jasonpettus

jasonpettus, 9 months ago to random

I've talked before about the brilliance of free streaming service Tubi, but this article gets it all wrong; it's not great because they say "let's just collect all the movies we possibly can," but rather because some smart nerds there are carefully acquiring great old movies that few people have heard of or that have otherwise disappeared from the cultural consciousness. https://lifehacker.com/what-is-tubi-and-how-to-watch-it-free-1850736811

grammargirl, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

OMG! I still need to fact check this, but I'm praying it's true because I am dying to use this example the next time I talk about the ethics of using ellipses. It's perfect.

I can still use it if it's fake, but it's so much better if it's true.

(Do any of you happen to know what this book is?)

[UPDATE: It's "Spartina by "John Casey." Thanks, everyone!]

jasonpettus, 9 months ago to random

Oh, what fresh new hell is THIS, Grammarly? You're seriously suggesting that instead of telling my client I'll finish their manuscript in eight weekdays, I should instead say eight weeks? Really? REAAAAALLLYY, GRAMMARLYYYYYYYYY??????!!!!!!1!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I HATE AI SO MUCH

WHY MUST EVERY FUCKING WEBSITE FORCE AI ON ME AGAINST MY WILL

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

jasonpettus, 9 months ago to random

There's something really nerd-delightful about checking out a book from the public library that's so old, it still has a hand-typed paper checkout slip on the inside cover

jasonpettus, 9 months ago to random

Hot take: Grammarly is singlehandedly the worst thing to happen to literature in the last hundred years.

jasonpettus, 10 months ago to random

Just learned about the reality show "Alone," which has an amazing premise: each season they take 10 survivalist nuts and throw them into the wilderness with no food or water, and the last one eventually still there wins (usually after three months or more). Watching them in reverse order, I was impressed that all the Season 9 contestants are highly competent and made not even a single stupid mistake; but in earlier seasons, people make all KINDS of stupid mistakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvSa8xEwkAI&pp=ygUNYWxvbmUgdHYgc2hvdw%3D%3D

ernie, 10 months ago to random

That time I made friends with Dennis Rodman on Google+

jasonpettus, 10 months ago to random

Two weeks after having 100 million people sign up, the number of daily active users at Facebook's Threads has already dropped all the way down to 13 million. Facebook executives claim this is exactly what they were expecting and that there's no reason to panic, and also wanted to see if you'd be interested in an Oculus Rift new in box for twenty bucks. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/threads-user-engagement-continues-to-decline/ar-AA1eakst

jasonpettus, 10 months ago to random

That said, Threads is a remarkably honest glimpse at how dire things have gotten at Facebook, if the social network has to create an entirely new social network just to let people interact the way they expect to on a social network. It's like if Gmail one day announced, "Great news! We've invented a new app that lets you read and write email!"

jasonpettus, 10 months ago to TodayILearned

#TodayILearned that Prohibition was largely the biggest factor in ice cream going from an occasional expensive treat to a daily staple enjoyed by millions, through the rise of the "soda shop" in the absence of bars in the 1920s. https://vinepair.com/cocktail-chatter/prohibition-ice-cream/

chrisnoessel, 11 months ago to random

We’re going ro need a name for people who only eat sheet meat, or lab grown meat. Labratarians?
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/06/21/1183484892/no-kill-meat-grown-from-animal-cells-is-now-approved-for-sale-in-the-u-s

kushal, 11 months ago to random

Where are the threads/courses on becoming a Thought leader?

-- just a frustrated Wednesday, nothing else.

jasonpettus, 11 months ago to random

Oh, what the fuck is THIS fresh new hell

jasonpettus, 11 months ago to random

Sincere question for #WGA #strike people: Why has the Director's Guild been able to reach a deal with the studios faster than the Writer's Guild? Is it that their demands were milder? That studios traditionally have a better relationship with directors than they do writers? Is a strongarm tactic to break up solidarity, at a price they're willing to pay? Genuinely curious. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/business/media/hollywood-directors-guild-deal.html

jasonpettus, 1 year ago to random

A new "password-guessing" AI bot was given 15 million real passwords, and it correctly guessed 81% of them within a month after starting (with a full 50% guessed in less than one minute). The 19% that weren't guessed all had over 18 characters and were a random mix of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols, so let that guide your password creations from now on. https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/07/ai-cracks-passwords-this-fast-how-to-protect/

jasonpettus, 1 year ago to random

I think you mean "The showrunners of 'The Mandalorian' accidentally stumbled ass-backwards into something actually loved by other people besides the nerds, and as fellow nerds who only accidentally stumbled ass-backwards into this, they of course didn't know how to sustain it for more than one season" https://www.space.com/the-mandalorian-has-forgotten-what-made-us-fall-in-love-with-it-in-the-first-place

jasonpettus, 1 year ago to random

This article is such a perfect summation of America in the 21st century: A radical liberal singer and a radical conservative singer have dominated the music charts for years without any serious competition, and anyone who doesn't like radical liberals or radical conservatives are shit out of luck and are given no choices at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/arts/music/taylor-swift-morgan-wallen-billboard-chart.html

jasonpettus, 1 year ago to random

I still read Lifehacker daily, because it still often has good articles; but a growing amount of their content these days is useless filler like this article, which is entitled "How to Retire When You Have No Savings" and with the entirety of its advice being, "Start saving and don't retire." https://lifehacker.com/how-to-retire-when-you-have-basically-nothing-saved-1850391373

jasonpettus, 1 year ago to random

Ladies and gentlemen, we officially have our first lazy Hollywood actioner to be widely and seriously accused by critics of being written by an AI bot. Remember this for future questions in "Trivial Pursuit: 2020s Edition!" https://letterboxd.com/film/ghosted-2023/

uastronomer, 1 year ago to random

@paulox How do they compare to project gutenberg? More attention to OCR errors?