I very rarely use AI intentionally. That said, I’ve begun to keep a note called “Stories of Useful AI” of other people’s stories of using AI that have made me think, “Well, there’s an effective and reasonable use case.” This way, if I run into a similar situation, I may remember to use it.

I am wearing a costume.

I’m Ted Blacko (Lasso, but the Black version).

You can tell by the always positive smile.

Look at what we’re doing over the dinosaur goo we burn…

At least the dino goo can be used for something practical (cars! electricity! plastic!)

Crypto, no so much.

So, yeah, not really crying when people get it stollen or lose their passwords.

To wit, we humans have collectively agreed for some odd reason a long time ago that shiny rocks were more valuable than non-shiny rocks. We built entire civilizations, plundered continents, and eradicated whole sections of humanity over shiny rocks.

Crypto currency relies on a base truth about money — it is a construct. Money is a stand-in for agreement on value. Money operates on trust. Money speeds and obfuscates negotiation. Money keeps us from having to carry around sheep or chickens.

Crypto currency replaces sheep for bytes.

I am “hates having to scroll so far down a list to select my birth year on internet forms” years old.

Also, bought a lovely new pairing knife while I was there too.

By far the most fun college planned activity at family weekend was a make your own essential oil/purfume/colonge thing and now my nose would like to disengage from my face and live here.

Don’t trust the walking directions in maps here. They’ll have you go through the middle of a building or in the fucking Hudson. Just learn the streets and pay attention.

— Beatrix, The New Yorker

We took the New Yorker and her friends out to dinner.