Another day, another Tesla catastrophically plowed itself into a wall in Pennsylvania. A Tesla sedan smashed into a South Philadelphia building [at South 18th and Snyder streets] early Monday, leaving cinderblocks scattered on the ground and the air bags deployed in the car on New Year’s Day. In related Texas news, police say a driver … Continue reading Teslas Start Off New Year by Crashing Into Buildings, Again and Again
In 1889 Mark Twain published his memoirs of life before the Civil War, Life On The Mississippi, in which he mentioned an “itching palm” practice of French-speaking Louisiana that was called “lagniappe“: It is the equivalent of the thirteenth roll in a ‘baker’s dozen.’ It is something thrown in, gratis, for good measure. The custom … Continue reading Origin and Meaning of the Word Lagniappe
Remember 2016? Remember the outrage from a Daily Beast dossier on the Trump’s egregious plagiarism? Let’s recount. Oh how the times fly. …at least 20 pages of the Trump Institute textbooks were lifted in near-entirety from a book in the “Real Estate Mastery System,” a 1995 series completely unaffiliated with Trump. Lazy incompetence was not … Continue reading Trump Trademark is Unrepentant Plagiarism
I’m noticing again that ChatGPT is so utterly broken that it can’t even correctly count and track the number of letters in a word, and it can’t tell the difference between random letters and a word found in a dictionary. Here’s a story about the kind of atrociously low “quality” chat it provides, in all … Continue reading ChatGPT Still Fails at Even Basic Ciphers (Broken Caesar)