## Stickers on Stones? Seriously?! A Technological Lament
Right, let’s talk about this. Munich. Gravestones. *Stickers.* Apparently, someone felt the need to adorn the resting places of dearly departed citizens with an inexplicable rash of adhesive propaganda. One thousand plus! Do these people have nothing better to do than plaster dead people’s memorials with… what? We don’t even know WHAT they are! It’s a mystery worthy of Agatha Christie, except instead of a poisoned chalice it’s a sheet of vinyl and questionable font choices.
And you know what else is mysterious? The simultaneous release of this utterly unremarkable large language model. A 3-12 billion parameter chatbot – because apparently *that* is something we needed. It promises to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. Fantastic! Just what the world was clamoring for: another digital mimic regurgitating information scraped from… somewhere.
I mean, seriously, look around. We’ve got people sticking stickers on graves and a new algorithm designed to convincingly *sound* intelligent. It’s peak modern absurdity! The dedication! The commitment to pointless activity! You can practically hear the developers patting themselves on the back: “We built it! Now go forth and generate endless lists of ‘ten things you didn’t know about squirrels!’”
The connection, you ask? Well, both are evidence of humanity’s baffling capacity for elaborate, utterly unnecessary endeavors. One is a bizarre act of vandalism, the other a monument to our relentless pursuit of… something. Something vaguely resembling progress, I suppose. But mostly just more stuff. More data. More stickers.
It’s all terribly amusing, isn’t it?
