If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Worry less about distant matters, worry more about local matters.

The news is my best frenemy.

GOD: and some of them will over-think decisions much more than others

ANGEL: and those people will therefore make better decisions after they've thought them through

GOD: here's the funny part... no

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

I have news for you - we aren’t taking over Gaza.

But the media and the chattering class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will have succeeded in distracting everyone from the real story - the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.

Nobody talks about the best safety feature of electric cars: they stop — fairly quickly — if you don’t do anything. Once you’re used to it, you will be shocked by gas cars and their tendency to just keep going even if you aren’t putting your foot on the pedal. It feels extremely reckless.

The news is so stressful, maybe I’ll try to take my mind off it with my favorite candy — AW FUCK

Federal officials resigning in protest was a honorable and reasonable decision in the past but no longer works well in today's no-shame environment. Staying and resisting bad things as much as possible should give better outcomes than being replaced with someone who will do bad wholeheartedly.

This weekend's Grammy Awards mark the 40th anniversary of their Tribute to the Awesomeness of Synthesizers, featuring Steve Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Thomas Dolby, and Howard Jones; and multiple keytars, synths, other devices, and undoubtedly many surge protectors.

An anniversary worth commemorating:

Ideas being rehearsed for a book. Thoughts welcome. (And lmk if this link gives you trouble. Fear medium is breaking medium.)

https://lessig.medium.com/the-age-of-the-fantasist-80b86f428d8f?sk=e1b03770c914254dedc5b4ddea2907d8

The IRS has already used its renewed funding to recover $1.3 BILLION from wealthy tax cheats.

Just in case you wondered why Republicans with rich donors want to keep IRS funding rescinded or frozen in the lame duck.