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This video about NYC accents is amazing.
But a few observations:
1. Tyriq has a gay black men's Brooklyn accent. Jones didn't mention the gay part, but it's a thing.
2. People in the comments are calling Tyriq's accent "new" ugh NO. It's at least 30 years old.
3. As a person from Ohio the kids DO have NYC accents. It's changing, but I hear it. Bronx/Brooklyn/Manhattan not the same.
As a 20 year transplant when I go home I'm told *I* have one. This cannot be true.
Listen if you want me to appear out of a smokey alcove and mysteriously answer your questions I can totally do that. You don't need to turn to the LLM.
On the other hand? People used to love to go to the oracle at Delphi and ask her all kinds of things she'd have no way of knowing. And she'd say some cryptic stuff, hope it landed well probably.
When she was wrong they changed the future, when she was right? well she's always right.
People loved having an oracle to ask.
So this LLM thing is nothing new.
Throw some fat on the fire and crank up the incense.
The whole "hey grok?" thing is so embarrassing.
For everyone involved.
And it teaches people to forget what real fact checking might involve. Don't give grok the keys.
People (left leaning media figures) stop calling "grok" responding to something on X "fact checking" just because the LLM happened to be right one time *challenge*
Difficulty? Impossible??
Even if it's funny. eg. "Elon go FACT CHECKED by his own bot" yes that's funny but no facts were checked, there was no such process. Please mention that this whole thing is a pantomime of critical thinking and media literacy not the real thing.
I had to pull up some tile that was beyond help in my kitchen ten years ago so I had to test that tile before I did that obviously, I secretly got a scrap from the hall too and tested it because I am paranoid and didn't really buy the "just leave it be" philosophy.
It's not asbestos. Which is sad news if we have a fire I suppose.
I now think the "just don't touch it" can work too though.
I'm going through a phase as I slowly realize I've been living in the same place for 20 years and plan to stay for at least 20 more. So... gotta think about space a little.
I need to talk about this in the coop meetings so they don't replace it. Just stand up and do a poem about how much I love the floor and how sad I'd be if it were gone. They "updated" our lobby and it's... it's fine, the floor wasn't level and it was time. But, I'd rather they spend more on other things and not mess with the halls.
I love the flooring tile in the hallway of my building. Since 1954 it’s been buffed every Sunday: giving it a luster of deep time. I love how when they patched it near the elevator (where it was used most often) they used black tiles that didn’t quite match. The scattered white spots on the dark background remind me of a starry night sky. The black squares are the unknown void.
I think part of interior design is recognizing what you love: what doesn’t need to be updated. #interiorDesign
@the_etrain
And then? subduction ... into the couch.
she will learn nothing
and when it turns out alright for her, for her own she will claim that "the system is working"
(but they really are running out of people to go after)
plate tectonics
They have on little fur coats, you can tell they care about the temperature. 
That's a cute butterfly. I love how fuzzy it is.
Because when people talk about the hymenopterans they always forget about the sawflies and just say "ants, bees and wasps!"
(which is like saying "wasps, wasps and wasps..". but we are not ready to have THAT conversation yet. )
The more I think about it the more it seems that how a "co-computing space" is set up needs to be carefully tailored to how people want to spend time together.
Do you like to have someone next to you working on something but mostly ignoring you? I like that. But for some people that could be miserable.
Do you want to sit side by side and play the same game at the same time with the sound on? Then watch the same videos? Too much for me.
It's a big set of decisions.
I think I'd get lonely in my own room. And it would confuse the cat.
But I have many friends who love to have their own "pod" ... wish I had one at work sometimes.