Paul Stansifer

The Bouba/Kiki distinction is Kiki, for obvious reasons.

Best writer on the subject of LLMs is probably Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Trilogy has a ton of computer intelligences, and their behavior is a bit familiar: they can be overly-agreeable (Eddie), over-protective (Eddie's backup personality), overconfident (the Nutrimatic) or over-engineered for relatability (Marvin). Deep Thought insists on finding a definitive answer to the most abstract possible queries. Hactar, in defiance of sci-fi cliche, is dangerous because he submits to being used as a tool. Most of all, the doors on the Heart of Gold capture the horror of intelligence (or a substitute thereof) being too cheap to meter.

Very cool to have a baby who babbles; her older siblings had me convinced that babbling was a myth invented by Big Baby.

No known human cases of guinea worm this year! https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/case-totals.html

"average person gets Spiders Georg references" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is well-adjusted. Georg Georg, who is extremely online & can reproduce typos in original format, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

I used to think that Donald Trump was a man of no convictions!

Conundrum: are more Lego pieces lying on the sidewalk these days, or is it just that I spend more time walking with short people with heightened Lego awareness?

If the rich man in Mark 10:17 had been Jeff Bezos and the disciples had less than $200 of wealth each, instead of saying "then who can be saved?", they could've just shrugged it off.

Incidentally, Oath (https://app.oath.vote/) is a way to apportion US political donations towards close local races with underfunded Democrats in legislative bodies with close overall projections. I believe it also attempts to shield your identity from the candidates to avoid political spam.

The third one escaped the joke and COULD BE RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

These days, if you tried to riff on the "Blazing Saddles already exists" format, people will say you're behind the times and there's a new template for that: "Because of ..." joke.