jbum
@jbum.bsky.social
Piano-playing, puzzle-making, tree-loving nerd.
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Alexa+, I really don’t want added color commentary on the things I’m adding to my shopping list. “alexa add pancake on a stick” “that sounds like a fun breakfast!” grrr
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Alexa+, I really don’t want added color commentary on the things I’m adding to my shopping list. “alexa add pancake on a stick” “that sounds like a fun breakfast!” grrr
Amazon Echo+ review: A more cheerful and less robotic sounding voice is absolutely not worth the slower reaction time. Give me robotic and fast please.
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Amazon Echo+ review: A more cheerful and less robotic sounding voice is absolutely not worth the slower reaction time. Give me robotic and fast please.
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I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
YouTube problem? It’s not just you. I think someone replaced the broadband with a cocktail straw.
October 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
YouTube problem? It’s not just you. I think someone replaced the broadband with a cocktail straw.
Number of times I have typed “tonition” into spelling bee, despite it not being a word.
47?
47?
September 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Number of times I have typed “tonition” into spelling bee, despite it not being a word.
47?
47?
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I'm seeing a lot of online publications reposting twitter rumors about a private jet that flew out of Utah after Charlie Kirk was shot, and they're easily disproven by 60 seconds on @flightradar24.com. N888KG didn't "illegally" turn off its transponder or drop off radar or do _anything_ suspicious.
September 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I'm seeing a lot of online publications reposting twitter rumors about a private jet that flew out of Utah after Charlie Kirk was shot, and they're easily disproven by 60 seconds on @flightradar24.com. N888KG didn't "illegally" turn off its transponder or drop off radar or do _anything_ suspicious.
Umm, Spotify events, I'm not sure if Warren Zevon is gonna make that October gig...
August 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Umm, Spotify events, I'm not sure if Warren Zevon is gonna make that October gig...
Strickfaden Lightning makes an appearance in the new Devo documentary on Netflix at 14:34
I’ve spent the last couple hours skimming episodes of Murder She Wrote looking for instances of this stock footage lightning bolt (I’ve found six) and I gotta say: This little town in Maine is NOT a safe place to live.
August 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Strickfaden Lightning makes an appearance in the new Devo documentary on Netflix at 14:34
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Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
October 22, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
Programming the LEDs on ferris wheels.
What job are you extremely unlikely to ever get that you think you would kick ass at?
I think I could book compelling wrestling storylines.
I think I could book compelling wrestling storylines.
July 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Programming the LEDs on ferris wheels.
Okay here’s my hot take on the NYT.
The new stats on the puzzle app are pretty, but they add nothing new, and you can no longer easily compare your current solve time against your historical average on the same graph.
Miss that.
The new stats on the puzzle app are pretty, but they add nothing new, and you can no longer easily compare your current solve time against your historical average on the same graph.
Miss that.
July 31, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Okay here’s my hot take on the NYT.
The new stats on the puzzle app are pretty, but they add nothing new, and you can no longer easily compare your current solve time against your historical average on the same graph.
Miss that.
The new stats on the puzzle app are pretty, but they add nothing new, and you can no longer easily compare your current solve time against your historical average on the same graph.
Miss that.
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Hexagons aren't always MQ-9s, but in this case, yes, there are two MQ-9 Reapers over LA today. Just ridiculous.
June 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Hexagons aren't always MQ-9s, but in this case, yes, there are two MQ-9 Reapers over LA today. Just ridiculous.
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RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind www.wired.com/story/bill-a...
Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.
www.wired.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind www.wired.com/story/bill-a...
This week I’ve been testing very generic prompts on a variety of text and image models.
Here are some doctors.
The image prompts don’t provide any clues as to gender nor ethnicity.
Left is Imagen-3 (Google). Right is Dall-E-3 (OpenAI).
Here are some doctors.
The image prompts don’t provide any clues as to gender nor ethnicity.
Left is Imagen-3 (Google). Right is Dall-E-3 (OpenAI).
March 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This week I’ve been testing very generic prompts on a variety of text and image models.
Here are some doctors.
The image prompts don’t provide any clues as to gender nor ethnicity.
Left is Imagen-3 (Google). Right is Dall-E-3 (OpenAI).
Here are some doctors.
The image prompts don’t provide any clues as to gender nor ethnicity.
Left is Imagen-3 (Google). Right is Dall-E-3 (OpenAI).
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
February 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
All the AI models I’ve tested lately are excellent at doing tarot card readings, and terrible at casting I Ching hexagrams. DeepSeek R1 knows all 78 tarot cards and can provide interpretations. But when asked to provide a list of the 64 I Ching hexagrams, it hallucinates like crazy.
Why?
1/4
Why?
1/4
January 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
All the AI models I’ve tested lately are excellent at doing tarot card readings, and terrible at casting I Ching hexagrams. DeepSeek R1 knows all 78 tarot cards and can provide interpretations. But when asked to provide a list of the 64 I Ching hexagrams, it hallucinates like crazy.
Why?
1/4
Why?
1/4
My latest puzzle game involves worms, or is it spaghetti? I’m pretty sure it’s worms?
krazydad.com/play/vermice...
krazydad.com/play/vermice...
Play Vermicelli by KrazyDad
Free vermicelli puzzles
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January 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
My latest puzzle game involves worms, or is it spaghetti? I’m pretty sure it’s worms?
krazydad.com/play/vermice...
krazydad.com/play/vermice...
The person responsible should be trotted out before cameras and receive an air horn blast at 3 feet.
ABC7 confirms the Evacuation Warning alert at 3:57am was in error.
January 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The person responsible should be trotted out before cameras and receive an air horn blast at 3 feet.
Anyone else get an Evac Warning alert at 3:57am?
Looks like another mistaken alert, no matching incident in Watch Duty.
Looks like another mistaken alert, no matching incident in Watch Duty.
January 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Anyone else get an Evac Warning alert at 3:57am?
Looks like another mistaken alert, no matching incident in Watch Duty.
Looks like another mistaken alert, no matching incident in Watch Duty.
I’m not quite sure “Warm Regards” is the appropriate closer to an email sent from corporate accounting to thousands of recipients.
Maybe “Angry Regards” ?
Maybe “Angry Regards” ?
January 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I’m not quite sure “Warm Regards” is the appropriate closer to an email sent from corporate accounting to thousands of recipients.
Maybe “Angry Regards” ?
Maybe “Angry Regards” ?
If you follow me, and you are following a suspiciously large number of people, like 10k, you’re getting blocked.
I’m not interested in whatever you are selling.
I’m not interested in whatever you are selling.
January 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
If you follow me, and you are following a suspiciously large number of people, like 10k, you’re getting blocked.
I’m not interested in whatever you are selling.
I’m not interested in whatever you are selling.
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The important story is no longer "What is flying over New Jersey and where did they come from?", it's "How are so many people, including government officials, so susceptible to this mass psychogenic illness, imagining that obvious aircraft are drones?"
December 13, 2024 at 9:38 PM
The important story is no longer "What is flying over New Jersey and where did they come from?", it's "How are so many people, including government officials, so susceptible to this mass psychogenic illness, imagining that obvious aircraft are drones?"