Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

This Politico headline is borderline irresponsible...

Anyone else thinking about all those fingers spending their last day of being attached to hand today?

Normalize moaning loudly as you enjoy a good meal.

Billionaire cage fights are a waste of everyone's time. It's time for a billionaire pistol duel.

Nothing quite illustrates the pure stupidity of Republicanism like the current push to end birthright citizenship.

This can only occur by Constitutional amendment, and would require 38 states to ratify it. AKA: not going to happen.

That Trump thinks he can do it via Executive Order is even more outrageous. These kinds of campaign promises just show that the GOP knows exactly how stupid their constituents are that they know this nonsense will earn them votes...

Decided to see what people were saying about the Titanic submersible on Twitter. Good lord people are stupid.

"Why doesn't it have GPS?" "Why doesn't it have a radio?" "If it has Starlink, why can't they get on the Internet?"

All those things are on the boat, not the submersible. Entirely too many people unable to process that these things aren't useful under a few feet of water, much less 2.5 miles of salt water.

Give them to me!

I found it.

I found the worst way to commute from #Everett to #Seattle.

Why drive 45 minutes when you could fly for 9 hours with layovers in San Francisco and Portland?

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8,096GB isn't even an actual data cap, it's just the largest POT number I could configure the hotspot to display.

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I've been enjoying my new 5G Hotspot.

I'm not a huge fan of image generating AIs like DALL-E. They do seem to be entirely a novelty, and I have trouble imagining a useful case for this kind of thing. It just cheapens visual arts by making them soulless and weird.

For writing technical documents and reports, GPT is a nice tool for massaging content into the right format, but DALL-E just automates human creativity in a way that removes the humanity...

I've finally stopped seeing generative AI as a novelty, and really leaned into the useful things I can make it do.

My current favorite is writing documents in markdown, and asking ChatGPT for feedback. It's surprisingly good at offering advice and reviewing my next draft as I write a document.

If I ask it to rewrite a document, I save the returned markdown into a separate file and diff it with the original. Really amazing the little changes it makes.