Claude: eagerly assertive, unabashedly humble

like a perfume

I think that I need to live in a more entertaining place.

The zeitgeist:

It's worse than that. You see, the homework ate my my dog.

Oh, c'mon. It's not like they shouted "I'm going to destroy a civilization!" in a crowded planet

Five Timers sketch on SNL
I recognized only Tina Fey & Candice Bergen and wondered if Steve Martin is still alive

this show is a fuckin bowstring across my life

My dad "worked hard for his money" and didn't owe anything to anyone. He was entitled to a luxury Mediterranean cruise and trip through the Panama Canal while his daughter died because "rehab is expensive and she's just gonna relapse."

It's not an inheritance. It's payment for damages.

Maybe. But to me they're photos that weren't possible on Apollo. Way too cramped and windows too small.

For the astronauts I'm sure there's a feeling of: Look where I am! Take a picture of me looking at the Whole Earth!

His context window is getting full, compaction is leaving only the silly stuff, and he's a hallucinating on a massive scale.

I started doing this a few years ago. Cuts down on "when do we eat" by 87%

My partner's take is that Bryon initiated the leak for similar reasons. Can't wait to skip the Hulu miniseries about this for the Netflix one.

I'd been reading magazine articles from the 20s & 30s & 50s, noticing how conclusion styles evolved, so I had Claude make me a chart.

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Who else was thinking about Walter Cronkite, Wally Schirra, Jules Bergmam, and John Chancellor?

A green square with a stylized light green drawing of a cactus. It says "Haggadah Hatzabar - A Passover Haggadah compiled by Emily Kesselman" in both Hebrew and English.

Did you know - I compile my own Haggadah? Here it is: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bgc7j...

Today's episode: Cricket's Revenge

I hate this show, but it's on every channel

Look, I just don't care for either Tracy or Hepburn

Britain: "Look, you do you, but I have told you about that Suez escape. Cost me my entire self respect."

US: "Nah, bro, you just don't have the savoir-faire Americaine"

"And that's how the oat-soy wars began…"

If there isn't already, there ought to be a Pierre Salinger award, the Hoodwink, for journalists hornswoggled by internet scalawags

New rabbit hole unlocked: hukou

Thanks! I was wondering what I was going to work on this week :)

Reminder that the only people who will ever betray you, are people you trust

I think about this once in a while. I liked The Wire but I've never been inclined to rewatch. I think that I generally relate more to character-driven work/family ensembles than police/crime ensembles, which is why Breaking Bad kinda works for me.

I don't go for just any prestige-TV

Inviting non-Jews is fun because early on they realize that they're not supposed to know what's going on, and asking questions is the main point.

But really I like MadMen & The Americans because the kids in those shows are around the same age as I was in those years. I am Sally. I am Page. :)

I like doing a MadMen, Americans, Sopranos watch to get the full spectrum of American paranoia.

if you yourself didn't raise from hatchlings the geese you use to fashion your quills, can you really call yourself a writer?

I think the original intent was to avoid problematic package registries, as in "Don't trust anyone, look at the install.sh and you can see exactly what I'm doing"

with the corollary:

"Hey, their install script is public, so I'll trust it because who would do underhanded things in broad daylight?"

Yeah. When we get to the Hillel sandwich, I explain that this is like eating a roast beef, mustard, rye sandwich without the roast beef. I have never tried matzah, maror, brisket though it's been right there all along.

shalom bayit is an even narrower bridge, let me tell you

For my part, I try to direct people away from openai, google, and meta, but doing so I feel like I'm saying "The Anthropic district has the nicer pickpockets"

My use is virtuous and correct because reasons, valid & true. Everyone else is falling for tawdry fraud, tut, tut.