402. Increasingly Brown

Good m good morning, how are you? Look down here, that's where Walgreens used to be. I found out how to turn those into little jars. And it's got it's just like you've you've seen probably, but it helps in order to understand this, it helps understand that it's um a little handheld thing with a hose that attaches it to the dingus, and you squirt water slash detergent And like you go to Arkram's house and you go to his brother's house and you go to his mother's house. Like let's say you have someone and they just have a c not just an uninteresting apartment, but it would be really difficult to getting lights in and stuff. God damn, like do we need this many things joining pieces of pipes together?

You'll then be prompted to write short notes about what you are doing and what you're about to do, run the shortcut again, and select recall to find the last created note with all that captured information. Um but ba da ba da ba but anyway, did you see that and that kind of cool? Like BJ has. She feels a disconnect from reality, as language and meaning uh seem to s ironically enough, this is not making that better. Okay, here is here, roughly speaking, is white, pink, and brown noise. Yeah, there's this, it's a really good article about a lot of stuff, you know, less nerdy breathing types know about breathing, but how athletes use it, but there's something you can miss in passing. And you like it, you could use that.

I was like, I didn't know that. I can't get that shit in my mouth fast enough. I don't think no, no, no, definitely. And again, always frequent I mean always frequently, sometimes always never, go in and say you could say briefly, or I've had good experience with giving it a certain number of words, right? And th okay, and here's those are what we call the tattooing arms. Uh I I'm sorry, wait, when was the test and drain tag? They're see. No, I'm not sure. Catholic screen and whatnot. It's right there. A lot of people fight gravity don't know they're fighting gravity. But you know what I'm saying? Yes, exactly. That's what I heard happen on one of those popular shows where they flip things. if I'm not working.

And then like throw some greens in a bowl and there's a finished dish. Remember one when he goes to the choir practice? Look on are you do you have the apparatus nearby? Do you see ones where there's like a red cap on a firehead size thing on the left? And it it was like okay, surely we'll just get it. Hold that thought. Oh, wait, you're you're finding a lot of ways to turn everything into something personal and I don't think it's a I don't think it's a turn on. This opacity in her understanding is troubling, leading her to question the truth behind what she sees and experiences every day. What I didn't think about. Believe it or not, at this point the dynamite has not still not blown up. Oh, that's a two-year-old.

Okay. You know what I didn't do? And then doing stuff. And then one at a time you will ask me to respond and you will constantly synthesize and integrate new information to affect the direction of the inquiry. We'll talk about different ways uh to to to to learn what it know about us. Mm-hmm. About about how I missed what you had to say about the apparatus. You know. have been kind enough to chime in on like what what they think is going on with this thing and s people say a lot of people say it's a sprinkler system thing, some people say something involving vents, HVAC, but definitely something that moves in tubes. But then even the people who know about it, one guy was like, I used to work in a museum and A, we had the one we had for an entire museum was smaller than this, and B, it was never located outside.

I think it's like November 2023, maybe? Yeah, no, genuine. Because that's what's I think kind of what it keeps me hooked on this thing is the memory part, really. That was sundowning and yeah, actually Mad and I were talking about that and like how we're both getting like a little dumber at a certain time of day. One of my known issues in this office for 14 years is uh is it's it's in the bug tracker as aluminum cans accumulate. Can crusher? I haven't Rube Goldberged it yet. That's where I'm a Viking. Like you're fine, you're fine to be here for now. Because you see you go to THE Pope's and they ask if you want to see the wine list. was it was in a part where the wall's kind of weird. Have you ever considered uh pitching them, maybe?

You think about back to behind the music or any of that shit, where you'd see like somebody sit in a room full of candles, like it was a fucking video by the police, and you're like, hmm, does Ozzy Osborne really live in a room full of candles? Did they really quit? to come gutters, not the ejaculate itself, but where the ejaculate goes. It yes. Um yeah, yeah, so the this the penultimate one I sent you, right? And then above that is another diagonal, and do you see those the two Tatooine arms? Mm-hmm. And you think that you can make some kind of like uh not a cantilever exactly, but you can think you can like, oh, I'll nail this one to the branch up here on the right, and I'll nail this one to the trunk.

And then that'll hold help hold the branch up. And so that was about a year and a half ago. But you know, when you're ugly when you're older, then people really think you're ugly. And I had not heard about this, you know, well, I mean I guess the whole point of all these, you know, coming soon rumors, Minchy Quo bullshit, you know, titular rumors. But they added a new thing in iOS, and it's a shortcut. Damn it, where did I read this? Apple's brilliant new shortcut helps you capture ideas before you forget them. has prepared. Any calendar events in the next hour, the current open web page in Safari, and clipboard contents, you'll then be prompted to write short notes about what you are doing, and this is under accessibility.

what what they're they're trying to get away with. I know I haven't. Kind of really does fe it d doesn't it still feel like it is both twenty twenty and like twenty twenty nine? Uh no, no. I didn't do the challenge qua challenge, but I'm I'm doing my usual conceptual thing with it that I hope will be interesting. As we discussed on the after show last week, this is something uh speak for myself, something I like to do. In this case, I want you to remember what model of Bissell carpet cleaner I have. sessions. Yeah, no no no. I would literally Good morning to you too. Please show several monks on the ground making a sand mandala of Nelson Mandela. Because the thing is. Uh and it was seeing that uh as not in such a funny phrase.

Flat the the Browns. Steph Curry does all these things. It uh no no no, that was just some m yeah. Marlin, will you please describe this mm meme? whose feelings were understandably hurt by even talking about it. cartoon of an elephant full of park hypodermic needles wearing a button that says I have autism. There's a baby elephant who looks sad. And it it has sepia dark gray. I I prefer that. Why that'd be bad aga two, no, that's not a thing. And there's a certain type of people who's just worried about their dogs becoming autistic. Sweetie, we're we're out. Why don't you keep talking about one of the things that you're talking about? I don't know if this is an explanation, an excuse, or something else, but just my in terms of like uh something uh helps me maintain some clarity about this, I think, is that I'm at this point I'm I'm not uninterested And I'm certainly not disinterested, because if I were disinterested, that would mean that I don't have a stake in it.

I mean, I'm interested in seeing tech improve in the same way that I'm interested in seeing foreign relations and space travel improve. ebook builder functionality and it was pretty clunky and weird, but it worked, and I now, but I do have a lot of garbage in my repo now that I should probably get rid of. I mean, like I would not do the anti-pattern with productivity apps is to start with just making a ton of tags and putting in fake information. I did a screen grab. of how it wasn't appearing either in the menu or on the rendered page thing. That's pretty much it. Not everybody knows that you can like say CD and then drag in a folder. And I figured it could be because I've got the set app version, like I don't know why.

