we’ve spent decades creating data compression systems and the new hotness is a system that takes a small amount of text and turns it into a large amount of text so that the recipient can take that large amount of text and turn it back into a small amount of text, at great cost

Bonus - I don't know if everyone sees this, but the past audiobooks were a little over $3 for me (Audible member, so that may be a factor). Past Kindle books were a more normal price.

"No, really. It _was_ an option. Nobody did it, but it was possible, honest!"

/It's a lucky toy that made the grade/

Video of the Day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOFW...

If nothing else, I'm getting suspicious of anything with an unwarranted yellow-ish tint these days

Missed my Burner Phone 101 workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library?

Here’s the companion write-up, with discussion highlights and updated slides: rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone...

the discovery that it is possible to generate coherent, grammatical text without a thinking mind behind it was a shock to everyone, but it might have come as slightly less of a shock to anyone who's edited think tank policy proposals.

So _that's_ where I got my nose from

I hate this - I want to play "find the difference" and that just leads me to staring at it longer