I just misread a post about Alien and Aliens as Allen and Allens and now I'm imagining Tim Allen and Lily Allen terrorising the crew of the Nostromo.

Introvert problems: Wanting to be invited, but not wanting to go anywhere. Being lonely at home, but not wanting anyone in your space unless you really like them. And even if you really like them, you want them to go home soon.

It's very depressing that if you don't 'do' social media you might as well not exist. Out of sight out of mind seems to be a very real thing and while I'm sure many people don't care about that, it's kinda sad to get no messages on your birthday. Or maybe I'm just an asshole.

The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.

What if there are no European folklore monsters any more because émigrés to America took them all with them when they went and they all got eaten by the Wendigo?

Hilarious update. The students that did participate in the assignment all got incorrect answers. ChatGPT incorrectly analyzed the data set in every. single. instance. bc people were asking last time, no that wasn’t the point of this assignment. The prof genuinely wanted us to use it as a tool for

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

Teslacles was the Ben Franklin of the Ancient Greeks.

Had to pop into town, so quick stop for lunch at one of my favourite sneaky restaurant picks: Sofra Turkish on South Molton Street. I absolutely encourage you to read the "about us" page on their website. It actually escalates from here. www.sofra.co.uk/huseyin-ozer/

Make Ælfrǣd Great Again!

Read some news this evening that has me gobsmacked and outraged if it's even remotely true. And I can't do anything more than be vague about it. GAH!

I'm new. I'm told that #proofofcat is the best form of ID. Here is Indy, beloved boy cat and brother to Raven. I may not post much, but I am very much a real live human being. Like all you other real live human beings. With hearts, and brains, and other fleshy accoutrements.