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Those old York's Peppermint Patty ads were on to something.

Maybe we should close a few golf courses.

Stockholm syndrome.

But if we don't have contrails, how will people be able to make up conspiracies about them?

Yes, but the post wasn't specific about which particular change of formula they were made about.

Where are the pointy mountains?

Nostalgic for lard?

Stop eating Lady Gaga, Oreos.

Ignorance is bliss.

Now we have Uber and Lyft. You can have a chaffeur on call.

Julia Child would also be in favor of doing mise en place--measuring out your ingredients before you start doing anything.

Personally, and I say this as someone who has been trained to do recipe editing, I find this tabular system to be not entirely clear. Consider the first example--the instruction to mix is applied to several ingredients at least twice. The instruction to 'fold in' seems to apply to all the ingredients at once, which makes no sense. Normally, you'd mix the dry ingredients together first. Also, in this case, you'd probably want to whisk the eggs and sugar together first so the sugar starts to dissolve. It also doesn't give you a clue as to what 'done' means.

"His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices."

Previously it was only his greed, resentments, racism, and dementia driving him to irrational policy choices. Also, Stephen Miller.

That's a fairly limited view of what books can be for.

It doesn't really matter. The article suggests that they are selecting and tracking books by ISBN, which means: books that have been published or at least reprinted in the last 50 years or so. And they are trying to get as much of that set as they can, regardless of quantity, quality, or any other consideration. Which means that older books printed before ISBNs became common may be relatively safe, at least from Amazon. And some books just don't come up on the used market very often.

(small historical irony: when Amazon first started selling books, they used the Books in Print database, which included a lot of books not actually in print.)

That is the problem: they are digesting it. They are not creating a new kind of library, where you could say, show me the text of "How to Fix Your Ice Cream Problems". (An actual book I own) It is not being done for our future reference.

That is not where his head is.

The title is wrong: it is easy to believe.

"Anthropic's . . . Claude is a Perversion of Writing."

FITFY.

I have no sympathy for writers whining about what the AI is doing to 'their' writing. It's only your writing when you write it. There's any easy way to avoid this: don't fucking use it. Use you own brain.

Because Moses asked Pharaoh for a day off and Pharaoh said no, get back to work.

Or we could resist the notion that age verification should be legally required. Because it won't just be for 'adult' things.

But the presumption in a liquor store is that pretty much everything in the store is for sale to adults only. That's why liquor stores exist. It's not really a good metaphor for the internet, where the opposite is (or should be) true: the presumption should be open access for all.

Xitter.

The law isn't ambiguous.

The FCC mainly regulates broadcast. CNN is cable. Also, there's a difference between a station being in more than 39% of households and being 39% of the total market. Other stations still compete with CNN.

There's a spot where you could just lift up the mower over the rocks to get from one side to the other. Or at least, that's how I would have done, but I have a tiny lawn and a reel mower.

But it recognizes the dog. Priorities.

It's the same company isn't it? So they share the unfortunateness.

Some years ago I had a similar situation--a claim letter from the IRS that didn't account for quarterly payments. I was able to resolve it by mail, sending copies of checks. Another time, they misread a 1099. Again, a copy in the mail resolved it. Now, even that is getting closed off.

When I was in college I took a class in modern poetry. The teacher showed us a film about Bukowski. Before the film, there was a trigger warning. "I must warn you," he said, "Charles Bukowski is an asshole."

I live in the Boston area, where academia, research, and the biotech industry bring in a lot of people and money. Visa restrictions, research funding cuts, mishegas at the FDA, CDC, etc., and so on and so forth, have clearly had an impact on the local market. It's still pretty expensive here, no doubt, but the market has slowed. There's a brand new and entirely empty office tower a few blocks away. There's still a need for more housing, but developers aren't going to be rushing in to build if they think the price is going to be lower when they finish building.