Ahhh, you beat me to Double Nickels, so here's it's northern complement

Sonic Youth,

I wouldn't say "supplanted". Not by a long shot.

I can't believe I've never read this, but "Riddley Walker" is one of my all-time favorites! Also, last year I ordered a whole set of the Frances books for a customer and was stunned that I'd never made the connection before 😮

hmm, I see that there are plenty of these for sale on ebay too, and I do have a huge collection of old tapes that I never get to listen to...!

I've had several of these, vanishingly small, good sound, tons of storage, still available for maybe $30. The phone was a mistake 😶

The YAATT, who has just now been called into existence for the very first time, is already beginning to regret it. I feel you, Yaatt.

BREAKING: Today's endorsement by Chaya Raichik sets off a tsunami of support for mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo as tonight he locks down the backing of both Weyland-Yutani executive Carter Burke and noted philanthropist Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

I hate to disrespect by discussing succession while the body is still warm, but it's finally Cardinal Pizzaballa's time to shine! We are *this* close to achieving Pope Pizza I

Not true; they have zero conceptual frame, only local linguistic facility. If AI *understood*, it would know that a human has five distinct fingers, instead of arbitrary fingerlike glop. The number of "r"s in "strawberry" would be easy. But no; an LLM is just autocomplete with a trillion parameters.

Investment opportunity (specifically targeted at mansplainers and climate deniers)! First, two quick questions: (1) Does this graph go up over time?, and (2) If you had known this trajectory in advance, would you have bought this stock in 1904? 🤔