Random Thoughts

[vdeane]

In all the years I've been staying in hotels I don't recall ever encountering bed bugs once.

Yep.  Same here.  Although, when I was working in a Minnesota law firm, we did have a case against Best Western for a bat bug (not bed bug) infestation...Nasty tens of bites on the plaintiff (maybe 100?).

I imagine those get mistakenly identified too.  They look practically identical.

[kkt]

Stub Hub took that Cold Play concert incident and came up with the most savage of ads:

https://fb.watch/AW1sPfAhUj/?mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e

Go see a Spinal Tap concert, they won't put you on the Jumbotron:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02nFb8koEWbT4LJtS2NqYvo6y6VQjKNRveTrTLJKVukzxSYem7yTtFSmL1zJmXbiiFl&id=61574188131612&mibextid=wwXIfr

Too dumb to be a CEO.  Completely wrong character for being in HR at all.  Too dumb to be a spouse, even too dumb to be an okay lover.

[Max Rockatansky]

Stub Hub took that Cold Play concert incident and came up with the most savage of ads:

https://fb.watch/AW1sPfAhUj/?mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e

Go see a Spinal Tap concert, they won't put you on the Jumbotron:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02nFb8koEWbT4LJtS2NqYvo6y6VQjKNRveTrTLJKVukzxSYem7yTtFSmL1zJmXbiiFl&id=61574188131612&mibextid=wwXIfr

Too dumb to be a CEO.  Completely wrong character for being in HR at all.  Too dumb to be a spouse, even too dumb to be an okay lover.

I would say that he'd be subject to HR disciplinary action but there is a fair chance that was going on behind the scenes already.

[elsmere241]

I would say that he'd be subject to HR disciplinary action but there is a fair chance that was going on behind the scenes already.

Indeed - the company issued a statement this afternoon: https://us.cnn.com/2025/07/18/entertainment/coldplay-concert-kiss-cam-astronomer-investigation

[Max Rockatansky]

I would say that he'd be subject to HR disciplinary action but there is a fair chance that was going on behind the scenes already.

Indeed - the company issued a statement this afternoon: https://us.cnn.com/2025/07/18/entertainment/coldplay-concert-kiss-cam-astronomer-investigation

How dare you take my thinly veiled attempt at HR euphemisms and turn into something actually topical. 

[elsmere241]

I would say that he'd be subject to HR disciplinary action but there is a fair chance that was going on behind the scenes already.

Indeed - the company issued a statement this afternoon: https://us.cnn.com/2025/07/18/entertainment/coldplay-concert-kiss-cam-astronomer-investigation

How dare you take my thinly veiled attempt at HR euphemisms and turn into something actually topical. 

Sorry, I didn't get the joke.

[Max Rockatansky]

Now Yavapai County Emergency Management is getting on the Coldplay concert fun:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1170570075115488&set=a.225190869653418&type=3&mibextid=wwXIfr

[Max Rockatansky]

How Joe Namath still a viable spokesman considering his sports playing heyday was when my dad was in high school? 

[Rothman]

How Joe Namath still a viable spokesman considering his sports playing heyday was when my dad was in high school? 

Once Broadway Joe, always Broadway Joe.

[SEWIGuy]

How Joe Namath still a viable spokesman considering his sports playing heyday was when my dad was in high school? 

1. He's never met a product he's not willing to hawk.
2. He's only hawking products meant for people from that generation.

[formulanone]

How Joe Namath still a viable spokesman considering his sports playing heyday was when my dad was in high school? 

1. He's never met a product he's not willing to hawk.
2. He's only hawking products meant for people from that generation.

Shaquille O'Neil will be filling that spot for the next thirty years, I presume. My kids aren't into basketball and TV but they know who he is because he hawks everything just about anywhere.

[kphoger]

All the AI-hating people describing exactly how they can tell every AI-generated image on Facebook is AI-generated just end up feeding the AI machine the exact information it needs to make better AI-generated images.

[Max Rockatansky]

The hyper saturation doesn't help with those AI road photos. 

[Scott5114]

All the AI-hating people describing exactly how they can tell every AI-generated image on Facebook is AI-generated just end up feeding the AI machine the exact information it needs to make better AI-generated images.

Eh, not exactly.

The people responsible for the functioning of the AI machine know very well by this point what is deficient with the images. The problem is that the underlying structure of AI is very similar to that of the "Plinko" board from The Price Is Right. So pointing out what's wrong with the image would be like Drew Carey telling someone "Hey, you're not supposed to drop the chip in the zero slot." The contestant knows that, but  where are they supposed to put the chip to keep that from happening?

Of course, the reason why Plinko works as a game is because there is no starting point that is guaranteed to land any particular place. And that's why I think AI ultimately can't be improved much more than where it is now—the element of randomness that is essential to the function of the software also guarantees it can never be perfect.

[PNWRoadgeek]

Politik by Coldplay is a good song

[kphoger]

Eh, not exactly.

The people responsible for the functioning of the AI machine know very well by this point what is deficient with the images. The problem is that the underlying structure of AI is very similar to that of the "Plinko" board from The Price Is Right. So pointing out what's wrong with the image would be like Drew Carey telling someone "Hey, you're not supposed to drop the chip in the zero slot." The contestant knows that, but  where are they supposed to put the chip to keep that from happening?

Of course, the reason why Plinko works as a game is because there is no starting point that is guaranteed to land any particular place. And that's why I think AI ultimately can't be improved much more than where it is now—the element of randomness that is essential to the function of the software also guarantees it can never be perfect.

I was assuming that the AI machine was learning on its own from everything we've been saying.

[JayhawkCO]

All the AI-hating people describing exactly how they can tell every AI-generated image on Facebook is AI-generated just end up feeding the AI machine the exact information it needs to make better AI-generated images.

And yet 90% of the humans it draws have six fingers.

[Scott5114]

I was assuming that the AI machine was learning on its own from everything we've been saying.

There are two AI machines, one for images and one for text. The only text it can read is alt-text attached to it describing what the image is.

[kphoger]

And yet 90% of the humans it draws have six fingers.

I actually haven't seen one like that in a while.  The ones I've seen recently look a lot better than even just a couple of months ago.

There are two AI machines, one for images and one for text.

Ah, thank you for that explanation!