Anyone else out there getting real assistance-level support from Copilot? Not quick answers and summaries. I mean thoughtful conversation and insight. Because I’ve been disappointed by it again and again. Not sure why Copilot couldn’t match OpenAI quality.

"The black death? Yeah I think that sounds amazing." -- 9 random americans

Hey @HardcoreHistory have you read and do you recommend Denis Fustel de Coulanges’s The Ancient City. Seems kinda like Your Thing but I’ve not heard you mention it. amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D274F36…

Visiting Korea and curious to see that every nearby appliance seems to be a wifi hub.

We are so back (this is a real slide from SoftBank's investor presentation earlier this year)

I don't think the author of this article knows what "scrape" means. Meta used data that was given to them by their users. Yes, it's sketchy. But it ain't scraping. abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/f…

Hey @Tim_Hannigan nice work on History of Indonesia. Great read. Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation (Brief History of Asia Series) a.co/d/bx7dXYU

Amazed this ChatGPT detection trick worked

This just reminds me of a quiet happiness I just had with Singapore ode like to share: I think your chances of getting it back here are near 100%. If you left in a taxi, 98% chance. At a restaurant, 95%.

This guy doesn’t know what “bricked” means.

Speaking only of Furiosa: the movie was not that good. It lost something from Fury Road. And none of the stars are box office draws.

I have only one author for which I've read all his work and eagerly look forward to the next one: @nealstephenson

As a fairly accomplished speaker myself, I need to add a glaring omission to the below: practice. Seriously: rehearse. For important speeches I’ve spoken them out loud to myself 3-5 times. All other techniques come after knowing your content down pat.

Some of the best of Charlie Munger: “Every time you hear EBITDA, just substitute it with bullshit”. Absolute legend. 🐐

I absolutely thought my increasing rate of typos as due to me getting older!

The top of the Empire State Building was originally designed to be used as a docking station for airships. In the late 1920s, there was a belief that cross-Atlantic travel would soon be carried out using zeppelins or dirigibles. Therefore, the investors behind the Empire State Building saw the top of the building as an ideal site for embarkation. In this envisioned scenario, a dirigible would arrive and dock on top of the building at the specially constructed mooring station. The airship would be quickly secured with ropes, allowing passengers to disembark by walking single-file down a gangplank and into the tallest building in the world from its top floor. From there, they could take the elevator down and find themselves in the heart of Manhattan, a mere seven minutes after landing. Since the idea was driven by the practical desire to make the building more profitable, the developers went as far as actually constructing a mooring mast on top of the Empire State Building. However, even the most skilled American engineers failed to devise a method to attach a zeppelin to the top of a 1,250-foot-high building that regularly experienced 50 mph winds, while also ensuring a pleasant experience for the average cross-Atlantic traveler. The airship companies ultimately deemed the idea impractical and even dangerous, leading to a lack of interest. Despite this, the one and only actual mooring on the Empire State Building occurred in September 1931 when a privately-owned blimp managed to dock for three minutes, although no unloading took place. "Traffic was tied up in the streets below for more than a half hour as the pilot, Lieutenant William McCraken jockeyed for position in the half gale about the tower 1,200 feet above the ground," the Times reported in 1931. The age of trans-Atlantic zeppelins ended in 1937 with the Hindenburg disaster, when the largest craft of its type ever built burst into flames while landing in New Jersey.

Entering my birth year in the GIF search:

Three times in the past few days Google failed me but I got the right result from ChatGPT. Dark days for Google, formerly the greatest internet productivity tool in the world.