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@Miraz +1 for cast iron. A flatiron griddle pan is the best for eggs, crepes, tortillas, etc. plus, my only bread recipe requires a dutch oven.

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@Archimage Never. It Never did.

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@Miraz Pema is awesome. I’ve read a few books of her’s and enjoyed them a great deal.

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@gregmoore Pilgrims Winter is the clear winner and maybe even a mini-series. Quaker Freeze is an automobile additive or a “finish him” maneuver.

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@mitch sorry Mitch, it wasn’t a robbery (that was Tenet) but a way to keep the mark isolated for a few hours, for incepting of course. 🫪

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@mitch The team needs a major distraction to effect an airport robbery. They consider stealing a plane, but the money, Saito, decides to simple buy the entire airline. Go Meta Indeed.

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@mitch The junior high school version of capitalism we’re running does do exactly this. Did anyone notice how any company that can issue a debit card does? Being a bank is easier than finding a bank, depending on what sort of financial shenanigans you’re interested in. On the customer service vector Inception provides another example; Saito solution was the buy the airline rather than attempt a “robbery”.

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@gregmoore Right? I’ve been having a hard time assuming I’m superior, too! 🤪 Sorry, always looking for the funny.

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But, @Annie, I have to tell you that I too have been creating space/time around my life and with it some psychological distance some from the matrix. It seems the human OS is again going through some pretty significant changes.

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Congrats again for providing a living example of the possible.

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Somehow there should be a steerable kite sliding through all of that blue.

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@Miraz nature’s rhythm section jams econo!

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@jaffe will the department archive this, post a recording, live stream, audio or transcript? So many questions…

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@gregmoore colonists colophon? Too clumsy …uh, wait, does it mean it starts early reverse or it ends early reverse?

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@jarrod ohhhh, double-punned for the KO!

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@chiasm Congrats 🍾🎈 you continue to have it goin’ on!

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Recognize. (said in a heavy Jamaican accent for no explicable reason) (it’s also not clear why I’m providing stage directions)

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Really tho, celebrate.

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@joshuapsteele Hey Yo!

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@todd thx! just trying to save on those tokens!

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Note: the assumed through line here is that I could have just asked AIJeeves or looked it up on the Bundesliga site, but why do that when @todd probably knows AND I can ruin the joke by explaining it!

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@mandaris got two tens for a five? 😉

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@todd How’s Frankfurt doing? I thought they were decent last year but I’m watching MLS more than any European leagues lately.

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@ner3y have you tried unplugging it and then plugging it back in? 😉

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@todd “Condensation — For a Wetter Future (anthem swells) Here at Drywells, we …”

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@Eyebeemania “Brian, go to the Stop & Go and get a pack of Mores and a pack of Camels. Tell them it’s for your parents.” And I did, and it worked. That was in 1975 or so…

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@aemiliana 🤩

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@jarrod @numericcitizen

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The iPhone++
\nThe iPhoneClam (but the new cool kind not the old stupid kind)
\nThe iPhoneFlip
\nThe iPhoneNotAniPad

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Hmmm, maybe Duo, yeah…

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@jgamet “I’m sure I told you to check the seams. Always check the seams on your outdoor ball bags. C’mon man, we’re trying to set an example here. ”

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@V_ One of the OGs of AI with insights worthwhile still, right?

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Einer der OGs von KI mit immer noch lohnenden Erkenntnissen, oder?

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Wait though—what if life is already giving you lemonade?

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@Miraz at first glance I thought that was the side of a building! Talk about big bugs!

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Ruse rhymes with “views” not “loose”.

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It is easier for people to simply obey the rules rather than understand the intent expressed by the rule’s existence. More difficult still is to understand the need for the rules in the first place.

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I’m using “rules” here to stand in for a rather wide category of artifacts: instructions, methods, algorithms,...

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I abandon more projects before 6am than most people start in a week! #grindcultureprocrastinators

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📷📸

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The cacti have been budding lately. Ah, spring.

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gust

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📷📸

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If I hear “seven figure side hustle” one more time…I’ll sigh again—and get on with my five figure main hustle.

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They were saying

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Let’s teach those robots how to play hardball.

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Let’s teach those little fellas a little gratitude.

\n
\n

  Laurie Anderson - Sharkey’s Night

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I prompted Claude with this: “Write about the memorization of convention masquerading as the acquisition of expertise.”

\n

It responded thus:

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Not too bad really. Not convinced the domain transfer is as simple and reliable as implied…

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Why are you so excited about a five?

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Verstappen out in first qualifying round in Melbourne. Also, Montoya needs better fitting pants. #F1 #Melbourne

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There was a time when folks kept their fetishes to themselves. Was it a better time? IDK but it was a different time. #stuffoldpeoplesay

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Where’s the Klout for retail AI? I mean, shouldn’t someone be doing meta-, aggregator, “all your AI is belong to us”, type stuff. Or is everyone pretty sure it would just churn out supraslop?

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So an iPad glued to a HomePod?

\n

“Nail two things together that have never been nailed together before and somebody will buy it from you man.”
\n– George Carlin\n

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Happy to report that I can actually find a great deal more time to fiddle and primp and fuss with my punky street glider than I had previously supposed.

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The end of the world, or just another killer sunset? Yes.

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The First Post: bkryer.com

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The great thing about AI? Never needs ironing.

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What is my response when asked what I do for a living? 👉
\nHint: I’m a technical writer.
\nExtra hint: The pointer is the answer.

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You know those kind of questions that are just so interesting to ponder that it is a bit disappointing when you learn the actual answer? Thursdays are an example of this.

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\n

Frank: “Hey—what in the…name of—hey! (knocks out guy) Whaddya doin' kissin' this guy?”

\n
\n
\n

Sarah: “Well, I didn’t want to kill him…”

\n
\n
\n

Frank: ”Well, what kind of stupid logic is that!?”

\n
\n

Main characters discussing tactics, RED 2, 2013

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Well, that was pleasantly uneventful.

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Here we go.

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