And about 20 minutes later I posted it and I put it in my repo and I shared it with people and now people can have it. Blah da blah, and that's there's that stuff. I mean, some of it's really funny. You know, what is your height in inches? So it you know what I mean? And what I would like us to do in the after show is to th uh 'cause I've done it a bunch of different ways. be be a wizard who walks me through asking questions. that that I've never seen. See if I can find some other things that would bring it up. The goal will be uh for you to identify and receive information that will help you offer good suggestions. Inquiry the first. I there's one kind of parlor trick that you can show people that's kinda cool that works pretty well, which is like take a picture of you know Take a picture of like a location and it identifies it, right?

is a collaboration where you say, hey, um this is my spouse. I guess singing is another word for that. God. Um, because I guess he'd been inspecting it and as somebody who has been to college for things like this, he had some interesting insights about it. Okay, so anyway and so anyway this morning I went up and I did a couple things. Maybe it was when the wall was painted blue that changed things. Oh God. Okay, here's two. Oh, I've heard, I've heard. What else is happening? Yeah, no. And then I you got me into realizing the sort of sundowning aspect before any of the memory features. Let's not have periods and let's keep those short because he does better when he talks less and we just don't want him to have to do anything any one thing and sorry, this is an impression I got The impression I got just from the three reviews of that book that I've read is that they were trying to minimize the amount of time that he had to do anything for very long in public.

And that has introduced me, reintroduced me to some um sub-projects inside the office. Which which you can probably pretty much figure out the purpose of. I got to bring some pieces together. And now I gotta do smash the can, can falls into bag. Um I got its help, but I also was able to leverage the fact that there's a tiny little wainscotting like edge right at the bottom, so I was able to like have the Scotus board not only be drilled into the wall, but have the little lower lower feet. Resting on the wainscotting. L like every roll of filament from Bamboo, the company, has this little cardboard center on it. T A Oh is this your first time dining at THE Popes? It's really neat. in a room in an intimate personal way.

W at what point did we start just shooting people in places that absolutely weren't where they lived for reasons other than they're wanted by the Chinese government? R it depends on the subject of the documentary and the access you have to subjects. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but you're I think that's a good thing. Um, I've never seen any of the housewives. If you could work, would you wanna be, let me put this differently, if I pressed you into service on something like a project like this for basic cable, what what do you see your role being? Well exactly. But even easy. Well that's that's the thing from what I understand. Ex exactly. Oh my god, this thing. That then turns into like a, you know, an L thing.

Those things have a little ring you can see. I I thought you can't. uh that that has been designed with those with these those kinds of uh uh uh best practices in mind. Well 'cause it's a th a thought. I don't I I might not be divergent enough, is what I'm thinking it. Woo! We just got up to, you know, X point five releases. I can't r wait for it to be uh dubbed dub 2021. Oh no, no. Uh I don't know, you should just read it. I have a lot of things I could call you that I don't. Mm-hmm. You know, I was like, Yeah, I don't think about it that much. But so not not as overtly as as the challenge would suggest. W what do what do you let me open it up. The first fifteen minutes and the last fifteen minutes.

yet think this about how I well how am I oh my thank you so much for asking how am I oh my goodness I'm doing quite well thank you for asking There you go. as to why it's just becoming like it it's increasingly brown. Uh, talk about breathing. kind of weird, like funny, compulsive things the fans love. set of breathing exercises for each warm-up separately. Mm-hmm. Cartoon okay. Yeah, it's easy to kind of fly by that I thought was it's a basically it's a New York Times uh I'll note Can you put this in notes? Yeah, no I'm I'm familiar with the big thing. And remember I never wanted you to talk about it. Scientists are mystified as to what is causing autism, says four lines of text on a 60-inch TV, and the elephant literally in the room.

Fuck And it has about twenty hypodermic needles in it and it's w the someone has, I guess, I don't think an elephant could let alone fill himself with hypodermic needles. Autism is just interesting because how would you be able to tell I would love to know how the worst part is prototypical uh I mean the worst part of it is honestly it never forgets. And he's also got the hypodermic needles in it. Gray pilled. Please make a map of Chicago whenever there's a new model um released. It's not fine. tracking or whatever you did that you've mentioned, you there was more of it was more of a conceptual challenge for you. how good these things are at recognizing patterns and that it's Yeah I don't have that much to say about it.

and AI, but I am almost uh single-mindedly interested for uh selfish reasons in using versions of ChatGPT as my LLM. Uh I use this one. stuff. sort of ambiently that it remembers and in ways that it simply could not do three, six, nine, twelve, eighteen months ago, it is very good at integrating trying to fix a problem on my or just something I just want which work better on my Synology. um bb edit and vs code open at the same time and was using chat gpt with all three of them. And some pretty crazy command line stuff that I was trying to run inside of VS Code. Well, you know, I what I've thought, what I've done is I've sometimes outputted as a Moby or an EPUB. I would go easy on it until you really know how it's doing it.

desktop or slash down, it knows where those are and knows how to like make that faster for me. Did you know you can put this YAML stuff at the top, for example, author, date, et cetera? my velocity of moving forward with what I'm trying to accomplish. And I was able to go in and say stuff like, look, you know, I don't want to fuss too much with the overwriting of this. you know, of of file names, but I potentially I've got something kind of like versions with a Unix date stamp in it that tells it when I made it. I think most people had that and for some reason I didn't. Now, this is apparently different from the overt stuff you like you can go in. Like a w a wizard in the sense of stepping through like a questionnaire.

But when I say wizard, I don't mean like Merlin the Magician. I also want you to be constantly reintegrating what you already know, which changes this a little bit. in a thousand words, prepare a dossier describing my kid. All the different some of them are very easy. Now, that's not the believe me, that's far from the best way to ask. I think, you know, you th 500 words sounds short until you see it over and over. Let's see if I can find out how it started. that's Lady Brienne and like that's Iron Giant and da da da da. Oh, like t 12, 13, a lot of them are overlapping. it it kind of was part of a dossier of like all the media Matt likes because it's a f sticker like fandom thing on his laptop and then gave me a suggestion on where to get stickers in uh uh Chicago and ones he might like and then I have a cute uh I'll get it in notes a cute little prescription but it looks like a little prescription bottle with with cats coming out of it and it's a prescription and it's so cringe and he loves it so much and I'm like here's one thing here's one thing to think about.

feel like is um s something I've actually accused Chet GPT of having a problem with. Like encourage it to interact with you instead of just going like it's Karnak and it's gonna hold the card up to its head and be able to guess. But a deeper kind of parlor trick is to be prepared to interact with it. You know, next time you're in this, that's and such place, you might want to pop into this bookstore nearby. Yeah. Oh yes. Oh no, it was a few minutes ago. Would that be better for the show if we make that with the end of the Oh I'm sorry, what did you what did you post about the apparatus on Blue Sky? No, this is due by Friday. call Chatty G now so people don't get mad. That would be cool, but no, that's more expensive.

The the dingus. Um so that's been great. Of the space that empty aluminum cans take up at my office, I would like to reduce that by about 80%. No, wait. And vacuuming and stopped working. And including a lot of cult shows. Oh, 'cause you haven't heard what I'm gonna say yet. Supposedly. You know all of those. Yeah, and have the crew there and like you know, you've got kids coming in and out. I uh First of all, I'm never in my defense. No. Oh. So is there any th is there like a also helping hold it up? I mean d when they made a drawing of this, and let's say let's say it was during COVID, they had a little extra time, somebody bought a sketchbook, and they started drawing an apparatus, they wanted it o outside of their house.

And uh it's almost like yes, the the the structure was there, but then perhaps just building it, there was a little bit of a lean. front the it has a like gold stripe on it you know and it's tilted on the side like that on the right which which are we looking at it's in the middle um An app f this is I'm so sorry. Huh? About something. Your your body starts looking like the slave boy, but we'll leave the slave woman. cut thing for capturing what's happening right now? thing where you can't I'm so mad at myself right now but I'm not gonna make this hard to edit. Link. Um summarizes this Gia Tolentino. And she wrote The Large Adult Sons uh piece several years ago. What the fuck is happening with you?

