{"id":46157,"date":"2026-06-29T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46157"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:14:38","slug":"gemini-is-as-good-as-mad-or-national-lampoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46157","title":{"rendered":"gemini+ is as good as MAD or National Lampoon."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>jimmy sent this joke in our group chat:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"559\" height=\"916\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46158\" style=\"width:197px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-7.png 559w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-7-183x300.png 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>which led me to think it might be funny to have an iso&amp; standard, since the bfs means less if there isn&#8217;t a reference.  so I asked gemini+ &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/share.gemini.google\/GkPcOid1GrP6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hi! write a funny iso-standards dcoument for the unit of measure banaa for scale<\/a>&#8220;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a lot of satire, mad magzine. national lampoon, etc.  this stuff, a first cut from a simple prompt, is as good as anything i&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jimmy sent this joke in our group chat: which led me to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[91,349,2231],"class_list":["post-46157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ai","tag-bananas","tag-gemini","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157\/revisions\/46159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}