GN. The Cyclops may not be perfect, but at least he's still symmetrical.

This cowboy ain't gonna pay $2K for an oversized iPhone.

Healthy Paloma: Squirt Zero, tequila. Garnish with lime. Never expel your lime rind. Keep it rolling.

The prodigal Rays have returned. They were in the dining room. Crisis averted. View quoted note →

GM Nostr. We begin our day in remote Kinsman, which I always love. Great little church down here with even better folks. The way it oughta be. Get after it and stay safe out there!

GN, friends. I hope you spotted something Good, True, and Beautiful today.

I can't find a pair of my Ray-bans and it's driving me insane.

I carry a Graphene Pixel with me wherever I go. It doesn't have a phone number, only data, which I pay for via sats. I love it. I play with it constantly while I'm out and about. The only problem, though, are the questions: "Father, why do you have two phones?" I still haven't been able to come up with a good answer that didn't sound overly technical or dumb. 😂 View quoted note →

My buddy made me some Gyokuro tea from Tokyo yesterday, and I lost my mind. I know whatever Gyokuro I get here in the states will be terrible by comparison, but I'll still drink to the memory of that. Addicted now.

GM. Back to the grindstone today. Caffeine not optional.

GN, Nostr. A good day had by all as I hung out with a longtime friend and his family. Here's an alien at the ironing board, just to bide you adieu.

We stay on Nostr until morale improves.

GM. Today for the holiday (and my day off) we shall hang with one of my best friends and his godson. Always good times.

Long day. Strange day. Met up unexpectedly with one of my very best priest friends from Iowa. Have a good night everybody. Here's a picture of a space frog.

GN. I hope you loved today.

In the end, I'm not anti-AI: I just want people to evaluate how valuable it actually is to the majority of people in this world, outside of the code it assists in generating. If we're being honest... there isn't much there.

The only real reason AI has any traction at all, and has gained the hype and economic backing it has, is because the Coding Class loves it. Of course they do: it's extremely helpful to them. The Coding Class drives tech trend, though, and here we are: we have a tool really helpful to the coder, which is also of nominal importance to everyone else. Businesses once sold on the idea that AI would make their operations more cost efficient are realizing otherwise, and the Average Joe just has a quicker way to Google stuff and make funny pictures. Once Wall Street exploits the IPOs on Anthropic/OpenAI... well, we'll see just how much the bubble can burst without tipping over the entire system.

On the last paragraph, especially: this is why you see the overwhelming majority of Americans reject data centers. We're a utilitarian people (for the worse), willing to bend if a perceived need is big enough. But nobody really gives two squirts about LLMs. For most people, they're an image generator and a search engine for answering questions, and and that's about it. View quoted note →

GM. First Saturday so rise and grind. Coulda used a sleep-in day after the Champaign adventure, but here goes.

GN all! Busy Saturday ahead.