Just Creeping...

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

The article is really worth reading. The tldr is there was a court case where some publishers were suing Google for their AI summaries saying the publishers were up to shady shit they weren't doing. Google was trying to hide behind the 'it has a disclaimer about making mistakes it's up to the user to verify it!' defence. The court ruled that that was basically bullshit because not enough people do that, and because how the law works is that if someone lies about you you can sue them for defamation. They ALSO ruled that Google can't say 'oh but people need ai to search the web', since it literally worked before. Really interesting stuff in terms of the laws which are just forming around AI.

william the conqueror: i shall take england for normandy and become its king

Mental Crop Rotation

: A crucial part of crop rotation is that the field is let fallow sometimes. You plant what’s called a “cover crop”, which is something you don’t expect to harvest– it’s there for its roots to hold the soil in place, and often it’ll be what’s called a nitrogen-fixer, i.e. a plant that can pull nitrogen out of the air and fix it into the soil with its roots (but sometimes it won’t, sometimes it’s really just there to shelter the soil surface), and then you’ll till in that cover crop, or let the frost kill it and the stalks lie as mulch, and then you’ll rotate productive crops back into that field the next season. 

Positive mental health AND agriculture??!?

I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.