Onedimental, overestimating everyone

What's silly about not liking Platner?

Eeeeh... forever.

I think antitrust concepts apply to world nations and power blocs as well.

They like trotting out that "other people's money" line by Thatcher but they are big on other people's sacrifice.

They sure aren't willing.

"Wear a mask! For the greater good!"

"No."

Like Thatcher's "other people's money" line but they have always been about other people sacrificing.

Think of it more like...

"I have the technology, and ability. I can make this book better, stronger, farter."

And then giggle because fart but GET BACK TO WORK.

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I'M HELPING

I think they made a bucket list of various war crimes and are taking the tour.

Is Homelander in the video and if not how is Homelander not in the video.

I've never met anyone with good faith questions about vaccines. Everyone involved when the topic came up was either "vaccine good, science yay!" or effectively the exact opposite, even if it was due to misinformation.

I think characterizing them as good faith begs the wrong responses to them.

hello darkness my old friend
my dollars' power falls again

The brain drain of GenAI is a huge progress threat.

Like where do these companies think they are going to find senior coders in 10 or 20 years to clean up the slop?

Radiologists facing the same issues, hadn't considered that.

Never-AI is going to be a marketable trait.

I've always thought billionaires were a policy failure, but increasingly (and I am 99.99% of the way there) I think they are a direct clear existential threat to humanity and the planet itself. No one person should have that much power over so many. We fought an entire War of Independence about it.

Frightening mess. The amount of debt load the industry has is an appreciable fraction of GDP. The last time I saw a figure it was MONTHS ago and it was FOUR !@$#ING PERCENT!

That is staggering.

Much like "Socialism", even if it's qualified with "Democratic Socialism" - that well has been thoroughly poisoned for too many. Find a new name, like "Domestic Improvement" or something.

Yeah people talking about machine learning should say that explicitly to head off a lot of fighty comments.

Yeah, but people need to understand they aren't mad at GPSes that rely on machine learning for route optimization, etc.

I agree with the Xerox/Kleenex note there. "AI" almost always means "GenAI" in discourse because that's the crap crapping up everyone's crap, like MicroSlop's SlopPilot.

(I think he's talking about machine learning, which is a different sort of thing under the big AI umbrella, and not generative AI which is largely garbage trained on stolen labor and dead labor.)

We really need a wider understanding (and distinction) between Generative AI and Machine Learning.

I think you mean Machine Learning here, and you're absolutely right.

But medicine does not x-rays of tumors put in bikinis or whatever.

Either we have a gaggle of billionaires deliberately misusing their power to purposely destroy the US or a gaggle of billionaires incompetently misusing their power to inadvertently destroy the US.

The commonality is 'billionaire'. No one person should have that much power over so many others.

But that's a very common and relatable fear, shared by millions. That is accessible horror.

Oh. 'Pod'. Well now it's a little more niche.

Bold of you to assume Mike Johnson has heard anything about of any of this.

"Iran? Never heard of it, I work 37 hours a day."

What is going to satisfy GREAT & ACCEPTABLE leader(s)? Ayatollah Kushner?

(Does uh... Iran get a say in who leads them? Seems like a likely point of contention, and maybe something we had problems with in Iraq if I recall?)

Well that's from two whole months ago, hardly enough time to get indexed!!!111

What is a journalist supposed to do, substantiate? Verify? Who has time for that?!?!

I'm torn between "defend to the death their right to say it" and "it's shit and it's frequently terribly wrong and that does real damage."

And I think it's being pushed as this savant technology that is miracle wicked-smaht but the fine print is like "no it's dumb as hell, no liability!"

Not ok.

I am very negative on GenAI but think this through.

How does what you just said not apply to a simple web server?

Imagine your bsky profile text box allowed a lot more text and also allowed you to paste in a gif of a dancing baby and a dancing banana and an animated email icon and a spinning globe and a

Man this sucks, I'm sorry this is hitting you. Everyone knows this is coming but no one is ever ready and there's no training for shit like this.

Whatever loved ones you two had in common, call/visit and reminisce about him, if/when you can. That will help with all that 'process' stuff.

unless you have two first names but it's still somehow one first name

then who the fuck knows what rules apply

I'm like one more COL increase away from being totally fucked.

ok but if you guys would stop assembling all these disparate pieces of evidence into a fairly clear pattern it would be a lot less awkward for him and his defenders

Look guys, I was just on shore leave in Croatia and the squad was like "fam let's all get tatted up" and I was looking through the tattoo book and there between a picture of a cute cartoon bunny and a daffodil with a butterfly on it there was this adorbs little skull, I swear that's all it is!