dgerard

Nerds fear getting Malcolm Gladwell book for Christmas

training your sperm to pass raven's progressive matrices

oh?? please do tell!

momty python style giant sabot descends on Microsoft data centre

it's a little magical and not entirely reliable so i'm not a fan, but the switch is there

i am hearing that ProQuest has been quietly contacting small publishers to see if it can ingest their published output for AI training.

ProQuest has an AI thing now, but it's denied it's training on hosted content ... yet.

if you are, or know, an author who's had a letter of this sort recently, mentioning ProQuest or no, i'd love to know and please tell your friends - email is dgerard@gmail.com

i have already had whiny shits demand that I (a) set dark mode default (b) remove the switch

default is currently set to whatever your browser thinks is the default and you can switch it otherwise

yep, i'm in touch with college hill, she's aware of our esteemed site too

imma fuckin do it again

booooo should be my personal preference (light)

pivot to ai now has working dark mode! all praise to the illustrious @fasterandworse@awful.systems

i still hate dark mode, but others fucking love it so

our good buddy Jordan Lasker aka Cremieux aka TP0 gives a talk to Stanford libertarians

i haven't watched this but i am confident it is the most cursed fuckin thing

one hour thirty frickin eight