Craig A Counterman

occasionally pedantic. mostly harmless.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

R.I.P. Teri Garr, and oh to live in the universe where we actually got that Gary Seven/Roberta Lincoln Star Trek spinoff show.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@RottenInDenmark Do you know about the Japan boring Halloween costume contest? It’s on YouTube though perhaps only in Japanese with auto translated captioning

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@hankgreen I got a drug when I had an endoscopy and I was awake and apparently answered appropriately for a while but I have no memory of it. I’ve been thinking of seeing if I can get my hands on it for the next month.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@themediawitch @lizziebelle It shouldn’t work. Since people are content with Hollywood and fiction being remakes or ripoffs of past works, I fear that current “AI” is perfect at filling off the serial numbers.
But anything factual will be wrong or plagiarism

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@themediawitch Yes, I am rooting for the company, they have a potentially good approach.
In theory a pause for review is part of the overall vaccine safety and should inspire confidence. But in practice I don’t know if anyone is really convincible.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@SarahMackAttack I feel like all progress will stop if the current AI trend continues. It’s good and original, but the parts that are good aren’t original and the parts that are original aren’t good.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@Will_Bunch @JenLucPiquant There used to be a game show called “Truth or Consequences” and I remembered that this morning and realized that that is what has been missing increasingly since the 1990s.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

If a Siamese cat’s eyes were cold, would they be brown?

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@themediawitch Yes and a front for a gang of already powerful psychopaths.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@lizziebelle Oh that’s good.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@Noahpinion @JenLucPiquant Isn’t there something about “false witness” being a top ten bad thing?

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@MarkJacob16 @marynmck Clickbait headlines contain negative information, remove or make you doubt something you knew before reading it, so you have to click to stay as knowledgeable as you were before.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@stubbornella As Dr. Rachel Gunn, she's a 36-year-old lecturer at Macquarie University in Australia. She holds a PhD in cultural science.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@megpillow @themediawitch If the cost of electricity isn’t being passed on to the users of AI tools then it’s predatory pricing against humanity and should already be illegal.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@JackLynch000 @becauselangpod Hmm, an LLM would never say that. And wouldn’t know or care if it did.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@SarahMackAttack Yes, but then I _AM_ a Crown-of-thorns Starfish.

(not really)

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@RichardDooling @StephenKing After vaguely wondering since 1978, I looked it up and now I know a Thompson Gun is the full name of a Tommy Gun used by gangsters in movies. Never made the association, thought Tommy Guns would have been too old and obsolete.
Thanks for the prodding.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@lizziebelle That’s a relief. It was unlikely but it is too common and classic, I feared you could be a textbook example. I know too many ignored or missed heart attacks. I feared saying nothing and regretting it forever.

[Craig A Counterman @ccounterman]

@lizziebelle Seek medical attention right away if your indigestion is accompanied by sweating, shortness of breath or a tight, clenching feeling in your upper abdominal area.