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The other night someone told me their 5 year old was obsessed with spray paint markings for a while because of my book and "fueling a child's hyper fixation" is probably my favorite creative legacy

"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…

[Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/24/built-in-software-death-dates-are-sending-thousands-of-schools-chromebooks-to-the-recycling-bin/

This is like reading a modern day version of the madness of King George III

I always feel much more chuffed when I "do numbers" on fedi than the other web sites because it takes so much more effort for people to find stuff on here

What if he'd renamed it Cool S, better or worse I think worse bc the Cool S doesn't deserve that

@immibis I mean, what is an LLM if not the consequence of thousands of people engaged in tedious labor? The gap between labeling and emails seems small to me. (I'm mostly joking but do kind of think adding "digital" is superfluous)

@immibis huh I'm familiar with AGI is just corporations but not the second half

truly incredible to be more afraid of a potential AI superintelligence than of actually existing ExxonMobil

Struggling to not eavesdrop on these women hashing out some simmering conflict that apparently reached a head over scheduling a stoop sale, the stakes feel very high

Just heard some guys walking down the street talking about their favorite flavors of powdered protein shake with a pure earnestness that has renewed my spirits, thanks boys

gonna be repeating "it really missed the mark on that" for a while

Another reason I don't really want to see Oppenheimer is purely selfish but the last time I saw a Nolan movie in a theater (Interstellar) it gave me motion sickness and I threw up

Went to see a comedy show and Kylie Brakeman sat down in the row behind me, when I tell you I was starstruck

what if writing this screenplay was Noah Baumbach coming to terms with being Kenough

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Noah Baumbach went from being so insecure he wrote a movie where he gave a fictionalized version of himself a MacArthur (& cast Adam Driver as pretend him!!) to being The Guy Next to Greta Gerwig and I think that's beautiful

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.