Surprised there isn't yet a search engine with an option to at least attempt to filter out sites with predominantly AI generated text.
Not sure if that would be technically difficult but seems like an obvious differentiator.
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Hugh Stimson
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Is it just me or has the dial been twisting back towards chumbox-style hide-the-subject clickbait headlines
I feel like if I was willing to pay slightly more than a million dollars for delivery they should ship it wherever the heck I want.
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@sqwabb@mstdn.ca right? Honestly I'm not sure I would be willing to pay that much for shipping even if it was an option.
All I want for Christmas is a single USD$42 tent stake.
https://www.garagegrowngear.com/products/pioneer-torque-tent-stake-by-teragon-gear
Winter rains starting to fill in the Charleson Park duck pond and hey presto-- ducks.
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@chad Oh no! Bumping up my monthly donation. mstdn.ca really is the best Mastodon instance and I would be sad to see it go away.
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@meshe Apparently there were two 'opera guys' in Vancouver, one typically around Commercial Drive, and one mostly around South Granville.
Word is the east-side opera guy has passed on, but happily the western opera guy is still very active, as you have discovered.
Decades ago I read a newspaper article about how Volvo was planning to design cars for women by removing access to the engine compartment and adding replaceable seat covers.
It has become a internal design metaphor for me.
I had started to think I had imagined it, or it was a joke.
But no, it was a real AP wire article, 2004: https://www.chron.com/business/article/concept-car-embodies-what-women-really-want-1983274.php
Last present right on time. Whatever else is true about capitalism, it sure can deliver packages.
TV suction-cup wall mounts gives the same feeling as car or home ownership.
Cool-ish, useful, constant ambient anxiety that everything is about to go expensively wrong.
I didn't realize The Baltimorons was a Christmas movie and now I'm somehow in the Christmas spirit in November. Bah humbug?
Here's a nice thought: what if the AI bubble shrinks and we get left with an enduring supply of relatively safe, carbon-free energy.
https://www.theverge.com/news/810254/google-ai-data-center-nuclear-power-plant-restart
I will go to my death never having said "tall" when I wanted a small coffee. A minor comfort.