Mark Samberg

Mostly I’m just embarrassed

State of the Union Fact Check: Nope, none so far

Counterpoint:

Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM.

That’s fucking insane.

So this is from Star Trek The Original Series. Imagine you're at Disneyland and a person is walking around in a rabbit costume.

More like GREAT bunny amiright

A couple fascinating things I learned reporting this:

1. Much of the plant life on the field was people in costume.
2. The finale required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics.
3. That was a real couple that got married during the Lady Gaga number.

So many more details here in the piece. Go read!

Fuck ICE

I couldn’t hear well enough and my Spanish isn’t good enough to understand him. But as an example of visual storytelling that was quite good.

Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language

Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT

Model collapse, except for humans arxiv.org/pdf/2409.017...

oh

Animation studios should demand an apology for these people being called cartoon villains.

Democracy is just a bunch of norms in a trenchcoat

Jan 1.
Jan 3.

In case you have never seen this.

We’re not a serious country

Roses are red
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?

A design trend in new houses that I absolutely cannot understand is having a vent hood over the oven and then a separate microwave somewhere else.

If I were the student in this engagement, I would tell Khammigo to fuck all the way off.

Browser Password Managers Are Great, and a Terrible Idea Your browser isn’t leaking your passwords, but it’s still smarter to use a third-party password manager.

Your browser isn’t leaking your passwords, but it’s still smarter to use a third-party password manager.

We're doing what now?

I'm just over here waiting to teach a MOOC on my University's private island on Second Life....

Do not cram alt text with keywords just to improve search engine optimization. This will hinder alt text’s true purpose: improving accessibility. Focus on describing the photo's content. Search engine optimization should not be the goal for writing good alt text.

This is a good thread.

Perfect

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

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America Is Choosing Decline When the president wants to slit the nation’s throat, the least we can do is not hand him the blade.

"the United States is headed on a trajectory in which we hang together while slowly becoming poorer, weaker, sicker, and more badly governed over time" www.persuasion.community/p/america-is...

Everyone is always like "Safety is our number 1 priority!" Just once, I'd like to see someone be like..."meh, safety's like three or four on the list on a good Tuesday."

Well I was right about that at least....

Evergreen, yo

Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14. Current Year: 2025 Past Year: 2010 Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.