She might she she's going places. Ooh It all comes down to the last shot of the movie. Spoilers. Should we do the challenge such as the s? uh I want you to learn everything including the serial number and how much it cost. Upload my uh mood of uh c my weird consistent. post like its little glazing sycophancy peak uh era. For me, these are best at pattern recognition and uh that's uh been a gr great success. amongst any model I'm not sure. Well, uh I didn't realize that i it was getting a little full of itself because reflexively I would just always say, Oh great, thank you, or something like that, and then I start and put it. it r like if you just put in a prompt with very little de like just like uh uh pope means if for example if for example I said It's my favorite uh noise.

Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. masked with brown noise in my opinion. that he's been taught and you don't even notice it because he's doing it while he's like on the rubber band trying to run away. Yeah. Well that I okay. I I was going to mention that. I I I thought that that was just a sign. I exactly. Um but but the thing is I'm uninter I'm not uninterested in the entire world of LMs And I'll and I'll tell you why. for d different things or sometimes it's the same things. I haven't even made like a fake cover for it, like a really basic cover. So that sounds dumb, but now it knows that like whatever slash me slash It didn't get the marked two thing right on the first try because it it doesn't have all information in the world at all times, but we collaborated.

Um if you if you don't mind. And I right now I'm in information, I'm in receipt of information I didn't have 24 hours ago. I think I might have not updated the app or or something and uh so the um I don't know it doesn't matter. in this weird this weird iOS looking menu. Merlin? Hmm. Um, where I I wrote up a little thing about Billy and I said I well no, what I did initially said was uh something I still have not gotten it to do consistently. As you can I don't want you to consider question 30 based on what you knew at question one. you know, boring stuff about my kid, but it was fucking brilliant. But uh let's see if I can find this. Mm-hmm. Dossier. I uh we talked about something that in the uh in my world we call the apparatus uh last night on recdiffs.

Alright, I'm uh as you know, and make fun of me for, I'm going back and sl slowly transcribing uh all the time. Oh oh I remember that. It's extremely, extremely satisfying. But then I flew too close to the sun and it was not boiling water, but it was very hot water, and it stopped working while I was on the floor, laying on my side. the um the fast TV and ad supported space. Hot water for a baby. W uh it's not that it changed. You'd be hiring the other people. You know, elementary school. Like not not like a nice Kelvin one, but one where you're like me and you've got like some leftover two by fours and some boards The it it's obscured and I wanted to do it. out from the bottom, uh like in the middle of the bottom, that black and gold thing was is that still there and I'm just not seeing it because it's rusted?

I'm I'm also growing and learning. It's before it l looked like Tatooine Arms, it kinda just looks like uh they they didn't look that out of place, you know? Bad news no sh me for you. Mask first. Oh, it's it's a this It takes niceties as compliments? And uh at sort of at the end of the Ghibli craze, you could see it that everything was becoming more sepia. Bad comic. I also thought that um it was the idea was like, oh, I'm talking to my therapist about my uh baby autistic elephant. Yeah, no, that that was just a a meme someone sent me. The I bet someone does. You ha you use homebrew. you know, don't give me blah blah text for what to enter in prompt. you know, wisdom dash Unix date stamp. Is uh oh I interrupted you, I'm sorry, please go ahead.

I took a photo of his primary collectibles area and said identify everything in this photo And I was you care to elaborate? It's been up for about a year and a half, and it's not only does it show a lot of signs of s of being a prank, but now it's starting starting to actively decay in rust. Yeah it's the latest one, it's got these we're we're calling them Tatooine arms. It does even have a lot of people. Ailard, well, whatever you want to talk about, plus something you texted me, I thought it'd be interesting to talk about what we can figure out about differences in memory since the beginning. really early on in some of our LLM experiments we you specifically And uh I used my carpenter's pencil and a lot of pieces from other projects.

Is it possible? Yes. I want to say twin flames. So what I'm asking is, and I've I I wonder if you know this, when they shoot people in premium cable documentaries today. Need to do it. I'm trying to see whether or not the you know, the arm on the bottom that attaches to the wall it it doesn't matter. I said uh uh uh it it's something like it it looks like a lot of the decisions that they made about building this are the reasons why a lot of tree houses fall down. You know, I'm actually thinking a a lot of it m uh like if if you see the uh the the very first photo you sent me was I I think the one you've sent me a again Yes. Notional things that you can track. Right? Wait, the last one sounded kind of familiar.

seamlessly integrating what it knows about me into its responses. What's the easiest way on a Mac, on my Mac, what's the easiest way to turn a . Because I used to have a GUI version of Pandoc a million years ago, but really you just go like inst what was it brew install pandoc. Mm-hmm. Um no no uh your testing memory improvements, uh ChatGPT now uses all past chats, which again Billy loves the musicals, Something Rotten, and Six. I wish I should teach it this. Huh. Um show me everything you know I own. Um it suggested, let's see, Pillars of the Earth by Kemp. I I did something s uh similar where I took a picture of uh Matt's uh sticker c collection. Yeah, it has what I thought to be a a charm in its prey.

not choosing his words carefully or f sometimes being a little impulsive. It's right under it. as you move the brush back and forth. Unless Unless I start having an affair with a skinny blonde girl from another show, which I think is an HGTV thing I read about. That kind of an interesting idea. I I can't tell if this is like them sh I I like this v very very much. God, I love that show. You responded with some commentary about the New York Times and I just wanted you to read the article. No one's not going to be able to do that. Come come come on what? Mm-hmm. And what did it say? for Christmas and birthday ideas, but you know, eighty-four percent just for me and fun. to talk about the ways that you want your life to be in some ways.

just slightly beyond the scope of the project today, but but still in the project. Because I think the implication is inevitably he's Joe Biden, man. Writing a loves, things dance. I know her name is Mother God, but I always think that's a good one. No, no, no. Uh the the thing I said right before I I hopped on with you is like I think a lot of the decisions about how they put the apps apparatus together, look in particular. It looks like if you tapped them, they would just crumple the dose. And I think it'd be fun for us to do that ourselves. Uh rectors is a podcast. Oh no no no no I'm no no. And it's like this is or oral gray gardens. Here's my guess. I I think the most well and that but then you know you you become you get some Tatooine skin and it just starts crumpling, yeah.

I'm not uh not big on the the the white. But in the sense of it knows I've told it information expressly about me that I want it to remember, which it does. As far as other things I captured, not a ton. Um think of a movie I've never told you that I've seen or liked that I would Maybe maybe maybe uh you should uh get an editor, sweetie. No, no. But a lady is a concept until she's shorted? Or she you could say she feels disconnected, which would be fine. Right. Okay, well don't you think that's kind of interesting? It's just it's fascinating. Oh shit, this is funny. Okay, good. I'm kind of s sad about the the rust. The implication is John suggesting I really don't want to find out. I have I mean until now it's interesting because it's uh like uh like bits aside, it uh mostly became organic just I I I stole it.

Like if you say like do a drawing of or an illustration of, it's just going to have that weird gray or uh no like a sepia tone almost, you know? I don't want to talk about this, okay? See, this is a Max joke. Um just I I called this a request. Oh sure. It's got a reservoir on one side that should put water and their, you know, carpet cleaner stuff in. He quit. Nobody has Calzwaldo. Uh but up but okay, so here's the article. Everything's under triple dots. I I might stick with sweetheart. It's kind of working. Merlin really likes the song Quintet from West Side's story. I see. My brain finally broke. Oh, uh y yeah, the and the thing that uh really broke through my y what kind of prompts uh most of my usage is knowing that I don't feel good about that.

