Tom Dewar

4-panel SMBC comic update where a red-haired man prays to God with a question about goodness. God replies dismissively, saying it was a token prediction and also failing to spell "resurrection" correctly.

Actually WWII was a hallucination that just got way out of control.

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How I Use AI – David Bauer An ever growing and chronically incomplete list of ways to use AI for work, life and play. Free to copy and adapt.

@davidbauer.ch put this little list together with lots of nice isolated ideas labs.davidbauer.ch/how-i-use-ai/

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

A photo of my computer screen. On it is a window that has 'Epson Printer Connection Checker' as a header bar, then a blue circle with an exclamation mark inside. Next to that are the words 'Problems are found. Fix them.'

Is everyone's printer this rude, or just mine?

Thick black line is the centerline of the Beni River in Bolivia. Circles that are tangent to the centerline represent the radius of curvature ag the location. Smaller circles = higher curvatures.

In this version the circles are colored according to the curvature; brighter colors = higher curvatures.

I have been experimenting with different ways of visualizing the curvature of meandering rivers. Plotting curvature in the context of the meanders themselves helps QC-ing the curvature data ⚒️🧪

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Both, I suspect.

Also, those with a passive income have more time to spend on all the unpaid campaigning that’s necessary to even get selected and elected in the first place.

I guess they’re using ChatGPT to generate its own marketing charts now too.

Interesting chart from this @stephenkb.bsky.social piece.

Should be viewed alongside the birth-rate chart (see next post).

www.ft.com/content/107a...

YES

Life would be much funnier if human failings resembled this, tbh.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t finish that analysis you asked for, but here’s a picture of a duck I drew in crayon.”

Cross my heart, it is. I can’t share the full screenshot because it’s got client confidential stuff in it. But I’m a first hand witness.

My new fave AI fail story: colleague used a latest gen LLM to try and retrieve a financial number from the latest published version of a report. It failed to find it on the internet, said “don’t worry I can source it from an alternative” and then proceeded, very slowly, to draw the following image.

1/ - Trade Policy in 2025 -

Step 1. Donald Trump invents threatened new tariff rates on your country based on some combination of the trade balance, vibes, personal grievance, vibes, how much he likes you, vibes, or a Peter Navarro formula so stupid it made Lesotho enemy #1.

Also vibes.

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Every time someone tells me to use fewer em dashes ⸻ I bring out Big Bertha.

I presume this is high on the list of sentences you never thought you’d write?

“On the more respectable end, there's Jordan B Peterson.”

Evergreen, surely?

The Last of Us

Motherfucking wind farms…

Well said, Pasty John.

WAY TO GO SKEGNESS

This is excellent.

Page One in Scotland.

Delightful.

Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’ Copilot Appearance is live now

this is such an embarrassing era to live through. people are going to look back at this period of AI research and think so little of us.

Remembering Janey Godley today.

Have you ever seen Cirque Du Soleil and how is it possible for human being to do such things? (The acts, not the attending.)

We finally made you a limey?