By France, do you mean Paris? They’re the worst.

Lyon ain’t much better.

I guess it would be impossible for it to be farther away than I think…

This is a good discussion about the original tests Turing discussed, as well as a very fun interview.

https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/2024/4/4/the-turing-test-is-bullshit-walex-hanna-and-emily-m-bender

If this is what he says in public, can you imagine what’s going to come out in discovery?

Tommy Lee Jones at his best imo.

No action movies that deal with adult character concerns and feature development over the course of the movie? Somebody should tell the author of the article about Everything Everywhere All At Once, she would probably like it.

I used to work in the valley. As a general rule, the higher up in the org the person is, the more relaxed they are about a little lawbreaking.

Yeah people drastically underestimate the gulf between randos and anybody who’s had even a little decent training.

Well, Frances Haugen left a while ago. Some people did go.

And, well, the best time to leave Facebook was to never join. The second best time is now.

A rich white cis gay man backstabbing trans people?

This never happens, I’m shocked!

If you don’t want to fiddle, Linux Mint Cinnamon.

Yeah he’s pretty lame as a character to build a story around.

Well, speaking as someone who came to realize that I was working for a company that was ripping off its customers, you’ve already gone through a LOT of stress before you get to that point.

It was the Basilisk!

Woooooooo

Everbody is collapsing into their lower back and would be way imbalanced in real life. Running would be painful with that posture.

Yeah I just wanted to play the arena combat.

I wanted to buy a $40 deck builder game with cool IP, they wanted to sell me a $70 AAA production with a bunch of external stuff that I found pretty boring.

I ended up not buying.

Their money is now in azure. Os and app suites are a declining business, but they help with azure lock in.

Tim Cook is a greaseball.

Hanging out with Shandling, Jean Shepard, and Woz sounds like a good time.

Unfortunately Garry is no longer available.

Yeah it’s made explicit with dialog in the show that the Enterprise itself is Kirk’s primary obsession.

Wow he’s had a ton of work.