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  • Jessamynjessamyn@glammr.us
    Oct 9, 2026, 6:17 PM

    Hey I'm doing one of those quote-tweet things for a thing I think is dumb.

    But! It leads to an ancient internet comment that I think is entirely made for Mastodon, a story about the time my dad, in the waning age of mainframes, was working on a project to create an internet-connected bear, Poppet, which could tell your child stories pulled from a home server. In the 1990s.

    From MetaFilter, where a guy my dad used to work with, coincidentally decided to tell it.

    metatalk.metafilter.com/13606/

    Tweet from Alvin Sng @alvinsng on X.com My wife: Can you read our baby a book? Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone. My wife: But then it won't be in your voice. Me: I can train a voice model. Parenting hits different when you work in Al. Stats: 7:30 PM • 10/6/26 • 2.3M Views
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