I wonder if this is related to their announcement that they will start watermarking text? Their method adds a statistical biases to the generated text, which they state doesn’t work in certain situations (short text sequences being one of them). This could be their solution to ensure watermarks are added to more outputs.

Would you say growing wheat to feed your own farm animals should be regulated by the federal government? SCOTUS decided in Wikard v Filburn [1] that a farmer growing wheat for private use was in fact inter-state commerce. This decision has been used to uphold all manner of federal laws that on their face appear to regulate private conduct totally within the confines of a single state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

I think Wickard was wrongly decided.

“Blue” is a reference to Big Blue, a.k.a. IBM.

The indigenous runners that he wrote about wore sandals made of recycled tire tread.

A famous Yogi-ism [1]; On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogiisms

RadioLab did an excellent episode [1] about Bolero, where it asks the question if it was a leading indicator of Ravel’s madness.

1. https://radiolab.org/podcast/unraveling-bolero

One of the very first tools I install on a new Mac is the free WordService [1] tool from DEVONTechnologies (no affiliation). It adds a bunch of little text tools to the Services menu, including several for inserting the current date and time in various formats. They also provide a direct download version [2].

- [1] [WordService](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wordservice/id899972312?mt=12 - [2] [WordService Download](https://www.devontechnologies.com/support/download)