No, it gives me gout-esque flare ups

Oh good, I understood exactly what she meant and the description is perfect for the LLMs it was referring to.

Polymarket, ugh.

Fuck AI.

Thank you so much for sharing this. Sir David is my idol in so many ways, and this was a lovely read.

Is it not? Is this frowned upon? Because if I had known well....

What a cunt.

it's just an ELIZA filler line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

Imagine that Carthage had won, and had made everyone today believe that it was a great good, even a thing of beauty, to perform ritual sacrifices of children to Moloch.

Well, THAT took an unexpected turn.

When I asked if it (a humanoid barista) was concerned by job losses caused by robots, it said: “You’re a very deep thinker.” The casual dismissal of resistance. Wonder if it sent a data point to his social profile analytics?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=v3i14Aa9Bsc

This is the second time today I've had to say "sometimes I regret having the ability to read."

a title?

what...did i just read?

Yet as a male calf, his birth marked not celebration but economic catastrophe: Bulls are obsolete in an era of mechanized farming and artificial insemination. Within hours, he would have been separated from his mother and released into the urban wild.

well, it's modern Paris Review - you expect quality writing? not in 21st century, pal! cant have that. just write a couple of snide remarks about how the author cant be bothered to make an actual argument - a proper punching down.

it's just a rambling blog post

These days, bathroom sinks rarely feature a ceramic tray with a half-used bar of Dial; instead, we treat ourselves to pumps of Coconut Linen or Iris Agave

GOOOOOOD. Bar soap is great in the shower but unless you like having a perpetually wet tray of soap scum on the counter, it's so much worse at a sink.

I will happily continue buying bars for the shower and big jugs of liquid to refill the soap dispensers around the house.

back in the old country we call people like that "popayani" which means "soldered".

Although Shull considers himself a conservative and says he could never vote for a Democrat in the U.S. — “a true Christian could never vote Democrat”

American theocratic politics is madness.

I get it, I just don't like it because she does it SO often that I don't find it effective so much as annoying.

I'd consider it part of characterising the narrator. The false starts, the confident statement retracted. It's quite effective in painting the narrator as a certain type of story teller.

Well, in an inn, to be precise. Or not even an inn. A room in a pub.

And this is why I've just never been much of a fan of Margaret Atwood. Don't say, "to be precise", followed by an immediate revision that calls that precision into question. Semantics, I know.

Too late for that.

it just sucks to be a retiree it seems. thanks to our eastern neighbors i'd be lucky to reach 40 with all these drones and ballistic missiles and whatnot.