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Do you want others to succeed?
Kottke found a video and provided a transcript of a simple social experiment: everyone in a class gets an A if the class votes unanimously for it.
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Chefs sprinkle in some ChatGPT
Chefs have started using ChatGPT as a tool to think up flavors, learn obscure cooking techniques outside of their repertoire, keep track of seasonal ingredients, and concoct plating designs. One of those chefs is Grant Achatz, of Alinea.
Since Mr. Achatz’s first serious experiments with ChatGPT, about a year ago, it has become his favorite kitchen tool, something he used to say about Google. Its answers to his questions about paleontology and Argentine cuisine helped him create a dish inspired by Patagonian fossils at his flagship restaurant, Alinea.
I had the opportunity to dine at Alinea last April, and this dish was served. The presentation appeared as a miniature archealogical dig, complete with tools, and while interesting, wasn’t our favorite dish
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Reconnecting with friends
Once you hit a certain age, life accumulates, and staying in touch with friends becomes a challenge. Here are a few tips to reconnect with friends you’ve grown apart from.
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Flooded with AI slop
The ability of AI to near instantaneously churn out paragraphs of text is being weaponized to overwhelm well meaning officials.
One morning in October of 2024, Fredericton city councillor Margo Sheppard received an email with the subject line: “The Real Policy Crisis: Prioritizing ‘Nature’ Over People.” It was polished — almost algorithmically smooth — and it calmly urged her to reconsider Fredericton’s net-zero policies.
Over the next month, a flood of similar emails followed, all aimed at getting Fredericton to abandon global climate targets. Sheppard is used to emails from organizations on all kinds of issues, but not this many, not on this issue — and not so well crafted. She grew suspicious.
“If we’re getting them in Fredericton,” Sheppard thought, “councillors all across the country must be getting them too.”
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Ukraine hunting drones with a shotgun and an airplane
It’s such a simple idea: fly a two seater single engine plane, give the passenger a shotgun, and go drone hunting. Click through for a crazy picture of one setup.
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Publishing newspapers at 15
A group of teenagers are publishing their own weekly newspaper in Montauk, NY.
Billy Stern, the paper’s 15-year-old top editor, kept tabs on their progress in a planning document on his laptop. According to his color-coding system, reporters had already filed articles about nearby summer camps and the construction of a new hospital on the grounds of a former baseball field.
He turned to Teddy Rattray, 15, the paper’s most prolific columnist and Billy’s friend since Little League, to float ideas for a restaurant review.
“We still haven’t done hot dogs,” Teddy said. Billy agreed: Hot dogs should be an editorial priority.
The operation has grown slicker since the boys got into the news business last year, as eighth graders at East Hampton Middle School. Billy had been looking for a summer job that was more stimulating than his usual gig squeezing lemons at a food truck. He enlisted Teddy and Teddy’s cousin Ellis Rattray to put together an eight-page paper exploring Montauk from a teenager’s perspective.
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Play Doom anywhere
First person shooter Doom has earned a meme-like reputation for practically being able to be played anywhere. This stems from decisions made during its creation, enabling portability.
