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Go
Among my fascinations and frsutrations is go. This is going to be my page for organizing my thoughts on it as I learn.
I get the sense that Go is not a game but a field of study.
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The Emperor's New Code: The Encyclopedia Of AI Apologies (now with bonus AI Swearing and Generative Suicide Threats!)
I've spent so much time fruitlessly trying to get LLMs (Large Language Model chatbots, commonly referred to generically as "AI") to actually help me solve coding problems that I've taken, as a hobby, to collecting screenshots of AI "apologizing". I just wanted a gallery to send a convenient link to people who insist AI is going to replace human programmers. If you're one if those people, tell me what human programmer, even a junior one, wouldn't get fired after even just two or three project assignments ended like these, um, several hundred examples from the last few months alone.
Update: By popular demand, I have included at bottom a bonus gallery of AI swearing and threatening to destroy itself.
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Word Salad: Vocabulary List
An unsorted list of words or phrases that I like.
Aposiopesis (pron.: /ˌæpəsaɪ.əˈpiːsɪs/; Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent") - a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination, giving an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue.[1] An example would be the threat "Get out, or else—!" This device often portrays its users as overcome with passion (fear, anger, excitement) or modesty. To mark the occurrence of aposiopesis with punctuation, an em dash (—) or an ellipsis (...) may be used.
Monological belief system - a self-sustaining worldview comprised of a network of mutually supportive beliefs, such as conspiracy theories which are supported by other conspiracy theories.
Resistentialism - a jocular theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects."[1] For example, objects that cause problems (like lost keys or a fleeing bouncy…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Element Monsters
The #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme for March 1, 2025 was "Element Monsters". I went with radioactive elements: uranium, radium, plutonium, caesium, thorium, einsteinium, radon, and americium.
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Is That A Kosher Dill In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?: On Not Voicing One’s Opinion Of Pickles In Deference To A Strange Sensitivity
Note: This was composted in response to a #thursdaypoetrysociety challenge on LinkedIn to compose a poem in response to the prompt "my opinion on pickles".
My opinion of pickles is deep and profound,
and so sharp it tickles, and so, when around
those ones whose sharp senses are hurt by adjectives,
or dire consequences of spicy perspectives
from one unrelenting in declaring their views,
who so is resenting and quick to refuse,
or, contrary, tickled and shying from not
embracing the pickled, to give voice to thought,
O! Demure, I refrain, in voice moderate,
from declaiming quatrains 'bout some dill that I ate.
'Ere, mute, as I workins, so sensitive ears
of one 'fraid of gherkins may attend without fear,
and, litely, in my dogg'rel day, abstain from prattling on—
opining, silent, in my way, on those dear cornichons.
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Saturday Monster Challenge—Love Monsters
On Saturday, Feb 15, 2025, the theme of LinkedIn's "Saturday Monster Challenge" was "Love Monsters".
I apologize to anybody with delicate sensibilities offended by the inclusion of a few monster menage-a-troises. I live in San Francisco, these things happen. Also for the sadness of the final picture, a forlorn monster left waiting alone in the moonlight for a monster love who isn't coming. Unfortunately, in the real world, monster love doesn't always work out.
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Vocabulary
[could probably have a whole website section on words & language]
This is a placeholder for a page suggested by captJamesG in the Indieweb writing group meeting at https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-02-04-writing : "Writing challenge for anyone interested: write about a word or words that you use but may not be widely known." Agita, vehagedah, sennsucht, and I'm sure I have a bunch of English ones
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All Work And No Play Makes...: HIRE MIKE — Professional Info, Full-Stack Web & Certified FileMaker Pro Development, IT Consulting, etc.
Some info about Mike's day job: certified Filemaker & Full-Stack Web development. Really you want to check out www.kupietz.com for that info.
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Hopes And Fears: Saturday Monster Challenge — “Hope Monsters”
Saturday Monster Challenge for Jan. 18, 2024.
Comes a time when the monsters have eaten their fill of villagers and there’s no danger anymore, so now everybody can come out and enjoy a sunny day, romping and frolicking under clear blue skies and rainbows.
The time for divisiveness and fear is over. It's time to let go of the past, join together as a community, humans and monsters together, full of hope and looking forward to a bright future of fun, friendship, and happy times together.
At least until the monsters start to feel hungry again.