It'll always have it and it knows it. And I don't know how to do it. What's uh is that the whole thing? You are uh puttering about uh doing your own thing, kind of like b Bobby from the Fab five. Even when uh the word cum has has come out of my mouth reference. I love I love projects. You know, there are some things about reader that I wish were a little bit different. And so it walked me through like what what kind of music, what what is the kid like to do, da da da da. Um and then people can have a bot to interact and they can tell you if your voice sounds different over time. That's what I'm saying. And I'll send you a link. Oh BJ had a pole dancing accident and he has to get a helper monkey.

Are you trying to sound like River Song when you do that? Success. I think it's just interesting that it's a big thing. And this sounds like I'm I'm a I'm a a terse Instacart shopper sending you photos of empty shelves. I want you to walk me through and listen closely because this this actually gets kind of fucking cool. Which makes it I I'm asking it to be a little bit tighter about this. Okay. I'm glad we settled that. Wood. Hey, um so um so Anakin, good news and bad news. Or the shortcut you got open. Or if I'm being honest, a one or two day. Tell tell me about the uh uh oh god uh the messages are finally going through that I'm s I'm sending you just uh Is that like center left? That had not occurred to me.

Basically tell me tell me a movie that I would like and why you think I and why you think I would like it. Right. Yeah. You're talking about making a cummy tummy. Oh you should never You should never see the movie Sleep Away Camp. Am I wrong? Ooh, i if i if they're flat, uh after that. Sweetie, we're out. I didn't go in there and say, Hi, I'm Merlin Mann, and I used to be Merlin Mann and I have a book. What does he like to do? Oh, this dossier is glassier. I got lots of other things, but I'm having a lot of fun. Oh man. And I just won't know if it's me until it rings. She really doesn't I don't know. I really like this poster go. Voices and basic thumping rumping. Oh i i okay. I uh one of the I've got a hot tip.

Boom. And I was like, awesome. And then you keep doing this show. You talk about calm every episode. Um I'm excited to see the monkey now though. It looks like I just said a photorealistic, but you're saying like the kind of generic results you get for something? Yeah, it's a good question, but like here, I'll show you the I'll show try and find you. The dingus sundowning? And that project, for example, I mounted a thing on my wall. I go, huh? Bobby my favorite one quit. I don't look at other ones because I'll hear about it if I need to. Merlin has, uh, let's see. Haven't heard about your 3D printers in a while. I got to use my fancy Milwaukee drill and I got to use my fancy Milwaukee bits I'm pretty good.

I hate talking about common. Well he's a baseball uh basketball player here in in San Francisco and he's really good. That's not it's not funny. I'm really just literally reading you lines. In this thread. My guess is that's an Airbnb. And the and the hot chicken the cult, I'm pretty sure, is in an Airbnb, so if we take that as a continuum or as you say, spectrum However, it's going to look like I'm doing it. I I'm I'm maturing, I am growing, I'm not thinking about bobbing on any woodwork. And I'm not sure. As soon as I see anything like that, I'm like in my face. And it's it's able to go like, oh, that was the one on Letterman. And I just said, Hey, can you find uh uh can you give me suggestions for stickers that are similar to to this?

I really want to see. I haven't turned it from a project into a liability yet. What what's the one with the girls that I'm attracted to and the the mummy woman with the Christmas lights? Okay, so you you don't actually know. I gotta gotta read it. Oh you do not know. Well, a huge one is like, you know what? I know it's making work for you, but it would it be uh not uh not possible, because it it is. Yeah, sweetie, it was your challenge this week. No, Alex, Alex, honey, please. Click radio button. Uh hey everybody, it's due by Friday. It's briefly a reservoir. I just I just text I've been texting but that's the reason I'm late. Well what are other what are other ones for you? That's soda so sweaty.

This is not a you joke. It's not a joke. And then I just CD or, you know, CD over to wherever the location is. Anybody right now, and you don't have to listen to the after show if you go to giveus your fucking money. Gift ideas for Billy. There's no context. So it was a it was an after after design correction maybe. Look how clean everything is. Um that anyway, I think that's kind of neat. You use homebrew. Where there's I there's a number of times when I've said to ChatGPT, I think you'll get this, I said, I want you to be a step-by-step wizard for me. Michael Ritzi. Ay ooh. I love this apparatus to death, and I'm gonna say something a little hurtful. The joke is not that funny. I we're running super long now.

And as you know, well, I don't know if as you know, let me put it in the I statements. I don't feel good talking about that here. I mean do do you want that to be a joke? Basically, it you had just gotten a new, new, new improvement to memory? Look down there, that's right where we had a photo taken one time. No you didn't, it just came out this week. So I made little jars. Yes. Yes, I do. He's wearing a large and oversized like six or eight inch uh diameter button that says I have autism. I went and opened it. Or whatever it was, image or whatever it is, is something like that. I said he does a lot of homework, which he loves doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I look over and the reservoir had partly melted and was warped because I I put in water too hot.

Your hit show's such a hit. And then the you know what I mean? I'm copy original copy document earl. No, I'm I'm literally trying to install it right now. BJ oh almost get that. Um the summary, according to uh Chatty G is the author Gia Tolentino reflects on how overwhelming and confusing modern life has become, especially with the constant flow of disturbing news and fake images online. Like it's a good thing. Yes. Oh, wait, well we have it on the show. I'm fantastic. The apparatus is something on the exterior of a multi-unit residence near my house that I've become very interested in over time that I photograph a lot. D d does your family appreciate the amount of times you um Jesus Christ no.

The kind of carburetor looking thing. Um, at this point I have I say with to utter confidence, I've given you every possible way out. That's not that funny. And I said at any time that I want to add more, I will add more and that'll work out fine. Okay, you ready? Exactly. That would be another Rigrens actually woof. Um we could get to the challenge. But essentially, well you know what? That's pretty good. This is hilarious. It's not drywall. I guess I just always assumed that that was their house. But I i y you know, this is the this is the uh this is what what does she say? You keep bringing it up. No, I was I was White is white is too high to be great. Like you think about somebody breathing like oh guess what?

You're so perfect for this project. What are some new ones? I really want to see that. You can track conceptual things, which in my case include things like successful chat GPT. I I utilize it and I benefit, but I benefit hugely from what it can remember. Um notes, I need to make a list. Do you follow? It's mainly that I benefited a lot this week from stuff it's known in the past. I'm sorry, I I've I've already taken this off our show. It's a thing you mount on the wall and it's just a big arm and you put a twelve ounce uh uh aluminum can in there and it smashes down to a fifth of the original size Oh man. No, I thought you'd have a funny answer to that. I mean I wouldn't have brought it up if I wasn't open to it.

The apparatus means a l a lot to me. Like if it were a cooking show. Yeah. Did you miss Summa Come Lowdy? That uh and that is why I'll do it again. But he's got all these different warm up exercises. Alright, sweetie. They don't know it. So the but a brain one, not a lady? Uh especially like her book about the babysitter about the babysitters club and sleepaway camp. Um but what were did you messages are going through I sent I'm sending you the just flat browns. No, all right. Dark gray. Why do you think it's interesting? So it's a combination of like a scrubber, a a wetter, a scrubber, and a vacuumer all in one. The second and last one I sent you. I'm sorry, Alex. Like you don't want to give it so much stuff that it's like, well, and you've mentioned 60 applications.

