Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Supreme = Sour cream


Panel of a Jen Sorensen cartoon found on Daily Kos


The balls in your court, Scrotus. 

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Follow (me to) your leader

...the founder of Uber has said that he feels like working with a chatbot has helped him come close to making new discoveries in theoretical physics. Musk thinks that Grok hallucinating information about material science (or to be more generous, Musk simply doesn’t know how to look shit up in real books) that he has never seen in books is an indicator that Grok is thinking. 

One of the lessons of LLMs is that faking coherence is not that difficult. Even when LLMs hallucinate, they sound convincing when they do so.

...people treat these word calculators as friends and therapists. 

...we should be much more serious about regulating these systems and in thinking about what intelligence really means.

from this post in Daily Kos



Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Bloodletting

Billionaires who perceived themselves as middle class also expressed anger over healthcare expenses, lamenting in particular the skyrocketing price of on-call concierge physicians, routine full-body MRIs, anti-aging stem-cell therapies, jawline surgery, and continuous infusions of blood from a healthy young person.


Fun with The Onion




Tuesday, July 1, 2025

DEI DUH

DEI programs weren't created to give women, Blacks, Latinos, and others an advantage; they were made to give them a chance

from Ending the American Dream by Mark Sumner