“Now I’ve seen everything”
-person who clearly has not seen thousands of things
Via Low Quality Facts på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Overvæld
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)
Fingre/kagedåse
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
Kognitivt tilbageløb
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
Programmering: Gynger og karrusseller med æbler og pærer
I’m good at both kinds of programming: overcomplicating simple things and underestimating complex problems
– Liza Daly på Mastodon – Link til indlæg
Singularitet opnået
Fake AI is generating a very real bullshit singularity where the amount of stupid accumulating exceeds my ability to make fun of it all.
– @seldo på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Sometimes it sticks
I have grudges old enough to run for Senate.
– @donaldball på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Too big to fail/too flawed not to fail
Look, if you think the fact that my Internet of Shit door-lock failed because the company that designed it made no plan to let me into my house if they went out of business would make me sympathetic to that company, you are out of your fucking mind.
– Cory Doctorow – Pluralistic: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank’s apologists (15 Mar 2023)
Den lange rejse til…
Han var et menneske, der dannede sine meninger, mens han sagde dem, eller måske efter at han havde sagt dem, hvilket betød, at han var nødt til at ævle løs temmelig længe, før han fik ordentligt greb om, hvad hans overbevisninger var. Dette gjorde talens brug til en opdagelsesrejse for ham – en opfattelse, andre ikke nødvendigvis delte.
– Tom Rachman: Storhed og Fald
Oh, last night
She handed me my Harlot Red lipstick. Okay, it was called Cherry Berry, but they’d have to rename it after the way I’d behaved last night.
– Susan Hatler: License to date