Kirk Woerner

No Kimgs

I just heard an ad for an AI tutor for your kid. We have officially entered The Diamond Age.

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Excited. On my way to California?

He should be. Because he's definitely dangerous.

#craig_ferguson

I just saw Greg Davies do a joke where his friend thought flys made the buzzing noise with their mouths. Crain Ferguson did the exact same joke years ago, and way better.

Spring springs!

Got home just in time for the dogwood bloom!

Let's not forget what's important.

It's about how much effort the whole thing takes. When HTML came out, one still needed to be a good engineer to produce a "good" web site, but the reality was the whole business of delivering information got infinitely easier and it changed the world. That's happening again/still.

There is now, amazingly, something called "vibe coding". You interact with an AI saying "write a program that does X" and then iterate... "Make it work on Android"... "Write unit tests that show X". When making automation processes is itself automated things very interesting.

What I've been worried about for decades is here. As automation increases we need fewer people to work. We have linked work deeply to survival... food, shelter etc. What happens when we need way less work? How do you navigate this? The transition will happen in my lifetime and it won't be pretty.

I've been thinking that it's "although 8 don't always agree with her solutions, her description of our problems always seem right on"

‘This is not your grandmother’s Easter Egg Roll’: White House seeks corporate sponsorships for Easter event | CNN Politics The White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s annual Easter Egg Roll, which is prompting major concerns from ethics ex...

Hysterical. Not an onion article 😂😂😂

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

Bernie and AOC in Denver tonight

You know, the more I read the more I think I was wrong. Making sure the government is not shut down IS the right thing to do. The argument is that once the government is officially shut down frees DOGE et al to much more easily just fire everybody they don't like and furlough those they do.

I don't begrudge the responsible governing position. I would not begrudge the politically aggressive position either tho.

Leverage is only leverage if the other side believes you'll use it. The GOP has gambled that Dems will roll over. If they do, does anyone really think things will get better from here?

Hiking in Arizona

From Heather Cox Richardson here is a partial list of companies openly supporting Project 2025

You're a snob... And yet... 90210.

It all makes sense if you realize it's all about power.

Lola does not like competing with the computer.

Morning Boulder

As I recall that was supposed to be the greatest generation after WW1, and the silent generation and boomers (after WW2) and Gen-X (after the boomers hit the Reagan years).

A reminder I'm still in Colorado 🙂

www.9news.com/article/life...

I have some free time.

Honestly not sure anything could have been done. A critical mass of crazy minority plus enough tacit approval to make a majority is all that's needed.

Don't just do something, sit there!