To create a United Airlines MileagePlus account you have to set up security questions like "Who is your favorite artist?" and they make you choose from a preselected list of options

This lineup for the NY Times Dealbook event in a few days is … really something

They had whole pomelos at the store! This thing is the basis of most commercial citrus fruit you can buy: hybridized with mandarins to create grapefruit, oranges, and tangerines; hybridized with citron to create lemons

Turns out there’s no such thing as “post-industrial” warfare, either. nytimes.com/2022/11/26/wor…

Brian Robinson said his friend has a “big hat” company. “If you want a big hat, let me know.”

"Whence" means "from where." You don't need to say "from whence." Stop saying "from whence."

I wonder why it's bolted together like that, rather than being bonded. Not much extra weight but surely enough that there had to be a pretty good justification for it.

a hungry mouth Thank you Twitter I would love to see more data science facts like these

People on Twitter wished for an edit button. One of Hive's security vulnerabilities allows even more: You can edit posts of other accounts.

everyone on twitter right now

I don’t understand this take. Like—yeah, of course, that’s pretty clearly the point of the movie. x.com/VoicesByZane/s…

OpenAI explicitly trained it to say this so that people wouldn’t try to turn the model into something it’s not—like, say, a therapist. This is a feature, not a limit to be overcome.

Disheartening to see “actually teaching” being framed as a way to outwit your students. nytimes.com/2023/01/16/tec…