"Our AI system is now such a good synthetic human that it now writes with spelling errors, grammar mistakes, and various typos."

"ChatGPT" is too long (four syllables), so if it sticks around, it's inevitable that it will get shortened (clipped), akin to how advertisement became "ad" and influenza became "flu". My fav candidate is "Chad". Yes, that's got a respelling, but "Chat" alone is ambiguous.

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

I'm unable to login to Epic Games Launcher today. I enter my email and password, it says it's sending me a 6-digit code by email, but that email never arrives. @epicgamesoffical.bsky.social

Kudos to everyone on the Blue Origin team on their historic launch this morning.

Context: arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

I made a printable poster that shows 39 Hello World programs. I shared the code to generate it free onine (with an MIT license): troymcconaghy.blog/2025/01/13/3...

Possibly the most frightening talent of the brown bear is an uncanny ability to blend seamlessly into the environment in an almost chameleon-like manner, allowing them to easily surprise their unsuspecting prey.

The current windchill in Saskatoon is -30 Celsius, which is much better than -40.

Wow, this is a first: Claude's latest reply included the phrase, "I may be "hallucinating" even knowing about this..."

Japan is allocating another ¥1.5 trillion ($9.9 billion) to boost its chip and artificial intelligence endeavors, including moonshot foundry project Rapidus.

Guessing from its name, I thought WP Engine was the company behind WordPerfect (WP), the wordprocessor software, but apparently it's not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPer...

So I was shopping for swim trunks on Amazon and it helpfully tells me the price per ounce.

P.S. Prices are in Canadian dollars.