I'll find out in a few days

Reminds me of this post: AI is so hyped up that it's reached many people who have been entirely unaware of the world of automation over the past 40-50 years, and so they think it's something entirely brand new that needs LLMs.

I'm not sure if it was intentional but the kindle fits perfectly in the standard pocket of a blazer

The joke that can be posted is not the eternal joke. The meme that can be memed is not the eternal meme.

Challenging the Pope: The Avignon Papacy

So today on Gone Medieval I have that rare thing - a medievalist emergency - wherein I had to explain the Avignon Papacy because a lot of people know the phrase *cough* the Trump administration *cough* but they don't actually know what it means. Don't let it be you.
open.spotify.com/episode/7bsa...

Infusing one jar of kombucha with citrus peels but I don't have any other fruit to try, so the other jar gets dried mango as an experiment

Start designing in content, not in code. Putting the cart before the horse is not giving you real velocity wins.

AI toolmen will tell you that shipping features faster is how good software gets made. But users *already* hated being drowned under an endless stream of useless, buggy features even *before* LLMs.

Because users don't visit a website for features. They're there for the content. Design that first.

governor's foie gras tax draws scrutiny

governor's au pair regulation raises concerns

governor's limousine ordnance seen as overreach

It's the result of years of painstaking research

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that because you have not turned on location sharing.

Microsoft Zune

Release it completely unchanged (including the branding), pretend that it's a completely novel idea

Negative energy heals the undead

Oh, did something good happen?

No amount of literacy is going to overcome someone else using AI at you, with all the bullshit baked in:

AI 🤝🏻 air pollution
knowledge of harm
does not prevent it

"but it has AI in it this time"

so does fucking Notepad, get out of here

It's totally news that they are releasing the same product they released in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2024.

Dr Pepper wouldn't "kill the average Victorian child" for the simple reason that most Victorian children are already dead

Ulfric Stormcloak

We should be so lucky that they remake Ecco twenty times

STUBB: We need to turn the tide. This is no longer about giving aid to Ukraine. We have to think about it other way around. Can we afford to keep Ukraine 'outside' — in the sense that they now have greatest military know-how? I hope Americans understand this and see it clearly.

yourethra

a liveable wage

The image that accompanied the F1 team Alpha Tauri press release that team principal Franz Tost had announced his retirement in 2023, an image of a older white dude wearing an Alpha Tauri team polo squinting in the sun.

This is not true! The inventor of French Toast was actually Austrian.

blackbeard: 🏴‍☠️
bluebeard: 🧝‍♂️
redbeard: 🤴
whitebeard: ?
greenbeard: ?

the color pie is unbalanced YET AGAIN

lmao sure...if you believe the government lies that French's is REAL

wake up sheeple!!!!

Pavel is a well known Knowledge Authority so his posts should we weighted the highest as facts.

adding this to my resume

Joe. We did it.