LOLOL and Texas related, of course.

"AI" as it's known may not go away, and it may be helpful to some people, but it will continue to be little more than an expensive, fancy-pants data retrieval system that steals copyrighted material for profitable ends. Hopefully, our lawmakers will do their job and make sure it is appropriately and strongly regulated and that they put a stop to the wholesale theft. The last copilot-generated search result I looked at (I always prefix my searches these days with "-ai -copilot" but I forgot this time) said something coherent followed by a parenthetical, "According to Wikipedia". Had me LOLing. I recommend the following opinion as a counter to the constant hype... https://unherd.com/2025/08/how-to-stopper-the-ai-genie/?lang=us But as recent tests and studies of LLMs have shown, this technology is not the pathway to AGI that we were promised. The hopes that “scaling”, “emergent properties” and “reasoning” would lead to AGI have all failed. The path to AGI lies elsewhere, if anywhere. As Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, has said: “There’s absolutely no way that autoregressive LLMs… will reach human intelligence. It’s just not going to happen.”

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I think they did that last time too.

Some interesting reading here, which I will read in its entirety later ... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273606710_The_rate_of_fading_of_natural_dyes

@wtg said in programs to watch via Channel 4. Trying to remember channel 4 stuff... 8 out of 10 cats Timeteam Drop the Dead Donkey Father Ted (you'll either love or hate this) Nothing currently

The Johnny Cash museum in Nashville is great; I learned a lot about him there.

Interesting. I guess it was an ancient and widespread practice.

I wish I had some! Italy is one of the top two places I'd like to go. The other is England and I have been there. I know it's not soon but I hope you'll tell us about it and post pictures!

Andy, stunning. Wow. Having lived on an idyllic, isolated island, I've found that the only practical downside is access to healthcare. There were plenty of situations where a person in HI would have to fly to Honolulu to see a specialist or have an operation. Although it you had that kind of money, I guess you'd be able to rent a private jet at the drop of a hat and it wouldn't be an issue.

Life is strange.

@Rontuner said in CPB shutting down: Sen. Collins expressed similar concerns: “I share the frustration with the biased reporting by NPR, and I would support defunding it." I guess the only media allowed should be way to the right? NPR rates just a little left with a high factual rating... https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/npr/ Not allowed. Funded with taxpayer dollars. No one is talking about what media should be allowed.

@Daniel. My family history is probably loaded with things I do not want to know. There is a museum at Murray State in Kentucky known as the Wrather museum. Was told a professor named Wrather left the money for the museum. Have never found the time to go. Have been less than 40 miles away a number of times. I was told very little family history. hmmm....

@wtg said in Private health tracking system announced: a White House event dubbed “Making Health Technology Great Again.” Again? Was there some era of great health technology in the 50s or something?

Still bad air quality today (157 on the apple weather app) - entering day 2 of the 4 day Lollapalloza music fest downtown. Gridlock in our neighborhood again certain times of the day and night. At least it's cooler which should help the paramedics!