Sometimes if there's a small task I know I'm going to forget about I put it in my "audio buffer", which is to say I make up a little song about it and sing that song until I've done the task. Which is why I was wandering the house today singing a song about modifying my Amazon autoship frequency. 

 Today is my first day as VP of Developer Relations at LlamaIndex! I wrote last week on my personal blog about why LLMs are the future of software, but TLDR: software that can understand the data it’s working with is about to become the way all software is built. So I’m delighted to be at a company at the center of the LLM universe.

Learn more on our official blog: https://medium.com/llamaindex-blog/llamaindex-laurie-voss-an-alpaca-joins-the-llamas-9cae1081adff 

 Quick reminder that as of Mastodon 4.2.0, you can opt-in to have your full posts included in search results without having to use hashtags. Go to Preference -> Public Profile -> Privacy and Reach and then scroll down to Search.

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 The truth about US immigration law is that the US economy relies on immigration, and making migrants legally powerless benefits employers, so nothing is done to crack down on employers and everything is done to leave migrants even more scared and powerless. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/magazine/economy-illegal-immigration.html 

 "Was it always this warm at the end of September?" he thought, climate-changily. 

 Foundation season 2 is really delivering. 

 My second bout of Covid is really mild and mostly just manifesting as a head cold, so I'm really lucky but also I am really bored of having this head cold, could it go away already. 

 Like 6 months from now there's going to be nothing to watch on the streaming services and they'll shed millions of customers and billions in market cap and they'll act like there was no possible way they could have predicted that fighting with their unions would have that effect. 

 Doing a bunch of job interviews at the same time as having Covid is a really special level of stress. 

 TIL the "Leghorn" in the name of Foghorn Leghorn, the large animated rooster, refers to a specific Italian breed of chicken, but FL's exact species is a subject of debate as others list his species as a Rhode Island Rooster despite the name.