Kevin Shay
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Kevin Shay
@kshay.com
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Thread of AI Overview fun:
I was thinking Harper’s Bazaar for a second and picturing a fashion spread
I would sum it up thusly: Don’t pitch me, bro
Turing and Turing in the widening gyre
this guy talked to an LLM about physics and is convinced he proved the world is mushrooms
Can’t believe the Senate unanimously confirmed the Beagle Boys
Startup idea: reverse Cameo where minor celebrities pay random people to pretend to be fans
Not to mention the inherent problems with letting rent-seeking startups into the classroom
Adventures in modern pedagogy: nobody in my kid’s 8th grade Social Studies class can do their homework because the school forgot to renew the license for the homework SaaS platform
Surprisingly low tbh
Did you know that, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible?
When Online Content Disappears
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
f.mtr.cool
She is not throwing away her shot
We’ve evolved a family policy of “vaccines only on Fridays”
Who tried or failed to “shoulder past” whom? Cuomo‘s attempted bigfoot of the primary happened in March, when all the other candidates had been running for 5+ months
Maybe if she didn’t remove it he would fall over anyway (it’s just his natural kicking motion) but everyone would be watching the kicked ball, leaving him time to get up
“He had PTSD from being bombed by Russia. Also he somehow didn’t like Russia? Weird”
Availability zone? More like deniability zone
Corollary: There’s a genre of magazine article that’s just “I want to sell the movie rights”
Not sure exactly what that now-deleted post described, but I do enjoy pointing out that TWINS and DEAD RINGERS were in theaters at the same time in 1988 and >0 DeVito/Schwarzenegger fans almost certainly walked into the wrong one
“The old adage said to let them lie. Was it wrong?”
A little weird for a Neil Simon play, but OK
The fidget spinners of higher ed
I think he was enthusiastic about running in the primary when everyone assumed he would win easily, but he deeply regrets letting people convince him to stay in for this doomed independent run
“50 First Dates” starring Donald Trump
Some part of me will be sad to lose the most unintentionally funny mayor the city has ever seen but an intentionally funny one is some solace
Checking out Bluesky to see what people have said about the show Black Rabbit and there is a LOT of literal rabbit content on here