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Recent comics

So then he hands me a USB stick and says "It's got Quake III Arena on it. Let's play". I said "OK Boomer". The last time anyone said "OK Boomer" was seven years ago. What? "Millennial" and "cringe" are also used interchangeably now.

What the hell is this? Every timestamp is tiny. It's the number of seconds since 0001-01-01. Hey. Are you sending us shit data? Are you validating your inputs? Fuck. With type unsafety comes psychological unsafety.

It's just hilarious that they are calling it a System 1 model. It's not precise. Kahneman only used that as an expository device, not an actual structural claim. The funny part is calling it Jev, as in William Stanley Jevons. The dude thought sunspots caused recessions. Now that's thinking fast.

You'd think they'd stop trying after the great success of their blockchain currency, or their augmented reality dumpster fire. But naming their agent after a source of inspiration? If I wanted my agent conversation history to be used for political advertisement, I'd give it to Cambridge Analytica myself. So I guess it inspires me to vomit.