I choose my friends for their looks, my enemies for their intelligence.

Man and machines share in the stimulating exchange of...aaargh.

Once again, Douglas Adams was SO far ahead of his time. This one definitely captures some of the vibes of life with LLM.

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Why? Because for all their warfighter posturing, ICE agents get a certain kind of power from seeming like a ragtag layman's militia. They envision themselves as members of Donald Trump's personal security force, exempt from the legal and regulatory strictures that--to varying extents--keep other law enforcement units in line. More ideologically driven than the military, more openly hostile than a police department (and with about one-third of the training), ICE is cultivating an image of unpredictable brutality.

It's weird thinking about that compared to Hegseth's "anti-beardos" emphasis on looking so orderly in the regular military. A cool if (ironically?) somewhat overdesigned web page The Last Quiet Thing, about how devices and services seem to ask so much from us these days, on an ongoing basis.

I have a similar feeling these days about messaging in general, email, WhatsApp, texts, Discords... if I let myself fall behind a few days it's such a slog to catch back up.

A hotdog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty [...] Male or female, a cat will show you how it feels about you. People hide their feelings for various reasons, but cats never do.

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