I was chatting with someone about some picture and I noted that maybe we could find something appropriate.

I prompted DuckDuckGo with “raccoon trash panda digging in garbage can”. It gave me whole grid of pictures, of which I quickly picked the following as my favorites.

Trash panda relaxing in a garbage can as if were a hot tubTrash panda peeking out of garbage canTrash panda living its best life in a trash canTrash panda head down up to its hips in a trash can.jpg

My interlocutor had never really used any of the LLM-based machines before, so I gave GitHub Copilot a whirl. I prompted GitHub Copilot: “Show me a cartoon of a raccoon digging in a trash can with its butt in the air”. It... [More]

Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.

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