Not me being actively disappointed (even though I KNEW it would happen) that all the clothes I wanna pack for a four day weekend don’t fit in the SMALL suitcase. Ugh.

Having a bad day. Admittedly, could have dealt with it better. Now I’m stuck masking terribly at my kid’s practice. Maybe one day I won’t have to do this.

Yep. Prestige podcasting is dying for the same reason as the rest of the media: Pontificating is cheap and reporting is expensive.

I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

It only took me like 18 years, but I can finally report that I am over my friendship breakup.

From a TechBuzz reporter, just returned from China, on the other site.

Certainly close enough to the real truth!

The leadership and consultants that got us here are not going to get us out.

Building a society out of people who don’t know how to read and write is like building an army out of people who are too weak to walk.

As others have pointed out for a while now, it is difficult to lift the weights at the gym, so we should build a robot to do that for us.

“It’s too difficult to think through a thesis and write out a bunch of paragraphs about it” The quote that really stuck out. I agree that it can be difficult, but that is the reason you are being asked to do it. The point isn't really even the idea, but how well you can articulate it.

Dear reader, I was expecting to be sympathetic to their answers to this and now I want AI banned across the board. It’s not a calculator simplifying math, it’s a machine destroying people’s capacity to think deeply and creatively.