Hester Duffy

Excellent thread here, and there are some bonus recipes in amongst the passionate condemnations!

Gorgeous! What's the lipstick? It's a great colour!

"90 slides in a 15 minute presentation" is basically a seven word horror story.

It really feels as though a small handful of the worst sort of people are currently hell bent on poisoning everything; our water, our land, our politics, the internet, the very sky above us! And there isn't really anyone to stop them!

This very much sounds like something that could potentially affect farming, the ecosystem, and possibly the weather, and which no-one should be allowed to just do because they want to.

What is it about pumpkins specifically that appeals so much to almost every species of bird and animal?

Well, or just statistically extrapolate fake results; which is pretty much what an LLM is doing, right?

"I asked a couple of mates down the pub to pretend they were infants in order to collect the infant data I needed"...

I use one for bobbly cashmere: it doesn't make it look brand new but it does help, and it's very satisfying.

If only he had studied Tudor history, he might have spotted that Trump is, in many ways, like a modern day Henry VIII, who eventually turned on most of his closest advisors.

Good thread!

It'll be interesting to see if this research holds up. At a minimum, it would be nice to have a tiny bit of balance against all the guilt-tripping aimed at mothers over every choice they ever make!

They were invented to convince the guy's wife their marriage was healthy; she should have sex with him whether she wanted to or not because his LL was touch, and she should do all the housework because her LL was acts of service.

Kind of want to see the workshopping process on that.

And AI bros are out there making confident and completely false claims about what it can do, and what it will soon be able to do, without actually understanding what it is and how it works.

It doesn't count anything; it doesn't read anything either. It's a text predictor. It's extruding something that looks like a response to the type of question being asked. That's it, that's all it's doing.

I thought you should know that Amazon Alexa just informed me that there is a new release by, and I quote, "Kilojoules Charles" that I may be interested in!

Why are they? And could they not?

Drizzle over fresh figs before roasting them: use the honey roasted figs to top fresh bread thickly spread with soft goat cheese.

Also;
People who've been married for twenty years: "There are loads of great singles out there, it's easy to meet people!"
Single people: "I have met two allegedly eligible singles these past five years, one of them in now in prison and the other one sent me a picture of someone else's genitals."

And, like, do they really think the dinner ladies were making school cake for a hundred kids purely by hand?

About time!

I encourage my students to use past exam papers, and then to create their own exam questions as part of their revision. The idea that they can outsource all their thinking to a glorified auto complete is just... I can't even.

If only his murder had been done civilly.

I'm guessing his defense is going to be asking the lines of "I only did it for the lulz".

Superb.

But I find even if I click "everybody" nobody replies so I don't think it works...

I had a conversation once while on an overseas recruitment trip, with a family who were very keen to send their 14-year-old to us; other side of the world, second language, but their kid was clever and precocious. I point blank said we would not be doing that because it was very bad for the child.

Yes, it would have worked better as a series; the movie felt simultaneously rushed and thin.

That was exactly my thought; I like Brosnan, but he was completely miscast!