Mistletoe

This year was the first year I finally realized how things are going to be from now on and only getting worse. I’m a gardener and the plants are having such a tough time, many trees in my neighborhood are already bare from dropping their leaves from the heat. I’ve been looking into just landscaping with native plants moving forward that can handle the heat. I have drip irrigation, but that does nothing when air temps stay above 100 for days on end. The world isn’t prepared for this in any way. What happens when the breadbasket of your country gets like this?

I love you.

It’s a not uncommon way society and lineage was done in Native American tribes. After all, who knows for sure who the father of a child is but the mother? :)

As opposed to the real hit on science by the sleeper cell of idiocy in the White House.

Why did they come out in the French Revolution and countless other times and they won’t now?

CFO should be fired immediately.

> A large portion of those biscuits would have gone into the traditional dish fish and brewis. Pronounced “brews,” brewis is made by soaking hard bread in water overnight then boiling it to soften it before serving it with salt cod.

I don’t think we realize how good we have it these days.

Wow it nailed how every LinkedIn post reads to me. Dropped a veritable gem.

https://pastebin.com/kk8dd5t5

That didn’t ruin his life, merely his shorts.

Haha wow. I’m trying to even imagine the AI landscape in 15 years and I can’t.

The Prius up until about 2016 uses a NiMH battery that is different than Lithium ones.

If man is eliminated, solid state intelligence is eliminated. Point to one machine, other than the Oxford Electric Bell, that is still running that is even 100 years old without human intervention. We are the cockroaches of nature, we cannot all be killed, the time for that was one of the genetic bottlenecks humans have gone through, but it's over now, humans in some form will be here until they either leave the planet ahead of the Sun swallowing it or die on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell

Stop the system, everyone is miserable in it anyway.

I recently got what I hope to be my last job ever, and I cannot wait to banish linkedin to the netherrealm forever. It's just so creepy, I don't want people to be able to find my face, where I work every day, and whole job and education history when they google my name.

These ads feel like a mental cleanse compared to ads now, which are focus grouped (and now AI polished) until there is nothing left but soulless gray goo, devoid of any personality whatsoever. Nice to see color again on the You Got It, Baby ad.

Related: https://www.printmag.com/design-trends/flat-logos-with-alex-...

Use the money to short the market because it’s probably a top signal of some sort.

Lots of talk of us being at the cusp of AGI, but how will we even know when we get there? When AGI develops a religion for itself?

If we could just get the LLMs to take showers and dream, we would get some novel thoughts coming.

I feel like you could just add some noise or randomness to the LLM and start approximating the leaps that the human mind uses to solve and understand unrelated things. Maybe that’s naive, it’s just coming from my organic computer in my skull.

What hardware advances would we need to see for that to happen? It feels like everything in that arena has kind of plateaued.

Ah I was hoping I could add photos from my favorite place in my city, but alas.

I recently got an Apple TV 4K and have been really enjoying the ad free experience. Worth every penny. Our smart tv had turned into a Christmas tree of ads.

Why on earth are we leasing phones now???

Magnolia make one of my favorite smells on earth. We have a huge one in front of a house we have moved away from and back to many times. The intoxicating smell when I mow the leaves and seeds beneath it is something I want to keep forever. I collected the red seeds and put them in a bottle with alcohol and I go back and smell it often to remember. The house flooded four days before closing on selling it, so we got more time with the house. We are wrapping that up and we will say goodbye to that old house, and it’s now quite huge magnolia in the front. I never knew the flowers were pollinated by beetles or why the scent smelled like that. I collected seeds last year and cold stratified a bunch all winter in our fridge. I planted them this spring and 7 survived the process and are now growing in red cups in my new house.

https://imgur.com/a/OAHQCW4

Luckily being 73 and in what appears to be poor health can’t last forever. I can’t imagine spending my twilight years being one of the most hated people on the planet, but the head of the USA and Russia seem to have no issues with that.

“Father Time is undefeated.” - LeBron James

This is the cyberpunk future I was hoping we would get…and we got something completely different, some kind of centralized corpo dystopia. I’ve installed it!

It’s all relative, it’s competitive for me that just wants a free LLM that is like a turbocharged Wikipedia.

Wish I could zoom in on the photo on mobile. What kind of crap web design is this?

Gemini knocks this out of the park, Gemini gang unite.

https://share.gemini.google/34vZzlnsmTaL