I updated the DNS for mitchwagner.com to point to a static page on micro.blog and now I feel like supernerd.
I used Google to find a PDF of the movie “Love, Actually.” I fed the URL to ChatGPT and told it to create a poster. It said it can’t access documents on the Internet—even though it had done so a few minutes earlier. I uploaded the PDF and tried again. It gave me a text description of the poster. I told it to create the poster and it did.
Lazy robot!
I used Google to find a PDF of the screenplay of “Die Hard.” I fed the URL to ChatGPT, with the prompt, “Here’s the screenplay for a movie titled ‘Die Hard.’ Create a poster for this movie.”
“Daddy, why doesn’t Trump ever go to church?" Doonesbury’s still got it.
City leaders in Escondido reject “Housing First” policies for homelessness because they say homeless people need addiction and mental health treatments first.
“Homelessness is a complex problem that requires complex solutions,” San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said.
I’m skeptical. Are most homeless people mentally ill? Or is the problem caused by housing being too expensive and scarce?
And even if many mentally ill people are addicted and/or mentally ill, to what extent is homelessness driving that problem? Living on the streets could drive anybody nuts, and make them turn to alcohol and drugs to get through their lives. And it seems ridiculous to ask someone to get sober and sane while they’re living on the streets.
Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads. A fight over Wikipedia’s rules on notable subjects and primary sources led to a schism. (Thomas Germain / Gizmodo)
Inside me are two wolves.
One wants only the finest coffee, ground just before brewing from the finest beans roasted delicately within the past two weeks from a local microroaster.
The other wolf will drink anything that’s brown and hot and has caffeine.
Dave Winer used ChatGPT to illustrate a few of his favorite songs. I tried it with books.
I asked ChatGPT to create an illustration for the book “Cities in Flight” by James Blish. ChatGPT responded with the illustration, and the text:
Here’s the illustration for “Cities in Flight” by James Blish, capturing a futuristic city lifting off from Earth’s surface, enclosed in a transparent, dome-like force field, transitioning from the planet to space.
That’s an accurate description of the premise of the world Blish created: A force field called a “spindizzy” enables whole cities to lift off the Earth and fly around as spaceships.
I asked ChatGPT to create an illustration for the novel “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet,” by Becky Chambers.
I asked ChatGPT to create a cover illustration for the novel “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union,” by Michael Chabon.
I asked ChatGPT to create a cover illustration for the novel “The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet,” by Becky Chambers.
We watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the 2011 movie starring Andy Serkis as a motion-capture chimpanzee. We expected to enjoy it of course – why else would we have decided to watch it? – but It was better and had more heart than we expected.
Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (The Register).
MyHeritage debuts OldNews.com, offering access to millions of historical newspaper pages (TechCrunch).
MyHeritage announced today that it’s launching OldNews.com, a new website that offers access to thousands of historical newspapers, mainly from the 1800s and 1900s. The website includes articles from major international newspapers to small-town journals and gazetted.
Old newspapers are delightful to read. Spicy and opinionated.
Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad (Nilay Patel/The Verge).
Seen on a Techmeme headline: Threads is planning to open a developer API in June. I’m happy to hear that—less cut-and-pasting for me! @manton
Facebook is my favorite social network. It is also the one I hate most, and consider quitting several times a month.