Leon Bambrick

Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreams to find the tech world is abuzz with a prediction that, 3 years from now, OpenStink will achieve AGI and perform bullshit work at *TWICE* the speed of a modern bureaucrat!

I contain multitudes. Or, as we say in science, a microbiome.

Word cloud showing some of the 40+ terms like "cognitive load", "cognitive debt" "cognitive process" etc that are used almost entirely without definition, and entirely without an accurate, valid, relevant definition. When in doubt... just say cognitive a bit more!

I must acknowledge that I am uncharacteristically and perhaps unreasonably riled up by this paper, but to double down on my "dying on this hill" -- here's a word cloud of all the times "cognitive {x}" is used in the paper, for different values of x.

It's such an utter load of "cognitive slop"!

Agree to disagree on this paper. How does their novel test have any validity, to be able to make such strong and sweeping claims?

Its claims may be true… but the “science” they’ve used to get there is not able to support any such claims.

This is preprint un-reviewed stuff.

As an underling, I always found the threat “be quiet or I’ll replace you with a very simple cron job” to be effective at keeping middle-managers in line.

Pic of Bezos and wife. Overlaid on the image is a tweet from a user named "Dr. G" with the handle "@GinnyMcDonald8." The tweet reads: "Jeff Bezos paid 50m for his wedding and gave his new wife over 50m in jewelry while people here are losing their Medicaid and SNAP benefits just so he can get a huge tax cut. It’s disgusting and just wrong.”

You deserve better brain research Change, Technically · Episode

The discussion in this podcast is very illuminating regarding this “study”

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The alleged neuroscience behind this preprint is really very spectacularly shitty.

The article is getting so much attention but they didn’t do the science properly.

I’ll follow up with a podcast link in a moment.

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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

This is awesome and if anything does not go far enough. Don’t be afraid of your awesomeness. Shine David, shine like a star!

Ah but have you tried yoga?

Donald Duck enthusiastically cleaning up while saying “cleaning is just putting stuff in less obvious places and then wondering where you put them”

Ordinarily I think Labor can rest on being just 1 half step to the left of the major RWNJ parties. Suddenly, with no strong opposition on the right, they have to stand on their own feet and get into actual policy debates with other parties.

At least: that’s what I hope will happen. Please 🙏

Google’s AI overview states ‘The letter “i” appears twice in the word “teamwork”.’

I used to believe, there’s no “i” in Teamwork. Google set me straight.

My eyes be leaking. Stop it Mann.

Curse typos.

While writing this I overheard someone say to someone else — regarding their computer — ‘all my letters are in capitals except the “i”’s.’

This alone unleashes chains of thought, uncovers other curses. I wonder if it relates to the Turkish alphabet. I wonder why we even have “capital letters”.

I sent this skoot prematurely as I was late for a thing. I wanted to hone in on the topic of typography in particular. Knowledge of typography leads to opinions on typography which leads to misery.

I was going to say “except curses” but you’ve proven me wrong there. Cues you!

Everything is a curse

As Shakespeare says “There are sermons in books, stones in the running brooks,” or rather, the other way about, and there you have it, in a nutshell.
— Gussie Finknottle

Controversial 'lost' Jerry Lewis film discovered in Sweden after 53 years | The National A Swedish actor, who stole a copy in 1980, plans to release The Day The Clown Cried, saying 'it must be seen'

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social I feel like this re-surfaced Jerry Lewis film is something you’d have thoughts about. (I checked your timeline briefly,
apologies if I overlooked an existing hot-take)

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True in more ways than one. Given a choice between *doing* a “good” thing or *watching* an “entertaining” thing, Americans choose the latter.

I bet the person who invented copy and paste kept it to themselves for a couple months and got a bunch of pay rises for being so damn productive.

The study of these banana layers combines the “archaeology” with “technical studies” and concepts from the study of decaying “manure”.

These 3 fields are combined to form the word “architecture”

Fresh banana towers are built on this until they too collapse creating a new layer of congealed banana mash on the compacted banana layers underneath. Over decades this builds a solid banana firmament reaching to banana heaven.

The way technology advances is that someone builds a hack of some kind, let’s call this “a banana” — and then others build further bananas on this banana, until the entire banana tower collapses into a mushy layer of decaying banana matter.

Why is “WORDLE” 6 letters?

I just did a deep dive. The “found footage” may allegedly be 31 years old — but the movie itself came out in 1999. So 26 years. (Still…. A lot of years)