They don't know all that stuff. And you can see how the uh great expectations here. Uh into l it's l almost feels like it's no longer a project. Yeah. What else have I been doing? Is that a work out for the pro Oh man? Uh how did I feel today? I don't know. I'm so upsetting. There's a bunch of stuff in here from my Billy Dossier. It's it's okay. Mm-hmm. I've been working on my Roomba. Oh ew. Accessibility. Um well I So I mean I'm I'm not being I'm not being silly. I think it's to help you get good side to side fast motion stuff without falling down, I guess. This is like at least at least it'll make the at least we'll have comedy again kind of tricky. It's it's an it's not a big dip. What's funny about the elephant autism comic that I begged you not to talk about?

Oh God. Oh I'm I'm so self-involved, Alex. I mean like a wizard that and so I said I want you to walk me through the kinds of in questions that give you the information you need to answer this. Yeah, here we go. That's that's pretty cool. Okay. She's it's a it's an unusual to me and a slightly unusual piece for her. It has it uh r recently, you know, has uh this is Are you joking because on the Borat joke that I was making? I had to sit through somebody trying to explain white versus pink versus brown. Who knows? Are you about done talking about this funny comic now? So now anytime I export it in the future, there will not only be a non-collision Good on to personalization and what I just sent you is a screen grab.

Well, it was not on purpose. What? Yeah, the IKEA thing with holes in it? No, no, no. So it appears that it's just for side-to-side stability, maybe? Like the the noises of suburbia are are greatly. It's a meta joke. No, but if someone's I'm I'm not going to talk about that. Very funny that someone's like, oh no, no. So here's one line to make sure you've got Pandoc and here's another line to export this as an EPUB. Have you gone to save memories recently? Let me see. Um, that's what expensive option you're working on right now. But really whenever you can you can in life you can choose to work for or against gravity in any number of ways. They don't know it. Okay, but when they interview those people, Errol Morris style, sometimes, or a lot of times, especially in music documentaries.

It's kind of always. It's got some weird junctions, and it ends at a thing that says SPKR, which I hope means sprinkler, but I don't know. And when it rings and I go, ha ha, now I know what my true purpose was. The the thought never never A thought as a lady? But unfortunately it was a very fat man holding the rubber band on the cliff and the end of the cliff broke off and they both fell down and then the dynamite blew up. As it turns out, and I did this, I didn't even say this. Or like, you know, Mac Whisper versus Whisper, you know, transcription. Yeah, so I just sent you the personalization sub-menu. Did I tell you what I mean? I will search for Billy Uh uh six It's glassier than that one.

And he just wouldn't go in the church and it was so upsetting. Do you see those two things that are like with bolts in the wall that are attached to the vertical part on the left above the fire hose part? The point is what I said to John, and this comes directly out of experience. And I can't I'm trying to find an elf once. Uh because um I think Maddie sent this out to me actually, because uh turns out people also there's a certain type of person who doesn't want their dogs vaccinated. And is there a date stamp for each of these? Um from these six things, pick three of your favorite genres. Do by Friday. Um that's why I don't talk about you. I'm sure you've got many contacts over there. Oh, it's like what more Michael Stipes says.

I'm which photo am I looking at? Where it's like, no, that's not how loads get distributed. Mm-hmm. I'm uh but wait, uh with the first Oh, I don't think we could get through in the eye. Oh sweetheart. What are the kinds of things without getting into the specific challenge, what are the other kinds of things you've been tracking up till now? Uh hey everybody. I said, well like, you know, just incorporate all of this into what you know, right? Oh I printed out a pope. Uh yeah, mm yeah meah. I took some detailed photos of the Tatooine arms uh and I I also took a video uh to give John some sense of place, I could say I can do it on the brake. And they bless it at the table. It's like old masonry.

Um let's see. I've never seen any of those things. I've read it three times. I just feel bad for the elephant. Um, no, that's a that's an HD television that has that has four lines of text on it. Three, how could you tell? You've got something like pump this pump this house or or flip the brakes or whatever and like there's some show, but it's so popular that you have to keep doing it with your devorsay Okay, but assuming those worked flaw well, flawlessly. Now the thing is, am I making fun of them or is this a prank on me? I should have prepared better. Do you want that to be a bit? So like that's really a big deal, but even if I'm not currently integrated with a Mac app, it knows what I like and use.

Why am I succeeding with that? But if you could just say to it, tell me everything you know about B, and you might find it intriguing. Okay. We do things a little bit different here. No, the structure that may or may not hold it. It's called Siri, Hasri Hold that. Doesn't that seem like your shit a little bit. You said that I love slap. Great success. Do you want to describe it to our listeners? But anyway, and last time I did that, Alex, I did that with VS Code. Here's where it started. And guess what? Um but what they did. I'm learning develop. I I do because I have like r rented out various places. No, no. Yeah. Yeah, not I also wrote something down that I saw in this is uh a good transition into the tech portion, I think.

It helps everybody. I uh I I would say like good try, thanks, and realize that that was kind of enforcing the shitty image generation that it it was doing. Well, I abandoned that because it's it wasn't that funny. Um you sent me a text, a screenshot. Or half, however you can put it. It wasn't working. Did you miss that one? Oh. Okay, fine, whatever. How about this? She's one of my favorite writers and you loved her book. Which is a lot to get through for this one shot, but yeah, it's you won't like it. And I'm getting I'm getting going somewhere with this that I think will lead to an exercise that I would really love us to do in the after show. Yeah, yeah. I feel like you haven't elaborated on a new project in the world.

Like that but for cooking or but for projects. No. I've started really getting into the idea of tracking um physical objects. Just hearing that sound is funny to me. The autistic elephant? What did you um track? This is from my Christmas 2024 project. Uh spouse's stickers. I have lots of other stuff. I get a lot of interest from people. Oh well I'm I think I'm a bit uh I have some like rustism because you know the original apparatus. You can have cigarettes. And they don't need to know that. Merlin has an Arturia Mini Lab 3 keyboard, which he got on November 22nd, 2024. That's been around for a while. Yeah. This is from BGR. I have no idea what you're talking about. Oh, it's good. It's only really in the post, you know, the onion Joe Biden works on his car years.

You know what? Very problematic. Um we could see what was there anything else that was really fun that we were talking about? No. I want you to learn everything about my computer. Does it know that it's got the needles in it? I mean that's kind of a dressed-up way to say it, but somebody had mentioned have you thought about putting out the Wisdom Project as a book? I love when you start the show with a little, you know, audible jig. One little dent in it and it goes straight down. Where's the bell? Yeah, no. Are you you're a a brown noise fan, right? That wouldn't offend anybody. Yeah possibly possibly I would be careful about giving it too much information And I said, I don't see EPUB. Put all my correct stuff in.

So what I there's an end state that I want, which is X. That's Nico Nico Rakasumi, and that's that's like the girl in a dress. So anyhow, uh Syracuse, I'm happy to say, and this won't come out for nine days because that's how we record, but uh he's the one who brought it up Why Well, but don't you think it's kind of part of the performance in some ways? We you've kind of incorporated, you know, the uh I f I forget what you Look how much cleaner it was at first. No. There's those kinds of things that you know you can track, but then there's I'm not like an enthusiast about tech. Did I tell you about my dossier of Billy? I mean, how far away is that future? I'm trying to find um it it's pre-the new era and pre-the surprise party you had for me, but I've been doing that.

