A nice salmon filet fresh out of the as fuck is tasty AF.

I don't expect anyone to know how these things are trained or coded, but just accepting that it is just something predicting what the next word in a sentence should be is enough. It's not analyzing a knowledge bank to give you an answer, it's playing Mad LIbs.

I have a less dystopian take on AI than many, but this inability of almost everyone to grasp what LLM's are does give me serious concern. I guess because it's portrayed as a conversational entity, people are absolutely unwilling to accept that it doesn't have a single shred of knowledge.

This is why they call them Cup Plants. A valuable native or near-native plant in the midwest US. Deer love 'em, but they also spread like crazy. Songbirds spread the seed readily.

Glad you clarified. I thought Jeffrey Goldberg got added to another Signal chat.

I want to put a thought bubble above those Meganisoptera flying by saying, "We didn't have this kind of commotion back in the good old days of the Carboniferous."

Thank you for sharing this. My mother is 89 and I could write an almost identical one for her. Comforting to know I'm not alone...even though I have no idea who you are and I truly wish you'd had a better father.

Hot take: Community/citizen science is going to be the primary propellant of the conservation movement going forward. Burning rivers and Silent Spring birthed the whole thing half a century ago, but in the connected age, enthusiasm for participation in science will carry it.

That's a Spotted Towhee, which is a type of sparrow. You very often see them doing that leaf-scratching behavior.

2/2 She's an Eastern Forktail and will be a gorgeous sea-foam green and vivid light blue when she molts. For now, she's living the good life, foraging on swarms of mosquitos in an open forest meadow on my property.

Should have used comic sans. The kerning is always perfect in that glorious font from the gods.