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One recent visitor to my yard asked, “Why all the sunflowers?” “I didn’t plant them,” I said. “Not even one.” “You didn’t plant them?” “They’re all volunteers. I used to plant sunflowers, but lately, every year, they just pop up on their...
The Birmingham bin strike has been rolling on for 18 months, and the workers - organised by Unite - have long suspected that the council's refusal to negotiate and willingness to throw money at breaking the strike, more than it would...
09:01 There is so much noise around AI. I want to intentionally slow down and work on something core. Basic. Like even shell scripts. Or HTML. Reply to this post
There is an old joke about a man who sells ten dollar bills for five dollars each. When asked how the business is going, he says it is booming, he just needs more volume. For four years we have watched the smartest people in technology...
My excellent wife referred me to Ben Franklin’s 229 Words for Drunkenness, thinking that it would bring me cheer and perhaps LH material, and she was right on both counts. Jack Shepherd writes: Anyone who’s had a toad and a half for...
Wednesday, July 1As part of the house battery short-circuit debacle, the RV had lost the ability to be charging its house battery while the engine was running on the chassis. I tried for several hours on and off and could not figure out...
via Electronic Gaming Monthly – Issue 125 (December 1999) I fell down a PlayStation rabbit hole, starting with Standard Issue Computing’s recent posts on the PS2 and how the media reported on it in the late 90s, which lead me to the...
How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization These are words that cast systems as doing the same work as people in various roles, and serve to hide all of the ways in which such automation falls short of what is...
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.” I assume the...
Mamdani: Democratic socialist candidates ‘can get elected anywhere across this country for any position’ "I think we are seeing a hunger that is not just felt by New Yorkers, but frankly by Americans from coast to coast, for a new kind...
Look, I'm not a terribly patriotic person or anything, but I do like color, and I do like honesty. If you're going to come into Formula 1 and style yourself as THE US-based team, THIS is the livery you should be running. Again: I don't...
Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It's time to wrest our power back If you’re a multibillionaire, you might view democracy as a potential threat to your net worth. Control over a significant share of the...
Elon Musk Knows That He is Going to Go Down as One of History's Villains Elon Musk's destruction of USAID is his single worst act, and I think it is beginning to dawn on him that he will be held responsible for his role in killing...
The Four Fallacies at the Heart of SCOTUS’ Decision on Trans Athletes Trans sports bans are built on the assumption that transgender students — particularly transgender girls — are misrepresenting their gender identity in order to...
I am currently circulating a draft for WordPress project AI strategy vision. This post is a snapshot of that document. It has been born from mine & Grzegorz’s Knowledge merge proposal and it explains reasoning behind it. The idea is to...