The only thing I’ll forever remain a prescriptivist about is that 99% of the time when you’ve “put out a new podcast” or “written a new blog,” you haven’t actually done that. Those are “episodes” and “posts.”
The authors follow the trend of beating a dead parrot—as I have written before, people tend to emphasize the parrot and miss the modifier, “stochastic.” The metaphor describes LLMs quite well: they are machines that parrot words, based on a pool of words loosely constrained by probabilities.
You can tell THE LAST FIVE YEARS was written in the late nineties because Cathy sings to Jamie “You don’t have to watch the news” in order to be with her
Losing my mind that British people pronounce “Meta AI” and “Meta Ray-Bans” with the same first three syllables
Americans not using WhatsApp in significant numbers has got to be up there on the list of total cultural victories, no?
I can’t believe how lucky we got that the threat of being unable to distinguish between real photos/videos and AI generated ones not actually coming to pass is purely due to the lack of taste among those creating and encouraging the latter.
In 1907, your country’s increasing access to Mexican cuisine will introduce a new word to distinguish the leaves of the coriander plant from its seeds. It’s very important that you adopt this distinction.
This stuck with me so much because it was a great example of a very 2010s mindset of assuming worst possible intent long before any sin was even committed, even when the obvious intent was to embrace multiculturalism and diversity. At that point, why even bother?
I don’t ask for much, but could it have killed the showrunners of HEATED RIVALRY to come up with some sort of double entendre or at the very least a hockey related pun?
I finally realized why “hands off” as part of a protest slogan bothers me so much: that is something you say to your toddler.
2025 honestly feels like the longest year (and not in a bad way) because what do you mean these seasons of Severance, The Rehearsal, and Pluribus all happened during it
There should be a name for the three minute period after the first cup of coffee where the code you’re writing feels like the most intellectually satisfying output you’ve ever produced on a computer.
This time last year, leaders like Altman were making it sound like we’d raced over a technological cliff, and that we were tumbling chaotically toward an automated workforce. Such breathlessness now seems rash.
“True narcissistic personality disorder is marked by, among other traits, an abnormally high sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy. And in reality, it’s very rare. Still, the therapists I spoke with said that their clients seem very sure this unusual diagnosis must apply to their spouse.”
It’s easy for me to mentally prepare for Shapiro being president and everyone hating him since he sounds just like Obama, and I have plenty of practice from that one.
You’re absolutely right! This is more than just a service to the Wizard — the Tin Man has a personal score to settle with Elph— with the Witch.