I guess Brian (4) has it. Nothing I tried would make sense of “Corbsday.” Still, even AI has to have some reason behind its mistakes. It’ll show a hand with six fingers, but not one with five or six pencils.
I think Brian has it about Corbsday. AI has notoriously made up citations for legal briefs and other content. It would make sense AI used to generate a calendar would make up holidays.
“One of which is Corbsday?” The real May this year has 31 days, four of which are Wednesday. There’s no weekday of which there is one of which. But May has 31 days, one of which is Memorial Day. So is Corbsday a holiday?
The thing is, the calendar in the image shows four seven-day weeks. You can’t really divide 26 into four groups of seven, unless one day is only a half-day (“Wrap things up folks, it’s almost noon and we have to end the day now.”) Plus the woman’s mouth really bothers me.
Maybe “Corbsday” was named after “Corbomite” and when that day appears, it automatically destroys two adjacent days. (Geezer alert.)
“Like” for “automatically destroys two adjacent days.”
Ed, does this mean the “like” mini-icons are still not showing for you?
In case it’s more a matter that you’re not recognizing them, here’s a screenshot of a view onto the standard web interface of CIDU. The big red arrows point to clickable places where it says “Like” and has a star. (One has been liked already and has a differently worded message.)
In the case that you indeed are not seeing these, is there a different interface you are using? Or perhaps it depends on being logged in … could you try signing in, as you would to make a comment?
Yes, I see the little star the word “Like” on the CIDU page, and when I mouse-over the star, it changes color. But when I click on it, a small white window appears and then goes away. At times, it has shown a log-in form, but it disappears quickly. There have been times when clicking on the star in the email appeared to work, but (like this time) it typically just opens the CIDU page and has no “Like” effect.
The joys of WordPress. While it’s not failing for me, they added a menu item when creating a post–so the muscle memory of slash-enter-enter-enter no longer works. I’m continually irritated by what I call “the mouse kids” who have never used a keyboard and change things like this (or, worse, keyboard shortcuts!) willy-nilly.
When I’m elected dictator, you are DEFINITELY gonna see some big changes!!!
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I assume it’s a pun based on “AI.”
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Thompson should’ve used a font with serifs on a lone cap “I.” As it stands it looks too much like May-One.
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AI – I had thought it was some reference to the kids’ game “Mother, May I?”, with the shortage of days due to the failure to say the requisite phrase.
That interpretation works for the number of days, but doesn’t account for “Corbsday”.
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‘Corbsday’ would be an attempt at the sort of nonsensical misspelling/mangling of words frequently seen in AI-generated text
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Yeah, I too was trying to get somewhere from “Mother May I?”
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I guess Brian (4) has it. Nothing I tried would make sense of “Corbsday.” Still, even AI has to have some reason behind its mistakes. It’ll show a hand with six fingers, but not one with five or six pencils.
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I think Brian has it about Corbsday. AI has notoriously made up citations for legal briefs and other content. It would make sense AI used to generate a calendar would make up holidays.
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“One of which is Corbsday?” The real May this year has 31 days, four of which are Wednesday. There’s no weekday of which there is one of which. But May has 31 days, one of which is Memorial Day. So is Corbsday a holiday?
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The thing is, the calendar in the image shows four seven-day weeks. You can’t really divide 26 into four groups of seven, unless one day is only a half-day (“Wrap things up folks, it’s almost noon and we have to end the day now.”) Plus the woman’s mouth really bothers me.
Maybe “Corbsday” was named after “Corbomite” and when that day appears, it automatically destroys two adjacent days. (Geezer alert.)
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“Like” for “automatically destroys two adjacent days.”
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Why are her lip drawn backwards on the side of her face?
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She dong an expression similar to McKayla Maroney’s “not impressed” but seen from the side.
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“Like” for “automatically destroys two adjacent days.”
Ed, does this mean the “like” mini-icons are still not showing for you?
In case it’s more a matter that you’re not recognizing them, here’s a screenshot of a view onto the standard web interface of CIDU. The big red arrows point to clickable places where it says “Like” and has a star. (One has been liked already and has a differently worded message.)
In the case that you indeed are not seeing these, is there a different interface you are using? Or perhaps it depends on being logged in … could you try signing in, as you would to make a comment?
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Yes, I see the little star the word “Like” on the CIDU page, and when I mouse-over the star, it changes color. But when I click on it, a small white window appears and then goes away. At times, it has shown a log-in form, but it disappears quickly. There have been times when clicking on the star in the email appeared to work, but (like this time) it typically just opens the CIDU page and has no “Like” effect.
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The joys of WordPress. While it’s not failing for me, they added a menu item when creating a post–so the muscle memory of slash-enter-enter-enter no longer works. I’m continually irritated by what I call “the mouse kids” who have never used a keyboard and change things like this (or, worse, keyboard shortcuts!) willy-nilly.
When I’m elected dictator, you are DEFINITELY gonna see some big changes!!!
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