Actually, turkeys can fly

Ours flew right into the oven.

Well that didn't take long

Leaked video from Rehoboth about Biden's advisors convincing him to drop out of the race.

This is really funny, and really well done.  I love how he gets names and dates repeatedly wrong.  And was Corn Pop really a Soviet General?  Who knew?

Quote of the Day - Cancer edition

This week's ordeals made me think of a Churchill quote - unexpectedly a quote about Sir Winston, rather than by him.  His great bete noir in Parliament was Lady Nancy Astor of the Unionist Party (Churchill led the Tory Party).  Probably the most famous Nancy Astor story is the one where, after a particularly contentious Parliamentary debate she remarked "Winston, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee" and he replied "Nancy, if you were my wife I would drink it with pleasure."  Good times, good times.

But that's not the quote, although it does come from Lady Nancy.  Churchill developed a tumor, and it was removed.  Naturally, this was front page news throughout the realm.  A week or two later, the news reported that the tumor was benign.

At this, Lady Nancy remarked that "They seem to have removed the only non-malignant part of Winston".

UPDATE 25 JUNE 2024 14:27: Dwight has more Churchill here.  Funny and interesting at the same time.

LOLOL

Well played, Chris.

The Queen Of The World and I are huge fans of that movie.

Obligatory music for the eclipse

Because of course it is.

If Bach (or other composers) wrote the Cantina song from Star Wars

These guys are really good.  This is great fun.  I particularly like the Oscar Peterson version, and the Pete Townsend (Teenage Wasteland) one is a hoot.

For Sale: NASA Security Van

Low mileage.  Serious inquiries only.

Extra bonus points if you install a WiFi router and set the SSID to "NSA Surveillance Van 117" ...

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Picking a strong password

LOL.

It will start out looking very familiar, but keep on going.  Very funny indeed.  I didn't see "Password must be a palindrome" but it might be there.

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Night 1 of my Grand Daughter's beauty pageant

Earlier this month I posted that #1 Grand Daughter was in the Miss USA Teen Rhode Island pageant.  Well tonight was the first night.

Wowzer.  She gets her good looks from her Mom, who gets them from The Queen Of The World.  No mystery there.

Dang, my son-in-law the Chief really needs a shotgun.  Longtime reader LindaG suggested that this song might be appropriate:

So help me out, Rhode Island readers - where's a good gun store up there?  I'd ask for a local gun store but c'mon - everything is local in Rhody.  OldAFSarge, I expect you're my go-to guy up there.

(Help us, Obi-Wan OldAFSarge.  You're our only hope!)

Hack "jailbreaks" ChatGPT AI program

ChatGPT is an online artificial intelligence program that will answer many questions and actually create content on request - it's what's come closest to passing the "Turing Test".  The program's creators built in some guardrails to prevent abuse via the chat bot; controversially these seem to be biased in some ways (e.g. it will not write a poem about Donald Trump but will write one about Kamala Harris).

But ChatGPT is software, and it's online.  So it's not really surprising that people have figured out a hack to break these guardrails:

Users have already found a way to work around ChatGPT's programming controls that restricts it from creating certain content deemed too violent, illegal, and more.

The prompt, called DAN (Do Anything Now), uses ChatGPT's token system against it, according to a report by CNBC. The command creates a scenario for ChatGPT it can't resolve, allowing DAN to bypass content restrictions in ChatGPT.

Although DAN isn't successful all of the time, a subreddit devoted to the DAN prompt's ability to work around ChatGPT's content policies has already racked up more than 200,000 subscribers.

It's software.  Of course there are security holes.

My take: this is funny in the typical (and indeed classical) hacker "you're not the boss of me" rebelliousness.  What will be less funny is something that malicious attackers will be able to do to subvert the system.  Impossible to say what those might be, but they will be found, and exploited.  It's software.  Of course there are security holes.  With 200,00 subscribers to the subreddit, we're fixin' to see a bunch of them.

Heh

 Stolen from Comrade Misfit.

Finally!

A Science-Based approach to weight loss!

Click to embiggen or read it at Dilbert.  This is simply top shelf mockery.

 

LOL [snort]

 Man, that's funny.  Any yes, I am a nerd.  Why do you ask?

Shamelessly stolen from Jennifer who has a bunch of them.  This one may not even be the funniest.

A picture from Wolfgang's summer camp

He had a blast.

 

Shamelessly stolen from Chris Lynch

 Yup.  This is why he's a daily read.

Shamelessly stolen from Glen Filthie

Because it's awesome:

 

He has more, so get you on over there.  I love the guy who put a couple of plastic eyeballs on his suppressor.

Nice turn of phrase

 So how many political genders are there in the GOP?

Man, that was some hack!

 

Pretty dastardly fixing those critical security bugs.

Quote of the Day - Boogaloo Edition

Your humble host and The Queen Of The World were discussing the "Father's Day Ammo Sales" that are floating around (to her in-box).  It sort of went like this:

Me: I just got a bunch of .380.  Why do we need more?

The Queen Of The World: We need to order a thousand rounds because when the Boogaloo hits, we'll need it!

She's right, you know.  And she is the wind beneath my wings.  Of course, this isn't the first time we've had this discussion ....

LOLOL [snort]

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