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Friday Fun Thread for August 8, 2025

It didn't take me very long, since my first attempt at using o3 seemed to produce good results. I'm sharing the full conversation below, and it seems to be reasonable to me? You're the expert here, so you should be able to tell if o3 has mucked up.

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6896665a38088191a35a94848d57c05d

To summarize:

o3 claims that:

The Turtles – “Grim Reaper of Love” (White Whale WW-231)

45Cat lists May 1966 for the U.S. single.

Billboard ran a Spotlight Singles review in the 28 May 1966 issue. Per your rule, with month known and no label weekday documented, assign the Monday of the prior week: Mon 23 May 1966. ARSA has it on the 10 Jun 1966 WLS survey, which fits late-May release then early-June airplay.

For the other release:

Cash Box 5 Jul 1980 shows the LP as the No. 1 Most Added at AOR, which implies servicing that week. Your rule puts street on the usual label day in the week immediately prior. I assign Monday, 14 Jul 1980. Calendar check confirms Monday.

It is worth noting that o3 ran into some operational difficulties. It desperately wanted to try and paste search parameters into a search engine on a site, but the interface I'm using doesn't allow it to. There is, in fact, a product called Agent by OpenAI that can control a mouse and keyboard, and which could plausibly do that.

o3, per the messages, is now asking me to go ahead and look up the song on the site if suggests, and is happy to examine the results.

I also ran something known as Deep Research, also by OpenAI in the background.

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6896678a10508191b7076b3377144bec

To summarize, this ends up with a release date of Monday, June 6, 1966 for GRoL. For FTH, it claims that "reasonable estimate is June 30, 1980 as the official release date"

I also tried Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 4.0 Sonnet (the latter is good, but not the best).

Gemini:

Here are the release dates for the requested titles, based on the provided instructions:

The Turtles - Grim Reaper of Love

The release date for The Turtles' single "Grim Reaper of Love" is determined to be Monday, June 13, 1966. The song was released on the White Whale record label in May of 1966. It first entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart on Saturday, June 18, 1966. Following the provided guidelines, in the absence of a specified release day for the label, a Monday release is the default. Therefore, the release date is assigned as the Monday of the week the single entered the chart.

Henry Paul Band - Feel the Heat

The release date for the Henry Paul Band's album Feel the Heat is estimated to be in mid-1980. The album was released in 1980 on Atlantic Records. The single "Longshot" from the album charted on the Billboard Bubbling Under The Hot 100 in 1980. Another major Atlantic release from 1980, AC/DC's Back in Black, was released on a Friday. Without a more specific charting date for "Longshot" or a Billboard review of the album, and without access to a comprehensive Atlantic Records release schedule for that year, a more precise date cannot be determined from the available information.

Claude seems to have struggled the most:

For GRoL

Current Best Estimate: Without access to the specific Billboard chart entry date or copyright records, and knowing only "May 1966" from reputable sources, I would default to Monday (per your rules) in May 1966. Given that it was their fourth single and became a chart failure, it likely entered charts in late May or early June 1966, suggesting a release date around Monday, May 23, 1966 or Monday, May 30, 1966.

For FTH:

The search results confirm it's an Atlantic Records release from 1980, but specific dating information wasn't retrieved in the available searches.

I personally checked one of the PDFs o3 found, and it seemed to support its claim. Let me know if any links are broken in the share chat, or if you'd like me to try something else (such as manually search and share results with o3)

Wellness Wednesday for August 6, 2025

I will post a review of Twin Peaks season 1 this Friday. Please do not post spoilers, even hidden ones.

Looking forward to it. TP, Fire Walk With Me, and then The Return is an incredible ride.

Wellness Wednesday for August 6, 2025

I was able to hit a pr workwise clocking in 7.5 hours yesterday and 7 today. My biological clock is ticking and I am certain that I can do 8-9 hours daily of focused programming work, well 7 something and the remaining for math. So far, I have only been getting humbled in that I learn something, it quickly becomes apparent that I need to learn more and I try again; my progress has been slower and much more painful than I ever expected. Yet, this is the first time in my life I have worked this much at any level of consistency.

Today, like yesterday, I am too tired to work and just do not care about what is happening in the world, rather, things beyond my own life and my family, plus some friends. My time on twitter is nearly zero, I only open up Hacker News because I am on their telegram channel and since starting Twin Peaks, I have been using tv as my daily hour of leisure, since poor time management leaves me with not a lot of spare time before I sleep by 11 pm.

