toy trumpet sandstorm still cracks me up

imagine walking by the practice sessions

https://youtu.be/esMnme69t2M

These ads are trash and should be illegal.

@migurski roses are red, posies are pink…

@Noupside just got my copy. I will say it was very kind of you to advise Bloom back at OATV while you were busy with your “other job” 😂

Stories like this should be “whoops that was awkward” and not “next time tell us first, we could have killed you” https://denverite.com/2024/06/21/denver-stolen-cars-recovered-police/

Amusement for the day, imagining the Brits surveyed by these German researchers might not have been 100% honest about the terms they use for being drunk: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/drunk-words-synonyms-alcohol-drunkonyms-michael-mcintyre-b1140836.html

Pet peeve: SaaS products that charge per seat, even though the value we get doesn’t scale that way and neither do their costs. It’s a proxy for ability to pay, but bears no relation to my willingness to pay. Grrr! Charge me for the scale and complexity of my usage please, happy to pay for SLAs, features, support, etc. Pay per seat is not it.

@ben I wonder how many people with an AI hammer woke up with this nail staring them in the face. Microsoft and GitHub have all the pieces…

@adamgreenfield I think yours was the first one I saw live, I think you brought that box to Zeitgeist later that day?

@numist @kyleve ☝️

@kyleve happy “quietest time to get groceries” day to you too

People who have been designing and building products with LLMs: do you make them super visible (chat bots, animated writing, interactive prompts) to show what they’re doing and demonstrate value, or do you make them invisible behind the scenes? Do users have a preference? Any good research or writing on this out there? Any emerging best practices?

@evan I’m think more for like “what should I use to help us communicate tomorrow”.

But also: 60 day streak! On it!

I speak extremely limited Spanish but I’d like to be more conversational with the Venezuelan immigrants who come to my door looking for work. Apart from Google Translate, what apps should I try?

“I’m going upstairs to wrap presents… I may be some time” he said, continuing a century long tradition of false equivalences https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Oates

While I said the challenge puzzle has no border, it really does. The border just looks like the other pieces. So we started to ask what if a puzzle really had no border, What would that look like? Pieces from the left could connect to the right and the top to the bottom. In that way, we create a tiling puzzle, which can be assembled in thousands of different ways. We can think of this topologically like a closed surface. Mathematics teaches us that something that tiles like this has the same topology as a torus. We decided to call this an "infinity" puzzle.

Last week's spectacular #OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between #EffectiveAltruism (#doomers) and #EffectiveAccelerationism (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of the drama.

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@migurski wait til you read about the Mighty Ducks connection as well

I very much enjoy @patio11’s gleeful accounts of the slow motion train wrecks of crypto. Also, *chapeau* for gleefully milking the Bond villain metaphor. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/bond-villain-compliance-strategy/