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  Slopsism: the belief that the only verifiable reality is what your AI chatbot says

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  The sound of butthurt billionaires commanding their assistants to make ready the Star Chambers, the flaking of over-twisted moustache wax

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  I received the most deranged email overnight and am pleased to report that hallucinations are not yet the sole province of machines

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  Between children’s toys that were essentially a tube of flammable goo that allowed you to blow colorful balloons, and kitchen tools that were the equivalent of plugging a hot dog into to mains current, it’s remarkable that my generation survived to adulthood

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  “Why I Am not Going To Buy A Computer” Wendell Berry [1987, 2000] https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf

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  Gooner Goggles ➡️ Goongles ➡️ Google

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  Wow, performative breathing much, my man?

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  I won’t say “hero graphic,” ‘cause what’s a “hero graphic?”

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  If I’m a little bit late, it’s because I got caught up in a quail jam

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  Soon It has been dry, so the berries are smaller than usual, but the ones that are ripe are very sweet

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  “Then AI raised the stakes. Users began expecting something fundamentally different from software: not just tools that store and retrieve, but products that reason, generate, and respond. Meeting that expectation means making LLM calls, and LLM calls cost money.”[1] User don’t expect this at all. Users don’t want this. If it’s impacting your unit economics that’s an unforced own-goal

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  Two exclamation points above a letter is a “boomlaut,” or explosive diaeresis

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  Lest there be any question

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  Meet a person on the beach this morning. “I wasnt expecting this wind,” she says “Yeah. It’s been in and out of the forecast. They’re not really good at it anymore,” I say “Please don’t ask why. Please don’t ask why,” thinks my wife

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  A love letter to Stevie Ray Vaughan regarding his love letter to Jimi Hendrix. Almost note for note (and captures the tone!) until around 4:20, when he makes it his own https://youtu.be/ZMLEBbEny7E

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  “That’s not in your diet…” “Cheat day!” “You’ve had it.” “I’ve had one, yes. What about second cheat day? Wednesdies?”

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