Jim Christian

I’ve probably had five hours sleep and am trying to wake up in the local cafe after school drop off and am pleasantly surprised seeing Jack Conte, Ben Folds and others on the TV screen in here. I find all of their stuff effusively heartwarming and a joy to watch and listen to. Last night…

Mike Masnick, Techdirt: Instead of forcing people to believe that two plus two equals five, we’ve created a world where every mathematical operation returns whatever result best serves power at that moment. The mirror hasn’t been broken—it’s been replaced by a screen that shows us whatever those controlling it want us to see.

“Daisy the ‘AI granny’ speaks to scammer: ‘I’m a bit lost now’” AI taking on the jobs that don’t want to do and shouldn’t have to do. This is the way.

Whether you’re a fan of SNL or not, this has to be one of the best pieces of tight editing you’ve every seen. 50 years of musical performances packed into 7 minutes.

Today I created an automation that looks for a labelled message in Gmail, passes the content through to ChatGPT to write a slightly canned response (which is the objective), then emails it back to the sender. This is based in Google Workspace, were we have access to Gemini, but Gemini couldn’t handle sticking to the…

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