samthecoy

so happy it seems to have worked, for both godot and megacrit's sake

simply impossible to be stressed at work while listening to antônio jobim

writing an AI to optimally play snakes and ladders

This post is apparently likely to be LLM-generated, karma farming slop: ironically, it's a story of AI doing its job very well.

I've just seen the phrase "anti-youth violence charity" in an article and there just has to be a less ambiguous way to punctuate that

unhappy with the way americans pronounce "notre dame"

Nigella Lawson to replace Prue Leith on The Great British Bake Off The TV chef says she's

I think whenever the bake-off host chances there should be a Doctor Who-style regeneration scene

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It started degrading after the OxygenOS16 update, so if you have a OnePlus, maybe avoid for now? Seen a few similar reports online.

Had to use OnePlus customer service for the first time today, and it's pretty bad. Have a 16 month-old phone whose battery has just completely died, and the only option on offer is to not have a phone for about 2 weeks while it's sorted 😦

Just wanted to say that I enjoy the content you create. It sucks that this is going to direct some harassment your way, and I hope it's not too bad - best wishes.

Like, I often hear "plagiarism machine that's killing the planet" but I'm very convinced that the copyright panic is actually *harming* artists far more than helping them. Strengthening Disney and Getty's IP rights in the name of "protecting artists" is a very bad thing, I think!

In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")

you don't tend to hear much from passivist groups

broke: secret santa
woke: egret santa, where you mysteriously gift herons

A photograph of a Christmas card display in a supermarket, with a banner above reading "Christmas: Tuesday 25th December"

Sainsbury's appear to be catering to people who want to buy a Christmas card but don't know when Christmas is‽

If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people

I find it very funny when prompting image models that the negative prompt is always something like "bad anatomy, extra fingers, low resolution", etc. may as well be "don't mess this up, idiot"

such an own that "BBC Good Food" and "BBC Food" are separate sites

Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

just saw an advert describe Real Madrid as "the most successful Spanish football club in the world" which is a fascinating way to phrase that

This is how many conspiracy theories work, by exploiting real anger from legitimate grievances (often downstream from complex,
unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.

I think about the fact that potatoes have only been in Europe for a few hundred years, at least 3 times a week.

It's my Roman Empire.

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

"journalist" should be a protected title, like "engineer". that if you misrepresent things, you lose your practice

if you think about it, shuffleboard is an anagram of "huffleboards"

tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

Cryptic crosswords are such a quaintly british pastime.

The Paper is pretty good! I can definitely see it developing into a worthy successor to The Office (US) in time.

tailscale is sooooo good