There's a reason: that's all the experience these people have!
07.03.2026 04:28
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There's a reason: that's all the experience these people have!
A map of the MD/DE/NJ/PA intersection, with Elkton, MD circled with a pink heart.
I grew up in MD and had no idea about this until I was in my 40s.
Paternal: Farrier/Orderly in the Spanish-American War -> house painter/decorator.
Maternal: US Army (swimming instructor) during WW2 -> Mail Room -> Training Officer -> Admin at the USNA.
Fair. I was just answering your query: yes, they're controversial for a number of reasons. I tend to fall on the side of believing they're just revenue generation - IME, if the local LE truly wants to fix speeding in a residential area, they post a car. People slow down for those. Even empty ones.
Two needle-felted rabbits, each about 14" tall, sit on a glass jewelry cabinet. They were created by Michele Johnson.
An artist brought the cutest needle-felted animals into the store this week. I'm in love with these beautiful hares:
I'm sure nothing at all will go wrong when they try to remove Claude. www.ndtv.com/world-news/c...
...which is frustrating, often because GenAI is being trained on copyrighted info without the owners being credited; it's a plagiarism machine that tries to guess what a(n overconfident) human would say.
I would do much rather the experts were building better/more powerful search engines! 😉
The programming goal of ChatGPT has always been right there in the name: chatting. It makes conversation and does not care about truth/facts/accuracy. It is absolutely NOT a search engine. Some LLMs can search really well, but they are being watered down with training to get them to act like GenAI.
Absolutely. What frustrated me was arguing with the AI that incorrectly reported it when I could read it just fine. AI continued to tell me what was clearly "Emma" said "Margaret" ...'dumb' OCR would never confuse those and I don't need that kind of "help". LOL
Also: GenAI is potentially making cancer diagnosis worse, too: www.forbes.com/sites/paulhs...
Oh no, did they add AI to their full text search? Bummer... it was really good when it was just a simple handwriting recognition searching OCR files - if it starts trying to help by hallucinating names that aren't there, it'll be useless!
There's plenty of us who are absolutely shunning anything with AI in it, so I vote yes.
I don't think you're the average user? Most people want to capture exactly what their eye is seeing (light-wise), and cameras aren't eyes - you know that, but most people don't.
Screenshot of the Google search results for "family portrait with dog", all of them contain dressed-up folks in nature.... with their dog sitting nicely, all looking directly at the camera.
None of these are representative of "real life". LOL
Haven't 'family portraits with dog' always been bad representations of real life, even if the couple was sitting there in the daylight with the dog next to them?
To me, these ads are a way of showing that you no longer need to pay a photographer, which is still very bad.
Mmm... I don't know. I don't think that it's a tool that's going away entirely - it'll evolve and hopefully in beneficial directions. It's just not ready for prime time yet, however, and so learning to rely on it now (too soon) is going to be disastrous on both individual and institutional levels.
I mean, I think he's enjoying it, also - he has several homes, for instance - but yeah, I think in general people who have lived without it are so much less enamored of wealth (and actually understand it's power better) than people who have never had to make do.
Agree... and we're already learning that GenAI use in medicine is a) biased, as it's trained on limited datasets that don't represent all populations and b) leading to deskilling of actual technicians. bmjgroup.com/overreliance... Just let the humans do it.
When people understand the system and process behind AI art, its moral implications become harder to accept
I hear you!!! My feet are wide, with high arches, and a half size different... which means that one is either too tight or one is just loose enough to rub. I take my shoes off the minute I get in the door, and it has nothing to do with cleanliness. LOL
That thing where you're taking a work break & decide to do a little bit of genealogy research & find a hospital record that reads "Gen. orchitis" & Google & then fumble wildly for the close-window button before anyone else sees the oh so helpful explanatory diagrams. LOL #notatrootstech
This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal
I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed
He's still very much a billionaire. (sociallifemagazine.com/chronicles/g...)
I think the rest of this is true also, however. One of the first things I learned about George Lucas when I moved to the North Bay a decade ago was this: www.brookings.edu/articles/zon...
The NIMBYs shouted it down, ofc.
Hey PDX pals! I am seeking recs for Portland, OR dessert spots (or restaurants with great dessert) that are intertwined/working with the local food justice community.
(to be hired for an event - not asking them for money)
Gawd no. I suspect that's gonna be an ugly scene in several senses.
This is the only correct kind of wedding. LOL
My husband rode into ours on a bicycle. We blended cider and beer instead of sand. We smashed a fortune cookie with a hammer instead of cutting cake.
The theme should always be Fun, IMO.
