Congratulations Disney 🤣🤣🤣

"Nothing worth having comes without some kinda fight. Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight."

"This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend *somebody!" -- John Adams "1776"

Trump at Arlington National Cemetary

Actually, it is still crap. If not worse. #RingsOfPower

Cancellation. We could ask for cancellation.

Yes, "riveting and captivating", like a car crash. PS: "best performances" is a relative thing, BTW. They aren't objectively _good_ performances in any way, just maybe, slightly, marginally better performances than season 1. Which I don't agree with, FTR.

I still eat bacon.

I appreciate Rust Language ; I just don't like it. Way too verbose for my tastes.

The problem with #RingsOfPower isn't that it's fan fiction, but that it's not even "fan". None of the writers and show runners show even the minimum amount of love or respect or knowledge for the Tolkien lore and majesty.

This is what happens when so-called neutral standards bodies are actually just fronts for corporate interests: they force a standard and protocol that really benefits a handful of large key players, and even then it is still crap: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

GitHub PUSH events and the weird bit of data that it doesn't directly provide (for some strange reason): linkedin.com/pulse/bad-json…

On behalf of Salesforce, so excited and proud to once again sponsor All Things Open this year!

Easy guide to tell if any "Top Guitarists" list is total horsesh*t: 1. If The Edge ranks higher than Lindsey Buckingham 2. If there are more than 10 spots between Lindsey Buckingham and Mark Knopfler Yes, this is my hill... and these are my beans.

LLMs do not think or reason. LLMs interpolate within a high dimensional latent space. They are undeniably capable of generating remarkably coherent results (which is their strength) but do not in any sense of the word understand (which is their weakness). As such, they are

Do you really have to go all the way to Ohio for some good dog or cat? Aren't there any enterprising Haitians with food trucks?

A bit of a magnum opus from Hope Scrollin on the role of foundations in our ecosystem. A fantastic read, especially for people who like the word 'imprimatur' redmonk.com/jgovernor/2024…

One can't help but notice that some of the most vocal voices against the current #opensource #AI definition are AWS employees. AWS has a long history of taking complete open sourced projects and then commercializing them to the extent that the original project itself is