Circa 1994 I realized that I could dial into the KC library for free and use their lynx-based card catalog to browse the web
06.03.2026 04:08
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Circa 1994 I realized that I could dial into the KC library for free and use their lynx-based card catalog to browse the web
I'm old enough to have used the Internet before the graphic web browsers were invented.
A little known fact, I took over for Charles Rezac (he helped write Lynx browser) when he left KU!
Reading the blog post triggered all kinds of circa 2006 memories
Definitely, most of the time it's great, I think it's part of what helps us make some effort to treat other humans decently
I see people treat this like a moral or intellectual failing, but I think humans are just wired to do this by default
~LLM Discourse~
"I have used an industrial crane to move furniture on my deck"
versus
"It is impossible to use an industrial crane to move furniture on your deck"
a tree trunk with knots that look kinda like a face
u know how sometimes you see a rock or a chair or something and it kinda looks like it has a face and you think "aww it's like a little guy"
that's why the chatbot feels alive to you. humans seek personhood everwhere.
This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future
"You'll laugh about this when you're guarding the door to the underground caves where the last remnants of humanity hide from the killbots"
Y'all coming in hot on a Thursday morning
"Woooow, it's really amazing watching you work" -- my son, sarcastically, as I try and fail to look at some stuff in Grafana
The future is very, unevenly distributed
A child looks at a TV showing Apple Music playing "California" by The Gadjits
Kind of cool when you get your uncle's old bass and then you listen to your mom's old band for some inspiration
The devil works hard but the government.. is also the devil
The crane was built with stolen parts, it is powered by whale oil, and the exhaust fume vent into a community center
This skeet is lazy even by my own standards
~LLM Discourse~
"I have used an industrial crane to move furniture on my deck"
versus
"It is impossible to use an industrial crane to move furniture on your deck"
An image of a grey sky, green grass, and bare trees There is a paved road to the right
Wander the ghostly landscape
WEEKENDS ARE DYNAMITE With a drawing of a stick of dynamite
I'm not saying dynamite got us the weekend and the 8-hour workday, but it's hard to overlook its impact
I mean fair, but parts of it felt particularly bad today
Just gonna have to mute "breaking bone"?
The discourse is bad
Is being driven insane by AI discourse without actually interacting with a chatbot a subset of AI psychosis
A tuxedo cat sitting on a pile of laundry
🎶And you could have it all
🎶My empire of shirts
🎶I will bite your hands
🎶I will make you hurt
It's like left-field Reason. Well, kinda. "rip random audio from youtube to a sampler via keywords or urls ... have a euclidian form generator train a markov chain to play your synths ... play with all 63,050,394,783,186,944-128 frequencies of full microtuning"
alpha preview:
i've said this many times, today even: if you use ai in your job, your employer should be paying for it.
I have never taken the time to figure out exactly how this is supposed to work and I refuse to learn at this point
WEEKENDS ARE DYNAMITE With a drawing of a stick of dynamite
I'm not saying dynamite got us the weekend and the 8-hour workday, but it's hard to overlook its impact
