Reminds me of Judge Holden in Blood Meridian, who sketched ancient artifacts in his personal notebook and then destroyed the originals.

Or Salma Hayek.

If they make a sequel movie based on her current activities, who will they cast to play Julia Roberts in the in-universe version of the film based on the first movie?

The article quotes a post from ISBNdb saying the issue is model collapse from training on synthetic data.

“Credit” implies something you can borrow against—I’m not sure what that would mean in the context of social media.

Do you continue being an idiot outside the context of the team?

I’d rather be surrounded by people more capable than me (at least if I care about the success of the task), but not at that cost.

Inés Carrasco, who writes the blog Cronicas de San Pedro, said Chipotle might appeal to people who embrace Tex-Mex food because of the city’s proximity to the US, but that history did not bode well for it.

Chipotle’s isn’t Tex-Mex, it’s (a feeble corporate knockoff of) San Francisco Mission-style.

I think there are regional Mexican-American cuisines that could be appreciated in Mexico as their own thing, but chain restaurants don’t do them justice.

Since Ben Garrison is the one human whose output most closely resembles AI, I imagine this is him having an existential crisis.

They’re not selling gasoline, they’re selling the experience of living in an alternate reality.

Over 50% of the U.S. population is white. That means that if everyone chooses a partner at random—or at least without bias due to race—people from all groups will end up with white partners most of the time. So that statistic means nothing with regard to your dating possibilities.

Maybe search for highest-altitude reservoirs instead of dams?

I mean, the Whig party hasn’t lost an election in 100 years…

This is the earthquake from last week, in case anyone’s alarmed.

Given that birthright citizenship has been the rule since the Civil War, is he saying that all of subsequent American history is an example of these “grotesque results”?

Sure, but you’re forced to fall back on parsing words letter-by-letter—you can’t read whole words at a glance like normal.

I
guess
you
could
say
that.

With the Latin alphabet, fluent readers don’t recognize each letter individually—they recognize words and syllables based in part on the pattern of ascenders and descenders. Arranging the characters vertically disrupts that pattern.

With East Asian writing, each character represents a word or syllable, so those units don’t get disrupted by the vertical orientation.

The rest of its brood had already dissolved.

One dead baby duck was caught floating in the pool over the weekend, though the cause of death was unclear.

Did they charge it with vandalism too?

Depends on your position on philosophical realism.