Sumocat 🐈‍⬛

Throwing back to a cuddlier time with our OG trio of Spooky (R), Patty (T), and Homer (B). Spooky was adopted first, joined quickly by Pat, the oldest. They were with us through every apartment before our current home where Homer joined us. They didn’t always get along but learned to share, unlike the current clowder that’ll probably never be photographed together.
#Caturday #CatsOfSumocat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

This little monster has been enjoying the late spring buffet of the forest fauna. Harley’s been leaving birds and mice and parts thereof on the deck. In particular, he’s caught what I think is the same chipmunk on three different days before it couldn’t be caught again. 😞
#Caturday #CatsOfSumocat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

I understand our special military operation in Iran is called Operation Epstein Fury. Do not correct me. That is what it is. Keep repeating it until Emperor PalOfEpstein says it.
#OperationEpsteinFury #EpsteinFury #EmperorPalOfEpstein

While others rail against gen AI taking their job, I’ve spent the better part of two days and counting unslopping PowerPoint slides. A boss, one of many, has been running slides, mostly taken from presentations we made, through a chatbot to get them “just right”for this weekend’s big meeting, and they are so wrong. It’s barfing out slide sized images, not editing the slides, so I’ve been matching the arrangements and swapping in real images for slop like this melted mofo. 🤮
#AI #GenAI

Enjoyed a “fight fire with fire” moment today when I ran a blatantly AI generated paper through AI detection service, Pangram. I’d already determined the paper was AGI three different ways, but I’d been interested in testing Pangram for a bit when this naturally occurring opportunity knocked. Tested fully AI vs. two controls testing fully human. Still wouldn’t trust it alone, but I’ll keep it bookmarked as a confirmation tool.
#Pangram #AI #GenAI #AGI

I read a lot of bad takes in tech news, some painfully so, but did anything age as poorly, quickly, and unexpectedly as wide reaction to Apple increasing Mac base memory to 16GB in 2024?

e.g., The Verge: "Macs with 8GB of RAM are a thing of the past."

Jump forward a year and a half, the MacBook Neo, today’s top selling Mac, has 8GB of RAM, while PC vendors are falling over themselves to match it as if they weren’t already shipping low-cost notebooks.
#Apple #MacBookNeo

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/30/24270669/apple-macbook-pro-mac-mini-imac-16gb-ram-doubled-apple-intelligence-ai

"The group C+C Music Factory said it was still considering whether to participate […] The band Milli Vanilli was also announced as a performer…” — What the actual f***? What year is this? What’s happened to time?

“…the Commodores, the rock musician Bret Michaels and Morris Day and the Time also canceled performances.” — There’s the Time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/arts/music/trump-freedom-250-concert-cancellations.html

“Run from the sunlight, Dracula
Isn't the view spectacular?” — That’s just good song writing.

🎶 #NowPlaying "Dracula" by Tame Impala — https://song.link/i/1836226730

RE: @appleinsider@mastodon.social

Apple should have incorporated Siri into Messages as a contact years ago.