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Exactly!

The best [citation needed] ever.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_got_your_nose

Very amusingly, the #NYT have "invented" a new game that happens to be identical in premise to the Connecting Wall from #OnlyConnect which has been on the BBC for 15 years.

Except in execution it's *nothing* like Only Connect's game, because in OG OC you'll get words that fit multiple groups and entire red-herring connections that fit a few words but aren't solutions at all, so even if you know everything going in there's still a little graph-theory problem to do to work out how to get the unique set of four non-overlapping groups of four.

The NYT version doesn't bother with that. In the boards I've seen there's no ambiguity at all — some words can mean multiple things, but each word fits into exactly one group and there are no false connections. They've stolen the mechanics and the layout and the ideas, but they didn't understand the original well enough to get what was good about it, so their version just fundamentally doesn't work.

You might as well watch the Nicholas Cage version of The Wicker Man.

Why Rowan Atkinson is wrong about #ElectricVehicles - and The Guardian should have fact checked before publishing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/fact-check-why-rowan-atkinson-is-wrong-about-electric-vehicles

"By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying,
Lady, make a note of this —
One of you is lying."
Unfortunate Coincidence, First printed in Life, (April 8, 1926) p. 11

Dorothy Parker died #OTD in 1967.

She was known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. via @wikipedia

Books by Dorothy Parker at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5625

#books #literature #poetry #ProjectGutenberg

I'm not surprised.

Horrified, yes. Outraged, yes. Angry, yes.

Surprised ... no.

"UK mental health charities handed sensitive data to Facebook for targeted ads"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/03/uk-mental-health-charities-handed-sensitive-data-to-facebook-for-targeted-ads

My husband had to wait for 6 years to capture this view of #TheNeedles.

Taken as the #moon set at 4.30 am last summer. This shot is only possible a couple of times each year. He almost had it in 2016 but it was slightly too breezy and the telephoto lens couldn't keep in focus.

It causes controversy as some think it's fake, I promise you that it is not. It involved much research, persistence and luck with the weather! It's the cover shot on our 2024 calendar #IsleofWight #photography

Humans!

Please don't send us any more unsolicited nude pics with instructions on how to get to your house.
It's creepy.

Sincerely,

The Aliens.

This scenario is why Daniel Dennett is right https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/problem-counterfeit-people/674075/ to say that the act of counterfeiting people is the great danger and that it should be illegal. Do whatever else you want with your AI; you should not be allowed to create fake humans for purposes of deception. https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/110402514310273332

Mars - Frost in Utopia Planitia

Full size image: https://flic.kr/p/2oDimoo

I'm pretty sure this is the only hashtag #frostodon from the surface of another planet (so far) 😂

Mission #NASA #VIKING LANDER 2
Instrument: CAMERA 1
SOL 960 / 1979-05-18 local time 12:50
Raw data processed from: https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/

#Mars #HopeProbe #Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy
Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/AndreaLuck

It’s almost as if these large language models are extremely unsuited to the primary application being imagined for them: knowledge retrieval.

Easter Island is located in Polynesia, between East Island and Eastest Island

"Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland" is an absolutely astonishing piece of documentary making. Even if for whatever reason you have no interest in Ireland, you should watch it for the way in which each individual tells their story, laying bare everything. The bravery in telling these things… their vulnerability. Not comfortable viewing but extraordinarily moving television. Haunting because it tells us that civil was can be created anywhere. Thank you BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ff7cg0

English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').