Paul Mather 🇨🇦

“You’re right, Heathcliff,” said Catherine, looking back over her shoulder. “I guess they really are…” she paused, as if realizing it herself for the first time. “I guess they really are wuthering heights.”

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Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

To be fair, "even if it's not the most likely outcome, the likelihood has increased" isn't the same as saying "every positive outcome claimed by boosters is likely accurate."

The next James Bond will be younger than me. That's the one that gets me, personally.

Regulation might be a bad idea for other reasons but I mean we can have rules about things without inevitably falling down a slippery slope.

I was making an analogy. If we can regulate publishing for hundreds of years without tipping into government controlling ideological content of books, I don’t see why we couldn’t regulate AI training without tipping into government controlling ideological content of AI systems.

You might be right about the 1st amendment but I think that’s a different argument?

I think you were arguing that if we regulated AI training it might lead to government restricting what information can go into AI based on ideology? I was saying it’s possible to have regulation on intellectual property without an inevitable slippery slope, because we have that in other arenas.

How is this different than arguing that “Printing novels you for which you don’t hold the copyright has to be legal, otherwise the government might start dictating what sort of ideas can be books you’re allowed to print?”

I know. I live here too.

Look, I don’t know what you think, but the original post I was responded to said the way the person was complaining was a slap in the face, they were on a “high horse,” and that Americans were just as upset as they are. I’d say I’m characterizing their sentiment pretty accurately!

Sigh. Ok then I guess you’re right. We here in the US are just as upset about the threat of our country invading others as the people who live in other countries and have to worry about actually being invaded by us. They owe us an apology, really, don’t you think?

Well you maybe aren’t but the person initially responded to literally was doing just that.

I dunno. If someone from Greenland complains maybe we ought to have the grace to let them do it instead of complaining that they’re complaining in the wrong way.

Well first of all as a lover of typography I approve of anyone who knows what an em dash is. Secondly I live in the US too. Thirdly if we’re talking about Greenland being invaded and who’s most upset about that *particular* thing the answer is, I’m pretty sure, is folks in Greenland.

I live in the US. Just because someone’s not mean and barbaric doesn’t mean they’re just as upset about a possible invasion as the people who actually live in the place that might get invaded.

You really think you or I are just as upset as someone who actually lives in the place that might get invaded? I’m pretty sure they’re more upset than we are.

Merriam Christmas

Live long and be merry.

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Release the Rockford Files.

It’s like hubris but it’s new… it’s nubris.

Stealworkers

Oh, the weather outside is frightful And since we've no place to go It doesn't show signs of stopping How I hate going out in the storm The fire is slowly dying

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

For years a one-bit version of this image was the startup screen on my old monochrome Mac.

Original titles to "Doctor Who" (first transmitted 23/11/63).

Theme music composed by Ron Grainer; arranged by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. #DoctorWho #scifi

“Everybody’s gone surfing.” Not true. Beach Boys straight up LIE.

“Thursday” is a weird name for a project.

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.