Category: Humor

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Career Humor

Laid off in 2024, part 17: The only social network that matters

Tuesday’s Facebook outage didn’t bother me in the slightest — in fact, I hadn’t visited it for most of that day. However, as someone who’s been recently laid off and looking for their next gig and as the force behind Tampa Bay’s tech blog, I most certainly was concerned by LinkedIn’s outage.

Also in this series…

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Artificial Intelligence Humor

When you ask ChatGPT for a word that begins with “i”

Screenshot of ChatGPT conversation: Me: I need a word that begins with "i" that is a synonym for speech or presentation ChatGPT: A word that begins with "i" and is a synonym for speech or presentation is "address." Me: "Address" doesn't begin with "i." ChatGPT: Apologies for the oversight. A word that begins with "i" and is a synonym for speech or presentation is "oration." Me: That doesn't begin with "i" either. ChatGPT: You're right, my apologies for the oversight. A word that begins with "i" and is a synonym for speech or presentation is "interlocution." Me: There you go. Nicely done.

Here’s your daily reminder that large language models don’t actually “understand” the world — at least not in the same way that we do. They’re stochastic parrots.

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Humor Process

The first stand-up of the new year

4-panel comic — “Design Thinking!” Panel 1. Scrum Master says “Here we go! First standup of the new year! You go first, Derek.” Derek says “Okay...” Panel 2: “Yesterday I was stuffing leftover mince pies into my face and falling asleep on the sofa watching back-to-back James Bond films. Today I’m going to spend at least 4 hours trying to figure out what I was doing this time 2 weeks ago. No blockers.” Panel 3: Another person starts. “Yesterday I got shitfaced in a nightclub and woke up this morning in a strange flat cuddling a poodle. Today I’m going to take copious amounts of co-codamol and pretend I remember what I do for a living. Blockers: my bastard pulsating head.” Panel 4: Another person says “I plead the fifth.” The Scrum Master says “Welcome back, everyone.”

For more comics like this, see the Design Thinking! site.

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Humor Programming

How coffee works

Graphic: “How Coffee Works,” showing that a person drinks coffee, the coffee turns into magic in their stomach, and code shoots out their fingers like wizard lightning.

100% accurate.

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Artificial Intelligence Current Events Humor

That happened more quickly than I’d expected…

See my previous post for context.

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Hardware Humor

I have to respect this seller’s title inflation

I saw this while perusing Facebook Marketplace for odd items (okay, I’ll admit it: accordions). While calling an old Casio calculator a “vintage computer” is title inflation, it’s also technically correct.

In fact, the seller could’ve gone a little farther by calling attention to its solar cell with phrases like “renewable energy-driven” or “green processing.”

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Artificial Intelligence Humor

How generative AI might end up solving the world’s problems

Tap to view the neural network-driven “trolley solution” at full size.

You probably don’t want to know what’s in those hidden layers.

I wish I could take credit for it, but I didn’t come up with it; Eryk Salvaggio did, and he posted it on Mastodon.

Need context about those images of trolleys and tied-up people? You’ll want to look up the Trolley Problem thought experiment, followed by this collection of Trolley Problem memes.

Need context about the diagram? That’s a neural network, which is explained quite nicely in this article.