Interesting Links for 25-03-2016

[andrewducker]

Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day (tags: ai funny racism ) A bunch of administrators reminisce about the time they deleted their production systems (tags: epicfail computers ) Luke's Force Theme and Rey's Theme intertwine with each other (tags: music StarWars video ) Defending good unions doesn't

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[bart_calendar]

The book American Psycho is hilarious. Like seriously the funniest thing I have ever read.

The best is when he gets the phone directory to the woman's dorm of a university and tries to make obscene phone calls to them by jerking off while saying stuff like "I'm a corporate raider" and the first girl he calls responds "Dad is that you?" and is totally into it so he hangs up disgusted.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes, it's hilarious, in parts. Mixes together a whole bunch of different emotions at different parts really well.

[momentsmusicaux]

I once deleted a production site!

The live site was in a user account called 'dev', and the staging copy was called something else, but equally non-obvious. It was like this because when the dev site was taken live, it was easier to re-point the webserver than to rename the user accounts, so the sysadmin said. I *did* say at the time it would lead to confusion...

[kalimac]

Those one-line summaries are OK, but for real humor in abbreviated literature, I recommend a book called ShrinkLits, which does it in light-verse form. Copy isn't handy or I'd quote some.

But I do remember in full one which isn't from ShrinkLits. "Ode on a Grecian Urn":

Gods chase
Round vase.
What say?
What play?
Don't know.
Nice, though.

[ckd]

There's also Rinkworks Book-a-Minute: http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/