<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Well at least the instructions work even though they&#39;re highly unsafe... That is already too much to ask from &quot;AI&quot; by itself</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://woem.space/users/astrid" class="u-url mention">@<span>astrid</span></a></span> sometimes they even use two letters at once</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@astraleureka" class="u-url mention">@<span>astraleureka</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> this is uh... a relative of 5F-ADBICA?</p>

<p>6/ on the right, Sam Myers, a big ol&#39; Black man, wearing dark shades, swaying and playing a harp;</p><p>and hanging above but exactly between them, filling the space and engulfed by sublime blues music —</p><p>a red Chinese lantern.</p><p>This is the best of what America is and can be. •</p>

<p>5/ My enduring memory of that evening is, I think, all that can be great about America. On the left was Anson Funderburgh, a short, white man who looked like a Good Ol&#39; Boy with slicked back hair, playing his guitar, motionless; ↵</p>

<p>4/ I don&#39;t think I can do it more justice than can be done by this Atlas Obscura article, so I&#39;ll just refer to it. HK-born John Chan discovered jazz and blues at Prov Coll, and added it to his father&#39;s restaurant. Which remained a Chinese restaurant. ↵ <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/chans-fine-oriental-dining-jazz-blues" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">atlasobscura.com/places/chans-</span><span class="invisible">fine-oriental-dining-jazz-blues</span></a></p>

<p>3/ It was a Chinese restaurant in Woonsocket, RI. Woonsocket is a historically significant town that has fallen on hard times; a restaurant called Chan&#39;s in a dead town center is hosting…top-tier blues musicians? But I asked around, and learned it&#39;s the real thing. ↵</p>

<p>2/ When I moved up here, I really missed easy access to the kind of blues I could find in TX, especially Austin. So we were really excited to hear Anson Funderburgh and Sam Myers would be playing in the area. Until we saw the venue, which was surely an error: ↵</p>

<p>1/ Since it&#39;s open season on the Chinese in the US right now, I wanted to post about a remarkable Chinese-American experience that is one of the real gems of New England, making the region and country better in every way. It&#39;s about jazz and blues music. ↵</p>