Most popular books in US public libraries, 2023
#books #libraries

https://proquest.syndetics.com/news/2024/01/02/top-syndetics-unbound-titles-of-2023/

"Draft a message to the hiring team with AI"

Yeah I'm sure they'll appreciate that, LinkedIn.

No. Bad. Don't.

I generally like this printer and it's served well the past 15 years but I'm gonna office space it if this black smudging keeps up. Cleaned everything I can get to and haven't affected it. Fuser maybe. Bah.

Thanks for your concern, Faceless Corporation, but if your product includes a list of 32 safety instructions, maybe tell the lawyers to chill out, have a cold beverage, smell some flowers.

trying to finish packing -- does TSA say anything about plasmas?

Don't try to play the Ukrainians is what I'm saying.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has extended an invitation to Donald Trump to visit Kyiv, with a specific condition attached: the former U.S. president must demonstrate his ability to bring an end to the war with Russia within 24 hours, as he once promised.

your dog's collar tag ever gotten hooked on the fully loaded dishwasher drawer and then the dog freaked out and retreated at high speed taking the drawer along for a ride?
No?
Just me?
#cleanupOnAisleEverywhere

Julienned a sausage. Normal and usual, right?
Or should I get my cranium calibrated.

If your Congress Critter's name is at the top of this document, consider sending them a memo/fax/phone call.
#politics
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-719/298014/20240118120731316_23-719%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20U.S.%20Senator%20Ted%20Cruz.pdf

/nosanitize

Best understand this or get The Boot:

"I will dropkick you if you refer to an LLM as a Librarian
While most of the general public tends to refer to all generative large language models as chatgpt, I will continue to be a member of the pedantic web and use phrases like ‘large language models’ and ‘machine learning’ instead of ‘general artificial intelligence’ or AI.

I am on Team Stochastic Parrot. I am not on Team AI Rights. " --Simon Willison

#LLM

https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2024/01/18/i-will-dropkick-you-if-you-refer-to-an-llm-as-a-librarian/

Paid good money to have those pipes buried pup.
#dogs #digging

Lavrov schooling everyone. The USA has ruled the world for 500 years (!). 500 y'all, Big History has been lying to us. Going to go do my own research.

#politics

Zarf?
Zarf.
"Airplane Mode for the Cloud"
A free open source tool that enables continuous software delivery on disconnected networks.
#devops
https://zarf.dev/

I am now set down to write you on a subject which fills me with inexpressible concern - and this concern is greatly aggravated and Increased, when I reflect upon the uneasiness I know it will give you - It has been determined the Strategic coffee Bean reserve has capacity for 7.56 pour-over coffees. Replenishment is 6 - 8 days away.

(apologies to George and MArtha Washington)
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0003

Somehow this took a lot longer to arrive...four of them in a grocery bag inside a beaten cardboard box... than the wall-mount. These will be scattered amongst the tools to increase the chances of finding one when needed.
Works great!

Dream:
Accompanied a photographer pal to talk to (very old, but still alive) Bob Keeshan* about pal's compromising, Epstein-y photos of Gov. Abbott. Keeshan said a lot of unrepeatable words and said to be extremely careful whatever we did next. And walked away swearing more.

Anyway, how do brains work?
#brains

*Captain Kangaroo

Flags bearing the names of fallen soldiers, including those of foreign soldiers who died defending Ukraine, are displayed at a makeshift memorial on Independence Square in Kyiv on Jan. 11, 2024. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

#ukraine

On the pencil sharpener front:
New sharpener arrived, installed and boom pow got hit with <mumble> years' old memories of elementary school, being tasked to empty the shavings.
Know what I'm talking about?

Could a friend hypothetically ship a box direct to Ukraine or is it better carried in from a less explodey country.

American fast food chain Subway has been added to Ukraine's list of "international sponsors of war" for its continued presence in the Russian market, the (Ukraine) National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) announced on Jan. 10.
#ukraine