💙Alan💛

@alanzero.bsky.social

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Huge nerd. Huge 🇳🇿

"The left has hated MTG for years and she never feared for her life. She's been hated by the right for only a few days and had to hire security. Tells you all you need to know."
Excerpt from No Logo by Naomi Klein
A battered copy of NO LOGO by Naomi Klein (pub. 2000)
Batman slapping Robin meme. Robin: "But I was just following orders!" Batman: "Stow it, brownshirt"
A Claude-powered chatbot expresses surprise when the tools it's using in the testing environment (which return randomized values) tell it that the conditions in LA are snowy
Claude's reaction to my (a Python developer) joke about Java developers - "If the calendar had been invented by Java developers, every month would have exactly 28 days. Except for December which would have 55."
A screenshot of the secondary tabs of my Gmail inbox. The tabs are labeled "Promotions", "Social" and "Updates" and each contains an abbreviated teaser with the name of the sender of the latest unread email and the beginning of the subject line. Under the Social tab, the teaser says "LinkedIn - Alan, follow Christ..."
Screenshot of a poll result (Reuters/Ipsos, April 16-21, taken from MSNBC's YouTube channel) in which 83% of respondents opined that the Trump administration should obey court orders (vs 13% no)
A screenshot of text that reads: "In 1901, Tesla secured $150,000 from financier J.P. Morgan to build a 185-foot-tall, mushroom-shaped tower on the north shore of Long Island capable of transmitting messages, telephony and images to ships at sea and across the Atlantic Ocean by using the Earth to conduct signals. As work began on the structure, called Wardenclyffe Tower, Tesla wanted to adapt it to allow for wireless power delivery, believing from his experiments on radio and microwaves that he could light up New York City by transmitting millions of volts of electricity through the air. Morgan, however, refused to give Tesla any additional funding for his grandiose scheme. (Some speculate that Morgan cut off funds once he realized that Tesla’s plan would have crippled his other energy-sector holdings.) Tesla abandoned the project in 1906 before it could ever become operational, and Wardenclyffe Tower was dismantled in 1917."
A screenshot of a feedback report to Anthropic.ai (the makers of Claude) in which the user explains that Claude misidentified a handwriting-style font as actual handwriting