Greg Olsen
@gtotango.bsky.social
Former cartographer, ballroom dance pro and tanguero, cyber security professional. Volunteers in the USCG Auxiliary. PhD in Politics, University of Leicester. Expertise in MOOTW.
After the big win tonight over Wisconsin, I am starting to think Nebraska Men’s basketball is legit.
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
After the big win tonight over Wisconsin, I am starting to think Nebraska Men’s basketball is legit.
This AI search engine is awful. I know exactly what I want, search for it by exact title, and it returns crap. I am on the third page of results and I still can't find the article I am looking for.😡
This is feature bloat making a software product worse.
This is feature bloat making a software product worse.
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This AI search engine is awful. I know exactly what I want, search for it by exact title, and it returns crap. I am on the third page of results and I still can't find the article I am looking for.😡
This is feature bloat making a software product worse.
This is feature bloat making a software product worse.
I keep learning new words and British metaphors from reading the George Smiley books. I am on #2 and went down a rabbit hole on the usages of "Chapel" and "Nonconformist" last night. I also learned the word "stile" in a context other than turnstile, and that "hock" is slang for Rhine wine.
December 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I keep learning new words and British metaphors from reading the George Smiley books. I am on #2 and went down a rabbit hole on the usages of "Chapel" and "Nonconformist" last night. I also learned the word "stile" in a context other than turnstile, and that "hock" is slang for Rhine wine.
My wife just sent me an appellate ruling granting summary judgment and sanctions against the appellant for their genAI created filing. When will these people learn.
I'm frustrated that we've allowed gAI to be seen as doing research or writing knowledge, when what it was designed to do was write text that *looks* right. This is super cool technology, and can be useful in specific situations, but what it is *being* used for, and advertised for is not a good use.
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
My wife just sent me an appellate ruling granting summary judgment and sanctions against the appellant for their genAI created filing. When will these people learn.
Six travel vaccinations today. I learned my lesson with the COVID and flu vaxes last week. Take anti-inflammatories early. Don't wait for the aches.
December 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Six travel vaccinations today. I learned my lesson with the COVID and flu vaxes last week. Take anti-inflammatories early. Don't wait for the aches.
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Note: I wore out a video tape of this movie, To Have and Have Not. Bogart and Bacall, it doesn't get any better.
Note: I wore out a video tape of this movie, To Have and Have Not. Bogart and Bacall, it doesn't get any better.
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Note: I wore out a video tape of this movie, To Have and Have Not. Bogart and Bacall, it doesn't get any better.
Note: I wore out a video tape of this movie, To Have and Have Not. Bogart and Bacall, it doesn't get any better.
Watch to the end.
Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.
But it's not very far off.
December 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Watch to the end.
Your moment of Northern California zen.
December 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Your moment of Northern California zen.
Just watched Scream since it came out in 1996. Really fun movie and soooo meta. Love it.
December 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Just watched Scream since it came out in 1996. Really fun movie and soooo meta. Love it.
These flu and Covid vaxes have really fatigued me.
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
These flu and Covid vaxes have really fatigued me.
My daughter experienced her first arctic express in Minneapolis today. -6 F on the way to class this AM. Growing up in California did not prepare her.
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My daughter experienced her first arctic express in Minneapolis today. -6 F on the way to class this AM. Growing up in California did not prepare her.
One of the coolest things is buying a used OOP academic monograph and you know the previous owner.
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
One of the coolest things is buying a used OOP academic monograph and you know the previous owner.
Reposted by Greg Olsen
These raccoons got wind of the media claims that they’re slowly domesticating themselves and decided that knocking over a liquor store would prove they are still feral as fuck.
www.axios.com/local/richmo...
www.axios.com/local/richmo...
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
These raccoons got wind of the media claims that they’re slowly domesticating themselves and decided that knocking over a liquor store would prove they are still feral as fuck.
www.axios.com/local/richmo...
www.axios.com/local/richmo...
Milsky, how does someone in the Navy have a combat action ribbon and no campaign ribbons? Is it just not enough time deployed?
December 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Milsky, how does someone in the Navy have a combat action ribbon and no campaign ribbons? Is it just not enough time deployed?
Reposted by Greg Olsen
Samples of Bennu, a primitive asteroid orbiting near Earth, contain some surprising ingredients: natural sugars, gummy polymers, and specks of stardust that are even older than our solar system.
There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space! 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space! 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Samples of Bennu, a primitive asteroid orbiting near Earth, contain some surprising ingredients: natural sugars, gummy polymers, and specks of stardust that are even older than our solar system.
There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space! 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
There's a lot of complex chemistry brewing in space! 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
Reposted by Greg Olsen
Many thanks to Clay Risen (@risenc.bsky.social) for his obituary of a great man. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
David Pryce-Jones, Conservative Writer With Clout, Dies at 89
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Many thanks to Clay Risen (@risenc.bsky.social) for his obituary of a great man. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
Reposted by Greg Olsen
based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
August 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
What does a senior executive's day look like? Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. Of course they are early adopters of AI, leveraging meeting transcription and summarization. Things AI is pretty good at most of the time.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
What does a senior executive's day look like? Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. Of course they are early adopters of AI, leveraging meeting transcription and summarization. Things AI is pretty good at most of the time.
Reposted by Greg Olsen
Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
Pray for me. We are out of milk and I have to go to Costco on Saturday after Thanksgiving.
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Pray for me. We are out of milk and I have to go to Costco on Saturday after Thanksgiving.
First Thanksgiving as a PhD. So I guess I am Doc McStuffing.
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
First Thanksgiving as a PhD. So I guess I am Doc McStuffing.
When I see these old slides I think of all the artists working in acrylics and oils who did these illustrations, replaced by artists working in Illustrator, who will soon be replaced with AI.
"SOVIET MILITARY CAPABILITIES S-100-18-85 BOX 1 OF 2," slide 17 of 40 [gallery]
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
When I see these old slides I think of all the artists working in acrylics and oils who did these illustrations, replaced by artists working in Illustrator, who will soon be replaced with AI.
Reposted by Greg Olsen
Reposted by Greg Olsen
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
This obsession with lycra in menswear has got to stop. Nothing launders well or can be pressed anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This obsession with lycra in menswear has got to stop. Nothing launders well or can be pressed anymore.