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On May 28, 2026, at its own AI Now Summit, the French AI company Mistral announced that Le Chat — its conversational AI assistant, launched in February 2024 — would henceforth be called Vibe.

Au Revoir, Le Chat

A Name Change We Have To Feel Sor­ry For? Mis­tral’s deci­sion to rename its chat­bot rais­es a small but legit­i­mate ques­tion about iden­ti­ty, brand­ing, and what Euro­pean AI com­pa­nies owe their own dis­tinc­tive­ness On May 28, 2026, at its own AI Now Sum­mit, the French AI com­pa­ny Mis­tral announced that

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Fiftirs retro sci-fi street scene - commuters, flying busses, drones

Absurdity Day

Nation­al Absur­di­ty Day is cel­e­brat­ed on Novem­ber 20th. It is an unof­fi­cial “fun” hol­i­day, encour­ag­ing peo­ple to be aware—and celebrate—the illog­i­cal and non­sen­si­cal aspects of every­day life.

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The Toad

The Toad was­n’t a real toad. It didn’t need to be. It was the kind of crea­ture that lurks in the damp cor­ners of child­hood night­mares, in the half-remem­bered warn­ings of old sto­ries.

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GPT Image Creation

AI – of course AI – says, GPT is rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing image gen­er­a­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly with the release of state-of-the-art mod­els like GPT Image 2.0: It promis­es near-per­fect prompt adher­ence, advanced visu­al rea­son­ing, and the abil­i­ty to gen­er­ate and accu­rate­ly ren­der com­plex text direct­ly inside images.

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Lost Places #3

Sor­ry if I seem fix­at­ed on this … could you do anoth­er ver­sion in the style that YOU like best? No mat­ter how out­landish it might seem, don’t even both­er if I under­stand it — just let rip about Lost Places from “AI Claude’s” point of view, will you?

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Lost Places #2

Could you rewrite its just a lit­tle and make it more neu­tral this time, less the­atri­cal and philo­soph­ic, deliv­er­ing the facts with maybe only a min­i­mal hint of irony, bare­ly notice­able at best — thank you

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Lost Places #1

Could you write me blog post about why we find Lost Places so intrigu­ing and to what lengths peo­ple go to see one and what the most far-out Lost Places cur­rent­ly are? Please …
Style: Intrigued, doing some guess­work now and then, not giv­ing the impres­sion that for EVERYTHING there must be a plau­si­ble expla­na­tion. Ele­gant writ­ing. Length: 1 Din A4 page

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The DAD‑1 Patronizer

Gear Review — Lim­it­ed Edi­tion Par­ent­ing Series A Per­fect Par­ent­ing Ped­al, If Ever There Was One The only gui­tar ped­al that improves your tone and your cred­i­bil­i­ty as a father-fig­ure rock god. You’ve spent years per­fect­ing your tech­nique. Your minors — God bless them — have not. They shred like

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Walking the Dog Day

Walk­ing the Dog Day (or Nation­al Walk Your Dog Day) is observed annu­al­ly on Feb­ru­ary 22nd. Of course it isn’t meant to sug­gest you walk your dog only once a year!

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Handymaniac

Handy­ma­ni­ac With these two sim­ple tools, I can repair any­thing! They’re uni­ver­sal, they can do mag­ic, they even have names. There was a time when I thought it’s quite sur­re­al, all the skills that a man is sup­posed to mas­ter. Any­thing from horse-feed­ing, house-build­ing, home-mak­ing, video-play­er-sleep-timer-pro­­gram­ming, to ter­race-floor­ing, gar­­den-flat­ten­ing, and

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International Sloth Day

Inter­na­tion­al Sloth Day is cel­e­brat­ed annu­al­ly on Octo­ber 20th to raise aware­ness about these slow-mov­ing crea­tures and the con­ser­va­tion of their rain­for­est habi­tats.

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Printers – as bad as they ever was?

I asked Le Chat: Dear Le Chat, Could you find out for me whether home print­ers are still as bad as they’ve always been—or per­haps even worse? I get the feel­ing that, despite all the tech­no­log­i­cal progress we’ve made, the ubiq­ui­tous inter­net, and mod­ern devices rang­ing from smart­phones to mas­sive AI-pow­ered

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