I’m pretty sure you can donate to Mozilla, are you saying that donations to Mozilla don’t accomplish what we might want? I only know a little about how much Mozilla sucks so I’m ready to learn more.

tl;dr: the mistress’s vagina was deformed.

(I also have not read it)

True visionaries.

I was in my late 30s when I realized the Beatles were not spelled the same as the insect beetles, and that their band name was a pun on “beat.”

Make friends with the legends who live downstairs.

If you’re clumsy, do a grappling martial art like wrestling or Jiu-Jitsu. After 6 months even if you still suck at that martial art (e.g., me) your nerves and muscles will know how to move shockingly efficiently.

I don’t know if this is true but I once read that people expected the cotton gin to improve slaves’ conditions because that part of the process was incredibly labor-intensive, so it would be saving them work. Instead it made cotton farming more profitable and boosted slave ownership. ☹️

I will die on this hill: Dude, Where’s My Car is actually a good movie. People just can’t see past the premise to realize it’s executed extremely well.

It does scare me a bit, but I’ve thought about death and non-existence from time to time and gotten more comfortable with it. Not totally comfortable but it doesn’t horrify me anymore.

Extremely basic example, but sometimes I’ll open a web page and feel amazed at the huge stack of technology that came together to make it happen. On both ends: CPU, RAM, motherboard, networking components. In between fiber, switches, and routers. And once the data arrives, a browser interpreting HTML, CSS, and JS, all to show me dickbutt.

Dude, Where’s My Car? is an excellent film. It accomplishes what it set out to do: silly fun. And lots of people remember a lot of quotes from it. I’m surprised that its RT scores are both so low.

ESPN sent some poor intern to film a goofy segment at my college before a big game. People had no idea why he and the cameraman were there and were kind of weirded out by it, so I went up to ask what was going on. I thought I might have to tell them to leave. He explained that they were just trying to film something goofy so I volunteered to help and got a bunch of students in on it. The segment was as dumb as you would expect, but good enough to fill time on the Cold Pizza morning show. ESPN mailed me a tape of the segment to say thanks.

So I guess I was on national TV.

Hell yeah

Fastly?

Speak for yourself, I’m a talking fish (all tetrapods are fish)

Actually they’re using it to generate documents required by regulations. Which is its own problem: since LLMs hallucinate, that means the documentation may not reflect what’s actually going on in the plant, potentially bypassing the regulations.

This website is going to be very busy when the LLM-designed nuke plants come online. https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Fun fact: there are plenty of ways in Jiu-Jitsu to break your own neck. Possibly more ways than there are for other people to break your neck.

At 41 I switched to Jiu-Jitsu which isn’t any safer but is even more fun. Unsure why so many of us old guys do BJJ but it’s a thing.