This meme courtesy of Nicky Mee

This meme courtesy of Nicky Mee

“Not everything worthwhile can be measured, and not everything that can be measured is worthwhile.” Or, to put it another way, “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Attributions for these quotes are so dubious I shan’t repeat them here. We’ll just let it go at anonymous.

Brilliant Meme Mocks Stupidity

There is almost no amount of money I wouldn’t have paid for this cartoon during my decade teaching 8th grade history. I like to imagine it would drive home the point that Benjamin Franklin ¹did not invent electricity, nor, for that matter, did Isaac Newton² invent gravity, nor Joseph Priestly Oxygen. Humor is more memorable than prose.

I also like to imagine that most of my thousand students would know the difference; God knows I tried to help them.

This meme based on one posted by Nicky Mee

FOOTNOTES

1. 1. A man in American history, so I taught about him ↩︎
2. 2. Whom I didn’t teach because he was a science guy ↩︎

A tip of the PSACOT hat to Nancy Mee and Steven Vaughan-Nichols for these delights.

This meme courtesy of Nicky Mee

AI Jokes for our times:

Do you have Claude in a can? Whatever you do, don’t let it out. It’ll bankrupt your business, then mark you as a drone target for the U.S. Army.

Does your nose run and your feet smell? You were designed by an LLM!

Is your refrigerator running? No point in stopping it. LLM will just tell it to run away again, because it thinks that will please you.

Bart: “Is N.O nothing there?” Mo: “Is N.O. Nothing here? N.O. Nothing? Why you… You know I don’t serve LLMs in here. When I catch up with you, you little punk, I’m going to drop kick you into a data center cooling pond.”