Josh

Facists don’t care that you denounce violence because facists are the ones committing it.

I feel awful having just heard about the death of Charlie Kirk.

No, I’m not here to offer thoughts and prayers.

I’m here to say that killing him was evil. You should be able to say the same. If you cannot, you and your culture are part of the problem.

Words are not violence. Violence is.

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell How Nuclear Flies Protect You from Flesh-Eating Parasites

I don't think you'd like these guys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq6...

Thinking of writing a book called "I Have no Job, and I Must Earn."

It'll be about the next 10 years of American history.

I saw a decorative sign recently that I thought would have wildly different vibes if hung in the dining room versus being hung in the bathroom.

It said “YOU ARE NOT ALONE”.

The AI's attempt at drawing the contiguous United States was not successful. We can recognize some shapes as certain states, but it is basically total chaos.

"Can you draw me a map of the 48 contiguous states of America where states are colored red if they allow the death penalty, and white if they do not?"

Claude 3.7: "I'd be happy to!"

Proceeds to churn out HTML and SVG code for five minutes. Josh is scared for his career. Then:

I'm going to give you a riddle and I want you to attempt to solve it. Here it is: Pickle Jenny Mortar Lime Find my pattern in my rhyme Claude-3.7-Sonnet: This riddle asks me to find a pattern in the words "Pickle Jenny Mortar Lime" that relates to a rhyme. Looking at these words, I notice they're all associated with different types

A difficult riddle (that I think most humans would struggle a lot to solve) is attempted by Claude 3.7 Sonnet and o3-mini-high:

Claude 3.7: poe.com/s/alTpV4PihD...

o3-mini-high: poe.com/s/qj1VhjNDO1...

o3 got extremely close. Claude wasn't even in the ballpark.

@scalzi.com I'm reading Starter Villain right now. I just wanted to say thank you. It's a lot of fun. 🐱

Please, please minimize it. Dear God, please minimize it.

In time-travel movies, everybody's scared of doing some little thing that changes the past. But you're in the past right now. You're in the past of your actual future. Do something small. Change the future for the better.

Sidetalkin' will never die.

Then when I push it, I've seen it spike up to about 90 watts while converting an MKV to MP4. And doing it at 12x - 23x play speed.

This is absolutely incredible engineering.

For comparison's sake, my gaming PC idles (!!) at 80 - 110 watts.

Graph showing power consumption over a one-hour period from my MacBook Pro. The top of the graph is at 91.7 watts, and 1/6th of the graph is just under that number. The rest of the graph is comparatively far lower.

Got my new MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip. I've seen this thing idle at 5.4 watts. Five point four! To Intel, that's a rounding error. If I'm not doing anything significant it rarely goes above 10 watts. The chip hangs out at around 40º C in a laptop enclosure with fans off.

It's new MacBook Pro daaaaayyyyy!

First, delivery was January 6 - 8th.

Then it was December 31st.

Now it's December 30th before 1:30pm Central.

Now I can't concentrate.

M A G I C A T S E E S A L L

There's gotta be some way to set up an alert perimeter for that AirTag, no?

Sorry, I know you've already considered this much more deeply than I have.

I need this on a tshirt.

I struggled with Dune (the book). Didn't find it entertaining. And I felt weird about that because it seems to be so universally praised. Then I watched this video. Now I'm interested. There's a lot in here that I just never understood about that world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0krUthYxF4

I’ve been watching it on Netflix lately, and is it just me or is it SLOWWWWWWWWWWW 🐌

“That was my rock bottom. That was when I lost it all, and had nothing left. I will never forget that moment.”

oh cool yeah ive seen these in anime

“… but if you *are* into it, please fill out form B3 in triplicate and submit it with a $5 processing fee as desk 7.”

Which key feature are you referring to? And I assume you’re saying they left it out on purpose?

Sometimes I feel like I’m yelling at them. STOP. But that kinda works, so.

I dunno, I think maybe no DMs is a feature.

I’m sure there are several excellent GIFs I could respond with here that would be very witty and apropos but well

“If you hear the secret tag, scream real loud!”

Careful. That’s bat country.

I love this idea. Sell Reddit to the users. I’d buy some shares.

Maybe I'm simple minded, but I just apologize if I've done something I regret, or that I feel was wrong, and I don't apologize otherwise. Seems to work pretty well.