AWWW SNAP!

This right here.

Grok, is this true?

Legit ethical question: since LLMs are trained on stolen knowledge and art, is stealing an AI book theft? Also, given the current US laws about how an AI “work” cannot be copyrighted, what’s to stop me from taking someone’s AI “book” and just slapping my name on the cover and reselling it?

He’s also apparently a giant in that image.

My guess is that he emptied the waste compartment on the space station after “executive time” and the screens are showing the result.

Totally. Not trying to defend the guy, just sharing the story. Just seems super convenient. Why not tell the people yelling at you that you’re trying to protect the turtles? Why are we only now hearing about this? Seems like the sort of story one of my kids would come up with to try and get themselves off the hook.

Swimming pool. Surrounded by seals trained to throw rocks.

We’ll let Pele sort out how to pronounce that name!

“NOAA, huh? You guys give the weather report. You can’t do nothing to me!” spits

“You know what NOAA stands for? No Assholes Abided!” firefight ensues

There was that story of da guy who killed one on Moloka’i. Was like last year, two years, yeah? Never found em. Local guy I think.

“Eh, get cracks!”

Saw that the local guy is also not having any charges pressed against him for this. Love to see it.

I live on O’ahu and I’ll never forget the first time I encountered a monk seal while surfing. It was near sunset and I was kind of off by myself, away from the rest of the crowd. I heard a sound of heavy breathing from behind me and I thought that maybe someone was paddling up. Nope, it was a seal.

At first my brain couldn’t make sense of it. I grew up in Florida and so immediately thought it was a manatee (for some reason I thought monk seals were like sea lion size or something smaller and leaner), but I knew this was impossible. Then it yawned and I saw its sizable teeth and realized what it was. It was funny because it was about that time that it realized I was looking at it and it had this “oh shit!” look in its eyes. We gave each other a cautious side-eye just before it went back underwater and swam away.

These things are big. What would possess someone to think they can approach one is beyond me. A couple years ago there was a story of a lady out swimming in Waikiki and she apparently wandered into an area where a recently born seal was on the beach. The mother messed her up, iirc.

His defense attorney is saying that the dude was trying to scare away the seal because he thought it was hurting some sea turtles. Story is here. Found this when I was looking for yesterday’s story quoting the dude as saying “I can afford the fines” when he was confronted by some local people.

Not sure I buy this. But, we’ll see.

The 80s version of The Blob is terrifying.

This only works on like mid movies, maybe. You can’t do it with a film like Plan 9 from Outer Space or The Room because the jank is part of the appeal. But maybe an actually good version of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? Sucker Punch, but with a better director?

Yes, the Days of the Truman Show memes are upon us!

Imagine how high everyone’s getting from all those Sharpies

Because I’m an insufferable pedant sometimes: MLK’s speech was on the Lincoln Memorial steps (they have brass replicas of his foot prints on the very spot). The crowd was gathered in front of those steps and the crowd stretched back alongside the edges of the pool.

I’m laughing because I grew up in the ghetto and I saw plenty houses painted in both this color and a few in this manner. My mom would always say “free paint!”

My go-to salmon recipe comes from a “farm-to-table” Japanese cookbook: about 1.5"-2" wide salmon fillets resting on a sheet of foil big enough to wrap them; dollop of butter, salt, sprinkled with sake, and garnished with a green onion sprig (I’ve also used a garlic medallion as substitute and might be better). Wrap them up and broil them on high in the oven for like ten minutes. So good, so simple.