Notices by Bob Thomson (bobthomson70@mastodon.social), page 2

@ryanhoulihan I’m pretty sure no LLM will be ever be truly intelligent, but I’m absolutely certain none will ever match your sass hen.

@ryanhoulihan I loved my first 2-3 weeks on steroids. Wrote so much. Since then it’s dropped off a cliff again ugh 😣 10 more days and off them once more. Back to brain fog and fatigue land.

@ryanhoulihan I’m always amused by how appalling bad Trump’s fake tan line is, or indeed how bad every aspect of it is, colour and all. Ad hominem is bad, but JHC everything about the presentation of that guy is ridiculous, and I say that as a fully paid up member of the scruffy schlub club.

@ryanhoulihan and he routinely mixes up names, can’t navigate through 2 sentences in a row in a coherent manner, and can barely say one without an outrageous lie in it, but that’s all just priced in and accepted as how he is and is just fine. Utter insanity.

@ryanhoulihan aren’t we all knock offs in the end? #philosophy #thoughtfortheday

@ryanhoulihan got to make room for that Halloween tat.

@ryanhoulihan as with most things, Starmer not terribly clear or decisive on such issues and trying to please all. Wiki -

@ryanhoulihan only saw this when it was on TV the first time, would like to again.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353104/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Literally what they do at the end of it :)

@ryanhoulihan I think that the thing that keeps humans going, despite knowing about their own mortality is the ability to deny it regularly and, unfortunately most who have the spare time to do so, overuse that ability to retreat into every day minutiae and culture in order to avoid difficult issues. Same thing that allows populism / conspiracy to flourish too I’d say: the world is horrific and complex, make it binary and simple like a good guy / bad guy action movie please they say.

@ryanhoulihan that sure goes for, a lot, most/all, of the people who are elevated to the stop of end stage capitalism, a system that venerates folks who are part of the problem and not the solution.

@ryanhoulihan some library love from my childhood. https://medium.com/@bobthomson70/me-well-read-not-really-dc868d9d49df libraries so important.

“Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now
For a shallow piece of dignity?”

@FlashMobOfOne @adhdeanasl nah, too much Keep Calm and Carry On England (Could be the next movie, featuring Matt Lucas as Boris Johnson?) unfortunately, always under the heel of conservatism with a small or big C sadly.

@FlashMobOfOne @adhdeanasl of course I’d love to be proved wrong but I made my move out of the U.K. after my my country decided to stay within it and then Brexit was the final push, I didn’t make that bed and I’m not lying in it :/

@ryanhoulihan only white folks who use grand in a pleasing way are the Irish so.

@ryanhoulihan Bob Mortimer, beloved U.K. Gen X TV funny man, loves TV in general and was talking on a pod about how he detests TV execs who never watch TV he loves like Hoarders or Real Housewives. Said it’s their business and just that; that they don’t live and breathe it, like they should in his view, and it does his nut in.

@ryanhoulihan what a fantastic simile, love it ❤️

“Yeah, I’ll have a survivorship bias grande, and a a small humble brag with the sprinkles, thanks”.

@craignicol @mekkaokereke nah man, they will double down, x10 on woke/deep state/whatever other abject shite they spout, mark my words.

@ryanhoulihan oh man, fucking end stage crapitalism, speaking as a privileged gen X who is burning through savings having had no work since Xmas and with this shit going on ofc, but still, could always be worse, so I'm very grateful I've not run out yet, but retirement? haha, a joke even for me.
This system is a zombie that disnae know it's a'ready deid.

https://bobthomson70.substack.com/p/mise-a-jour-tres-tardive-surtout

@ryanhoulihan as a Scot, I always wanted the America of The West Wing, another millenial white privileged dream that was sadly delusional.

How's it going with you generally?

@ryanhoulihan @noiob where it always fails for me too. An actually useful use case - dictating a note when driving. Always end up with something that is so far from what you said it is unrecognisable even if it does make a note.