King of the Chill is Guy Andrew.
King Chill was a roaming igloo.
Try Me! is my new community.
GuySpace is my humorous blog.
Jude is about Jews and our haters.
Art Car Inspiration Day (ACID) is my blog about art cars and mutant vehicles.
Wordly Durdley is a Simpsons-Wordle game I made in under 1 hour.
Play Local Games was my first app.
(A better app, Hobiz, exists.)
All in Technology
Nobody embodies resilience like the heroes in Star Trek.
TL;DR: The ZFlip 6 isn’t a phone for everyone. The camera is a bit meh by 2024 standards. But I love this phone.
“Copywriting, tax preparation, customer service, and many other tasks are or will soon be heavily automated.”
“We can so easily disguise our vanity as virtue.” “allowed a generation to be raised by algorithms”
“{China is} concerned that these apps could be used by its citizens to spread negative content and cause social unrest.”
here I am, drafting a guide on the bare minimum — like creating calendar invites — because apparently, professionalism died with computers
“You should also never charge your device at a public USB port. That same port that charges your gadget can also infect it.”
@everyone shatters the mindlessness of doom scrolling. It forces you to be mindful.
2. Utilize “Custom Instructions” At the bottom left corner of ChatGPT (web) there is a Custom Instructions option. It’s free and it’s essential for saving time.
We are looking at diverting about 1,444 km^3 annually, resulting in 72,200 km^3 over 50 years.
“the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.”
I used Chat GPT to give me the sparknotes on these three websites. I’ll vaguely promise to revisit each of them later. Two relate to influencers in the business world, the other a concept.
“UK drum & bass artist Halogenix posted his concerns about the social-media landscape. ‘I refuse to participate in this relentless game of social-media-driven visibility… The insatiable appetite it creates to be constantly seen is destroying not only my mental health, but the core values and qualities of the [music] culture that I fell in love with.’”
“But, as many commenters have pointed out and academic studies have shown, trying to eliminate hateful speech by removing individual actors or groups rarely has the intended effect.”
“We must face the fact that experts – even the best experts we can find – are often wrong or biased”
With only one-quarter of the sea floor mapped with sonar, it is impossible to know how many seamounts exist… The vast majority—more than 27,000—remain uncharted by sonar.
So I say we should be ashamed of the crime rates and apartheid of St. Louis, where this man managed to murder and walk the streets for hours. We should be more ashamed of the media that pushes this content on us. And we should be even more ashamed of the social media that prioritizes clicks over mental health, wanting us to see content we explicitly do not want to see, just because it gets a reaction. We should never shame the bystandards of horror for their natural reactions. After all, most of us would do the same.
If necessity is the mother of invention, war is the midwife of innovation. Speaking to Ukrainians on a visit to Kyiv in the fall of 2022, I heard from many that the first months of the war were the most productive of their lives. The United States’ last truly global war—World War II—led to the widespread adoption of penicillin, a revolution in nuclear technology, and a breakthrough in computer science. Now, the United States must innovate in peacetime, faster than ever before. By failing to do so, it is eroding its ability to deter—and, if necessary, to fight and win—the next war.
Did any science fiction predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and frequently bullshitting? Usually in fiction, if the AI says something factually incorrect or illogical, that is a deep portent of something very wrong: the AI is sick, or turning evil. But in 2023, it appears to be the normal state of operation of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or “Sydney”.
