Notices by Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone), page 9

Oh noooooooo what happened to the perfect 90min action flick?

I can be skeptical about AI stuff, but "GPT4 scores 88th percentile on LSAT and 90th percentile on the BAR when GPT3.5 was in the 10th percentile for the Bar and 40th for the LSAT" in just a matter of weeks is totally and completely bonkers.

like I'm finally starting to get why people are so terrified of rapid improvements that we don't quite understand and how maybe we shouldn't just expose all this power to the public the moment we code it up, because who knows what the 2nd and 3rd order effects of a super smart AI are gonna be?

Future fact: whenever that new Mario Bros movie gets a digital release, the day after it comes out, there will be multiple fan edits that remove Chris Pratt and replace him with the actual Mario voice synthesized by AI

I got served an ad for a "behind sofa mini-table for chargers" and oh my god what a perfect thing for my couch that is next to a wall where we can't charge anything and we accidentally drop things constantly.

I search for tips to make my own and it's a few 2x4s and screws and stain, can be built in an hour. I bought some round USB charge ports and wireless charge pads at Amazon that even include a hole saw. This looks like a great project and it will fit perfectly in the space when I'm done.

In the USA we never hold CEOs accountable for anything, so they just keep drawing massive salaries and conducting layoffs whenever the production line goes wrong.

How is this guy still considered a Captain of anything?

Most people in the world know healthcare in the USA is bonkers and often doctors won't treat you unless you can prove you have insurance cover it. But what non-americans might not know is the lengths medical places go to extract profit from you at every turn.

Here's a real thing that has happened several times:

You're in the ER. Someone you love's health is in the balance. There's a knock on your ER bay door, and someone in business attire walks in with a clipboard...

I pay for so many streaming services now to see shows, it's wild. I propose a new startup that does nothing but combines them all into packages for one low price, as a package sort of deal.

We'd need a short, memorable domain that is likely not being used. I say we call this company a made up work, something like I dunno, "Kabel?"

Love an aggressive ad on Instagram that says THIS AIN’T YOUR GRANDMA’S BATHMAT! Like chill out rug company, no one thinks about bath mats

I'm officially "the default fonts on the new Wikipedia redesign are WAY too small" years old now

is this an online encyclopedia FOR ANTS?!

the new wikipedia design reminds me of every cool design blog in 2003, yeah rock that gray 9px gill sans/verdana

PagerDuty is laying off 7% of their workforce and the announcement includes a quote from MLK and it's just *chef's kiss* perfect and why the show Silicon Valley is no longer on because there is nothing left to parody about the tech industry https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/improving-pagerdutys-operational-resilience-to-achieve-our-long-term-vision-and-goals/

Penalty kicks after 2hrs of hard fought play always feels like if there was a dead heat in a 100m track event and we made them go fishing and whoever catches the first fish wins the running race

After all that time, it turns out tin smithing was still in his blood.

Woke up from a weird dream and my first waking thought was “rosary beads, but it’s a lighting charge cable” then googled it and no one has ever made this?