I get off early, so I’m going to buy a fresh pack of cigarettes and fraternize with the politicians while I wait to see exactly how the world will end.

The restaurant I work for is hosting the mayor and a city counselor to watch the elections live with another 100 guests, so I’ll be watching from the kitchen…

“I should not have tapped that.”

Shit. Pick a character from Chrono Trigger. Citan from XenoGears. Teepo from Breath of Fire 3. I mean, I could go on and on… There are so many classic companions in games. I can’t pick one, and I’m not sure I trust anyone who can, especially when there is bioware money being thrown around.

Lmao. I saw it and I immediately know it was the St. Augustine lighthouse. St. Augustine is the only thing I miss about Florida.

Really? That’s the third time today. It’s gonna fall off…

This is my kind of shoulder cat.

Full. Full resolution. That’s the only option. And for fuck’s sake, let’s get apple on board with images and video, too.

Tuesday is going to be fucking ugly. Wednesday is going to be worse.

Are they running so low on young people to molest they’ve resulted to youthful dolls?

Yep. AWS is 2/3rds of the business. It’s GOLIATH, and it’s completely off the radar for most people while being completely ubiquitous. AWS is the real threat.

Link will stab Chase with something, and then all of the workplace complaints will surface.

The vodka!

“You wouldn’t hit a man with glasses…,” said the man who stole someone’s glasses.

And great theme music

The British philosopher R G Collingwood noticed that the painter doesn’t invent painting, and the musician doesn’t invent the musical culture in which they find themselves. And for Collingwood this served to show that no person is fully autonomous, a God-like fount of creativity; we are always to some degree recyclers and samplers and, at our best, participants in something larger than ourselves.

But this should not be taken to show that we become what we are (painters, musicians, speakers) by doing what, for example, LLMs do – ie, merely by getting trained up on large data sets. Humans aren’t trained up. We have experience. We learn.

This is what happens when people try to apply philosophy to science. They get romantic and egotistical. “Oh, humanity, will your wondrous powers of learning ever be duplicated? Not by brutish machines, I daresay. They only do what they are told and learn what is given to them.”

Ohhhh boy. Don’t fuck with the space program.

If I go to a concert and the headliner is over an hour late, I’m leaving. No fucking way I’d wait 3 hours for some tangerine colored ape to throw feces at me.

Let me turn you on to this little masterpiece called Turner and Hooch…

Likely asphyxiation, and not the pleasant, “drift off on a carbon monoxide high” kind of asphyxiation. The “oh God, my lungs are melting and I can’t breathe” kind of asphyxiation. The only hope is that it got hot fast enough that her brain melted before her lungs, so she didn’t have time to understand the pain. All in all, it’s not a good way to go.