I remember asking, not so long ago, if Chara and Yuki were still making music together.
I got my answer as they just released a single
Senaka ni Ribbon
Travel planning with Google Gemini. It's astonishingly good at this. I give it an itinerary and it gives me detailed and personalized suggestions like "You have this reserved, but note it's 1.5km of walking over steep, uneven surfaces. As an alternative it's easy just to go into town and look around."
I love being able to throw an enormous amount of data at the LLM and have it make sense of it. In this case it doesn't matter if the answers are not 100% correct as long as they are close and the suggestions are verifiable.
this prompted me to see what https://anagramgenius.com might do, but sadly its anagram server is broken
iirc anagram genius originally came out in about 1990 … i never got a copy because it was a bit expensive for a toy and i wouldn’t have been able to learn from its unobtanium source code
anyway TIL the…
The answer to “how could this corporation do awful thing X?” is always “because it is a corporation.”
Waymo says it "designed its driving software to be able to automatically navigate intersections when traffic lights are out, but sometimes [it] will ask for a confirmation from remote human monitors that they are proceeding safely[...] The numerous lights that were out resulted in a surge in such confirmation requests and delayed its vehicles clearing intersections, it said."
These vehicles aren't autonomous. This is a performance they're putting on.
From @… at that other site.
https://bsky.app/profile/ericwbailey.website/post/3mgidriwhq22g
Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-using-gemini-give-chatgpt-like-ans…
Bitte was??? „Wegner kündigt Nacht der Repression an“
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/liveblog/silvester-2025-in-berlin-im-liveblog-wegner-kundigt-nacht-der-repression-bei…
Kristi Noem repeatedly declined to deny her widely-reported sexual relationship with her shadow chief of staff Corey Lewandowski,
twisting into all sorts of remarkable rhetorical shapes to avoid uttering the word “no” while under oath.
“I am shocked that we’re going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today,”
Noem told Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.),
who pushed back: “You should be able to answer if someone asks if you or any federal official is …
There's a Mail piece with a headline that seems like people are angry at the development work on Jony Ive's home, as though he's about to drop a giant translucent Bondi Blue structure in the neighbourhood.
But the quotes are like:
> 'Initially people were worried because it is a big project and they thought it was bound to disrupt the community but they have been perfect.'