David “Handsome Dave” Bishop

The Rat On war and what we have to choke down.

this is excellently done. i have a lot of thoughts about it, precisely none of which i will venture aloud, but it's very very good.

The Apple TV show Knife’s Edge, which is a kinda cheesy/reality-tv-esque docuseries about restaurants pursuing Michelin stars, had a few glimpses of this sorta shit. And they weren’t going for an exposé. And the chef’s all knew they were being filmed. Made me wonder what happens w/cameras off.

Don't stay in a job you hate.

I’ve tried to think of something else but I can’t top this one.

James Comey threatened my family in a congressional hearing.

I’ve missed you! Also, where’s the link to the podcast? You can’t say that you have a podcast now and then not link to it. *smh*

Flat feet and a bone cyst kept me out of the Marine Corps when I was 17. I often wonder how different of a person I would be if they had accepted me instead.

I think as a general rule it would be good for the Democratic Party to nominate younger candidates on average but we may have rung that bell a little too hard if people look at “is Old” and “is maybe Nazi” and see the first as worse.

I see what you did there

If you step back and your output could be 95% replicated by a bot that replied “Schumer and Jeffries are useless!” to any news about Trump doing something, you’ve got some reflection to do.

I got distracted halfway through writing that thread and forgot to add the bit where I say that, even though the floor is being raised, I think we’re a long, long, long, long, long way away from expertise being useless.

(Note for the other people reading this thread: please note that at no point did I say any of this was good, bad, or indifferent. Describing reality != being pro- or anti-AI.)

The doomer we’re-all-jobless-in-18-months view by necessity treats demand as inelastic. And I think that’s so foolish as to be almost unfathomable. Ask literally any PM if we’ve been producing software “fast enough” up to this point…

But my personal belief is there’s just literally no end to the software we-as-a-society can make and consume. And being able to produce that software faster and cheaper doesn’t actually impact the demand in any real way.

And the “Yeah, but it needs an actual expert guiding it” is also a “for now” thing. The huge level-up from everything before to last October/November doesn’t mean AGI is around the corner but it does mean I’m not gonna bet against future step-changes like that.

I’m not sure that’s a winning long-term argument, unfortunately. See: Amazon subsidizing shipping for a decade. Even if they all hit the brakes and stopped investing in data centers or new models or *anything* else, and went into money-rake mode, the value prop is still there.

Damn, that’s a hell of a get. 👏

Remember when people thought that The Pitt was going to be all AI-boosting all the time, based on episode two? I kinda wanna track down all of the people who were posting that and ask if they have any idea what the phrase "media literacy" means.

I quit right around the AI stuff, but mostly because it made me take stock and my 2,400-day Duo Lingo streak was just meaningless. I was no better at Spanish at day 2,400 than I was at 1,400. I'm *great* at their games, but they weren't teaching me jack shit.

mamdani’s first duty is to new yorkers, if he can get better outcomes out of this kind of demeaning photo op, he should, and people are also fair to criticize him for it, that’s the job

98 against, 2 for. Yeah, we’re kicking the shitbirds out at the first opportunity.

I try to remind myself that a thought experiment is very different from most of those people being presented with that sort of option in reality, but I don't know if I'm just lying to myself.

*start a movie, the words “Music by Tangerine Dream” flash up*

Oh hell yeah, now I know I’m in for a good time.

Huh, so it turns out the freaks going on an anti-trans crusade in the name of "protecting women's sports" don't give a damn about women's sports and actually despise women's sports.

I'm sure this will have a profound effect on how the media covers anti-trans sports bans...

All of this. Not to be all Star Wars about it, but as soon as you stop caring about the truth, forever will that dominate your destiny.

Well, unless you decide that sucks as a way of life and stop, which is always possible.

I follow one account on here who is pretty normal in most way, often has interesting things to say, but absolutely fucking hates Canadians. It's the weirdest thing; I've never met anybody who hates Canada as much as this account does. Just… what?

I've seen some people talking about being able to do end-to-end graphical app testing like that. I'll be damned if I've been able to make it work.

Ever since I watched the sound of music as a small child every time I see curtains I silently judge how nice of clothes they'd make. The weirdly fancy curtains at this hotel breakfast would make a cool 2010s-style A-line dress

(I’m assuming exmos count)

… *blushes*

A screenshot of a line sloping very distinctly down and to the right, with the X axis being days of the week. The label says that my weight is stable and I have lost 0.0 lb because their definition of a week does not include last Friday, which was the last time I weighed myself. So I simultaneously lost several pounds and also didn't lose any weight at all.

I weigh myself once a week for medical purposes, but not more often than that because fuck thinking about my weight more than that. And I use a smart scale so that I have pretty graphs. You'd think the large, well-known company that makes the scale would account for this scenario, but...