Especially the cute ones shaped like cars or something. Can’t even hang legs out over the edge!

pretty sure there is similar "reasoning" as to why he doesn't take a strong stand against Putin. a good slice of MAGA admires and to some extent wants to emulate the strong-man ethnonationalist (white) Christian leader -- but don't relate to/admire the Iranian theocracy in at all the same way

I do not want AI on a train
I do not want it in the rain
I do not want AI on a boat
I do not want an AI goat

I do not like the AI spam
I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am

For the people who think racial inequality is a historical artefact that is behind us: www.nber.org/system/files...

important new work from @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and her coauthors linking Americans over four generations. History matters in the present

Being an American parent in Sweden is going to your kid's end-of-school ceremony and hearing them blast the uncensored version of Starships-- which includes the line "higher than a motherf*a" like 9x--to all the parents, toddler siblings, and <12yo kids

There is def less drama. which maybe is because of less toxic people. but yes, makes it more boring, in the way that a healthy and normal relationship is boring compared to a toxic and fraught one

apropos of nothing: blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...

when I read things like this I wonder if he's hyping it for his own monetary gain or he really believes it, and then I wonder how he believes it

"A subsistence farmer from a thousand years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs...since we have plenty of food and unimaginable luxuries." interesting (lack of) perspective since many also currently feel their jobs are fake blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...

Literacy rate An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.

I can only find the data for Sweden, and that data looks to be rather guesstimated: ourworldindata.org/grapher/lite... But I know based on historical practices/organization of schools that about 4-5 years of education was universal by the 1860s-1880s

meant to write mid- to late-1800s!

I'm not sure if this was a cause or an effect, but promoting early universal literacy (like mid- to late- 1900s) I think was a factor.

I asked one to assist me in something the other day that could have easily been solved either by reasoning but also by brute force, so I also find it curious given its crazy computational power that it doesn't identify those situations and use it

not to mention also implies our allyship with the 1st world, who we as a country have lately ditched

also kind of funny in using 3rd world language is that it implies the existence of the 2nd world, aka our historical rivals in geopolitics who we now just let trample whoever they want

to be fair they also can fail impressively on things that don't require originality but just logic

continue to be a bit bemused about the AI hype. my experience is that chatGPT at least is like an overconfident, slightly incompetent RA -- helpful for some narrow, heavily guided, concrete, and easily verifiable tasks, but anything more and it's probably better (and faster) to do it yourself

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600 And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

yep. the largest category of countries in the world pay lip service to democracy but are functionally not democracies because of things like this

it took me a moment, but i chuckled when i understood

oh wow I didn't know pandora was still alive! it was definitely better at suggesting music, gotta go check that out again

ah, maybe this is the tip I was looking for. will check it out

How do you diversify and find new music? I find spotify is bad at suggesting things that aren't super mainstream and popular (also their algorithms are broken by the fact that I have kids)

using chatgpt to generate a "family" image with 2 adults + kid and wow it can't hold back the heternormativity. after explicit instructions to remove hair/clothes and like 5 iterations, it *shortens* the "mom's" hair...but adds a boob for good measure

extremely considerate. raising em right

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Thanks for the rec! Just recently read Becky Chambers' two short "Monk & Robot" novels and absolutely adored them, was just puzzling over which to jump into next

the fact that the American idea of something akin to a general labor strike is a general consumption strike is...something

Chief Justice Allows U.S. to Continue Freeze on Foreign Aid Payments Lawyers for the government had said it would miss a deadline to release more than $1.5 billion in payments for past aid work and sought a late intervention from the Supreme Court.

this is a bad signal from the SC. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

If you're wondering what the vibes are in DC, it's sort of now a thing when you talk to people to open a conversation with some version of "Hi...do you...still have a job..."