Philip Borenstein
pborenstein@mastodon.social
<p>🍸 chargé d'affaires</p><p>I read a lot. I write a little.</p>
Posts
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Post #4184550
A lack of testosterone isn&#39;t the problem. What you lack is panache. And without panache, there is no duende.
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Post #4184549
Happy Moon Landing Day to all who observe https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_11_Landing_-_first_steps_on_the_moon.ogv
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Post #4184548
Even the people who use LLMs to write are getting fed up and going back to the old ways.
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Post #4184547
Where there&#39;s a will, there&#39;s someone who&#39;s died
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Post #4184546
Bourne looser = spy spawner
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Post #4184545
When I think about the impact of new technologies on art: Without photography, there is no Rothko
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Post #1318732
I like the way Bay Area folk announce when it&#39;s raining.
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Post #1318731
I got a pair of Allbirds in 2016 because shoes made of wool were disruptive. I still own that pair. They&#39;re my indoor shoes. I really like them. It&#39;s the only pair of Allbirds I ever bought. You were expecting repeat sales, and I let you down. I&#39;m so sorry. Good luck on your AI venture.
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Post #1318730
I&#39;ve spent the last week reading that Walter Benjamin paper with my trusty 🦙to make sense of the structure, the style, and oh my god the argot. I was rhyming 1935 with 2026, the convulsing world, the threat of a culture-shattering technology. Predicting the future of a new medium is impossible
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Post #1064654
if you yourself didn&#39;t raise from hatchlings the geese you use to fashion your quills, can you really call yourself a writer?
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Post #1064653
Today&#39;s episode: Cricket&#39;s Revenge I hate this show, but it&#39;s on every channel
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Post #1064652
@schwa It feels like anyone who knew how to do UI retired, and the new team said, let&#39;s rewrite the whole thing and shoot for maximum backwards compatibility &quot;as speced&quot; so we can clear that 25 year UI backlog at the same time. I&#39;m not a dev manager, but I&#39;ve been managed, and this is what it feels like
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Post #1064651
@lzg Well actually --- more like Monday Thursday :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Thursday
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Post #1064650
when I&#39;m speaking, it&#39;s not unusual for me to stop midsentence and realize I&#39;ve lost my place I imagined that that didn&#39;t happen when I&#39;m thinking, but it does the difference is in the quality of the silence afterwards when I&#39;m speaking, and I lose the thread, the silence is a pit that appears suddenly on the path when I&#39;m thinking, and I lost the thread, the silence is a panic that I&#39;ve literally let go of a rope indica, if yo...
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Post #1064649
It&#39;s April 1970 and I&#39;m watching the Apollo 13 splash down on the black-and-white TV in my elementary school cafeteria. Its April 2026 and I&#39;m watching a crystal clear LIVE video feed on a handheld device of a spacecraft descending through the atmosphere, its chutes deploying before my eyes.
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Post #308050
Of course my writing sounds like an LLM. I&#39;ve been writing technical doc for 40 years. Who the fuck do you think the LLM trained on?