Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@tmcw Saw a guy in a tiktok who looked just like you.

The landlord’s on the roof and the cat is staring out the window with an ostrich in her thought balloon.

I continue to feel that:

1. The “AI” companies’ PR is based in creating sense of inevitability, and people who don’t like what they’re doing feel bulldozed.

2. This bulldozed feeling is a goal of the PR strategy, because it manifests as anti-“AI” people pitching mostly poorly thought-out and easily dismissed arguments in desperation.

I say some version of this every six weeks and every six weeks I get three polite faves and that’s it, so discount as you see fit.

“The present IP system can be abused by actors powerful enough to abuse all of our legal systems, therefore we need a much more restrictive IP system” really isn’t clicking for me.

A simple but reliable cooking tip: reheat last night’s beans.

I’ve always been a bit suspicious of the idea that ENSO doesn’t matter to the weather of the US’s west coast, but okay, in ERA5 anything beyond a small positive temperature correlation is lost in the noise: https://erikwkolstad.com/2023/06/21/an-atlas-of-seasonal-correlations-between-el-nino-and-la-nina-and-temperature-and-precipitation/

Just heard Ava DuVernay say in an interview that the reference she gave Bradford Young for “Selma” was Paul Fusco’s astonishing series of photos from RFK’s funeral train: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/politics/paul-fusco-rfk-funeral-train/

I guess I’m glad YouTube shifted their comment algorithm to bring positive ones to the top, but it is slightly weird that everything I watch now has a first comment explaining that it’s the greatest human achievement and can never be surpassed.

Even fairly critical and intellectually ornery people sure do like saying things like “All the knowledge in the world is at our fingertips!” when I can’t, like, figure whether it’s reasonably ethical to buy coconut sugar without three hours of research deep enough that I start rolling my eyes when I see a certain author’s name come up. This isn’t even about LLMs or regular-style propaganda.

Fun to think of this from the perspective of a bit of information from a seismograph, which has a little window in which it can’t outrun the waves in the ground. https://everything.happens.horse/web/statuses/111310158612346614

Felt it in North Oakland.

“Vim is actually very easy to use if you have the intended input hardware” is an example of a low-effort, recognition-based joke that I would never stoop to make here. https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/111309075463188206

Okay, here we are: https://gist.github.com/celoyd/f163e6e582d87a50a6d37743e840dcb8

Posted while running out the door to carve pumpkins. There are probably a few TKs and such, and I didn’t spellcheck it. (Visual Studio Code doesn’t do that, apparently, at least on Ubuntu?)

Should I finish a devlog about this even though it’s getting a bit out of hand and probably makes errors about the math I had to learn?