Chris Van Patten

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

I did not grow up during the prime Hulk Hogan era so admittedly don't have an emotional connection I'm sure others have, but I'm still struggling with the outpouring of grief for this kinda shitty person

Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.

It is super cool to have a bus boarding for a transatlantic flight

The food options at CDG are in a league of their own.

A bad league, to be clear.

hurtling through the french countryside at 300km/h drinking macchiatos on an italian train is not a bad way to spend a friday

Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming.

The bus should have two senators

ah yes, a small folded booklet with a 2x2" photo that you bring when you travel and present with ID. let me store this safely in my passport wallet

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oh no

It is hardly the Great Problem of Our Time, but the fact that International Driving Permits are not the same size as passports still feels like a tragedy

Roy Scheider in Jaws saying his famous line “I hate that fucking shark! I'm going to kill it.”

Happy 50th anniversary to the movie Jaws. This is probably the greatest line in cinema history:

it feels good to reach the end of an impossibly long week

My nuanced take is that LLMs are a conceptually compelling and interesting technology, but most instances and applications of LLMs are ethically dubious and/or philosophically fraught.

Happy to say I jumped on the bandwagon this week and I'm very happy so far! Making it very easy to do remote development via my home server. I'm barely scratching the surface of functionality but impressed already.

One of these days I will try to understand Tailscale, but today is not that day

what the fuck is the deal with the AI generated videos of animals cooking??????

i love this channel

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I’m more of a Grainger man

we're*

Can’t believe I’ve lived through all these eras

Is this English

I'm currently reading John le Carré's novels and I just realised that my mental picture of George Smiley is in fact @pmarber.bsky.social as Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan from The Day Today.

[Editor's Note: I recognise that this post will make sense to maybe two people, and I am okay with that]

I can think of several product categories Sonos could move into and dominate. Streaming video is not one of them

americans need to realize how extraordinary a feat it is to make doug ford look good

I would simply not have elected a cabal of quacks, cranks, grifters, dingbats and nitwits.

Guessing you were looking for httpbin, which I think no longer exists as a hosted service. This looks like a nice alternative!

I don’t even know where to start. Absolutely terrifying

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

Utterly depraved

I’m no professional journalist, what do I know, but maybe consider replacing “suggests” with “falsely claims”? idk. Just a thought @nytimes.com