denis villenueve: i invented the harkonnen black sun as a cautionary tale

interior designers: at long last, we have created the harkonnen black sun from the classic sci-fi movie Don’t Create the Harkonnen Black Sun

Makes a lot of sense. I think one danger lies in believing that LLMs are capable of much more and rushing headlong into it without due care for real-world concerns.

How can you tell if a programmer has been to hell and back in terms of what they've had to debug?

Stuff like this 👇

say it with me: we want haptic feedback. we want tactile switches and dials. we dont want stupid touch screens that glitch, provide zero feedback, and force you to look at them. technology is stupid. modern engineers are stupid. can someone help silicon valley

Voice to text system that picks up coughs as 'kyaheh' just to be annoying

PETA I would absolutely eat a T-Rex, are you kidding me?

Robert what the hell nobody was suggesting this

some of the best writing of this era

Just look at how woodcocks walk. Absolute nonsense. Ridiculous birds. The worst. youtu.be/NTx_oME8EwQ?fe…

Blackthorne: You tell him that this lettering is a font I know as “Arial”. The shit-eating dogs of Microsoft made a atrocity to man and God in this plagiarism of the venerable Helvetica—a fraud and a lie, and he must know it!

Mariko: Anjin is upset about the shape of the letters

Susan Hecht 🌱 Josiah Hawthorne I’ve come to the conclusion that LotR is actually a fable for the middle-aged about doing things even when you’re really tired and would quite like a nap.

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