“AI Employee” is some seriously dystopian bullshit.

That’s a whole 'nother discussion.

It includes rainbow thigh-highs.

NoP spotted in the wild! =D

Holy Shit, making it from the nearest hotel across the canal turns a 1-mile walk into a 6-mile hike =U

That has to be deliberate, there’s no other excuse for it.

Same, the whole industry is nothing but a grift.

Save everything you want to keep

Now that “Anti-woke” ideology has been revealed as a psyop by the Epstein files, I’m very curious to see if Trey Stone and Matt Parker will choose to reckon with their own contributions or if they’ll double-down.

I don’t like South Park because of that smug, sanctimonious tone either, but my housemates love it and regularly leave re-runs playing for background noise as they go about their day, so allow me to offer that same criticism from someone that has seen every episode multiple times and can offer something “real” to back it up:

The long arc of the South Park plot follows Trey and Parker’s political development from bitter, unknown California Republicans with sarcastic, nihilist tendencies to disillusioned Big Hollywood Conservatives with sarcastic, nihilistic tendencies being forced to reckon with the fact that their past attempts at satire have either had no impact or have actually reinforced the perceived social ills they pretend to mock.

Al Gore’s portrayal in S22E06 “Time to get Cereal” exemplifies this, even after he is proven to have been right about ManBearPig all along, this later appearance shows him as still being a huge weenie that cares more about being acknowledged as having been right than wanting to actually solve the problem. Having belatedly acknowledged the existential threat, Trey and Parker still can’t bring themselves to issue a call to action, and everything goes back to normal after they kick the can a little further down the road.

Thus, the smug, sanctimonious tone has been a constant throughout, as if they still imagine that the greatest sin is caring about things. They’re so heavy-handed about it that they lampoon this aspect of their own show in Kyle’s “Don’t you see,” and “Y’know, I’ve learned something today” closing monologues. Even when he’s telling a real political truth, like in the banned S16E06 where the text of the monologue is an admission that terrorism works and the subtext is a refusal to acknowledge their own contributions to post-9/11 anti-muslim discrimination in America, Jesus (representing mainstream American Christianity) gives falsely-sincere advice to the gingers (who represent all minority groups facing irrational discrimination) that they just need to get as violent as the most aggressive extremists so that people will respect them. Which is itself a smug, sanctimonious, and sarcastic way of suggesting that they can never be respected as people, only either seen as lesser or feared as an enemy.

And not just the resources, those orbits are going to be cluttered with slowly-deorbiting junk too. Until we get around to making something that can clean them up, we won’t be able to put anything else there.

Then take it back (of course, I’m talking about Linux)

Oh yeah, the name is both descriptive and wildly scifi. XD

Absolutely. But at least that bubble is popping. Soon we won’t have to worry about AI mania anymore. XD

They’re a real thing, crystaline structures with an oscillating temporal component.

This makes a lot of sense though, from the description it sounds like they’re trying to build an NPU out of memristors. We’ve been expecting them to show up to do this kind of math for a bit, since they’d cut a lot of redundant computation out of the layered matrix calculus that NPUs are optimized for if we can make them small, fast, and reliable enough.

And it’s not just for “AI”. A lot of problems, like physics modeling or speech recognition, can be reduced to matrix math. An analog, programmable memristor network can do that kind of calculus almost passively.

I think the opposite of harassment isn’t so much celebrating the targets as defending them directly. In that case, the opposite of kiwifarms is community defense. Everything from infiltrators watching kf from the inside to give the targets an early warning to the folks who provide safehouses for people that can’t stay at home or publish personal infosec guides to help reduce one’s target profile. Every little bit can help when you’re the target of a harassment campaign.

Why are people out here calling graupel “sleet” or “ice pellets”? We’ve already got a perfectly good word for graupel. =D

It’s the biggest bubble in history because corporate leadership consistently falls for the reification fallacy.

So-called “AI” (specifically, large language models) are massively-multidimensional maps of human language use. They can be used to draw humanlike vectors through the phase space of all possible combinations of symbols, but they aren’t intelligent because human intelligence doesn’t come from the use of language. Rather, language comes from intelligence.

I’m 100% confident that Greenland could repel a U.S. invasion based on nothing more than the fact that the U.S.A. has never fought a war in arctic conditions. It’d be like trying to invade Russia in wintertime.

Looks like it, Steam’s work on gaming for Linux has been instrumental.

I’m pretty sure illegally withholding state funding is also a serious crime.