Bresee’s Department Store. Oneonta, NY.

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One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.

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Whatever happened to: "rubbish in rubbish out'? We have often used telling language to make computers seem both super human and human. The term "processing" was always one that got me. Processes were natural or man made until we adapted the word for technology.

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I tried out Google Translate live transcription of a DisneySea introduction and got this gem. We live in the future!

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