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brb I’m just going to take a few minutes to go through my records and see if any of my recent upvotes need revising in light of your latest comment.

BEWARE THE CHEESE

Yeah making jam is quite easy. Basically just add some sugar and pectin and put it on the stove until it’s jam.

Otherwise, put them in the freezer.

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Huddled masses yearning to breathe free

I have only one strict rule: I see the Moomin comic, I upvote it.

If you’re only going to watch one video this week about urban planning in Prague, this one is a fine choice.

Don’t do it at this time of year.

For me it was when we all started having regular Satanic death metal sex parties, the left wing was pretty boring before that.

Would you approve of a seditious conspiracy to destroy the rightful government of the United States of America? Click here to be added to the list.

It’s okay, everybody relax. I’m here.

Paid and freeware but either way non-free, unfortunately.

Eraserhead

It’s the game of Go. Also known as baduk, weiqi, igo. It’s a board game known for being pretty old.

I’m shocked! — shocked to find that LLMs aren’t superhuman intelligences that will soon enslave us all. Other things they’re not good at:

• Summarizing news articles. Instead of an actual summary they’ll shorten the text by just leaving things out, without any understanding of which parts are important.
• Answering questions about anything controversial. Based on subtle hints in the wording of your question they’ll reflect your own biases back at you.
• Answering questions about well-known facts. Seemingly at random when your question isn’t phrased exactly the right way they’ll start hallucinating and make up plausible bullshit in place of actual answers.
• Writing a letter. They’ll use the wrong tone, use language that is bland and generic to a degree that makes it almost offensive, and if you care about quality the whole thing will need so much re-writing that it’s quicker to do it yourself from the start.
• Telling jokes. They don’t really get humour. Their jokes tend to have things that superficially look as if they should be punchlines but aren’t funny at all.
• Writing computer code. Correcting their mistakes is even more laborious in computer languages. Most of the time they’re almost as bad at it as they are at playing chess.

Still they are amazingly clever in some ways and pretty good for coming up with random ideas when you’ve got writer’s block or something.

Makes sense to me. AI bullshit generators may be worse than useless for most of the things people try to do with them, but they might just be the perfect tool for rationalizing the systematic looting of formerly productive companies by private equity.

It looks about as cursed as the average Disney remake

The trick is to use a text editor with a fixed-width font.

This shift allows us to shape the next era of the internet – with tools like vertical tabs

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