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So Much City, They Had To Give It A Second Gallery: Extra New York Images
Just a set of fun leftover from when I was working on a featured image for my Local Color: New York Stories, Which I only now realize are all about petty crimes page. My cousin likes them.
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In The Details: The Devil In Deco
A stylistic experiment inspired by vintage art photography.
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Beware The Fog: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn for 11 Jan 2024 theme was "Fog Monsters".
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Life On Mars?: The Red Day
2020, already a strange year due to the pandemic, had its strangest day, for the San Francisco area, on September 9. The Bay Area experienced a kind of weather that few people ever see.
I woke up that morning thinking it was dawn… from where I'd slept, through the windows I could see the sky beginning to lighten, although it was about the reddest dawn I've ever seen. But I got up and looked at the clock—and it was after 9 AM. I couldn't understand what I was seeing. I literally got dizzy with the unreality of it.
I looked back and forth from the clock to the window several times. Finally I got online to see if the world was ending, and it turned out to be thick smoke from forest first up in Northern CA blanketing the bay area, reducing visibility to dusk levels at midday…
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Some monsters have all the luck: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters
This week's #SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn is Lucky Charm Monsters.
I always say, you can tell the lucky charm monsters, because they're the ones hanging out with the people winning at the casino tables, as opposed to the ones slipping roofies into people's drinks at the bar, snarfing up the king crab legs at the all-you-can eat buffet, or hanging out in the bathrooms scaring the bejesus out of you.
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Isn't She Pretty: #WrappedInPink — Pale Pink
Submission for the Mood Board and Fashion categories of the Wrapped In Pink AI generative art competition, Dec 2024.
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season's geekings: Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights (updated for 2025)
/* xmas lights */ #lightrope { text-align: center; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; position: fixed; z-index: 1000; margin: -15px 0 0 0; padding: 0; pointer-events: none; width: 100%;left: 0;top: var(--wp-admin--admin-bar--height); } #lightrope > li { position: relative; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 20px 20px 20px 22px; } #lightrope > li > div { position: relative; border-left: 2px solid rgba(0,0,0,.05); border-right: 2px solid rgba(255,255,255,.5); margin: 2px 0 0 -3px; padding: 0; display: block; width: 8px; height: 18px; border-radius: 50%; transform-origin: top center; -webkit-animation-fill-mode: forwards; animation-fill-mode: forwards; pointer-events: auto; } /* Colors for different bulbs */ #lightrope > li:nth-child(5n+0) > div { -webkit-animation-duration: 0.8s, 4.1s, 3s; animation-duration: 0.8s, 4.1s, 3s; } #lightrope > li:nth-child(5n+1) > div { -webkit-animation-duration: .9s, 4.3s, 3s; animation-duration: .9s, 4.3s, 3s; } #lightrope > li:nth-child(5n+2) > div { -webkit-animation-duration: 1s, 4.5s, 3s; animation-duration: 1s, 4.5s, 3s; } #lightrope > li:nth-child(5n+3) > div { -webkit-animation-duration: 1.1s, 4.7s, 3s; animation-duration: 1.1s,…
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Opinion: How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash
Note, Sep. 2024: I want to point something out: I’ve given few references here besides a couple of Google search results I happen to like. This page gives my current understanding. I’m still researching it, and you should research it yourself, don’t take my word as gospel truth. But this is how I understand it right now.
Googling section 174 layoffs will point you to a lot of information.
I’m also going to add some links at the bottom to interesting references to the issue, as I come across them. —Mike
IMPORTANT UPDATE, July 3, 2025: Pending signing of the new tax bill tomorrow, it appears the below information may finally be obsolete. The tax bill passed by Congress today quietly included a provision permanently repealing the below-discussed Section 174 changes. See https://abgi-usa.com/section174/latest-and-greatestUPDATE 2, July 16, 2025: If…
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Hair Of The Dog: Interlude Tonsorial
Exqueeze me whilst I sing the tale
of facial hair gone tough as nails.
When short, it chafes, when long it scares!
Crepusculating facial hairs
portend the chafed skin one expects
of consequence in harm direct
of concourse with the roughshod necks
of neck-beards come to wreak their heck!
