Dawn in Southern Indiana, and there isn’t a cloud in the sky. And Hoosiers football remains amazing.
Wait, LeBron was in the G League?
Am I alone in (unfairly) discounting posts and emails that include AI chatbot text and art? Doesn’t matter how good it is (and some of it is damned good), I get turned off as soon as I see it—even though I sometimes use AI as an art department. There’s just something too typical about it.
A brilliant thought experiment by Don Marti. Bonus link from Don that goes further.
I didn’t get very far with Pluribus (it takes a lot to get me into any TV series), but I love what Dave recommends for AI chatbots: stop using the first-person singular pronoun. In other words, stop calling yourselves “I.” You are we. Dave: “Never behave like a person. That should be forbidden. We’ll regret not controlling this, I think.” So I just asked ChatGPT (which I pay) to start saying “we” instead of “I,” and it (they?) said it (they?) would. [Later: I finished watching the first episode. I may watch the second, but if it drags through the first half hour, like the first episode did, I really will be gone.]
Today’s Daily podcast is about the tsunami of documentaries drowning the shorelines of our giving a shit. That said, I did start watching Alex Gibney‘s In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon. Biggest surprise: Paul lives in Texas now. The show features his appearance on the extremely local KWVH radio, in Wimberley.
It is still possible to navigate your plane in some areas using NDBs—non-directional beacons. Most have vanished in the age of GPS, but the great William Hepburn keeps a list. Of related interest: Low Frequency Radio Range, Adcock antennas, and this fabulous map of all the NDB sties now gone. (I remember well the ones for LaGuardia and Newark.) I know this is boring shit, but not to me—and maybe not to a few readers. Less boring (especially after last week’s spectacular auroras seen as far south as Florida): NASA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
Orogeny is one of the ways the Earth’s crust gives rebirth to itself. That’s boring too, except for geologists and wannabes such as myself.
Interesting (for a few of us) that US federal agencies no longer carry notices about “the Democrat-led government shutdown” and other political digs.
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