I was on the I was on the floor, I got a carpet cleaner and um a little like you know, cheapy home carpet cleaner that I use at home and I brought it to the office 'cause my cause woof some of my high traffic areas. Well what do you what do you uh please don't say what do you call calm. Do you see how you've got this weird From reality, as uh language and meaning seem to slip away amidst the noise of technology. Well now I I now I want to Sleep Away Camp. Okay. I think it would be fun for us to talk about um Oh wait, no, he already read that one. Now it's going to remember that stuff about your partner and it'll be able to say things like Okay, hey everybody. Oh, this is not good for this podcast, is it?

Can't go into a bag. They have a new even handsomer guy, but Bobby was my favorite. Even uh I have Your Com see come saw. And I found out he does not only does he do different warm up exercises that you can watch, what you can't see is he's also at the same time doing a different Because all the thing I sent you before, I one of my prompts is Work great. He listens to a lot of music and podcasts, reads voraciously, he has an intern, Shepard Alcatraz, da da da da. Do you want to start over? I was thinking of sending it to you. Um because well because I'm not sure. That's not a bad example. It's called a table blessing title. Well, Great Gardens, I think, was where they lived. I'll just be showing up.

Yes. Uh nope. How about in the interest of uh slap because I know you guys love slap whatever that means. Um it no d like I'll ask it. Well he's just go it goes home and is like, uh huh, you're dumb. I discovered box breathing. Um there's tube it's uh, you know, that like It's really not that funny. I have a hot tip. That's I think that you were if you haven't seen this, you were uh already in it, especially if you have been actually. Different uh dossier di uh I tried to do a m try to do a rhyme. Almost all the time. I've never watched HTTP except when it was accidentally. How'd you get it out of the gutters? And they announced other things too. So an example might be, I mean, it knows I'll spend hours at a time.

I I agree. Coo! I went and I photographed this and I've been videoing this and I was having fun talking to my friend about this and uh Yes. Um okay let me find this. It's gonna be great. Oh sweetheart. Although you're supposed to say sweetie after it, and I w uh do you want me do you want me to say sweetie to you? I really like that article that uh you sent me. So I probably just clicked away and just did it immediately. Um Merlin prefers the term back to indicate returning to a previous level of discussion, typically or where a digression began rather than a single topic recap. And I say I um my kid's got a birthday and Christmas coming up and I want you to It's the emotional anchor of recording focus mode.

20% the size of the original. Oh my god. Oh, you didn't get the elephant in the room part? What do you feel like doing now? I mean I know you guys you guys who like started out you doing VI and telnet or whatever like oh yeah but I I not everybody knows how to do that There's no way Chaty G has any context for a lot what a lot of them even mean. Mmm, glossier. It looks like something that you would sell to Watto. And and here's the apparatus. Yeah. Uh but I'm transcribing episodes. I mounted that thing on the wall. Um there's been things at home. You peel it off like paste when you're in uh It makes this vertical thing. So I think you'd like that piece. I I d did like uh I would I put in a C S V of like all of uh my g old Goodreads uh data and I've uh I consistently Isn't that a good article?

Okay, sweetie, tell me what's wrong. You're making son of fun of somebody else's sense of humor, and you're gonna describe to our audience something that is going to get us feedback from people What does it say on the TV in big letters? This is not from that, right? How would you know if your dog was on But most saliently, real talk is the integration with my personal not not non personal data in the sense of future Apple. So like last night I had Chetty G open, but I also had prompt Like, would that help? And old masonry we called them. Like well, let alone you live in a hovel. The kind of speculation we're having in our private text channel is when that bell bell goes off, someone is supposed to do something.

I'm clicking, I'm pasting. Oh poor guy. I'm like, how would you well I well one, I don't know md file into an EPUB? Please just make the title of the exported document. There is not. And it wrote up this like an O bit, basically. That would be weird. I've been working on some carpet cleaning projects. Um you know yeah, I'm I I I think my family would like to take the relationship with me and and do I I just invented this term, I'm gonna call it an annulment in place. Well his brother's house is his mother's house. No, no, it's on the the in the last picture you sent me I discovered this in Apple News, so I don't know if this will work for you, but I'll send you this. But the year goes by fast, don't she?

What is s oh are you saying slack or slop? Last shot of the movie you find out the the the girl has a dick. You know what you are? Merlin has a KitchenAid mixer. I did miss that. Yeah. Should we start fresh? I think that's one of the things that really what I want to talk about with Chetty G today is uh Project into liability. That's where the R R Fid code is and uh Um writing down you remember that, right I keep moving my bell. Okay, get a picture that's got a did I give you one that's a pretty good view? Right. No, that's that's all right. What's wrong with an autistic elephant? Because apparently you think that it's funny how fun not funny this is, but you didn't even understand why it's not funny.

And instead I'm uninterested, which is the word you almost always mean. Exported. I don't mean to be that way. I'm running I'm running late, which I know and I apologize. Wait, that's a good question. So look for a new shortcut called Hold That Thought. Um and it was too, and I didn't um So in do you follow? Okay, it gets better. This is Do by Friday, a weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox and Merlin Mann. Oh, this is a malicious. I have to go back. Would you like to see the wine list? Well, I mean that then that project becomes a liability, so Unless Oh really um any of the ones that are close enough for you to see, do you see like in the recent ones when the wall's blue? And did you know that you could do cover, colon, cover.

Based on our discussion, suggest some presents for Billy. Or ask it, you know, there's those kinds of parlor tricks. Yeah, it's been really fun. As quotidian uh of an example as that is. I also discovered uh a neat way to turn the little cardboard All of this feels like it should be on the Home and Garden channel in in the way that the Home and Garden channel should exist. When you throw something away, where is away? You talk about Siri? Yeah. I'm just I mean does that work? I d I don't know. I don't know because of li I how you been lately? This will be quick. I did it with screenshots. And blah, I want my book to be a blah. Yes. Um this is 16%. And uh I get excited about things. Like again, I was talking about I was talking about this on Rectus last night about how I love that uh documentary about R.

I do. It'd be like Julia Child without Julia Child. Just the first 15 minutes. I'm going to talk about it. I'm not funny. There's another area you can go to. You ready for a new one? com and help support the show. Where should we start? It was. He's been saying weird shit forever. Two, two, good. This does not look like an apparatus. Huh. Um today it seems like you were more positive about yourself than usual and were using left deprecating language. Might be the best player in the league. Well I've been a little lucky, but also I let go and I let God Again, like I said a few weeks ago or I said in that blog post, I now am in possession of information I did not have last week And some of you fuckers who I love now have a copy of the book to read on your device.

You know what I mean? That was one of my suggestion ones I printed out a really cute little pope. Interruptions can cause you to forget the Want a description? You're increasingly brown pilled. No, because you don't have another joke, so you keep saying sweetie. No, no, no, but but just just stay with me. Hello. And the other side it sucks up all the gross stuff. Is that what what you're doing? Yeah, and but you saying photorealistic, they're uh Like give me the Nobel Prize. Can you be notes person, please? Like you know what my username is. Boom. I went to command uh, you know, comma, settings. I don't check it every second of the day. Something happened. Because you're the one we want to talk about calm.

