Liam Proven

@lproven.bsky.social

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Tall, dark, black-clad, atheist, skeptic, vegetarian, SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.

DESPITE ALL OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS WE OWE OUR EXISTENCE TO A SIX-INCH LAYER OF TOPSOIL AND THE FACT IT RAINS. FARM EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA AND SOUTH DAKOTA
Picture from a Bus. There is a sign that says: "Your Shuttle Bus Driver is: "Hung."
Two happy frogs reading a book together under the text “Us after getting left behind by AI”. (Arnold Lobel, extrait de “Froag and Toad”. I unashamedly stole this meme from a French colleague on mastodon).
A terminology proposal: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Plagiarized Information Synthesis System (PISS)
The front cover of the menu of the Amadeus café, with a few bars of musical notation below the name in a fancy font. Above the photo is imagined dialogue: "Hey, we should put some music on the front of our menu." "OK: what should I use?" "Eh, whatever's probably fine." The score is the melody of the Flintstones theme tune.