Damn, Morgan Spurlock has passed away from cancer at age 53.
I've never seen any of his docs. But I recall being inundated with marketing for Super Size Me back in the day, not to mention years of controversy about his films, including that one.
I don't personally think LLMs will ruin everything, but neither do I think they will solve everything. Despite being in the tech world, I've been skeptical of many of the applications in which they've made an appearance in the past 18 months.
This is the cherry on top. You can no longer avoid it if you're a Google user. And even worse, its hallucinations will displace reliable but smaller sources of info.
NPR did a fascinating dive through a database of historical markers across the US.
That the markers so badly misrepresent history (especially Civil War and Native American history) isn't surprising, of course. But the specific ways and the mechanics of how they work are illuminating.
Note that while the piece doesn't quote the slurs, if you click through to the database itself, it's uncensored. And the piece describes some upsetting events and racist ideas.
Outside of that, I'm a New England-based software engineer by day. I'm also big into #boardgames , and got bitten by the #pickleball bug about two years ago.
I'm also big into various forms of #rock , from melodic death all the way to indie rock. But post-rock/metal and dream pop especially.