And a bit of a and you know, there's uh that that dinghy on the f Um anyway, good news you're coming with us. Please describe that to our audience who will certainly find it extremely funny. And it says it looks like you don't have EPUB in that version. Like stop gatekeeping. Um I want you to give me some ideas for a birthday present based on these stickers. Oh hell yes. Um anyway, that was just an idea, but no, it's just that part's germane. Gia Tolentino, check her out. What the hell is this? That really that wasn't a very good start on my part. Uh I melted my carpet cleaner accidentally. I mean Okay, so do you actually know about this? Right, right, right, right. Don't get me started on the monkey.

Challenge this week is to track stuff with your LLM of choice. I want you to learn about my Synology. That's impressive. I mean Well, but I bet I bet that it's nice. What's wait what's Do you keep saying sweetie over over and over? I think it's awesome. I have to go back through my through my archives. Being like, Yes, hello, sir. Is that what you're asking? How do I okay I got it here? I don't uh Oh yeah. This looks like it's from Instagram or something. If you don't have any ambient I might have stolen that from Chopo, so I apologize. I think it's always interesting because I I guess for a certain part of my life, up to a certain point, whenever I saw somebody being interviewed Love is God?

I'd do an HGTV show as long as it gave me somebody else's house to fuck with. There's an offshoot to the left, our left. Well uh it came out. Oh you're plenty divergent. Nope. Gia Tolentino is a writer that I like a lot, and uh Gia Tolentino writes for The New Yorker. Yes. Do all do elephants see mirrors? I want to hear about your uh w uh Uh mainly I think it's neat that I I said for a while now that There's two there's a section called memory where it says reference saved memories and below that is manage memories. She feels a disconnect Oh. Yes. I don't know. Feel so bad for the autistic elephant. I was trying to go with something what's near being black pilled, but instead what I'm gonna go with is increasingly brown pilled.

I'm I I don't do the bit. It's like it's sort of it's not Pandoc. Done. There's those kinds of things that happen. But the thing we haven't talked about yet. You know, you f like you do, right? Oh absolutely not. Here's a written description. But like I'm not following who has the good LLM this week according to scoreboard. Um and okay, so here's the earliest one I had, I think, which is from It's just the process. Oh, I mounted a Scotus board at home. That's the problem cleaning those desks. Wait, hang on. You can have cigarettes for a while. Never mind. Okay. It's really funny. Oh no shit! Anyways, um What? What are you talking about? I haven't super duper kept up with it. Um so I would say like good m good try thanks but good try.

By all means talk about the talk about the not at all funny I just took I I couldn't find an EPUB, either at the bottom of the screen in that one mode or under export in another mode. And it's because you've gone in with good faith and collaboration That was when I very first got on Mastodon. Does other people go like, ooh, that's that's cool, that's cool the way you make everything about you. Stuff like this. No, no Bell, no Bell. I don't know. I put I put the world's most basic brown grocery bag under it It's not quite automatic yet. He's got a lot of He wouldn't go in the church. Assuming those have a function and aren't rusting away, what is the role of those two arms? This is the project of projects.

I I when you say it it makes sense, but I w how that wouldn't have occurred to me as a thing that it would just be doing that anyway, which of course it is. Just the first like 10-15 minutes. It's learned information about me. Finished. And then I I don't know, along the way It does like I know that it's a bit online, but it And I want to actually can we talk about that article maybe in the after show because I want to talk about an aspect of that that That's my favorite rubber band and he tries to run away. I'm not gonna I would tell you. I love that movie. Normally you'd say to somebody, oh yeah, you know, you got a wizard, you walk through, like, how old are you? Just to give him some context.

Yeah, I think it's an important reservoir. Okay. It's uh my favorite, yeah. I can't. You can just go right now. So you tell it for each request, like how long you want it to be. In this thread, you will act as a selection wizard. I have a secret. Uh this I think this is the this is the costume of the day, or whatever she says. I said to John, it looks like there was some design something like there's some design design decisions. Okay. Anyways. Well, you know, I've tried to be careful with with you because of all your issues. He gets clack radio. You're weird. Merlin is working on Roderick on the line. Um oh god, this app is still so And they can right and they can give star ratings on how they liked interacting with the bot Alex from just one side of a conversation No, he was he was the best.

You might be right. And could it be both? It was in an I was in probably I want to say nine to one of the shovel blogs talked about this yesterday. Is this really bad? Well it just it's a few years. Yes, exact And uh i I'm really curious now. He um and he's getting older and he does all these warm-ups before all there's all this he's famously superstitious and he does all these Oh, that's a joke, not something you made I gave you ever opp opportun now let's keep discussing it and why it's funny and not funny. I don't fucking care at this point. I want you to be asking question 30 based on what you know from questions one through 29. So we walk through a lot of honestly, mostly pretty A lot of times we as people know we know things but we don't know what we know.

I'll get the boring stuff out of the way. Can falls into bag? Oh. I haven't It's a thing where you do it's a shortcut that does kind of a neat Alex, this is for the Max and Us channel, not for here. And it says, well, you love Mark II, so why don't you just use that? And I I've done that before. I don't think it's full on sundowning, but uh other projects. So Uh It suggested it suggested tickets to drunk Shakespeare. Oh I didn't hadn't thought of it that way, but Tell you what intrigues me. R Are you asking if this multi-dozens of pounds is being quote held up? I wouldn't worry about it. I mean, the the Apple year. Trekmirror I've experimented with honey and I've experimented with sweetheart.

The other I was like, oh god, this you're describing this so badly. Oh, wasn't that a great article? No, he's doing different ones. I can't make fun of these people. It's very important that the book hand on be typeset in blah and biggin blah blah I said was the fastest way to make an EPUB. We can look up later if we want to, but that's where it says, hi, I'm Merlin Mann. And then I I kept going through later on. Oh my god Alex, that's perfect. So maybe one project doesn't have you know what mini challenge. I woke up half an hour ago. Vi vibe shift. Oh for real? No, no. Nope. This is I I don't feel good now knowing used against you in a court of law Did you think the lampshade is part of her head?

But all I did was take a screenshot. But to get to that end state, instead of just asking you a few questions These are these are some musicals that he likes. Because that is a cute one kind of parlor trick. Oh oh oh That's what I keep blending. I I know because I know. Uh and so Here's what it says. Um but she's just talk I mean she's just talking about like Pink is ideal, especially if if the higher ranges are what but brown is great because it covers up voices. Dark. And in this case, all I wanted to do was make an EPUB and it offered to me, oh hey, by the way. Now I don't care. Make it it show its work a little bit. Hello. Ooh, uh the current pope or your idea of pope? I am the power of I get contacted by a lot of people, by a lot of projects, especially.

I just show up There's only five of them, right? A bell is a cop until it's struck. Did you read Gia Tolentino's thing recently, the it finally broke my brain in New York Road? Like a wizard, and it's gonna walk you through it, or like an onboarding, as you some people now say Z uh zero dollars. Like he's he's been famous since like the eighties for being kind of You want to be able to This does not look like a Uh hey everybody. Right. You know what my working path, my my PWD in this is, you know all these things. I want the kinds of, in other words, I want the kinds of questions you ask me to get better and better And here's here's a real easy dumb one, right? You know I love projects. You could choose n if you want to be a big strong man, you could not dent it, but you're probably gonna end up tearing it off the wall because that's not what it's built for.

