New words: "Idiocene"

Get your titles out

She's found her sea legs

The best way to predict global warming is to create it

I imagine one could use a suitably-prompted LLM to decrypt the ciphertext

Presumably you missed this from the article:

"My father was born in 1930 as a subject of the British empire. Like many Indians of his generation, he bears lifelong psychological scars from his perceived position of inferiority."

You might be right, assuming only today's technologies at today's prices.

Things like sodium-ion batteries look poised to change that, though.

"He and my father had entered into one of those close (the adjective is excessive) English friendships that begin by excluding confidences and very soon dispense with dialogue."

- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Jorge Luis Borges

Or, they didn't think his actions were fine but they were afraid of saying so

Head-canon, shurely?

That's 50° Celsius, in case you're used to modern units

"Typist" used to be a job. In fact, "computer" used to be a job too.

As if "Twixmas" is a word. Everyone knows it's the Winter Perineum

Complete with trademark long dashes 😂

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Second person plural, shurely?!

So "it doesn't exist" is just shorthand for "I can't be bothered to understand it"

I don't really want to waste my friends' time. There is decades worth of evidence from e.g. poliovirus and the very successful vaccination program that has essentially eradicated it, or from HIV and the development of countermeasures up to and including PrEP, or just from flu vaccination programs.

I personally know two virologists who would be keen to correct you, especially on that last point. But I suspect you're beyond help by this stage

I am not saying AI-based facial recognition systems should be used the way that they are, but your argument against them does need to be more nuanced.

LLM hallucinations are a different kind of wrongness from simple statistical error, because transformer-based deep recurrent networks do a much more complex thing than, say, an image classifier.

"Every single one" is overstating the case. For one example, U-net based image segmentation methods do better than humans at identifying anomalies on scans.

"Turing it off and on again", shurely?

Sure! I can be less sycophantic if you want!

If I learned anything from Donnie Darko it's to beware of falling jet engines

Various things I have found several hours after losing them in public places, by carefully retracing my steps:
- My passport;
- My wallet;
- My hip flask.

Sonos doesn't work very well at all, does it. Enshittification here too?

It's always the drivers of the smallest cars who are happy to pick up hitchhikers