Richard Parkin

the stupidity, the stupidity, make it stop

AI research:

Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers.

Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats.

Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves. (1989)

Another way of putting this: the US constitution failed to do the main thing its framers intended - to prevent charismatic monarchy and imperial domination. It's been overwhelmed by money, partisanship and changes in media technology.

"We do war, we don't declare it." [Yosemite Pete]

screenshot of four thumbnail film posters (from Letterboxd.com): (left to right) We Shall Not Be Moved, Permanent Vacation, Sangre del Toro, Where to Land

random four watchd #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday

LOL

Hair oil? The best money can buy, a lifetime's supply.

(but I didn't proof read this one 🙄)

It's doing too much guessing and being too confident about it, just replacing words incorrectly after you're attention has moved on. I have to proof read messages. Sucks.

Dang.

This was always what he meant by 'America First'.

One of these was parking at the same time as me last week. I thought it hadn't finished its maneouvres because the bonnet was sticking out almost half a metre.

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

this I would like to see

definitely think a degree of error should be tolerated, I imagined the "clear and obvious" text was meant to embody this principle

Goal posts get in the way of assistant referees view, they tend to be in line with the players not the goal-line. Also, I think this came in before VAR. ("Clear and obvious" language did not apply and it *does* in use of VAR.) And of course, it's the most important decision of all.

I think VAR should emulate the human perspective not replace it. I think this is what has happened with offside. Also, they shouldn't show the ref slow motion. Normal speed or freeze frame.

Goal line technology is good though.

How do they balance that with concerns about their racist policy proposals? I'm sure my MP gets plenty of these. Do they discount them?

I think they should use more latitude in the application of VAR: the offside decisions we're getting are not 'clear and obvious' errors, they are marginal errors; the tech should be used to catch things officials failed to notice but should have done

screenshot of four thumbnail film posters (from Letterboxd.com): (left to right) Altri Cannibali, Eye in the Labyrinth, Faces, Permanent Objections

it's that letterboxd thingy #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday

* I recommend 'Altri Cannibali' (2021)

from Tit-Bits magazine (1892)

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Which came first?

but Martin, she's quite comfortable with policies that benefit higher earners more than lower to middle incomes

'Nice to see you, to see you nice.'

the irony being that these centrist pundits do not seem to understand the conservative* viewpoint

*currently conservatism is rare, what we have is revanchism or worse, the centrists are in denial about this

What's particularly ripe about this quotation is that there's absolutely no other reasonable way of parsing it except as an admission that they really are the Nazis, and they know it.

Team GB face uphill task for Olympic medal in four-man bobsleigh Team GB face an uphill task to win an Olympic medal in the four-man bobsleigh event as they sit seventh at the halfway point in Cortina.

Uphill task in the bobsleigh? Seems like a disadvantage, or is it a new discipline?
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...