Or as they say in War Games, "The only winning move is not to play."

I just love the binary nature of the condiment either flowing or not flowing. Those lids are a pretty keen invention and the fact that they're so cheap to manufacture as to be considered disposable is amazing to me.

My favorite:

Anthropic continues to do the best research in the business. Gemini's latest safety report is also wild: "...in situations that seemed contradictory or impossible (the model) expresses frustration in emotional ways, sometimes correlated with the thought that it may be in an unrealistic environment."

That stuff sounds good and I will certainly check it out. These are mediocre lagers going by the name, "Lil' Buddy" or as I like to call them, "Toddler Beers."

The view from my back window this morning. After the brutal summer we had I thought St. Louis might never see snow again. The quote is from "Darwin Among the Machines" by George Dyson which I was reading prior to getting out of bed.

I nearly forgot my favorite moment of the event! An older, German-speaking tourist couple stopped me to ask, "Vaat is vith all the Father Christmases?" 😆 I had to admit that I didn't know.

I would add that it's not just a desire to learn that drives tech progress, but it's also a fear about what might occur if your enemies get there first.

Reddit discussions on stories like this are becoming increasingly worthless - unlike BlueSky commentary on these subjects which have pretty much always been total dumpster fires.