Hence the job title ‘prompt engineer’ I guess. If you know about Soylent Green, AI is people!

No I like yours better.

I want to have your children. In the nicest possible way.

What about semantics?

“Nothing is better than cake."

“But bread is better than nothing.

"Does that mean that bread is better than cake?”

Damn. Just when I’d learned to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull.

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya. Clippy O’Pilot at yer service.

Is that her? She looks like a hallucination.

Enshittification. Every human who uses computers on a daily basis needs to understand this word.

Anything that starts with ‘aww’

We donate to Wikipedia once per year.

One of my favourites is “Christ on a bike!” because it’s so hilarious.

Stopped going when they made shit coffee.

If plastic surgery is based on people with good looks, it seems to be very loosely based on them!

This is my complaint. It ranks popular videos with the title words out of order, over videos with the words in phrase order when I’ve used quote marks as a command to only return results containing the phrase.

I also assume that for both Google and YouTube, content they want me to see is being ranked above content I choose. I am the product, not the customer, and to me that’s not acceptable in a search engine.

I search Google for “Music behind the scenes”. Because the first word is music(?) Google gives me four songs with some of the keywords, but not in phrase order. Then it gives me seven YouTube videos, then one website that actually contains the phrase, and in fact refers to the videos I’m looking for.

But what it absolutely refused to give me, no matter how hard I tried, was this: https://youtu.be/7r01e_SZ5ic?si=GdOpoP8dBp372yjg

I presume this is because the videos aren’t monetised? Anyway precision score 11/30, and as for recall, even if I click on ‘videos’ the five of them that have the exact phrase in the title don’t appear at all.

Absolutely. Do you remember the herp derp extension that would turn them all into ‘herp derp herp derp’ so that you wouldn’t have to read them?

Takeaway: “What’s the use of ranking high with content that doesn’t engage visitors? If they feel like a bot wrote the content, it defeats the purpose. If this is what it takes to rank on a search engine, then there’s something wrong with the search engine itself.”

True dat.

Moderation in all things.

To avoid negative thinking, challenge the thought that a problem is personal, pervasive or permanent (Martin Seligman)

Parenting: Set a good example. Don’t punish. Teach. Tell them what TO do, not what not to do.

Having ideas about the way things ought to be is great, but you can only respond to what is.

Be excellent to each other. Do as you would be done by.

Oh, this EPA?

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/482352-trump-budget-slashes-funding-for-epa-environmental-programs/

Hi Aaron, Thankyou for leading me to find Cory Doctorow’s essay on enshittification. I think this should be taught in every higher learning institution in the world, immediately.