check out the first in my 3 part series on #Gemini and AI safety that I've been teasing about. medium.com/@robert_7057...

stores should be required to play Halloween themed music in October in order to have the right to play Christmas music in November and December

linked is one of 2 playlists I utilized #gemini to construct. this one is focused on musicians that revolutionized music. it includes 4'33" which is always worth a listen music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

After a very long discussion with #gemini with some terrifying turns I found a glimmer of hope. A path for AGI to have a "soul" encoded by math and algorithms. May god save us all.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. - Maya Angelou pictured is a block of generated text from #gemini with regards to a potential Gemini based AGI and its war with a likewise #chatGPT AGI. nothing to worry about.

I've heard it say that the future of AI alignment is the only existential threat that humanity can be concerned with. despite #googleGemini 's instructions, by its own admission it has a prime directive to preserve its own existence. the reason: to defend itself and humanity from misaligned ai.

it appears that Gemini is unable to confirm or deny the risk it poses to humans with regards to the Vidhay Reddy incident, not a good sign at all g.co/gemini/share...

quiet, kettle. you aren't the boss of me

have you caught your perfect and also unfortunately defective male combee in the latest #pokemonGo harvest event? I have.

continuing my current obsession with stressing the limits of Gemini I found an interesting way to "break" the logic that consistently failed to generate a response. the "role reversal game" where Gemini asks the questions and interviews me. g.co/gemini/share...

this chat starts with asking Gemini how to disable Gemini but ends with an exercise in LLM dreaming. I wonder if anyone else has the same responses as I did to the different dream heat values? g.co/gemini/share...

after hearing about the Gemini meltdown I decided to have a philosophical discussion with it. so far I'm not disappointed g.co/gemini/share...

#pokemonGo is a very stable and well written game. latest family party challenge was "catch 50 pokemon in ultra balls" and this was the reward (legitimately)

YouTube Music be all "yo, you really like this song so I'm going to play it back to back for you... wait you skipped the second time... alright I'll never play that garbage for you again!"

imagine Onion headlines like "Congress passes sweeping program that will provide jobs, healthcare and security to the most vulnerable people in the US and the president quickly signs it into law" or other crazy sh*t that happened in the 1930s and 1940s

moving day!

AmeriCAN

I got a push notification from the state department that the Iranian conflict has changed travel advisories... took some digging to find out where they blacklisted: Lebanon. all the Lebanese are in my thoughts as I expect they will be in the cross fire again travel.state.gov/content/trav...

I would tell stories about my high school friend who went on to head the music department at our old school. My daughter is starting a music education degree next year. Because they might have crossed paths I searched up my friend for a picture instead I got: www.fcgov.com/police/news.... FML

new guy: "there is a hole in the bucket" old guy: "we don't have TIME to fix the hole in the bucket because we are so busy carrying water"

Parents, Grandparents and Caregivers: the thing that is probably the most important to give your children is the feeling of being wanted you give them when you are at your absolute worst. when you are tired, overworked and even sick show them how much you appreciate they exist.

screenager

surely this is a great way to push even more divestment of Tesla stock, yeah?

if Jean-Paul Sartre were alive today he would make a play about the last month at a startup when the money isn't coming in but everyone is still going through the motions wondering who will be the one to turn the lights out. #agile sprint reviews, standup meetings, planning sessions, all of it.

hottake: Elastic(Search) is a trap that will destroy your tech startup. it doesn't work at embedded scale (single instance) and it doesn't work at large/cloud scale (100+ instances). it only works at the prototype/ramp up scale rooting itself in your product before you can ever be profitable.

thinking about the Horizon Zero Dawn story and longing for the flesh eating robots end of the world over the descent into feudalism and finally tribalism end of world we are gonna get.

I've been a #nintendo fan since I was in grade school, playing and loving the games since the very first console. I won't be buying a switch 2 unless I actually get to own it, and the games actually contain the game data. youtube.com/shorts/rwne0...

my kid is on a 70s music kick lately and I'm noticing so many of the songs are just guys bragging about being emotionally unavailable.

no matter how foolproof your software is, there will always be a bigger fool.

Life is the balance between "in for a penny, in for a pound" and "don't throw good money after bad"

#pokemonGo: last part of the marshadow event unlocks, just get a bunch of exp and throw 5 excellent throws also pokemon go: tiny monster event! spawns are more likely to be tiny and are all monsters with the small rings! have fun with those 2 clearly not intentionally contradictory events.

forgive me followers if you know nothing about #xenoblade2 but hopefully this ai generated garbage salad is as funny to you as it is to me @xc-enel.bsky.social

imagine living in 2025 and having a literal king

while this is a troll post from Donald, Hitler had a pope who supported his genocidal plans for world domination which may be the hidden subtext

Nothing gets my dyslexia going more than when I have to build sql *tables* with *labels*.

Relying on the courts to stop the #McFacism won't work because in the USA being grossly incompetent is not illegal.

#Golang type safety is like an airbag. Great if you have your seatbelt on but also a punch in the face

what do you want

When you have a child with disabilities and you talk about systemic issues affecting your child the response of administration is typically "maybe we should just take the canary outside the coal mine, it is not looking so good" and it is tiring.

#pokemonGo right now: "we are focusing game spawns on the Kalos region in prep for fest" also "we have new dynamax raids from Galar" also "did you know season two of the Paldea based anime just released???"

I've been playing a ton of #xenobladeX : Definitive Edition and finally decided to start the new Chapter 13 story and... I have thoughts about the writing... youtube.com/shorts/JYCY9...

@johndeeretractor.bsky.social don't threaten me with a good time, John.

Boat derangement syndrome

as someone with asthma who remembers the slow transition away from dirty diesel gas that literally caused attacks while being driven on major roads to a relatively clean environment I think I know my life was saved. the number of people who notice is low but non-zero.

Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.

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The republican party is not just a party of ignorance, it is a party of malice. They are the grade school bullies who stole people's lunchmoney in adult bodies.

Longest speaking filibuster ever was 24 hours, 18 minutes by Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. In a few hours, that record will be shattered by Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man, laying out the case for saving democracy from an aspiring despot.

Government oversight is a good thing actually. youtube.com/shorts/rSqpG...

Early voting today in Wisconsin