Meta AI, Making Sure To Focus On The Important Things

Me: (Posts a 30-year-old picture of our cats staring at our goldfish, Milo, in his bag)
Meta AI: “Oooh! Hey! I know all about Milo! Want to hear his story? I know his favorite food! Really I do! Did you ever want to be a Goldfish Inspector? Let’s see what their duties are! Also if you would like to book an appointment for Trouble and Pooh Bear to come and inspect your goldfish, just let me know!”

Also Meta AI:

  • “Milo is probably a goldfish and Trouble and Pooh Bear are dogs.”
  • “Let me just make up some stuff about what a Goldfish Inspector might do.”1
  • “I have no idea what Milo eats. Maybe flake?”2
  • “Did I mention that Trouble and Pooh Bear are dogs???”
  • “Maybe you should go look at their blog!”3

Well okay, I can get behind that last one at least.

  1. Which, do be fair, seem to be fairly reasonable duties for a Goldfish Inspector to have. ↩︎
  2. It wasn’t flake food. It was probably pellets, most likely from Hikari. ↩︎
  3. If you saw all this and said to yourself, “Self, I bet the animals are going to get a lot of mileage out of this as part of Oona’s on-again, off-again feud with ‘Zuckerbot‘, congratulations! You have been around here for more than five minutes. ↩︎

Not A Not A Review Of “Daredevil”

So recently I’ve started watching the old Netflix Daredevil series, which is now a Disney+ series, because I want to get caught up before I watch the Disney+ Daredevil series Born Again, since the “Born Again” story arc is my favorite Daredevil one from the Marvel comic, but which, as I understand it, is not really a straight-up adaptation of the “Born Again” storyline but is, instead, a mash-up of some other storylines*, and they decided to use the title just to lure in suckers like me. Whew! Did you follow all that? If so, congratulations. You may be able to read a comic book without getting totally confused as to what’s going on.

Oh, and, before we continue …

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That’s Right, Morgoth, There’s No Such Word As This.

(I will cop to trying this word a couple of times before remembering that it has everything to do with The Silmarillion and nothing to do with poling boats around the canals of Venice.)

Not A Review Of “Murderbot”

So recently, having finished up with all available seasons of The Serpent Queen*, we found ourselves in need of a new show to watch, possibly one that would blend drama and black comedy like TSQ did. Or maybe one that would blend science fiction and black comedy. Enter Murderbot.

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Spoiler Alert: It Isn’t.

Hodor?

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Hodor hodor.

Hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor!

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Hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor. Hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor?

Hodor hodor.

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Hodor hodor hodor. Hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor. Hodor?
Hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor.

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Hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor.
Hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor!

Hodor hodor hodor? Hodor hodor.

*For all you non-former-Game-of-Thrones-watchers out there:

Lies, Damn Lies, and ChatGPT: The Chattening

So a while back, I had done a series of posts in which I had asked ChatGPT about a certain vizsla dog whose blog was much more famous than this one, and its responses ranged from semi-accurate to outright fabrication. In the intervening years I have been using ChatGPT off and on to amuse myself with important questions like “If all the most iconic Kurt Russell characters were dropped into the film Aliens, in what order would they get killed or cocooned and which would be the last one left to defeat the aliens at the end?”*, because it’s fun to see what it comes up with; but recently, the animals’ large friends over at the Leonberger Life blog posted the results of asking ChatGPT about their Leonberger Bronco, and the results were interesting; so I thought I would give ChatGPT another chance to lie about Dennis. To wit:

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Wordle: Judgy? Or Just Envious?

Isn’t this the second time you’ve told me something like this, Wordlebot*?

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Spamcommentology: Well, Bokep, This Is Rather Awkward

Post Title: That Crazy Bokep, Always Oversharing in the Spam Folder

Bokep Bots: “Ooh, we have got to leave lots comments on this one!”

Oh Sure, But A “Kitchenette” Is A Thing

Note: I know about oubliettes. Those are different.