Category: Not-politics

Tweet of the Day, Kidding On The Square edition.

Dude’s joking here, but he and I both know there are far too many people on social media who have wildly inflated views of their own self-importance. It is to laugh, as Harley Quinn might say.

Tweet of the Day, GIGOGOGOG@#$%!@#$!@ edition.

I’m surprised anybody’s surprised. I mean, isn’t this intuitive? AI prompt results don’t have conscious decisions behind them; the model just does a high-probability guess, based on the existing information in its database. Dump enough AI prompt results into the database, and the amount of actual information goes down. Eventually it collapses, and you get a smear of fuzzy junk.

This seems pretty straightforward, yes?

Via @Strangeland_Elf.

Loooonnng day today.

My wife had her colonoscopy this morning, which thankfully came back with an excellent report. I’m not really worried about these: they’re a precaution against a particular potential condition that has already been thoroughly treated. Nothing happens, and nothing is likely to happen, and I don’t feel apprehension or fear while waiting for the procedure to be over. But that switch still gets flipped on. And flipping it back off again is always a relief.

So, that was my day. How was yours?

So where do you go when you want to find out convention drama?

There’s maybe something going on with a future convention I’m going to be at, but I’m not plugged into it, and I’d like to know what the heck it’s all about. If it’s just personalities clashing, I don’t care about that. But if there’s, ah, an aspect to it, I really want to know ahead of time. Where’s the reliable place on social media for convention drama?

‘The Eagle Has Landed.’ …AND SO HAS BUZZ’S FIST.

This is the greatest result of the Apollo Program…

Continue reading ‘The Eagle Has Landed.’ …AND SO HAS BUZZ’S FIST.

Tweet of the Day, This Is Vaguely NSFW – But Is It INAPPROPRIATE? edition.

I mean. It’s a statue of Bacchus. I don’t actually know what the god’s old rites were, but I am somehow confident that doing a ‘bump and grind’ happened from time to time. Particularly if alcohol was involved.

Wi-fi connection problems bleg.

The problem: Cable box in living room. Ethernet to my computer, younger kid’s computer, TV setup. No worries. Wi-Fi upstairs (older kid’s computer, Kindle Fires in bedroom), no worries. Basement has terrible reception. Wife needs good reception for work.

Assume I am not drilling a hole in the ceiling to drop an ethernet cable. Take that off the table. What’s my best non-intrusive solution that doesn’t involve moving my wife’s workstation out of the basement?

Tomorrow promises to be evil weather here.

100 degrees AND thunderstorms. At the same time. I’m tempted to hang my new suit somewhere out of the rain in the morning, save myself the cost of a steam-cleaning.

Stay safe this week. The weather well and truly sucks, east of the Mississippi right now. And that’s just the part I’m paying attention to.