I only celebrate the pagan celebrations like the Yule tree, Spring celebration of the goddess Eostre, etc. Fortunately that’s where the roots of all the good stuff like Christmas trees (Yule log), Santa (Odin), and Easter bunny come from, so reall Christianity doesn’t figure into the equation at all.

No but remembering a character from it 10 years later is.

These references are getting so obscure that they are referencing games I played and I still don’t recognize them. I don’t even remember that character after you showing him to me.

Yeah I introduce new music to my kids by playing it in the car. For me Spotify playlists are the same amount of work as just letting the recommendation engine throw stuff at me, I have to go through a lot of stuff to find something I like and then often it’s just one solitary song whereas I like to buy whole albums. I’m not so into one hit wonders.

I do use Spotify for that as I have a family plan for the family, I have also tried Apple Music. Spotify I tried to seed only with the newest stuff I listen to and Apple Music knows most of what I already listen fo.

Both can work but they are both a lot of work before I come up with something I really want to buy. It’s hard to guide them to more obscure stuff, even if you explicitly only train them on that kinda stuff.

I tend to have better luck just with being on subreddits for specific types of music or discussing music with friends. The quality to obscurity ratio can be quite high if a real genre expert shows up and gives a brain dump. Last.fm can be quite useful too.

I’m so glad I still just buy and maintain my own local music library.

That’s true. I agree that’s the only area its revolutionized.

We have found it useful for summarizing interactions, doing evaluations on interactions that would have no evaluation otherwise, and highlighting and summarizing relevant passages in knowledge articles for people on interactions with customers and for customers themselves via the web. It does have value, just a small fraction of that which would be needed to justify the investment being made and the valuations it’s getting.

Who knows what might still be functioning after the apocalypse.

Glad to see the USR Courier was used here. A venerable workhorse.

I work for a contact center software company. There are definitely some valid use cases for agentic ai and LLM’s but most of the stuff being attributed to the latest wave of AI is stuff that’s already been possible for a decade at least. The new tech open up a few good use cases but they are definitely incremental rather than revolutionary.

Agreed. And while we are at it, I’d probably also demand clip on/off sunglasses or those electro chromatic ones. I wouldn’t buy these only as a pair of normal glasses or sunglasses. Some use transition lenses and I wouldn’t buy those either because they’re too slow and don’t work properly in the car due to UV blocking front windshields.

For me as a glasses wearer already, the main draw would simply be to have speakers in my glasses. The cameras, while convenient, are probably as much a liability as an asset, and the only time I’d use the screen would probably be for navigation while walking. And all this would have to be packaged in something which looks exactly like normal glasses that I’d want to wear anyway, which they aren’t even close to.

So, yes, as a glasses wearer already, I would consider something like this but the list of caveats is so long that I doubt anyone can produce a product which I’d actually buy.

That’s how you make an epic photograph guys.

Epic

I do believe Trump is a pedophile however, even if he was only mentioned twice in the Epstein files - in the birthday card and in Epstein’s rolodex - because both clearly show that Epstein and he had something a lot more special, dark and unavowable in common that just partying together.

Well that and the fact that he was explicitly named by one of the victims as someone who had raped her when she was a child.

Who stayed?

Morning, it’s B

It still has the ones I put in there 40 years ago.

See other thread attached to parent.