In this video you can see that cats can use their tail as a gyroscope to orient themselves while in free fall without any form of propulsion, so it’s more of an active manoeuvering system than just ballast.

https://youtu.be/WzJGvAIk2VQ

Red Dwarf had a good take on this:

“Blue alert!” Light starts flashing.

Followed by

• “Advance to red alert!”
• “Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb.”

One of the billboards in this post has that slogan.

https://vger.to/sh.itjust.works/comment/25215269

Do they say that, though?

https://xkcd.com/1342/

A few days ago, me to Google home:

“Hey Google, turn on the light”

“Sorry, I can’t control powered devices.”

“Hey Google, turn on the light”

“Turning on the light.”

I had a similar experience getting it to summarize my maps info, it would alternate between correct answers and claiming it had no access to the data.

That would be fantastic in Baby Steps. To be able to wipe out the last few minutes of failure.

Last weekend I made zero progress, but I did it much faster than the weekend before.

Almost all billboards in the Silicon Valley area are for AI and related services, it really does look like selling shovels to shovel sellers.

AI runs in the cloud because it needs a powerful server to run the biggest (i.e. “smartest”) models.

The cloud servers are doing nothing special that another powerful enough computer could do, just a huge amount of data processing.

You can run an ai chat on a steam deck or directly on a phone, if it’s not too demanding (“smarter” models are bigger data files, so won’t fit in the memory of a small device).

Today, for instance, I had a phone call from “Spectrum Internet support” and part-way through the call my phone blared an alarm and said “possible scam” on screen.

The phone itself interpreted the conversation as sus.

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/15654065?hl=en

For Pixel 9 and later devices: Scam Detection is powered by Gemini Nano on-device

Baker’s dozen.

This reminded me to check on what happened to IKEA Monkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(monkey)

Turns out he went live on a farm!

I do like his cover of Common People (although he didn’t do the singing parts)

https://youtu.be/KXWEM4gZhg4

Alternate video

https://youtu.be/St8FtbzH_JE

I almost thought to myself “I can’t be bothered to watch a YouTube short”, but then I thought “I can’t be bothered to press Back to get out of it, either”.

I am so glad that I didn’t miss that, it gets better and better.

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I watched a jumping spider video on Facebook, now the algorithm thinks I’m obsessed with them.

I do keep watching the videos though, they are cute.

Their behavior gives off a smart animal vibe, so they’re more relatable than the usual spider’s unpredictable scurrying.

It’s still Friday in parts of last week.

I had a captcha a few days ago that was something like “click on all the pictures that go with this” with a picture of a saucepan and the grid was food items and other things.

I pointed my phone at it and asked Gemini and almost instantly it said “the potato in the top left and the carrots look the middle of the bottom row”.

The python code is free, but you have to pay for the indenting.

This is maybe related, too

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Bits of California, Nevada and Utah all squished together.

Whereas Horizon Forbidden West packs all of these into a patch of North America a few miles across (except that the cities are abandoned). The DLC adds a volcanic section.

Edit: the end-credits is a fly-through of much of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVjufECOeHk