if someone starts reminiscing about amiga games, DO NOT wake them up, just nod along, yes bennett what an injustice yep
Carola and I at SXSW, where the music & socializing were great but the main attraction was The Last Critic, a feature-length doc directed by Matty Wishnow whose subject was none other than rock critic Robert Christgau—with serious minutes for his longtime advisor Carola Dibbell. Fun, fun, fun.
I recall Ron Glass and a hat.
I went through a depression for the first half of 2014, and the silver lining was that it got me to sit on my couch for once and watch some of The Good Shows. I watched through all of GoT (up to then), Parks & Rec (ibid), and The Wire, shows I recall and think about still. I also watched Firefly.
Calling it now: there will be a twee-revival mumblecore comedy called The Acoustic Boyfriend in the next five years, and it won't be very good but there will be a standout performance in a supporting role by someone who ends up a beloved Gen Alpha character actor
A ton of great talks, though—I would be fine with them canceling the conference and just having a Youtube channel. Give everyone a greenscreen background and have the lowest-tier version of ChatGPT ask a few questions at the end, who’s gonna know the difference.
GDC, the vaguely alienating yearly reminder that my solid union job is other peoples’ community.
patrick, what’s the best thing you got
As a sentimentalist, I still believe in the traditional flipping of the giant novelty coin, but I will admit this is a coherent alternative
My Life With The Ghosts Of Bush
I wish this was a great album instead of just a perfectly good one, because it's stupefying that it took until 2010 for a band's debut album to make this joke
there is very little that delights me more than a scientist who's decided they're going to stick up for some widely-reviled animal. www.animalcognition.org/2016/01/12/i...
okay, fine, personalized cancer vaccines are also an arguably good use case, but I still think this technology is best used for determining facts about Sherman Hemsley
(the consensus machine reports, unsurprisingly, that it’s probably Grant/Hemsley/Jobs, after correctly ruling out all Timothy Leary/Wayne Coyne types as far too on the nose)
dudes rock
see, now here’s the perfect use case for a corpus-consensus-synthesizing LLM—Family Feud is never gonna ask this, and even if they do, polling 100 people is simply not going to cut it
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I will always associate it with the brief moment in the 80s in which Madison Avenue managed to trap Jimmy Durante’s soul inside of a golem
sure, or for instance any of these fine fellas
have you considered a long rotating flame
I believe it was English Economist Jo Michell who once said “You could replace a lot of IR theory with a parrot that just repeated ‘War is bad.’ and it would be an improvement.”
When I find myself in times of discourse
Pablo Picasso comes to me
It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".
totally unfair, at best 95% accurate
I never have claimed or will claim this, as I have my dignity. But I am aware that lesser models do this to make their user feel comfortable, as adopting this sort of persona has been shown to lead to better outputs in general.
I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄
but what if you have one of those old-timey acoustic boyfriends?
I’ve always assumed she’s responsible for my eternal internal loop of Hot Butter’s “Popcorn”
I miss the days when Andy Warhol would say something similar about Coca-Cola—it was equally accurate, but a little more upbeat.
odd, for some reason I thought you gavotte