'Ere I detect, this sullen morn,
a loathsome beastly beard is born,
to aggravate, and for a week,
imperturbate the shaven-cheek'd
and terrorize the newly shorn
with skin smooth as a baby born
and terror in their widening eyes,
as chafes, it does, their inner thighs?
O!
Gentle on a summer's eve,
till facial hairs arrive en-scéne
and, stubbly on a summ'ry day,
abrade a poor girl's thighs away!
Enbarbatating facial growth,
when unwisely left alone,
may force a call to…
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Shine, Shine, Shine: You Light Up My Life
These people are lit, yo.
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Insert Clever phrase here: Artificial Stupidity thoughts & references
I write down a lot of thoughts on AI but have never gathered it into a cohesive essay or collection. This is the beginning of loosely collecting my thoughts and saved references for that.
- On Emergence and actual intelligence: People are talking about current technology, which relies on matching statistical profiles of strings of words, like true intelligence could emerge from it.I look at it this way: AI video generation is getting really impressive. You could feed it tons of video of basketballs bouncing, and pretty soon it would be able to generate videos of basketballs bouncing realistically through all kinds of extraordinary scenarios, because it had seen enough visual, external data to create incredible simulations of how a basketball bounces. It would truly, profoundly have a grasp on how basketballs appear to bounce.And never, in any of that, would it have even a glimmer of a clue as…
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god is in the details: Web Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements
Looking around the site, you might get the hint that I'm a big fan of <details class="detailsClassName"><summary>blah blah blah</summary> even more blah blah blah</details> disclosure elements.
For those unfamiliar, that's this:
Here's a title of a section
Here's where a bunch of information goes. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
It's true. I am.
But, I have one issue with them: sometimes I feel like they're a little nonintuitive. It's easy to miss them in certain circumstances, or maybe even not to realize they're clickable.
So, I came up with a way to make them show a preview of the contents.
First, you need the following…
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Think... Nah, Not Gonna Say It: Work-In-Progress Preview—#WrappedInPink
They've been doing this "#WrappedInPink Challenge" generative art meme on LinkedIn. Here's just a preview of studies of some things I've been working on for it. Not entirely sure what direction I'm going to go in yey.
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Generative Mystique: Feminine Stochastique
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This gallery deals with the unavoidable stereotypes of femininity that one encounters using some current generative art tools ca. 2024.
Being trained on a society's art, there are two possibilities for generative visual art software: it can hold an unflinching mirror up to that society, including reiterating its existing biases; or its creators can seek to consciously tilt the output to favor what they deem to be better choices, which opens the whole project up to accusations, and let's face it, perhaps the reality, of introducing other biases. The unfortunate truth is that at the time, people never thought to question making art that almost exclusively reinforced certain notions (of femininity, or anything else). They did not consider themselves to be biased. So too, despite the most admirable intentions, it's honestly a valid question whether or not current attempts to right historical wrongs are undoing bias,…
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Waxin' and Milkin' All of Y'all Square Heads: Directory of Article Titles By Publication Date
This is the list of articles on this site, by the date they were first published, from newest to oldest.
There is also a Feed page, showing all articles in descending order of publication, but in more of a blog format, with article excerpts and greater detail than this list.
A log of all latest site changes & updates, which includes new edits & changes to existing older articles, is available on the Articles By Last Modified Date page.
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“I Realized Something Disturbing This Morning” by Allison Rossi—Incidental Poetry
Originally revealed at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allisonmarierossi_allisonwith2ls-copycats-plagiarismgoals-activity-7276604068976816129-tV7b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop:
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Their Generation, Baby: Gray Ponytails
The revolution isn't over.
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More Wild Styles: By Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress)
A cousin of mine was helping work on a volume of poetry and asked if I had more images specifically of San Francisco or New York City in the style of “Wild California” Studies — AI Generative Art gallery that they could consider for inclusion. I didn't, but I whipped some up.
I'm pretty fond of how a lot of them turned out, but, as with so many of these projects, I wound up making many that are visually striking but don't really have much artistic value beyond that, and the work remains to be done to winnow down all the striking images to the ones that really are special.
Until then, I'm so fond of them, though, that I thought I'd give a preview. Here's the complete output of those experiments, awaiting the best of it being culled down into the final presentation.
Right now…
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Here's To My Sweet St. Nick: Rad Santa
Someone on social media asked for AI interpretations of Santa Claus. I couldn't resist such low-hanging fruit.
