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I remember that some signal captures were deemed worthy of further investigation. What happened?

And yet, book publishers have offered --in one instance--2.3 million USD for an AI written text. Those aren't em dahses but the mis-spelling was deliberate to show this coment was …

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I would wager that many people are eager to read George R.R. Martin's latest were he unable to finish it. Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander has featured in works written by others a…

Some people read for pleasure.

Wuddabout: Works unfinished at the time of the author's death? Abandoned works? Lost works? Prompt: Aristotle's work on comedy has been lost. Write a short treatise on comedy, usin…

The story is: they find the guy, call him and he doesn't talk. All they've discovered is that he, like many in the Assad regime, are now in Russia. Duh. This is a non-story.

Expensive motel rooms, a lack of housing and not renting rooms to teenagers or college students might have something to do with the continued longevity of this business. And don't …

Coral Gables, Fla had Lion Video. If Blockbuster carried it, Lion didn't: instead it was art house films, foreign films and lots of Spanish-language titles impossible to find elsew…

It's weird when shops pivot. There was a record store in a neighboring village that went from vinyl to video game kiosks. Then the record store that became a candy store. Put couch…

Malls are dying. Many are closed. Public libraries are daycare for the homeless and parents are afraid to leave their children. Your other options may be well-run, but all suffer f…

Consider yourself very lucky if your public libraries are not daycare for the homeless.

We are unfair to teenagers today; give them no place to go and then we feign surprise when they act up. According to Harper's, there's a 20% decline in kids playing baseball--their…

Libraries are daycare for the homeless. At one city's public library, one of the librarians was mopping up vomit and was heard to comment, "I didn't go to library school for this."…

Golf was democratized under Eisenhower. Today, demand is down because interest is cyclical and private courses are expensive.

My colleague in Dubai says that ATM's are all working so the claim that bank infrastructure is down may not be correct.

Look harder.

Fleece. But a good play--AI wouldn't make this mistake.

No one knew how they could be monetized. The original idea was that they had to be curated: Yahoo led the way into grouping sites into categories. Later came Altavista and others. …

I've been looking like this for a long time. It would be perfect for a knowledge base of documents. You could have contracts sorted by subject matter, torts, procedural rules, what…

Adding the word "parody" to the prompt sometimes works. ChatGpt's guidelines prohibit defamation, however, dead people cannot be defamed Apparently the AI thinks Jeffrey Epstein is…

A while ago, I posted an article along the same lines. Unfortunately, Kurt Vonnegut didn't live long enough to see Trump in the White House. Upload all of Vonnegut's work to an AI-…

Micropayments (charged in mills, not cents) is the solution. Downloading books remains essentially "free" for the individual but the Internet scale is such that authors would recei…

Was it on Flying Tiger? I worked on cargo 747's for them in another lifetime; they had a daily Chicago-Tokyo 747 cargo flight.