Many here may remember me from my rambling, incoherent updates from the past. I am a few weeks away from finishing off the entire python sequence on boot.dev, I will start C after that and finally do go after cleaning up data structures there. My mentor suggested this route and I will follow it through no matter what. So I do not have a weeping update like I did once. My sabbatical may take a few more months, but I will not stop or change things in the middle since that is how I fucked my life up two years ago.

On the workout side, I need to eat and sleep more. I kept missing days for the past few weeks; the worst I can do is quit or get injured. Getting humbled regularly has many benefits. I nitpicked people a lot to feel better, I never nitpick anyone. I mean, a lot of this was driven by Luke Smith's short blogpost on this. Life is short, I was told here to derive satisfaction from the stuff I am doing now, it took me 5 years to get the memo. I still sometimes remember my past life, all the opportunities I lost, the occasional fond memories, the dread of ending up the same, stuck in the same limbo I got into a decade ago. But I know things can change. I cannot appreciate any amount of progress, despite having done more than I ever did in my entire life, since I have so much more that I want to do, and whatever little I have done seems smaller than a statistical error. I have gotten to a point in life where I have less than zero confidence in any of my abilities, its not ideal, I was always overconfident, and life is better that way. Maybe never doing anything helped me cope with that, perhaps.

Frankly, I don't care about feeling good about what I do, I just want to do more and git gud for real. Anyhow, I will go back and finish off the first episode of season 2 of Twin Peaks and my dinner that I paused to finish my math for the day. If what I wrote seems incoherent, then do let me know. I am too tired to think properly, and I like it for a change. I will post a review of Twin Peaks season 1 this Friday. Please do not post spoilers, even hidden ones. My work setup is also slicker as I have nvim running the kickstart stuff TJ Devries works on, it feels like a breeze even though I only know 10 commands, including exiting and splitting panels lol. I hope I post another update after a few months, and it's better than this one. I also realised that I pee like 20 times a day, not sure if it's from working too much, drinking too much water or what. See ya!

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 4, 2025

The Federal Emergency Management Agency stated in grant notices posted on Friday that states must follow its "terms and conditions." Those conditions require they certify they will not sever “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies” to qualify for funding.

I don't see any congressional approval for this condition anywhere in the statute, so I expect it won't last long in court.

To back up a bit, there is a whole area of law concerning when and how the federal government can attach strings to money granted to the states, because doing so can in some cases be coercive (see. e.g. SD v Dole). Since it raises constitutional concerns, the Court has said that Congress must do so in unambiguous terms. This is likewise a parallel with various other kinds of Federal preemption: Congress can preempt a variety of State laws, but respect for State's rights mean that if it wishes to do so, it has to legislate it clearly rather than having the courts infer preemption.

As I see it, this is just a totally illegal addition of "terms and conditions" to the spending that Congress didn't justify. It might arguably within the power of the Federal Government to impose such a condition, but seems very obviously not within the power of the executive, acting without a clear congressional statement, to do so.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 4, 2025

Rueters: U.S. states and cities that boycott Israeli companies will be denied federal aid for natural disaster preparedness

The requirement applies to at least $1.9 billion that states rely on to cover search-and-rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries and backup power systems among other expenses, according to 11 agency grant notices reviewed by Reuters.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency stated in grant notices posted on Friday that states must follow its "terms and conditions." Those conditions require they certify they will not sever “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies” to qualify for funding.

The requirement is the Trump administration's latest effort to use federal funding to promote its views on Israel.

The Department of Homeland Security, the agency that oversees FEMA, in April, said that boycotting Israel is prohibited for states and cities receiving its grant funds.

I've followed the politicization of FEMA grants through the Nonprofit Security Grant Program which overwhelmingly goes to Jewish organizations. The recent Israel supplemental bill included a $390M increase to the Nonprofit Security Grant Program with $230M available through Sept 30, 2026. Schumer is pushing for an additional $500M bringing potential 2026 funding to $730M.

The timing of this is interesting also because it's in the middle of a significant back-and-forth between Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. Tucker Carlson had Candace Owens on his show, where Tucker accused Fuentes of being a fed. To justify that claim, Tucker said that Fuentes accused Carlson's father of being in the CIA which was a fact that Carlson claimed to not know until his father's death in March.

Tucker also gave a line of criticism of Fuentes that Tucker himself gave in nearly exact words to Pat Buchanan in 1999.

How does this tie in together? Where is the pushback against the clear Israeli influence in the US government supposed to come from in the Right Wing? It's only coming from Fuentes and DR Twitter. Stuff like this gives Fuentes credibility regarding his criticisms of Israeli influence- it seems Tucker Carlson is trying to ride the fine line between providing an outlet for criticism of Israeli influence among the Right Wing but still gatekeeping Nick Fuentes from going further mainstream.