TFW you can’t find any young women to agree with your fucked-up worldview, so you invent one.

Reminds me of the ‘as a black man’ Twitter idiots that used to out themselves accidentally by posting on main instead of their ‘black’ alts.

I wonder how many PoC influencers promoting conservative views online are just AI nowadays.

I’ll also say that if your only protection is BitLocker, then you have shitty operational security. Especially if you log in with a MS account and knowingly backup your BitLocker key with them.

Not necessarily - but a huge swath of the MotU fans are 40-50yo adults now. Just look at their lines of toys released over the last decade or so - most are expensive and aimed at adult collectors.

I more see it as a red flag for my interest because PG limits its writing heavily. One swear word, no injury detail, no graphic scenes. The ‘stakes’ will be low as hell, and so will the potential drama.

It’s hard to be optimistic when Trump keeps asking Ukraine to simply bow to all Russia’s demands (why won’t you just do what my buddy Vlad says), and it goes nowhere, because that’s not a negotiation.

Zelensky’s planned talk:

That’s all true. However, USA peaked production in 1970 at 9.6 million barrels per day (~3,500,000,000 barrels that year). Their production is predicted to peak again in 2027 above this prior record.

The US population is roughly 5x larger than the UK, but also produced 10x as much oil as them.

The US national debt… $38 trillion USD and predicted to be growing faster than GDP sometime this year. They have famously pathetic social services for their citizens and are reducing services, coverage, and safety-nets every year. The UK’s (with less oil money and fewer citizens) are better.

This problem has nothing to do with the amount of oil generated nor the amount of citizens in the country, and all to do with taxing finite natural resources significantly (Norway) and investing the taxation in a well-regulated manner for the good of the people (Norway), rather than letting billionaires strip the resources for a pittance of taxation (US, UK), living off debt to bankers (US, UK), and privatising your social services (US, UK).

Me, a millennial child reading about this:

+ Good writers
+ Good directors
- PG rating
+ Good cast..
- - - - - - - Jared Leto

Great to read of an EU leader recognizing the the importance of stepping up and taking action.

They should at least build the agreements, processes, protocols, comms channels and so on immediately, even if they don’t go the full way to assembling the army. It’ll probably need to be used sooner than later, and will need to respond quickly to whichever aggressor nation has provoked open conflict.

Tbh I don’t think Microsoft’s fault-rate has actually gotten noticeably higher post-AI.

They were already putting out bad patches causing widespread issues with regularity for well over a decade. They slowly transitioned from “customer experience is key” under Ballmer to “move fast and break things” under Nadella.

I do love what Microsoft has been doing for Linux adoption though - more slop, please!

Thanks for your story. I’m a misfit nerd also, so it resonates with me.

I’m sure its something we can fix at large scale with government-funded mental health care, social programs, funding for community centers, and integrating mental health and social science studies into education, amongst many possible solutions that would get us to a society where everyone can find somewhere to fit in, and everyone has better options than the snake-oil salesmen when they seek help or are angry at a personal situation.

Unfortunately we presently live in the era of the techofeudalists, and eyeballs on ads and keeping users consuming are pretty much all they care about - not only do they not care if the media they promote and put ads alongside happens to be divisive alt-right hate media, they also benefit from the conservative (anti-regulation, small government, anti-tax) parties being pushed to power by these groups. It’s a frustrating feedback loop that we need to break free of, and governments worldwide seem ill-prepared to broach it.

Ugh. For context, I’m currently trying to steer a younger family member out of the alt-right pipeline and angry about how hard it is to beat constant access to thousands of videos / talking points pushed into their feed daily, with the couple hours I see them a week to attempt to ‘deprogram’ them… without trying to come across preachy or put them off learning alternative viewpoints (evidence-based reality). Its a struggle.

I’m guessing this is mostly rhetorical… But my 2¢: They failed at everything since kindergarten: education, socialisation, relationships, career, finances; everything they’ve tried they failed or they feel like they failed.

They need therapy, but that costs vulnerability and money, and their parents or peers told them it was for the weak. So instead, they get angry, and look around and on the first page of Insta, YouTube, and Facebook they find people like Shapiro, Fuentes, Petersen, Crowder, Southern - all telling them that someone else is to blame, not them, and then pointing at immigrants illegals, blacks inner city youth, and Jews globalists.

