"My own hope and belief about what would transpire last night was sadly and profoundly wrong—like many, I have the emotional and intellectual flaw, if that’s what it is, of assuming that people are wiser and more decent than they actually turn out to be. I feel chastened—distraught—about my apparently naive view of human nature."
George Conway
America Did This to Itself
Finally finished building this prototyping station, for designing synthesizer circuits from scratch. Super excited to start using it! #diysynth #electronics
Just came back from Las Vegas & had a really great time doing everything I wanted to do including everything at Area15. Sure glad I didn't miss any----- WHAT THE @#$% THE CRYSTAL METHOD PERFORMING LIVE GODDAMMIT
https://area15.com/events/tcmxritm/?event_dt=2024-12-0…
Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ORAC: Why not ask them?
TARRANT: [Into comm] This is Xenon base, identify yourselves. [static] I repeat, identify yourselves. [more static] You have ten seconds or I'll open fire.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/23 B7B3
I have used excellent niche services this year:
• https://elicit.com: scientific publications summarisation using a LLM (don’t know if trained on or RAG). It cites them and I didn’t experienced hallucinations
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Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: Vila, no! [Vila approaches the box. As he touches it, the same electrical power surge occurs again. Vila tries again with the same result.]
TARRANT: Slave?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/202 B7B4
TIL that Amsterdam in 1974 already had a solution to the accumulating numbers of privately owned polluting cars: a system for shared small electrical vehicles, the 'witkar'. Watch the short video from BBC archive: https://youtu.be/G9vKzwIKFtg
Bursting through the opening, the Ginger Bear finds himself outside. Seeing his getaway driver parked in the bike lane, he waddles over -- casually cutting down multiple trees along the way -- then climbs into the limo.
"Get the lawn signs ready," he growls to his henchmen. "I think it's going to be an election year."
"What!?" the audience shouts. "I thought this was a caper flick. He's done nothing but wreak destruction and leave a mess for others to clean up."
The director shrugs, "yeah."