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Sure would be a shame if thousands of people saw this...

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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

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I have never wanted to open a spam email so badly

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This is the stuff right here. Monsters are the best, so it stands to reason that Usborne’s All About Monsters (1977) is the best in the series. It follows the same format as the previous volumes, mixing scary tales with just enough scientific rumination to make it seem to be a plausibly “educational” book. Except, you know, with buckets of blood.

Highlights include a bloody-mawed Minotaur, a bloody-mouthed T-rex, a bloody-mouthed werewolf, Grendel about to tear a fool in two and John Lambton pretty much drenched in claret. A lot of the art in here brings an intensity that anticipates what’s on display in the Rodney Matthews-illustrated mythology books Usborne in the mid-’80s (though those books are bloodless, as far as I can recall). I genuinely found this book scarier than the ghost book as a kid because it impressed upon me the fact that monsters would probably eat me.

The real star of the show, though, was a two-page spread at the back of the book titled “A Dictionary of Monsters,” which was an alphabetical list of all the cool monsters, most of which weren’t present in the main book, accompanied by one-line summaries. Never underestimate the power of a list, especially in the hands of an already monster-obsessed pre-teen boy. I most definitely employed this thing at the library and in conjunction with my Monster Manual and any other monster books I had to hand. This is the sort of thing that inspires a kid to bring a notebook and a pen with him on family outings so he can list every single monster he can think of rather than listening to whatever the adults are talking about and then, 30-something years later, compel them to write a whole book on monsters. They should put warnings on these things.

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girl who gets fired from her job at city planner for making the buildings kiss

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i'm sorry but a lot of you guys need to be writing short stories.

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I like preschool lunch time because it means I get to observe the Preschool Agora. or 3-4 year olds having conversations amongst each other in a large group. such as today they discussed who's been a baby before (conclusion: "even people we don't know") and who the first people were on earth ("let me guess," said one, "me.")

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THE FENG SHUI OF THIS WEBSITE IS FUCKED

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Website Updated:

First, Fenton Fly's Page updated with all Videos and Gallery:

And a new entry in Unrealized projects page:

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turns out santa's workshop is still running on 32 bit windows xp so its been realy easy to scam the fuck out of the elves with ransomwear

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Richard Nixon levitating

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AKIRA YAMAOKA || THEME OF LAURA