Buddy Toledo

the funny part is I suspect that if you suggested he use the power of AI to sound more like Sinatra he would fucking strangle you

up for it if you need me, but it won't let me join the channel—do I need an invite?

I think it's that either they simply don't understand this distinction, or they understand it too well

Personally, I think that there’s a huge difference between training on texts that vote on what words mean and doing that while pointing to specific voting clusters and attributing to them a real person’s name, but I also wouldn’t want to venture a guess as to how this would land legally.

personally, I’m putting all my chips on “embodied jouissance”

as an anxious zimbo, I am “happy” to testify as an expert witness against this

wow, usually teeth that beautiful don’t even *have* skin

I am not actually certain this would be the single most inscrutable Peanuts strip, but it would be in the Top 5

good to see the propaganda campaign by Big Capybara (below) finally starting to have an effect

They haven't made graphics better than this yet. Will they ever? Experts disagree.

this is true—Dream Quest resides in a realm beyond good and evil, like that primordial dragon in Dark Souls

True as a general rule—but it's interesting that this picked a game *designed in specific reaction to that phenomenon*, and it didn't seem to make the slightest difference. (Lucasfilm finally nailed it with 1990's LOOM, resulting in a great 4-hour game that people were pissed to pay $50 for.)

I did have a real knack for manipulating them then, minus any real sense of imaginative play…

A screen on Amazon prime. Two movies - Fargo above and Mission Impossible below. The image gives the illusion of Frances McDormand working Tom cruise like a puppet.

If I have to see Frances McDormand working Tom Cruise like a puppet then so do you

a 2 x 2 Peanuts "strip", actually formed from the middle two panels of two vertically adjacent strips. In the top two panels, Linus looks at his pancakes with an exclamation of surprise, and then opens the kitchen cabinet while standing on a chair. In the bottom two, Snoopy is sleeping in his usual earlocked position on his doghouse in the first panel—in the second, which zooms in so only the top of the doghouse is seen, Snoopy is suddenly jolted awake, into the air.

snoopy action at a distance

Quite a moment for me to have Jaz on the podcast.

ultimately, this is probably just a corollary of the common creed of the last 60-or-so years: if the tv is talking to you, you’re not really alone

it is a funny water-into-wine vs. wine-into-water issue that single-player boardgaming is seen as a lonelier version of a multiplayer boardgame, instead of as a more consciously embodied version of a single-player videogame

Alex Williams called it “a cross between a neusis and an amanuensis,” and I am still annoyed at how accurate that is for a pun

I mean, a post-structuralist wouldn’t: they’d tell you you’d invented a solar panel, and then have a very weird but unfortunately completely vindicated theory about the sun.

Absolutely this. My brother is a surgeon; he's used Claude to write an app for his patients. It's not a masterpiece and it won't change the economy, but it is easier for them than trying to fill in timesheets of how much exercise they are able to take. Sensible scepticism has to recognise reality.

the good news is that technology is cyclical, so I plan on making my next fortune in ringtones

Eight Popeye-related statues displayed throughout the city of Chester, Illinois, where Thimble Theater/Popeye creator Elzie Segar was born and raised. Statues shown are Popeye, Olive Oyl with Swee'Pea and Eugene the Jeep, Alice the Goon, Poopdeck Pappy, Brutus/Bluto, King Blozo, The Sea Hag and Roughhouse.

TIL: Chester, Illinois has a "Popeye Trail" of 19 statues (28 characters) situated throughout the city in honor of hometown hero Elzie Segar. Beyond the main cast they have Castor/The Whiffle Hen, The Sea Hag/Bernard, Alice the Goon & Child, King Blozo, Toar & more. I have a nerdly urge to visit.

I also respect the existence of The Orville, from a distance

I honestly respect how he leans into this

I feel genuinely lucky to have been born at exactly the right time to unquestioningly accept a 90-year-old man as one of the major comedic stars of my childhood

Undertale Babies must be a licensed property by this point. right

I think there’s actually a worrisome divide here: I’ve found (through triple-checking) Opus 4.6 to be very reliable at synthesizing a research document—so long as I use my status at an instructor at a wealthy university to access every pdf it references, and feed it into its maw as a double-check

Watch out, Claude is a registered minister in the Universal Life Church. This could go sideways very quickly.

headline from 4/9/97 NYT article: "Shy Author Likes to Live And Work In Obscurity"

you know the book's gonna be good when this is the Pulitzer headline