Saturday hit the Big E w/ Lynette and Kyle. Mostly it was a food tour, though we didn't go quite as crazy as we might have thought (things starting with - are just samples)

-cheese and jerky
cream puff
truffle parmesan poutine
-soups, dips
maple creamy
steak sandwich w cheese and peppers
cider slush
-salsas
smutty nose pumpkin beer
giant turkey leg
lemonade
canoli

(compare with me and Melissa and Liz in 2015)

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Heh. You might be able to test this for yourself ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji. I got about the same result with "show me the seahorse emoji" and "is there actually a seahorse emoji or no?" - but when I said sure to "Do you want me to show you how it renders across different platforms (Apple, Google, Twitter, etc.)?" it righted the ship.

Thinking about the argument "well it's also probably an argument that there SHOULD be a seahorse emoji", though the idea that LLM points us to what should be rather than what is is kinda scary.

My current descriptor of ChatGPT et al is that it's a blender and remixer of commonsense. Crazily useful sometimes! But that blender makes some bizarre misinformation smoothies at other times. cracked.com has a pretty good interview with Drew Carey. Cleveland Rocks!
So, get ready to know about "Groypers" and other semi-obscure but absolutely hateful internet crap.

At this moment in time, it seems a lot more likely that this was a kind of intra-fascist gang war than this guy being a trans anti-fascist. This weekend we all went to see "Hamilton" - the filmed version, but on the big screen.

I found the book "Hamilton: The Revolution" (helps to have a big iPad; it was readable on my iPad mini, though, but the Mac Kindle client shows each page as a tiny thumbnail?) It was exactly what I was hoping for - some making of, the text itself, footnotes and references, some chat about where small liberties were taken from the historical record.

Man, such an amazing musical. You can really see the connection to Shakespeare when you read it on the page - especially when one character steps on another's line to finish the meter of the line.

The coolest find in the book was a deleted third Jefferson/Hamilton "rap battle" about whether to act on the Quakers attempt to end slavery in the USA. You can see the lyrics at Genius or hear a rough demo on youtube

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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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November. It's a way of affirming the very American view that Benjamin Franklin offered in 1786, when someone asked him how the new Union was getting along: "We are, I think, in the right road of improvement, for we are making experiments."

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WASHINGTON: If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on. It outlives me when I'm gone. Like the Scripture says: "Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree And no one shall make them afraid." They'll be safe in the nation we've made. I want to sit under my own vine and fig tree. A moment alone in the shade. At home in this nation we've made. One last time.

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"My view is that Hamiltonians existed until Teddy Roosevelt," says Brooks. "Hamilton used limited but energetic government to create mobility, but after Roosevelt, the debate became big government versus small government, so the Hamilton tradition got caught cross-ways." Neither party has room for him now, [David] Brooks believes. Republicans have become allergic to government, and can't see what Hamilton saw: that government can let more people into the system, and help capitalism solve the structural problems it is facing. But Democrats balk at embracing somebody whose programs would create more opportunity for gifted upstarts at the expense of creating more misery for the people who can't excel.

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Alexander Hamilton [...] spent his life defending one idea above all: "the necessity of Union to the respectability and happiness of this Country."

from a FB post, from the original Star Trek episode "Charlie X"... the petulant overpowered teen erases the face of people who were laughing at him... sticks with a viewer!

I just noticed that in certain fonts
';'
looks a bit like the Edvard Munch "Scream" painting guy