gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 05/09/2026The context of this quote strongly implies that constraints will *negatively* affect the writing, but … he can’t actually mean that, can he? daringfireball.net/2026/09/writ... 000
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 16/08/2026thank god for IHOP teaching America’s youth the things that really matter 020
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 11/08/2026I’m genuinely baffled at how someone trying to promote “AI investigative journalism” thought it was a good idea to publish this. It’s embarrassingly bad work. 000
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 12/07/2026mitch taught us that a broken escalator is just temporarily stairs. i feel like a broken bench is … still just a bench? 000
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 06/07/2026i found it. the most phoned-in “did you know?” placard of all time 001
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 05/07/2026dream is one day to get out of the bounty hunting business, find somewhere far away from space pirates, and open up a little coffee shop. maybe serve some brunch 000
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 06/06/2026@ryannorth.ca demonstrated surprising restraint in refraining to share this paragraph from Wikipedia re: the gun-powered mousetrap 000
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 04/06/2026nice little “wait what?” moment from the Wikipedia article on Jack Russell terriers 000
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 01/06/2026The "see how much your account will grow" line chart on trumpaccount.com breaks when you slide it all the way to $0. I get that $0/month is a degenerate case, but the UI should either support the setting correctly or disallow it entirely. Amateur hour 010
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 16/05/2026your periodic reminder that modern LLMs still do not pass the Turing Test 021
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 29/04/2026I knew about Anscombe's Quartet, but this is next-level: researchers at Autodesk used simulated annealing to generate 12 datasets of visually distinct patterns which all have near-identical statistic properties ... and their starting set was a DINOSAUR (paging @ryannorth.ca) 120
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 24/04/2026i often think about my very first interaction with generative AI 000
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 19/04/2026Incredible that the guy who changed his legal name to LivingForGod AndCountry isn’t even the most deranged person running for California governor 010
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 19/04/2026There are always a bunch of governor candidates in the California Primary Election Voting Guide whose blurbs are a bit unhinged, but this is the first time I’ve seen one come with A DISCLAIMER 120
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 22/01/2026My "Order of the Arrow is not a secret organization" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. 021
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 21/01/2026it is as the prophecy foretold www.bbc.com/news/article... 010
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 07/01/2026in case you were looking for something else to feel bad about 000
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 21/11/2025i know there are differing opinions on how to punctuate possessives on words ending in S, but Kotaku’s approach is a new one on me 020
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 20/11/2025my daughter has got a book out from the library called “After the Kill”. it is about what happens after lionesses kill a zebra on the savannah. this is the final page 121
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 09/08/2025I know it’s the oldest news in the world, but the fake president names that AI invented still crack me up languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=70401 010
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 29/05/2025the coat of arms of the Dutch town of Hensbroek is a hen wearing trousers 010
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 09/05/2025I’m pretty sure the numbers come mainly from the water used by electricity generation, not used by the data centers directly. docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy04ost... 040
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 12/02/2025the best thing about being a millennial is that you probably have a Calvin & Hobbes that was published the day you were born. much better than a horoscope! 240
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 30/11/2024I don’t know if this sign is as reassuring as the TSA thinks it is 020
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 20/11/2024Junior Mints, the candy that makes you say: “Eh, I guess I won’t throw it out” 120
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 25/10/2024tfw you’re reading a Wikipedia article and suddenly a factoid comes out of nowhere that’s just like “It is interesting to note that Richard Nixon sucked” 020
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 20/10/2024if Anguilla passed a law prohibiting the use of copyrighted work in training AI models, it could revoke SO MANY .ai domain names 021
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 29/09/2024reading this title and subtitle made me feel like I was having a stroke 010
gr🥚 💩los 🎃 @gregpoulos.com · 13/09/2024I hadn’t made this connection before. the juxtaposition here is truly heartbreaking 1208