Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.
– The Irish Times via Charles Stross – link til indlæg
NOTE: your password must contain:
– an uppercase letter
– a lowercase letter
– a number
– the illusion of security
– a special character
– Eric Meyer på Mastodon – link til indlæg
No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.
‘Kafkaesque’, I found, was much more fun than Kafka.
– Robin Ashenden: How the Kindle lost its spark
The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.
– Isaac Freeman på Mastodon – link til indlæg
[…] a lot of people keep thinking that (this iteration of) „Artificial*‟ „Intelligence**‟ is a good idea…
_________
*human led, biased
**parroting
Via Mina på Mastodon – link til indlæg
„Now I’ve seen everything‟
-person who clearly has not seen thousands of things
Via Low Quality Facts på Mastodon – link til indlæg
The subject of Sex is most difficult to deal with, not only on account of a certain prudery as well as a natural reticence on the subject, but doubtless also because the passion itself being so tremendously strong and occupying such a large part of human thought.
– Edward Carpenter: Sex-Love (1894)
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a
law against it by that time.
– Fortune via Mastodon – Link til indlæg
Ever since playing with ChatGPT, I’ve become sensitized to the way false rationality sounds … there’s a particular vibe to what is basically coherent nonsense. And now I’ve started to notice when people do it too. I get this crawly ChatGPT feeling when somebody is obviously making up an „authoritative‟ answer to a question they know nothing about.
– @annaleen på Mastodon – Link til indlæg