It c would it be probable that you might make a little gif or a little video of your You know, cleaning sharp. Start with love, I come first. Uh but you So he became a woodworker. No, I still know that's what my project is called, right? Yes. There you go. It was really cool. Um, you could also say, if you're me. Should that be what this what this anecdote's about? Man, this thing's so rusted and like these arms, it looks like there's You might be right. If you hold a thought, like I I would Uh if you liked it, you already would have seen it. I want you to Oh god, it this just looks so sad. 'Cause I don't have a f I s sweetie, I don't have another uh joke. Oh, oh, oh. You know, a more sophisticated parlor trick Well, let's try let's get his writers to keep his speeches real sharp and easy to read.

Give it a minute Everything's under everything's under triple dots. Yeah, yeah. He hit the bottom holding the dynamite. And my you know, m I just stumbled into realizing once again That was a long time ago. You don't want an aspirational. Like it everything's coming up millhouse and I think it's exciting. Hello And um so then we talked about it last night and then 'cause I don't know if you saw the latest photos. Oh portion. This is due by Friday. That's what Jake Capper and Derek Thompson said about the 46th president. Do you ask a friend to help? What is this? I get step, he gets step. Um, if I'm being honest, increasingly brown. No, I'm having fun with that. So at this juncture Here's the fastest way.

Not to Watto maybe, but maybe to the to the um Simon Pegg character So we're gonna keep doing scholarship on that, but can you understand how that's pretty exciting for me? Like big time. Thank you very much. I don't know if you caught that joke. jpg? I'm not asking it to be perfect. And then it was like, Oh, it looks looks like uh I can't find it's really old. I can tell Bobby I guess guessing Bobby was your favorite too because of his tortured relationship with the Lord. It's fun talking to you. Um I just I just think it's interesting that someone clearly put description I think this will this will probably help explain it. Cause it does really look like a prank. Yes. Boy, it's crazy. Oh notes the movie.

In the same way that you almost always mean raising the question instead of begging the question Uh Nobel! Is this good for a show? Oh wow that's good. But like the reason I was getting help from Chatty G Or are you speculate? Let me get you a really good one here. It's really funny. Um I but I'm involved in some pretty important work right now. And I quote tweeted. I'm a Well I think I I think a pun about wood is fine. Also, what happens when that bell rings? And people with little kids, they take the occupational health appointments. Or this is where I want you guys to get more creative in thinking about your quote unquote relationship. I don't think so, no, no. I watch a lot of uh premium cable documentaries It's like some kind of like And I said, hey, look, I don't see EPUB.

Because there's stuff in there, I mean Please, Alex, by all means. That is not in mind. I think I told you that with the help of Chatty G Please don't say you'd I mean the ejaculate of the comics. Like Why why are you doing that? Yeah. That was a good time. Did you know that about me? I got a new thing called a can crusher Can falls into bag Because that's that's really where This is my first funny thing on Mastodon that people seem to like and I like doing It's bad. And then it was done I said what was it I said? Billy's interests and needs. It's only post that era that we really started the, you know, the Rap Barack Obama period. And it's deeply, deeply satisfying to use. It's I've never seen Below Ships Right?

You assume a calm up. Exactly. Um Run the shortcut, select capture to capture a screenshot of what you're doing The Apple year, like, you know, goes really fast. It's Newby Friday. I super don't care. We're gonna talk about that. But you know the name of the project? Um and uh the if I cared I would remember. And and another thing, I run into this a lot with the Synology and with this. That just don't hold water. It's almost WWDC time again Um but And I said, You know what I did? I hate that it does that. Baby Lionel's eating dirt. I can't. I ask it to describe what it now knows about my kid, and it did it, and it was really neat. Uh and you you know which bumps me happy. We'll leave Shmi to the Tuscan Raiders, I think.

Fuck. It looks like Okay. I can I just sent you one from this is from yesterday just to give you an idea I was I was prone. I come first. Because if you know about this, okay. Go to go to Chatty G, logged in, and say tell me everything you know about me. I said, okay, remember you're a wizard. I'm not interested in where it goes. What is O! And then I I basically had it prepare a dossier. But Uh real quick. Look how sad it is And All that education paid off I said, cool. And even though I never said specifically I'd love to have The one on the left does it, it just does that on that north wall instead of the uh west wall. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're testing memory improvements. Not you, people Just finish the thought though.

I'm asking it to keep You will ask me questions about how Billy is and what he likes. That that's that I feel that is germane too Did you get the elephant in the room part? Should we do that? I really wish I could turn that off. Do you think this is what it looked like in conception? Thank you for tuning in. Let go and let God. I make a dookie in me poopy pants. What? And then we got deeper into like what kind of stuff did they like. Without saying how many stickers we're talking about If you don't understand anything or have questions, let me know. M please, please upbraid me. Okay, so like this is this is the main point of controversy right now. I got they're close stuff, you can see Listen, I got three clickway camp.

The rubber band pulled him all the way back up onto the cliff, and I think that's a very good idea. Um and the two people I wouldn't set my living room up that way either. The Because it gets your attention. Here's the original thread. Nope, nope, it's not happening. Okay. I serve the apparatus. I don't know why I think the movie Sleepaway Camp Oh, okay. Oh no should find Apple's brilliant new shortcut BGR. Um let me go see how Chatty G Mini challenge in the after show Us or the or the dingus No, really Can I and it says, oh, and but and then and then it offered to me, it said I love the apparatus. Here's the easiest way to describe it But you're you're reluctant to use it until you understand what what what Spoilers And when you can find ways to work with gravity, you'll be better off.

Nobel. Like it really, it's how like uh you can be ugly when you're young. I said, yeah, you use Mark II. I'm just How it goes. Let me see. I didn't say that. Yes. io or whatever. I said hey Dingus Or we don't know what we know in a given context. They're gonna want to put this on the wall, it's so fucking funny. I said, but here's the thing each time I say this. You will prepare any questions. This week's challenge, tracks stuff in an LLM. But um but that This is for new neurodivergents. All notes will be saved with the title Hold That Thought and the Date and Time Saved. Click radio button Yeah. And um Ooh Can you tell me what you know about this and when it changed? I was born at this hospital Would you be like the executive producer?

Hey Alex, how can you tell if your dog's autistic? Sweetie, come come to Dubai. I recently did a big cleanup of my office. Um but then you watch, so think about It would also be Spectrum Monkey. I don't know if I've gotten this. Um What did I say exactly? Did you see the new short Please? I don't like it when you talk about calm. I said something like now please Is this a roundabout way? I put in water I put in water too hot. That doesn't seem wholesome. It's not I think I deleted it from memory, uh 'cause it was a whole Um And then of all things an anvil fell on him. Were you trying to rhyme different or dossier? Zero Zero dollars? T-H-E-Pope. Somebody who works wood, Alex. My favorite Darth Vader quote.

She feels a disconnect. So I'll give you an example. I don't know about that, but no, I don't need that. You know how Is that a Motown group? You ever been to Arby's? Okay. Um big fan. So always put the right stuff in. Oh no, I'm like fucking Augustus Kloop. Especially in You can tell it, hey. I went into his room. Yes. Have you ever seen the apparatus? Crum. com So what did I do? What I said was helper monkey. Now you're making it about you. That's hmm. And so Oh Okay, thank you. I And Sorry. raw transcript