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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by CellarDweller on March 12, 2026, 04:14:48 pm »

Strands #739
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by CellarDweller on March 12, 2026, 04:14:26 pm »

Connections
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by CellarDweller on March 12, 2026, 03:06:10 pm »

Wordle 1,727 3/6

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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by serious crayons on March 12, 2026, 02:30:48 pm »

Wordle 1,727 4/6

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WordleBot
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Luck 43/99

Connections
Puzzle #1005
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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...

« Last post by serious crayons on March 12, 2026, 02:26:25 pm »

Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 11, 2026, 06:44:27 pm

I wonder if Claude, or some other such device, can be trained to talk dirty, so you could have with it something like old-fashioned phone sex.

I'd be surprised if that doesn't exist already. I think just about anything that's technologically possible and has enough potential interest is out there somewhere.

The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by southendmd on March 12, 2026, 10:09:21 am »

Connections
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by southendmd on March 12, 2026, 09:58:32 am »

Wordle 1,727 4/6

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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...

« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on March 11, 2026, 06:44:27 pm »

Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 02, 2026, 03:55:42 pm

In light of the pressure on Anthropic by the DoD, I'm thinking it might be prudent to reread that article in the February 9th issue. We're talking about the full 1984-ization of the country, you know. Here it is:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either

I don't have the issue in front of me, but I read the article about Claude and Anthropic, and I found it scary. On the other hand, I admit I nodded my head in agreement when I got to the place, I believe it was on page 61, where the author writes that some people working on A.I. are doing these things because they can.

For years on years, I've said that about so many tech things. I've felt that lots of "updates" Microsoft has made over the years were solutions in search of problems, that changes were made not because they were needed but because someone could make them, and. I guess, justify their jobs.

At least, there was a cartoon in the middle of that article that I found quite funny. The drawing was made to look like the illustration on an ancient Greek amphora, except the running figures were fleeing from another figure playing an accordion.