Notices by Pete (pete@mas.to)

@annika that made my dog jump

@Andres4NY @MLE_online

"Asprin was created by Big Bark to combat heart conditions brought on by Big Sofas, Big Fat, Big Sugar, and Big Salt, who are all in cahoots with Big Slug, and Biggie Smalls."

@RickiTarr

I have a door just like this, but the stairs descend. I live on a boat.

Should I be expecting visitors?

@hellomiakoda

are you familiar with jelly babies? they're pretty great oxidised too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Babies

@hellomiakoda

is this to win an argument?

@dneary @joshsusser

#xkcd1035 #xkcd

https://xkcd.com/1053/

@Gargron

It has a version number?

@hellomiakoda @dave

"""I sometimes find it difficult to read between the lines... and now I'm wondering what I might have done wrong. "Don't worry" isn't something I can do easily."""

@jeffowski

There's a song on Spotify called "My Liked Songs", so whenever I ask Hal to play my liked songs on Spotify, that's what I get.

https://open.spotify.com/search/my%20liked%20songs

@Infrapink @jasongorman @tymwol

I think it's also related to the #PeterPrinciple... that people get promoted to a level of incompetence.

The chat part of #ChatGPT is really important because it allows us to correct the LLM's output and give it another chance to completely fool us. When we're satisfied, the output is above our present ability to detect that it is BS.

By "present ability" I mean we might not feel bothered to check the output, or we genuinely might think it's correct.

@aral

Yeah, sorry, my pedantry couldn't resist the correction...

@aral

Some cultures eat with their mouths open.

@Change @jdmcg

It's as mature as it will get... it's automated BS and always will be. It's how it's designed.

@DemocracyMattersALot

People don't know that Trump's riff on John McCain was based on a scene from Woody Allen's 1998 film Celebrity. The scene is a nasty old grandma surrounded by her adoring family, saying "What's he famous for? For being captured? Why is he a hero? It’s no feat to get captured."

Trump is in the film in an unrelated scene for about 10 seconds.

I've never seen anyone report on this, but it's clear to me where he got his lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbOQdoFkBEs

I don't think it should be controversial to say "killing civilians is wrong".

#KillingCiviliansIsWrong

@RikerGoogling

If you take the belief that some people deserve to survive, thrive and be happy, more than others, to its logical conclusion you get patriotism, nationalism, fascism, and genocide.

@peachfront @BeAware @glencoe

I had no idea what kayfabe meant.

UK, not interested in any competitive sports, but do remember Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, and their ilk on Saturday afternoon TV in the 70s.

@ATLeagle @babe

Shucks, I was hoping you'd do it for me.

Maybe we should wait around for some other schmuck to come along.

@ATLeagle @babe

Just paste it into some ChatGPT prompt.

@evelynefoerster

The article links two papers, one showing it also works for acoustic waves.

I wonder what the electrical equivalent would be.