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Blovius Maximus. Software Developer, Old Car Enthusiast, MMT. Always prefer a full bottle in front of me to a full frontal lobotomy.

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Jarrod Baker's avatar Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social
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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists

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This is some extraordinary bullshit, given how little technical knowledge of LLMs is necessary to refute this claim. Model training has nothing in common with how humans learn.

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Bettye LaVette’s version of Dylan’s “Things Have Changed”. Phenomenal.

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If that's not the name of a guitar effects fuzz pedal, it absolutely should be.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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“Pregnant with horrors” is quite the turn of phrase for Boris to choose, I must say.

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This showed up on Marketplace (via the Ugly Guitars group) and I thought you better know about it.

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Seems an appropriate end for them. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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Charlotte Ariel Finn's avatar Charlotte Ariel Finn @bycharlottefinn.bsky.social
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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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Perfect for people who would use this garbage.

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Corey Brickley Illustration's avatar Corey Brickley Illustration @coreybrickley.bsky.social
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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

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Django Wexler's avatar Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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There’s a Mr Philip K. Dick on the phone who would like a word…

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merritt k's avatar merritt k @merrittk.com
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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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And you let Mc Anally thru to the keeper?

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I saw it described somewhere as a “Temu DeLorean” and by god I wish I’d come up with that.

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I'm sure this is nothing to be concerned about.

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When you get down to it, it's just typing in your prayers and hoping they manifest.

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cameron wilson's avatar cameron wilson @cameronwilson.bsky.social
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Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton's week: SUNDAY: The government ignored concerns from the community about offshore windfarms THURSDAY: We would override local concerns about putting nuclear reactors in their community.

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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

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I don't think you can rule out the idea that it's being attempted, even if actually winning the block reward is stupendously unlikely. This is Elon we are talking about.

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Massive “It’s too crowded, no-one goes there any more” vibes..

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He also cannot be removed from the company. Zuckerberg holds the majority of the special class shares and no one can stop him from running it into the ground with these sorts of ideas.

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The scientific term is "Argumentum ex recto"

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You can see why hard core crypto libertarian types don't like that sort of CBDC. Doesn't fit with their Austrian economics digital goldbug world view.

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That's the idea of a CBDC that crypto enthusiasts want to promote, but there's no reason to assume blockchain is involved at all. It can also mean cutting out private banks and allowing individuals to bank directly with the Fed, or whatever your local central bank is. A public option for banking.

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Could you imagine being trapped in a Scrabble game with these people?

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Nothings Monstered's avatar Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
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A cross-section of thousands of years under the A303 highway in England

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"We have been taken for absolute fools" etc

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Also well covered in "Everything is a Remix", which is well worth a (re)watch.

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Fargo Funerals. Why settle for scattering your ashes when we can scatter your viscera?

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This metaphor has reminded me of a piece (must be 20 years ago), that from memory was called "The Great X-Windows Disaster". It contained the unforgettable quote "building an application with X-Windows is like building a bookshelf from mashed potato."

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Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy. We had a System-80 (Australian licensed clone of the TRS-80 with a built in cassette drive and fake wood grain finish), and I taught myself programming by typing in many pages of Basic (and later Assembly) code from Byte magazine.

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Generative AI senses a rare opportunity..

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Mary Shelley wrote a book once where an integral plot point was the application of huge amounts of electricity leading to spontaneous human intelligence, and that one didn't work out all that hot for any of the protagonists..

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"And when finally even the self-help books were the nihilistic outputs of computerised text extrusion machines, all hope was lost."

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“Well, they can lie on their backs for a really long time”

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“Their day”. I see what you did there.

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There probably truth in advertising laws that could be brought to bear against that.

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