Whee! Friend reports that Thrifty's 800 number AI phone agent told him it was changing his reservation, and didn't actually.
Second time kinda worked (it didn't do other stuff).
So extra load on us, double check what portions of that the AI agent told you it actually did...
You have to get on the blockchain now. This is the least capable that the blockchain will ever be. I project that we'll have 99% of our data on the blockchain within two years.
Bwahahaha! Shelina Moreda apparently only moved her voter registration inside the city limits on October 6, and Petaluma code requires someone to have been a resident for 30 days in order to run for mayor.
https://www.petalumanews.com/2026/08/17/shelina-moredas-candidacy-in-petaluma-race-for-mayor-thrown-into-doubt-by-residency-status/
Eenteresting phishing attack, apparently a friend got popped by it and it sent me an email... bulletfreesky dot com slash vxxt. Anyway, *do not* enter your Google credentials, there, but might be interesting poking around if you swing that way.
Reminder that if you fight "AI data centers" in your town, but you use AI to... for instance, come up with a number of data centers in your town as a reason the town should have an anti-AI datacenter ordinance... you're just a NIMBY externalizing costs on to other less privileged communities.
In the future, all compute that isn't used by LLMs will be devoted to dumbass architectures that diff the entire model state with the view state to find and apply changes.
Okay, Google, now you're just jerking me around. The excerpt text contains the string "Baltimore", the line below that claims it's missing that search hit.
If you had a bunch of collections of information, perhaps envisioned by folders full of PDFs and web links, how might you lay out clusters of that?
I can use semantic embeddings, but the two largest eigenvalues doesn't seem like enough info.
Also, what's the right granularity for those embeddings? More than folder name, I'd guess.
Maybe something involving distances in that space between each of the collections? What's the right algorithm for reducing that to 2D?
Elderly friend of mine gave up on recovering his Instagram account via a password change. The process led to a screen which asked him to log in on another device, or... and the "or" wasn't clickable.
So we abandoned it.
It's amazing that a company the size of Meta is fucking it up this badly.
We're house sitting for some neighbors who expressed that they're having a little trouble with some steps up and down in their house, I had some Simpson decorative bolts, and some Ipé I'm gonna slap these grab bars in those places when they're gone.
Dear deities. I'm watching a Nate B. Jones video for work, and the ads... the ads make me need a shower. With like steel wool to scrub off the ick.
I don't know if this is where YouTube ads have gone generally, but these things are making Meta ads look legit.
Today I learned about https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel , a command-line tool to talk to the Apple FoundationModels that run locally on Macs. 4k tokens on MacOS 26, 8k on MacOS 27.
Also https://github.com/scouzi1966/maclocal-api for an OpenAI API, can run other models (like Qwen).
For the love of all the deities, just send me the damned prompt, stop asking me to read LLM output. It's so clumsy and convoluted that I can't tell if you* have an interesting thought under there, or not.
* For specific values of "you" that are probably not the reader of this.
Oh god. You know that thing where to understand code, you have to go through and strip out all of the misleading comments.
And you know how LLMs meticulously comment code.
And... yeah. I just hit one of those.
Which is why I'm looking for different work.
Got a KPop Demon Hunters earworm this morning, and pondering how many stories are about people self-actualizing despite years of cultural abuse reinforced by how we do schooling.
It's almost like it's the aim of that process or something.
Oh dear deities. The people who thought they could make political hay with a data center ban apparently used an LLM to ask about existing data centers in Petaluma, and are now demanding answers for bullshit the LLM made up.
And some of these people have actually been respected in the community!
Finally dropped into the Marin Museum of Bicycling in Fairfax, after years of missing it, and holy crap is that worth the stop. Really cool collection, I hope they manage to catalog and label more, but the docents are awesome too.
Just looked up a Unicode character, and when I came back to the tab of course it was displaying one of those "your Mac has forty gazillion viruses" fake Norton malware pages.
So let's not mince words: When you build a web page that requires JavaScript, you are working in concert with malware vendors.
If I could browse the web without JavaScript, I would, but I can't, because you collaborators with and enablers of evildoers keep building web pages that require it.
Now this, friends, is some quality attention to detail. The Lynx(dot)com unsubscribe page has... placeholder menu stuff that doesn't do anything dangling in it?
Another conversation which... the AI psychosis is real, and I can't push back too hard without getting a reaction, but I am astounded at how much money is apparently being spent in the hopes that inserting LLMs into something will be more cost effective than simple tweaks to process.
Well, last night at about 6:30, a mile and a half or so south of the Kastania Rd exit on 101, the sunroof on our 2022 Bolt EUV shattered and rained glass down on us.
Looked into the details of "The Reality Network", and suddenly had the uncomfortable realization that WASM means that every one of those "checking to see if you're a human" pauses could be stealing compute for proof-of-work (like ads likely already are).
JavaScript was a mistake.
You know what's interesting. None of the Chinese models have hacked Hugging Face yet.
It's almost like maybe they're competent enough to keep their models contained?
The irony of a "no politics" sign in a bike shop.
Anyway, if anyone's got a favorite bike shop that still stocks parts for us analog bike riders, I'm open to suggestions.
Whatever happened to Google search? I'm trying to find if Emily Wilson has written anything on "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", and the "AI" summary is sending me down links that, of course, don't say what the summary claims.
But even the Google excerpts are just bogus now.
Inspired by someone who got a worse answer, I tried this, and, yeah, find me a human that would answer this "yes, it clearly is" question with "no".
Anyway, Sam Altman thinks we've hit the singularity.
Some days it's scrap wood to excise the ideas from my brain... Anyway, we have a post next to our driveway that's no longer used for anything, but I like it, so I built something to encourage people to like this post...
https://youtube.com/shorts/V8Zh6OLzNXs?is=hw_z4TyI5YBgUY2r
I have been way off my exercise game and trying to get back on it. This morning I did 3 laps on the Quarry Heights stairs (208 plus a few), and this evening 8 on the McNear Landing stairs (50) so over a thousand.
I realize that's only like 7-800' vertical at sea level (+ hill to and from), but...
Gavin Newsom supports return to office so that we'll fall in love with our coworkers...
The jokes write themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/live/I8HUd8oUzjc?si=9cwOIAgVmwycd1M-&t=48m13s
Okay, Google, now you're just jerking me around. The excerpt text contains the string "Baltimore", the line below that claims it's missing that search hit.
We're house sitting for some neighbors who expressed that they're having a little trouble with some steps up and down in their house, I had some Simpson decorative bolts, and some Ipé I'm gonna slap these grab bars in those places when they're gone.
Cat pic!
Obligatory cat picture 
Okay, one more more street painting
Even more street painting
More street paintings by Loma Vista school
Kudos to BlueZones for getting these street paintings by Loma Vista school approved and painted.
Now this, friends, is some quality attention to detail. The Lynx(dot)com unsubscribe page has... placeholder menu stuff that doesn't do anything dangling in it?
Inspired by someone who got a worse answer, I tried this, and, yeah, find me a human that would answer this "yes, it clearly is" question with "no".
Anyway, Sam Altman thinks we've hit the singularity.
I've never been up in this San Rafael neighborhood before.
Like This Post, the back side mechanism.
Like This Post, in its open configuration, button pressed.
Like this post, in its closed configuration. With picture.