@elucidating.extradimensional.space
They/them Interests: Math. Engineering. Engineering Games. 3d printing and industrial design. Education. Job: SRE at a tech company working on L7 Networking & Load Balancing.
is this anything
"I was enabled. Can't you see it's not my fault? It should have warned me twice, just one warning isn't enough. "
An elementary school in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei. Baghaei on Friday shared a video on X, purportedly showing Shahid Hamedani School with students before and after the attack, without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties.
The US and Israel have apparently attacked another elementary school in Iran, this one in Tehran.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
We see lots of people putting on a smug mask and saying "the AI did it" because it's very hard to prove otherwise.
This is actually probably the worst part of the tech as implemented right now. Auditing chains of decisions is often very ad hoc and localized.
This story is pretty incredible. But it shows how many people find social utility in the "I am forced to use AI" and "AI is stupid" Nexus. This is, for some folks, a load bearing pair of narratives that can save their job by masking their decision making.
You're lying for a Nazi.
The ppl who are like this are, by and large, like this because they never fell in love with books and learning properly.
They fell in love with hollow fantasies of success and self-importance.
My theory is that the information and soft skills trade is way more competitive than the local gym scene, and so folks who feel entitled to dominance will naturally elevate whatever environment they can achieve that in.
We occasionally see talented monsters, but most monsters aren't talented.
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
Bunnygirl vs Alien is pretty incredible tho :)
AFAIK, this was made by like six people for a conference in an era before network connectivity. They felt comfortable doing this because they'd almost certainly never get called out on it.
Most recognizable art IP is owned by big corps that aggressively police it for a passive income stream.
Really fun and obviously a labor of love.
I also think it's amazing what happens when a bunch of creative people can move when unrestricted by IP. It's hard to imagine doing this thing in this way in 2026 because robots wouls copyright strike you and artists/animators would cheer the robots on.
Every single Democrat voted to confirm this guy
I imagine sometimes folks have like a Ratatouille style control situation where the poast is controlling them and they're just like "whoah watch out big time poast coming through" as they violate polite norms for some point or another that barely needed the quote to begin with.
It's quite unsettling watching people run into things like the BlueSky repost limitations upon encountering them shrug and do their best to ignore them, like they're a stone in the path to walk around and not someone's stated preference for you not to interact that way.
The poasts are in control.
said in 2024 that the US can have either a dynamic, technologically advanced economy or weak/dysfunctional politics. cannot have both
I just saw Paranormal Activity, the play. Really good. The last act in particular.
These folks just have no idea how much crazier the early internet was. They can't imagine. It's almost adorable.
But, I think most serious technology folks have been pushing upstream of culture for a long time. There was a brief moment where it felt kinda nice, but that was transient, a bone passed to us to help secure our labor, ig?
Sadly, MAGA won the culture war. Even if we oust them, the core values that made that movement possible are the actual poison put in the ecosystem, imo
We have to work hard to help people hope again. Even if we're having trouble doing it ourselves.
I think the AI stuff is a convenient puppy to kick. Today I saw someone gesturing to the long term practice of YouTube videos with synth voices ripping of real content creators and said, "This is rape. This person should be charged under rape laws."
There's definitely a dark vibe shift right now.
I get that folks are scared. I'm a bit scared too
It's actually impossible to write a deterministic computer program. It's in the types. But folks will get incredibly irritated if you point out the part that the morlocks work hard to make sure you seldom notice.
Yeah folks just... They use deterministic in a way that doesn't match up with how a professional ought to use it.
That's not the case here, ofc, I get the moral direction of this thread.
Like, the US electrical grid issue for example. Absolutely a shit show, absolutely captured by the worst people. Completely and meticulously ignored by most folks, except the downstream effects of their prices being wonky and their service unreliable.
I'll be honest, it makes me very frustrated. All of this is a proxy for the fact that the mode of production and our governance are built on predatory principles.
Yet most Americans would rather die that imagine that the system they advocate for is what wants them in bondage. They'll roll the dice!
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Yeah, the funny part is a lot of modeling shows that even if you only look at solar + storage as a bridge to new nuclear, we'd never have more nuclear than solar with even like 1/6th China's build out rate.
The extent of the problem can't be overstated.
That, or I'm about to be sucked into the backrooms. 😅