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anachronist,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAsIx3oPY-8

anachronist,

He’s a shameless crypto shill.

He also said that maybe India should let the British run them again.

anachronist,

If the test is “how much better the world of 2023 would be if someone went back in time and murdered their father before they were born” it’d be either Thiel or Bezos. Probably Bezos.

If the test is “this guy just makes my skin crawl” then it’d have to be Altman.

I gotta admit I can’t really be too angry at Elon. He fills me with too much joy. Every time one of his rockets blows up and his little army of sycophant morons cheer, it just is such a great time I can’t even. He’s just a funny man. Like he’s a clown like he’s here to amuse me. How can anyone not like that?

anachronist,

You expect Biden to remember what he said from one moment to the next?

anachronist,

It’s extremely hard to separate out the actual technical terms from the hyperventilating booster lingo in this space. Unfortunately a lot of it is because there’s overlap. “Hallucination” is a well-defined technical term now, but it is also a booster term because it implies a consciousness that doesn’t exist.

However this:

machine that is able to reason about mathematics

Is absolute bullshit.

anachronist,

How many have been applauded by parliament?

anachronist,

I hope Musk manages to fuck up enough that he’s ousted from day to day control of the company.

The thing is, he was supposed to step down as a condition of his settlement with the SEC over fraudulently pretending he was going to take Tesla private.

anachronist,

I guess a protip is you have to tell it explicitly in the prompt who it’s supposed to steal from.

For instance, midjourney or SD will produce much better results if you put specific artstation channel names along with ‘artstation’ in the prompt.

anachronist,

The problem is a lot of cyclists don’t bother to hit the button, then just keep barreling straight on through.

So they should be expected to stop the bike, get off of it, go push a button, then go back to the bike at every single intersection? Maybe the “problem” is this horrible, cyclist-unfriendly crosswalk design.

Finding room for carry-on baggage has become 'the Hunger Games' of air travel, analyst says (www.cbc.ca)

Airline industry insiders say passengers have become carried away with carry-on baggage, leading to costly delays. That’s prompting calls for changes to how airplanes charge for baggage, with some discount airlines like Sunwing and Spirit already beginning to flip the fee structure so passengers pay for the privilege of...

anachronist,

It was included in the ticket because if you didn’t check a bag the belly would be empty. Now if you don’t check a bag they get to fill the belly with air freight, so they want you to try to jam your life into the overhead compartment so they can resell the belly to cargo customers.

anachronist,

This is illegal in the US. It’s called “secondary strikes” and was banned by the Taft-Hartley act.

The Taft-Hartley act was passed during the red scare. Truman tried to veto it but was overruled by congress.

anachronist,

They’re so naive to be against ethnic cleansing!

anachronist,

If your coffee is so great why do you drink it out of such tiny cups? – Jon Stewart

anachronist,

Welcome to the Silicon Valley clown college.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8StG4fFWHqg

anachronist,

Season 2 is going to suck because GPT is going to write it.

anachronist,

I think the outcome of the last few days is that the nonprofit board controls nothing and serves at the pleasure of the for-profit company’s investors.

anachronist,

He’s a democratic swamp creature. He’s a Rubinite economist who’s been slinking around Washington since the Clinton administration. He was also the president of Harvard for a while and got a cameo in The Social Network.

I guess I should have defined rubinite: nymag.com/…/summers-flop-end-of-the-rubinites.htm…

anachronist,

I suspect that the employees were made to understand that their careers would be damaged by not going with Altman. That’s the most obvious explanation for Ilya’s defection and complete about-face (and now public begging for forgiveness) over the weekend.

anachronist,

Yeah they keep the good stuff for themselves and export the crap. fivethirtyeight.com/…/most-of-us-are-blissfully-i…

anachronist,

I don’t really fully understand it either but Altman has been a questionable character for a long time.

