The Altman quote helpfully shows that the aim here, the entire business plan, is building dependency, not boosting potential
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The Altman quote helpfully shows that the aim here, the entire business plan, is building dependency, not boosting potential
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They should put a monkey on the £50 note and a pony on the £10 note to confuse the hell out cockneys.
The first two pages…
Get fucked, Grammarly.
Apparently at least 25 WIs have now closed as a result of threats by “gender critical feminists”.
GCs do not represent (cis)women.
Bombers over Swindon, and not for the RIAT...
www.forcesnews.com/services/raf...
THIS is the take on LLMs and the job market. They can probably do some jobs, which will worsen millions of people's lives. But much more than that, people who don't understand your job will assume that it is worthless, even more than they already do.
I can't compete with this.
It's okay to not enjoy a genre. Most people have genres they aren't into!
But you have to jump a pretty large gulf to get from "I don't like this" to "Other people reading this are ruining literature."
The straits of Hormuz are closed and the mideast is on fire and crude oil is surging but the dow is up 200 right now because our entire fucking economy is not based on numbers or reality but a fucking vibe felt by a bunch of coked up douchebags on Wall Street
A couple of women expressed their opinions on and through video games 10 years ago and male nerds got so upset that we now have to deal with a war in Iran.
The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.
Screenshot of the very 1980s cover of The Wizards and the Warriors by Hugh Cook, with a fantasy castle or cathedral with towering spires on a cliff with a lava moat and a mountainous landscape behind. The only sign of life is a soaring bird of prey. The title is in a salmon coloured lozenge with a gold border. Very 80s.
Am finally reading this, and it's quite something.
And would cost too much to get up to code, etc. But maybe also we need better training and provision of things like fire extinguishers because (IANAE but) it really seems like this could have been nipped in the bud...
Listening to the new Starship Alexandria and pleased to discover that Bester not only presaged the internet & remote working in The Stars My Destination but also meme culture in The Demolished Man - both by telepathy/ESP, not tech - which just shows how relevant SF can be even when it gets it wrong.
People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason
I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs.
This video is lowballing it.
Book “The Last Contract of Isako” by Fonda Lee. Background of snow and distant icy cliffs with an enormous moon overhead. A woman with long dark hair has her back to us. She wears a red cloak and carries a curved sword in her right hand.
Going to share some #Bookpost. First, here’s The Last Contract of Isako by @fondalee.bsky.social, coming in May from @orbitbooks.bsky.social (thanks!) - so excited about this! 📚💙 #BookSky
The fire in Glasgow is tragic and devastating but I am mostly in considerable confusion and disbelief that such a small fire could take down an entire building (and potentially several others) despite being discovered and responded to quite promptly. 😳
There's this whole genre of song from the 80s that's basically "tomorrow we will start the revolution against the oppressive situation crushing our souls but first we must sleep together tonight" and is that just pop music or does it say something about why we haven't had a proper revolution yet?
Went to the cinema - not for a film - and realised why I don't go to the cinema for films. Even the posters are bad. Wow.
Yes please.
I have spent a lot of time replaying bits of this computer game to get it "right" and sometimes I wish I could just go with my gut and live with the consequences but I'm just not that person. Which may be why I struggle so much when I can't just reload a save and try another option.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"
counterpoint!
the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
This is obscene, ghastly, unacceptable.
dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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Brits: Please scream. This is a Labour govt proposing to hand the property of individual British workers to largely US corporations.
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