So now they’re looking for that someone else to punch down on to soothe their extreme insecurities, shame, and anger at the world (and themselves), but they’re still that doughy, insecure ‘failure’ that they haven’t done anything to change.

Its chin all the way down, baby.

The fries are vegan in Australia ever since they stopped cooking them in beef tallow - around early 2000s iirc.

However, their own website says they offer no menu options certified as vegan or vegetarian, due to cross-contamination being something they don’t wish to deal with.

Understandable as additional prep areas would be quite expensive, but also it’s a pretty weak copout when they could go to the effort of labelling their vegan/vegetarian items (with the asterisked proviso that they may have cross-contam)… I suspect it’s really to allow them to change up menu item suppliers to cheaper alternatives whenever they like, because they also do not bother to label any menu items with allergen info - and that’s very standard across even small cafes nowadays. To find allegen info you have to dig through a PDF that they update every few months.

Well, it’s not really meant to be impressive. If you read that list and you’re like “he seems fine to me”, then let’s just agree we have very different opinions.

Its a CIA-style listening device that people pay for and proudly install and display in their home, gathering data on them, sharing it with Amazon and anyone they care to sell or make that data available to - including police.

Ostensibly all to provide short voice answers and actions they could do privately with their phone in seconds.

Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.

I don’t celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won’t miss him one bit.

Some context and examples : https://cartoonwiki.toonsmag.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views

Unironically this behaviour is just “pivoting to a run for office as a Republican” vibes nowadays.

Its no longer even ‘weird behaviour’ for a US CEO.

His opinion is actually that AI can use his code no problem, they just have to pay a fee.

The problem is that the big LLM AI companies will just say… ‘Fuck off’, because they don’t like paying for any data, and they also think their models will be advanced enough to write their own libraries soon (if not now, depending how much they believe their own marketing hype).

Pricing is an additional unanswered problem in his new model. As a hypothetical: if 1000 traditional OSS users generate $1000 value in conversion to paid users in his old model - what would an AI license cost? Because one license (eg to Anthropic/Claude) would theoretically be cutting off millions of users, maybe 80%+ of his userbase. Would he ask for millions as a licensing fee?

Whole idea is half-baked IMO, but I am sympathetic to the bullshit situation he finds himself in.

It is a four year contract. OpenAI is hoping they’ll be able to suppress their competitors long enough to regain their lead and firmly establishe a dominant position in the market.

I’m not too worried though for two reasons. First, I’m confident they’ll eventually be in breech of their memory contracts for being unable to pay - as the whole AI market is a house of cards, and has no real path to profitability beyond hopes and dreams. Banks and angel investors will eventually start asking ‘where are the profits’ and begin pulling out the rug. Second, the chip suppliers began ramping up production (as you suggest) some time back, so the current crazy price increase should only be temporary once they have increased supply output in a year or so. They would have to sign new contracts to get their ‘40% deal’ again, and the memory giants will have much higher price demands for any such deals in future, and I don’t think OpenAI will have the money.

This is wrong. The truth is far worse.

Sam Altman / OpenAI recognized that they were losing their LLM market lead to rapid advances by Google Gemini and others, so they took the most anti-competitive step they could.

They determined that the key inputs for AI advances and market leadership now were access to high speed storage and graphics processing - whether directly or via contract to datacenters as-yet unbuilt.

They already had significant contracts and share-trade arrangements with Nvidia - whom is happily gouging the AI Bros for all they can. What everyone in that market needs though, is high speed memory chips for SSDs, RAM, and graphics card memory. So, they secretly negotiated two contracts simultaneously with the two largest memory chip manufacturers to aquire ~40% of the memory market supply.

They have agreed to buy memory chips wholesale, unuseable until they go through further manufacturing to install them intp RAM/SSDs/GFX - but OpenAI has zero facilities or contracts to perform those steps, and as yet has made no public announcement (that I’ve seen) of their actual plans for what to do with the chips they’ve entered contracts to buy.

It is a strategy called ‘market denial’, and we are all paying for it with much higher prices for anything that needs these chips or is tangential to those markets.

Prudism. That’s the take.

Rather read Oglaf any day than this pearl-clutching nonsense.