Life and times of Jason since 2001
Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure the search would never have begun. We are mistaken when we compare war with “normal life.” Life has never been normal.
— C.S. Lewis
Read on socialsocialdistanceclub.substack.com/p/day-22-the-gratitude-tense
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and travelled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
Finally, blue ink is unserious. Use black like an adult.
— Read on www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/24305832/sam-altman-pen-notebook-muji-uniball
”Sanity is a handicap and liability if you’re living in a mad world.”
– Anthony Burgess
— from memex.naughtons.org/monday-18-november-2024/40083/
Enter: Nerds Gummy Clusters.
The effort seems to have worked. In 2018, Nerds products brought in $40 million in sales. In the past calendar year, the company said, that number jumped to $800 million, a 20-fold increase in about six years.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/nerds-gummy-clusters.html
Experts say you should spend no more than 10 minutes on the john.
— Read on www.12onyourside.com/2024/11/12/heres-how-long-doctors-say-is-too-long-sit-toilet/
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably Infowars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones’ primary online platform.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-rcna179936
But this whole process effectively works on the honor system, and for something like the fake Standards album, this is where the problems begin. A distributor takes you at your word that you are who you say you are, Spotify takes the distributor at their word, and boom, there’s a fake album on a real artist’s page. Most of the time when this happens, it’s an honest mistake. In the recent spate of fakes, though, it seems like artists are directly targeted.
— Read on www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24294995/spotify-ai-fake-albums-scam-distributors-metadata
After plenty of discussions and tons of exploration, I think we can simplify the world of AI use cases into three simple, distinct buckets:
- Gods: Super-intelligent, artificial entities that do things autonomously.
- Interns: Supervised copilots that collaborate with experts, focusing on grunt work.
- Cogs: Functions optimized to perform a single task extremely well, usually as part of a pipeline or interface.
Let’s break these down, one by one.
— Read on www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the-3-ai-use-cases-gods-interns-and-cogs.html
I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news.
— Read on
