Happy New Year from Auckland!

Ok, Auckland, that was a pretty good sunset. Good job.

golden hour ginkgo tree

Folks talking about GURPS today. I was a user of the Illuminati BBS run by SJG and seized by the Secret Service as part of Operation Sundevil (along with GURPS Cyberpunk). I was in the courtroom for the verdict. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_J...

One of the things I've been looking forward to with LLMs is the ability to have control over the UX without the need to have someone build the feature. I prefer reminders to not be set to "all day" but instead trigger during waking hours, but I don't want to be bothered to specify a time.

Sure we put you through a month of hell, but on the other hand we got nothing for it.

@schiff.senate.gov How can your office voicemail box be full this far into the 21st century?

Lovely spring day in Auckland.

Found the Lost hatch on the side of an old volcano in Auckland.

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Not that they track it, but it would be interesting data to see what people switch to. Also, missed an opportunity for a Spinal Tap reference.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Having fun turning various topics into quick clips from Broadway musicals that do not (yet?) exist with the Gemini Veo 3 video model. Here's a clip from Feynman!, the musical about Richard Feynman.

I feel like I've been a bit too passive in my information consumption lately, and that also there's so much fragmentation in terms of source and format. And I really dislike having newsletters and the like in my email. So I'm starting to take control bit by bit.

In line behind Matthew McConaughey at the UT Austin Wendy's.

"Devonport! Where time is always well spent." I spent my time well wandering Cheltenham Beach.

Kind of old news. But when I think back on everything that happened during the Covid pandemic the one thing we got completely completely right was the vaccine. Super successful thing out into people's arms in under a year. Basically tamed the worst of covid. And yet ...

Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Blue Sky shows me handle.invalid for my own username. Is there an incantation? Some button to mash to fix?

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