GPT-imagegen-2: "a gallery of shoes, where each shoe is under a painting & is styled matched to that painting: Starry Night, The Bathers, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Bayeux Tapestry, Klint's Grupp Svanen nr 17, Kandinsky's Swinging, The Garden of Earthly Delights"
"now the full outfits"
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The von Neumann machines are keeping his legacy alive.
Mayor Kobayashi was right.
This specific war is illegal and immoral, but "seizing enemy commerce" is actually a pretty standard part of how wars have worked since approximately forever, and is well-covered by international law.
So, we juiced markets a little bit and gave Iran time to dig out its launchers. Cool.
Shorter than STL's.
The continuing gap between the capabilities of Gemini Pro 3.1 (very good model) and the capabilities of the Gemini app/website is odd. The model can do what Claude/GPT can do, but there is a minimal harness for tools (file creation, research etc), no auditable CoT/actions, manual canvas, etc.
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If the end result of this is, "the president tipped the country into a recession while he and his cronies insider-traded on it" - well, there'd be a lot of political careers to be made nailing them to the wall for state crimes related to that, since the public would be *furious* about it.
I've said it before but LLMs are actually fantastic at making your code more robust. It goes against the pop culture conception.
I think it bodes well that Mamdani is sweating the details here to “pay for” his rent freeze
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Slightly ahistorical, but the new Godzilla movie might have a battle in NJ. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ha...
Isn't the lesson of Zuckerberg's donation that nothing can save you in the modern media environment?
I wonder if they ever did IRA promotion.
This is an argument for a UBI, not an argument for a UBI that only benefits artists. The idea of a special welfare state that only artists get access to is ridiculous and needs to go away.
People complain about fares being regressive, and finally someone is listening.
That still might be consistent with a securitization thesis, given GSA conforming guarantees and the known messiness of RMBS loan tapes. FWIW, I've never looked at a CMBS indenture to see what sort of collateral quality requirements they have.
Mamdani doing the common sense thing for NYC streets evokes Trump moderating on Social Security. The refusal of previous same-party candidates to take what are, for the relevant electorates, popular, widely-held stances on substantive issues is a major differentiator and helps explain their success.
This could be its own post (maybe I’ll write it), but this was low-hanging fruit previous NYC mayors simply refused to pick. It didn’t feel “low-hanging”—there’s a small band of loud, influential champions of the status quo—but judgment matters and to the mayor who gets it right go the spoils.
Have we considered that maybe Trump is the Antichrist
The blockade isn’t actually bad strategy. It’s a dumb war but choking Iranian exports from a distance is …. Fine. There will inevitably be a “political problem” if say China reflags tankers. But that’s a political problem.
The takoyaki wasn't as good as other places do, but I don't have a baseline for sweet potato (Grimace hair?) ice cream.
I wonder if this thing at Astor Place is part of my oshi's Cool Japan portfolio.
www.japanfes.com/newyork/2026
Our intel and targeting advantages make scattered mines made knowing where they are a liability.
The Swalwell thing happening now, when Dems really need to clear the field for governor, is another unfortunate example of punishment for misconduct being used cynically to achieve some other goal. If it’s as bad and widely known as reported he should have been gone years ago.
It could be like the Red Sea blockade by the Houthis. I.e., maybe they'll give Chinese owned shipping a pass.
posting pictures of myself with particularly expensive sheep (that i have hired for the day before I return to my cottage I share with four other influencers)
happy anniversary to those who celebrate
