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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 10h

Oh that’s so crazy that kids love the thing that kids have loved for a hundred years.

Vulture @vulture.com · 15h

After leaving HBO Max earlier this year, ‘Looney Tunes’ is a hit on Tubi, the company says, and popular across generations. It should be a model for every classic cartoons trapped in streaming limbo.

Make All Classic Cartoons Free

After leaving HBO Max earlier this year, ‘Looney Tunes’ is a hit on Tubi, the company says, and popular across generations. It should be a model for every classic cartoons trapped in streaming limbo.

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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Blobby has been found in many photographs throughout the 20th century, and he appears in central European woodcuts and tapestries as early as the 9th century.

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 3d

Say this for Teams, I didn't think anything could make me miss Skype, but getting OneDrive errors for trying to drop files into chat, or randomly having input switch from my overhead mic to a headset, or it only sending me notifications when it feels like it, or *somehow* having a worse UI, or aaaaa

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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · 4d

Honey Somebody Shrunk The Kids But Honestly I Don't Think Playing The Blame Game Is The Appropriate Thing To Do Right Now If I'm Being Honest

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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 5d

My mistake, you are correct! I generated the file, but I did not give you a download link — let me go get it for you [pretends to walk down stairs behind couch]

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet

Cannot generate simple excel files on pro version
Question
So I have used ChatGPT pro for a while now and recently I have been facing an issue while trying to collate data from pdfs and put it in an excel sheet where in my chat it keeps asking me questions when it finally gets down to generating an excel sheet it never gives me the me the link to download the file.
After multiple attempts when it does give me a lin k to download the excel file I rec an error which says file not found. Starting to grow frustrated with this now.
Look forward to any suggestions to tackle this #problem

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 4d

I've been informed that it might be a red kite from this year, in which case it won't have a pronounced fork yet. Basically the training wheels version while its figuring things out, apparently. :D

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Katy Moon @oog.bsky.social · 4d

There's a slot car racing place in town that was open briefly ("temporarily closed" since 2022) and... I think I can see why it wasn't a success.

A shop front with the name above it.
The sign, I kid you not, reads "RACEWARS" and is designed to look like a speedometer.

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 4d

I will put in that my vaguely bird-obsessed partner has taken one look and said 'that's a red kite'.

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 4d

After watching aliexpress Mosley not do his job as an MEP, and not do his job as an MP, and his councillors and fellow MPs not do their jobs either, The People* are just thrilled at the prospect of seeing him not do his job as PM. Its a magical time to be alive.

* useless bastards

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 4d

Jason Statham in comedy mode as the retired fixer & genius heist specialist brought out of retirement and/or prison for one last job putting them back. “Hang on - you want me to WHAT?”

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Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 4d

If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable

jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · Aug 26

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 4d

And if watching a video feels just a bit too much like engaging with material, you can have a chatbot yoink the transcript and summarise that instead. Wonderful. We could save even more time by just not engaging with art at all and experiencing life as a grey blur of sleep and productivity. Amazing.

Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 16d

I can tell you what Blink cuts out:
Everything that makes a book worth reading.
A plot synopsis isn't a novel-- and a plot synopsis has never made anyone Feel anything.

Carry on, world. Wonder why there's no meaning in your life.
I'll continue reading whole books written by people.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

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CHOAM Nomsky (frightening) @samthielman.com · 5d

I am merely aiding the police in their inquiries, it is simply a way of passing the time for me, and the constables, they are gracious enough to accept my assistance, all unpaid, of course. If you, too, will humor me by joining the other guests in the parlor I would like to share some of my findings

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 5d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 5d

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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Entomemeology @entomemeology.bsky.social · 5d

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 7d

a bookstore window, in all caps:
"fuck social media.
marry books.
kill ai."

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 7d

Welcome to the future, you now have a sycophantic idiot built into every tool at hand; it's bad at its job, constantly makes mistakes, has no capacity to improve and degrades your work by existing.
You can't sack it, can't throw a stapler at it, can't even make it an MP. What's the point?

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 7d

Also, I notice that GPT has a new habit of delivering just short of the mark, and asking if you want [obvious thing it shouldn't have skipped] added. I assume it's to use up the free access to higher models a bit faster and push people to subs. It's *less* useful now and it was shit to start with.

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 7d

LLMs are, in my experience, excruciatingly bad at anything beyond the simplest tasks in my field. They've only ever saved me time in the way that using my own snippets would, because I can add an instruction to change X aspect and turn back to something else for five minutes. Whoopee?

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 7d

A terrible consequence of being on my end of the webdev pool is having to deal with these chatbots whether I want to or not. If it's not a client taking Chat GPT wordsalad advice and forwarding it to me, then I'm managing slop content or fixing shit 'vibe coders' have broken. They're everywhere.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 7d

i've asked an llm one question, about something i know about, and it made up a bunch of incorrect bullshit that i knew to be false. what am i supposed to do with that

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 8d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 8d

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 8d

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 8d

If it escapes draft zero? Rain, hot metal and bastards.
Or hot bastards in the rain, with metal.
Dealer's choice really.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 10d

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 8d

Me: Pokémon as a series is archaic in ways that aren’t excusable for such a huge franchise and it deserves a lot more criticism for its complacency and long-term flaws.

Game Freak: Have an Ekans, you bitch.

Me: I am a bitch.

Me, a bitch, with Ekans, a thing guaranteed to reduce me to the status of a bitch.

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Nick Brett. Boo. @feedingmonsters.bsky.social · 8d

This. Extremely this, and there is so much left to do. If my skeleton could yawn, it would.