and move money in a single prompt with Meow.

"It works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, and more.

"Your agent starts the formation flow, gathers the details needed to create your company, and keeps the same session moving into Meow onboarding when you're ready.”

@mwichary Hitting the return key to execute the default action in a dialog box. Hitting the escape key to dismiss a popup. Pull down to refresh.

@paul_ipv6 @thomasfuchs I think that’s when they had 5” CRTs and were the size and shape of a Samsonite.

@NanoRaptor My house came with a Chandler & Price letterpress from approximately 1920, which my wife uses.

@thomasfuchs @chockenberry No. I’ve owned Macs since 1984. I’d remember.

@chockenberry This is a more insightful take than my own. When I saw the liquid glass demo, I was reminded of the early demos for OS X, specifically the dock. The dock is not a great UI feature, but it demos well, with the rollover magnification and genie effect (both of which I turned off immediately).

Liquid glass demos well.

@kelleynnn @skinnylatte I once saw one of those hilarious 1950s middle-American recipes that called for 5 grains of paprika. Five. Grains. Like, a homeopathic dose of spice. I'm sure that was considered exotic at the time.

@cstross Do you know any crotchety old writers who have stuck with an analog workflow, and who have enough clout that their publishers are willing to indulge it?

I'm a translator and there's a member of my profession who dictated (maybe still does) all his translations and sent them off to a transcriber. He was phenomenally productive, and did the math to prove it worked in his favor. But that insulated the client from his method of production.

@cstross A facebook-free image that may give a better view: https://www.flickr.com/photos/loupiote/21473458208/in/photostream/

I visited the Oriental Institute (now known as the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) today. They have a lot of cuneiform tablets. Here, the small ones record individual transactions, and the big one summarizes them in a logbook (if that’s the right word).

And I’m wondering “how did their filing system work?”

#Chicago #Sumerian

@davidpmaurer @Nick_Stevens_graphics Model collapse means it will be a bigger mess a year from now. https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Model-collapse-explained-How-synthetic-training-data-breaks-AI

@tk I’m strictly a roadie. I had a fitting less than a year ago, and the fitter moved me from 172.5s to 165s. It definitely hasn’t hurt me any, although on long hills I do notice that I’m effectively in a higher gear.