Flutterby™! (short)

So, anyway...

$ apfel "What’s the frequency Kenneth?"

Kenneth is the name of the character from the animated TV series "The Simpsons." His frequency is 1000 Hz, which corresponds to the frequency of a middle C note on the piano.

258 mile range small electric truck, actually shipping? (albeit in the UK) You have my attention: The Kia PV5 makes for a ridiculously cool dump truck.

RaShon Young to the state: Leave ‘Let Us Alone’ off Florida’s new driver license

Florida entered the Union on March 3, 1845, as a slave state. Its a href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/189087" >1838 Constitution declared that “the General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves.” Moseley, a Jefferson County planter, was sworn in as the state’s first Governor that June, and the flag bearing “Let Us Alone” was unfurled at his inauguration. The Legislature never formally adopted it. The Senate objected to the motto, according to the Florida Historical Society.

But, never one to pass up an opportunity to do a racism, DeSantis pushed it on to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor vehicles. The announcement notes that:

The card also features the motto “Let Us Alone” from Florida’s first unofficial state flag, which was presented to Governor William D. Moseley upon his inauguration.

So, yeah, deliberately a callback to a racist fucker, a message so heinous that even those of the time noped the fuck out of it.

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For work reasons I'm screwing around with Apple Intelligence, which led to fact checking a complete non-sequitur answer.

Anyway, "What's New Pussycat?" lost the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1966 to "The Shadow of Your Smile". Which says something about awards and longevity...

Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool

Note: That's a tool that removes Apple Intelligence, not a tool from Apple that does intelligence removal.

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Warren Wells has tracked down DUI related fatality rates nin California Bay Area counties. It's just what you'd expect in wine country...

Human Emacs. As GNU decides what to do with LLM contributions, this is a project to, if necessary, fork to keep a clean version of Emacs.

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As the designated tech support person for a number of less tech savvy folks: Jesus Christ, Google, fix your shit.

(Suggestions that Apple may be any better will be laughed at.)

Look, I get the "LLMs are not alive" argument, so, yeah, on the one hand we can't torture AI, on the other hand if you find a kid systematically dismembering stuffed animals, maybe ya wanna check in and see if the home life is okay...

https://www.404media.co/someon...ed-the-dumbest-debate-in-ai-yet/

For all the times we've been through Bodega Bay, this is the first time we've been to the Nicholas Green Children's Bell Tower. Stopped in at Ren Brown's gallery and asked him how we could avoid the heat back at home for a little longer...