I stopped using Twitter many, many years ago. It was just full of shit and a place for people that can't keep thoughts in their head, no matter how uninteresting and pointless they are to speak aloud.

I've been fine. Much better than those that still use it, as far as is clear to me. Just leave. It'll only be an improvement.

That was my first thought. Just tell them it's for AI training. Tech companies will back it because they have to set that precedence.

The study is a quick and interesting read. The main outtake is that AI is most beneficial to be used later in the task to essentially "tighten it up".

I've recommended AI to people before for this. Essentially brain dump and purge their plan, idea, points, and structure down. Don't worry if you get inspired and side-tracked with deeper ideas and thoughts, that's a good thing.

Once it's all down in a mess of papers, rather than drafts 2, then 3, then possibly 4 before final output, use AI to help bring it all together and articulate it better. Once tweaked up, go through it again with your final adjustments and fixes without AI. It's a much quicker process for less important work. It's a tool, not a brain.

Always weird seeing these photos and remembering it's near instant death if standing there.

Were a joke*

The US is seen on par with Russia now. Above NK; below China. Kind of just go around fucking everyone and everything, unapologetically and oblivious. Most of the rest of the world is done and started the transition to cut the US out of the picture. Globalisation is slow but a hard thing to turn once a course is set. When possible, the US will start getting sanctioned.

There's still the jokes, but even that's fatigued.

It's just an education thing. Anyone with half a brain cell dedicated to understanding the fundamentals, doesnt blur Zionists and Jews. Obviously it helps the others when Jewish people actively speak out against Zionism.

But you gotta remember, for a long time there, a large group of morons associated Islam as a "race" of terrorism.

Always. Lazy sociopaths don't. The same people that don't use indicators, leave pee on the seat, and jump queues.

I used to be surf patrol. Would explain it, "You're far more likely to die in the car on the way to the beach. If you survive that, odds are you drown before a shark is even in the area. So stay where I can see you and you might just get lucky one day."

Their coffee is shit. Their international reputation is so negative, they've failed so many times.

So if you're an American and love Starbucks, maybe try to figure out why that is because it's obviously not for the coffee. Or keep paying full price for something as high in quality as their work environment.

Ugh. We're doing Narnia again?

"Appears to be a generative AI strategy to optimise contemt velocity."

That's the price you pay for such luxuries like "Fire safety compliant" and "Toilet".

I've worked for two organisations that distributed licences for users. Being able to prove, under scrutinisation, that your general requests do not need to be questioned for that level. Anything above your level of liberty in the data governance would be checked—though 99% of the time you already know this and explain in full detail on the request to help.

It worked perfectly and I don't know why it's still not the norm.

In a 'wet cement' org structure, often the specialists in an area know far more about what's going on than the juniors gatekeeping. If you aren't buddies with the person on top, you join the queue and a 5 min job becomes 6 months and several meetings; if you don't already botch a dodgy workaround before then.

Edit: I'm in year 3 of getting the Oracle SQL add-on allowed to direct query, read only, in Excel. My current workaround is to use the IDE to export to CSV, store on SP, then PQ that... And, yeah, I have write access in the IDE even though I keep telling them that's bad... Apparently, that solution is more secure. I've spoken to the CIO about the concerns and how it breaks the fundamentals of our data governance framework. The new infrastructure architecture gets it, but has to spin the better way of doing things as a "trial" which has taken 6 months to approve and counting...

In Australia, drownings are taken as seriously as sun cancer. It's in the culture.

Europe is more and more like Australia as this climate change goes on.

You want a ruined plow? That's how you get a ruined plow.

I don't know why I come here for farming advice...

It's even less dangerous in most countries that hold training and acceptance to a police service at a high regard.

$4.5M a year and no living costs.

Well now you ruined aerodynamics for me, thanks.

Yeah but you're not going to get shot at for leaving... In fact leaving is a very easy and simple thing to do if you can let go of your low quality comfort zone.

I just go back to sleep. Never figured a noise in the house to be anything other than the house, shit falling, or a rodent. All stuff I'm not getting up for and definitely not finding a weapon for.

It has backfired, though. Once, about 30 years ago, a bicycle got taken from the front lawn. That should've been a bullet in someone's head as justice, of course.