Michael Lugo

I’m not sure they are thinking

So is Alaska supposed to be neutral ground or something?

I know! But the key limes were cheap!

I made key lime pie one time. Grocery store had a cheap bag of key limes.

Key limes are tiny. Took forever to juice them.

This was ten years ago and I’m just getting to the point where I can look at the pie.

Ask GPT 5 to count them for you

Relative to Greenwich is bullshit, the people of Boston didn’t dump tea in the harbor for you to be ruled by their longitudes

It did better here! Well, less bad.

A graph showing agreement with various statements about science as well as conspiracy theories

Snapshot of US beliefs about science and flat-earthy stuff. [1000+ people surveyed, +/- 3%] carsey.unh.edu/publication/...

N: Trondheim, Norway
E: Eger, Hungary (if airports count, Istanbul)
S: Cayman Islands
W: Guerneville, CA

Surely you mean every person.

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

That’s it! Actually the closely related machine-learning concept “multi-armed bandit” (basically, if you have multiple slot machines)

Just wrote in a work chat “this refers to slot machines, not cartoon dogs” - what am I talking about?

When did this become A Thing? I don’t like it.

I was right now years old when I learned this

This actually got @franklininstitute.bsky.social to join the site. Welcome!

So they just made us RTO 5 days a week (up from 3) and I am finding it just barely palatable, and part of the reason is a downgrade in my living situation that means I don’t have a decent home office any more.

Sure, if you’re actually cleaning things. I was in college with a bunch of nerds and so the thing to do with AOL CDs was stick them in the microwave and watch them burn

Rolled oats taking five minutes on the stovetop is a lie, right?

I’ve never even read it and I know that.

CNBC has people saying why it is good that the head of BLS get fired. Meanwhile this channel has just a constant stream of data at the bottom. I guess that data is okay because it’s private-sector data?

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to ...

A less dignified way of saying that: theonion.com/historians-p...

Is this the horrible-sounding HR policy or am I bad at Google and someone out there is getting vacation to eat sandwiches?

Lucy and Ricky Ricardo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_an...

apparently at one point it was Ricardo and at another point it was Enrique

A near miss: Galileo Galilei

*positive* cubes, that is

It's the smallest positive integer that can be written as the sum of two cubes in two different ways

Is Philadelphia rust belt? If so, Philadelphia.

But he was from Massachusetts and we all know they’re not real Americans

First they came for the plums
And I said nothing because the gyre was widening
Yes
YES
The tiger is out