Peter Howell

Hard truth for me fellow Gen-X'ers: Remember those really old black and white sitcoms we watched growing up?

"Friends" is now as old as they were then.

If psychology had been an attractive profession for autistic people, there would be no such thing as autism.

Nevermind! Lesson to us all: be patient. It took over an hour, but they came through. The system isn't down, just overloaded.

@hytale.bsky.social Is your email verification down? Tried several times and I'm not getting the email. Yes I checked spelling and spam.

Looks like Hytale hasn't worked the bugs out. I've tried several times to verify my account with two separate email accounts. No emails. Yes I checked spam.

Why are you even bring up self-awareness. I think your confusing a bunch of issues.

Ask Lee Sedol whether an AI can be creative or be better than its training set. Everyone thought the AI was bugging out. IT was just inventing a new playing style that no human had ever used.

"LLMs are incapable of not doing that."

In my experience it's actually fairly rare now if you know how to ask the right questions. Letting hallucinations go through is as much a user problem as an LLM problem, and it's getting better over time.

One thing you quickly learn about conspiracy theories is that a whole lot of them are just someone accidentally figuring out what capitalism is but being a little too racist or something to take the next logical step

Look at this guy thinking that nicotine (aka cocaine-jr) is regulated in any meaningful way. It's as addictive as any class-A drug, but has less regulation than aspirin or even multivitamins.

It's already demonstrated the ability to do high-value science/technical writing that previously cost $1/word.

Source: I used to be the guy being paid $1/word, and I'm not going to delude myself that it's somehow magically "just not the same....somehow."

I'm just going to come out and say it: "Last Christmas" is even less of a Christmas song than Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones) This is BRILLIANT. Watch the whole thing. 🔥

This is truly amazing to watch.
substack.com/@thedangerou...

To add to this, I'm not going to make any lame DoPaMiNe-based argument, but I'd be very worried that if you're consuming media this way, you're training your brain to live in an inch-deep "vibe stream" and not be able to think deeply on anything that flows through your cranium.

This isn't new. That super-friendly "Barby McMichigander" was always based in New Delhi. That chipper and friendly receptionist is going to be talking smack about you during her ciggy break.

Going forward, just assume it's AI, especially if it's competent, patient, and willing to listen.

THAT scene from A Clockwork Orange

I can't be the only one who finds the (mandatory?) autoplay feature on #tiktok to be overwhelming, stress inducing and dysregulating, can I? When I watch something deep, touching, interesting, etc, I need a few moments to process and think about it. Without that, it just becomes janky noise.

Has anyone released an stl of the Trump/Epstein "Friendship" statue? Asking for a Friend with a 3D printer.

Weird question #201 that I find myself researching to support (or distract from) my writing:

What was the status of marzipan in the late medieval period?

Would Islam exist without Christianity? I'm thinking it could, but probably in a somewhat different form.

Debugging some vase mode prints earned an achievement! Also learned something about how cura calculates flow, and want to change it.

YouTube video by Petes To The End 100 Days of Minecraft Severance

Minecraft has been a powerful way for my son and I to bond. If you have time, please check out our latest experiment #Severance, but in #Minecraft. youtu.be/BmSIKDaR0hc

Gen-Z's Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival Social media is typically accused of killing the film industry but is it possible it could save it?

Wait. I thought it was Millennials who were addicted. Oh wait. They're old enough to be subscribers now. They're suddenly cured. gizmodo.com/gen-zs-socia...

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Proposal. We should just stop calling the party "Republicans." They're The Trump Party. Make it stick. Make it last long after Trump.

If you're parents are still around (or you're still at home), look around the house. There's probably something on the wall that has just "always been there." There's probably a story about it. Ask now while you can.

It's more than a little disheartening when you spend over a month on video, and then a "company" fraudulently claims copyright on the CC0 music that you used.

YouTube video by Petes To The End Every transition in Severed Craft

Every time jump (and one real jump) in Severed Craft. #minecraft. youtube.com/shorts/WiaO6...

YouTube video by Petes To The End 100 Days of Minecraft Severance

Minecraft has been a powerful way for my son and I to bond. If you have time, please check out our latest experiment #Severance, but in #Minecraft. youtu.be/BmSIKDaR0hc

YouTube video by Petes To The End Weird bugs in Minecraft 25w31a

The latest #minecraft snapshot (25W31a) has some weird bugs. If you like minecraft, we'd love for you to subscribe. As he's going off to college, this is becoming an important way for us to keep connected.

youtube.com/shorts/pMGww...

Well that was fast #3Dprinting #Octoprint

YouTube video by Petes To The End Latest Update: Bugs, Glitches and Golems!

#minecraft has some weird bugs/glitchs in the latest update. youtu.be/s2H6F7pcH6E