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It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests
January 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests
I haven't totaled the run time yet, but I think I heard enough variations of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" today to construct the soundtrack for a feature length film.
January 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I haven't totaled the run time yet, but I think I heard enough variations of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" today to construct the soundtrack for a feature length film.
Ok but those faculty lists usually have an owner who approves all messages to the list. Someone is having an *excellent* holiday break.
I’ve heard about this from three separate departments and am deeply amused / sympathetic
A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up
December 30, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Ok but those faculty lists usually have an owner who approves all messages to the list. Someone is having an *excellent* holiday break.
As someone who used to use the gigantic, modular Taco Bell drive thru menu as an example of awful visual communication strategy, I can confidently say that the new digital menu is 10000 times worse.
December 14, 2024 at 2:34 AM
As someone who used to use the gigantic, modular Taco Bell drive thru menu as an example of awful visual communication strategy, I can confidently say that the new digital menu is 10000 times worse.
All the people saying "we aren't ready for AI-generated video" were right, but not for the reasons they intended. This video smells like toast.
December 11, 2024 at 11:25 PM
All the people saying "we aren't ready for AI-generated video" were right, but not for the reasons they intended. This video smells like toast.
I wonder how many ways you can do D&D satanic panic-style interpretations of popular games to make regular people look terrible.
"As a child, he competed against peers to force-feed plastic pellets to hippos that were bound in place, only able to move their mouths."
"As a child, he competed against peers to force-feed plastic pellets to hippos that were bound in place, only able to move their mouths."
just showed this screenshot to my kid as an example of why i'm not exaggerating when i talk about how the media creates its own narrative, and how eagerly it misrepresents its subjects. next they'll say "he spent hours inside a simulator trapping wild animals in tiny balls and forcing them to fight"
I ...what
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
December 10, 2024 at 4:26 PM
I wonder how many ways you can do D&D satanic panic-style interpretations of popular games to make regular people look terrible.
"As a child, he competed against peers to force-feed plastic pellets to hippos that were bound in place, only able to move their mouths."
"As a child, he competed against peers to force-feed plastic pellets to hippos that were bound in place, only able to move their mouths."
More and more, I'm convinced that everyone suggesting that I "just ask ChatGPT" for something are just OpenAI bots and not real people who have ever used the tool.
December 10, 2024 at 3:20 AM
More and more, I'm convinced that everyone suggesting that I "just ask ChatGPT" for something are just OpenAI bots and not real people who have ever used the tool.
How I feel when I hand off copywriting projects for review.
December 9, 2024 at 8:19 PM
How I feel when I hand off copywriting projects for review.
I've always assumed the value of genAI would be in desktop software (like stable diffusion) instead of outsourcing simple tasks to the cloud. But, there's no multi-billion dollar industry there I guess.
Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model.
The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title.
What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new ...
wheresyoured.at
December 4, 2024 at 1:45 AM
I've always assumed the value of genAI would be in desktop software (like stable diffusion) instead of outsourcing simple tasks to the cloud. But, there's no multi-billion dollar industry there I guess.
Things I did not wake up prepared for today:
1. Freezing fog
2. Daughter glued her lips to her face over night
3. Donuts already stale
1. Freezing fog
2. Daughter glued her lips to her face over night
3. Donuts already stale
December 3, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Things I did not wake up prepared for today:
1. Freezing fog
2. Daughter glued her lips to her face over night
3. Donuts already stale
1. Freezing fog
2. Daughter glued her lips to her face over night
3. Donuts already stale
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
Sorting through all of the pictures from a "toddler-proof" digital camera to save the ones worth saving is a strange found-footage experience.
Suddenly, 20 years later, I feel like I have the perspective that would've let me write a decent film class paper for
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
Suddenly, 20 years later, I feel like I have the perspective that would've let me write a decent film class paper for
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
Caché (2005) ⭐ 7.3 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
1h 57m | R
www.imdb.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Sorting through all of the pictures from a "toddler-proof" digital camera to save the ones worth saving is a strange found-footage experience.
Suddenly, 20 years later, I feel like I have the perspective that would've let me write a decent film class paper for
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
Suddenly, 20 years later, I feel like I have the perspective that would've let me write a decent film class paper for
www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...
My memories feed on the other platform is all posts about grading papers through the whole Turkey Day break.
Do I miss having an extra day or two "off" for the holiday? Sure.
Do I miss spending 90% of that extra time pressing my "Add comment: Please read the assignment" macro in Word? Nupe.
Do I miss having an extra day or two "off" for the holiday? Sure.
Do I miss spending 90% of that extra time pressing my "Add comment: Please read the assignment" macro in Word? Nupe.
December 1, 2024 at 12:25 AM
My memories feed on the other platform is all posts about grading papers through the whole Turkey Day break.
Do I miss having an extra day or two "off" for the holiday? Sure.
Do I miss spending 90% of that extra time pressing my "Add comment: Please read the assignment" macro in Word? Nupe.
Do I miss having an extra day or two "off" for the holiday? Sure.
Do I miss spending 90% of that extra time pressing my "Add comment: Please read the assignment" macro in Word? Nupe.