I remember when he took over ycombinator, Paul Graham boasted “if Altman got dropped onto an island full of cannibals, within three months he’d be king of the cannibals.” PG thought this was terrific but I thought “why the hell would you leave someone like that in charge of your VC fund?” Altman had gotten the spot running the firm after failing out of his startup. He failed out of ycombinator and then managed to do that thing where he inexplicably failed at bigger and bigger things raising more money somehow every time.

It sounds like that’s what he’s doing now quite honestly. Rumor is he’s been beating around the middle east raising billions for a new AI chip startup. Honestly while Elon has normalized CEOs wandering off and doing other things, the fact is that for any normal employee that alone would be grounds for dismissal, especially if he was being evasive with the board about his plans.

anachronist,

This board is now learning why normal boards typically acquiesce aggressively to the CEO, or at least the investors. Clearly they didn’t realize the amount of political capital Altman had and while they were well within their rights according to the rules and the charter of the company to do what they did, they’re now bearing the full brunt of the backlash from the entire Silicon Valley investment community. You can tell from his twitter feed that Ilya is now running on pure emotion. I’m sure he’s been given the “you’ll never work in this town again” speech.

twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028

anachronist,

Amazing the supposed “anti-semetic” posts are all from before Oct 7. This Dr. Freedhoff went on a fishing expedition through Dr. Ge’s post history to find reasons to get him kicked out. Makes me wonder if Dr. Freedhoff had a beef with Dr. Ge and decided to use the political moment to his advantage, or if he’s going through the post history of everyone at the university trying to find anyone who ever disrespected Israel.

anachronist,

Switzerland’s most innovative industries being mechanical watch escapements, asset hiding, and evading sanctions.

anachronist,

Extremist violence against the Palestinians in Gaza, on the other hand…

anachronist,

This was quite literally always the plan according to leaked Israeli government documents.

middleeastmonitor.com/20231030-leaked-document-sh…

anachronist,

Which Russian city of 2 million people is Ukraine terror bombing into corpses and rubble?

anachronist,

So the difference is that, um, Israel cares about its troops? I guess that part is good.

anachronist,

There are 10,000+ dead after a few weeks of bombing. 100 times that would be one million dead (or half the pre-attack population). I guess by your standard the Israelis are allowed to murder up to a million people before it becomes terror bombing?

Your comparison to WWII is more apt than you think. Consider the firebombing of Dresden. What was the death toll? According to wiki “up to” 25,000. And 55% of the city destroyed. Currently Isreal’s body count is nearly half of a Dresden, with Gaza City virtually leveled! Even the blitz at 40,000 killed, the firebombing of Hamburg at 45,000 and the firebombing of Tokyo, which was the most deadly terror bombing campaign in history at 100,000 dead, are far below your number of one million.

washingtonpost.com/…/gaza-rising-death-toll-civil…

anachronist,

I laughed at this one. Too true.

anachronist,

I agree. Why doesn’t Israel start acting like that? It’s minimum behavior for a civilized nation.

anachronist,

Bibi reduced military protection in the south to punish the kibbutz dwellers, and to focus on war-criming the West Bank. Either he figured his trunks full of cash would keep Hamas in line, or he just really didn’t care what happened down there.

He also clearly gives zero shits about the hostages. Hamas wanted to negotiate for their release at the beginning of the conflict, but he decided he would rather war-crime Gaza instead.

anachronist,

According to three sources familiar with the talks, the original deal on the table involved freeing children, women and elderly and sick people in exchange for a five-day ceasefire, but the Israeli government turned this down and demonstrated its rejection with the launch of the ground offensive.

theguardian.com/…/netanyahu-rejected-ceasefire-fo…

anachronist,

Hamas’s leaders aren’t in Gaza, they’re in Qatar living off money funneled through the Israeli government.

telegraph.co.uk/…/how-benjamin-netanyahu-empowere…

YouTube once again ahead of uBO on Firefox; fiddling with the extension settings not working this time and DDG search is useless ... anyone got ideas?

Pretty much the subject line. uBO has successfully blocked the nag screen enough times that I can’t play anything at this point. No preview loads, and the play button serves no function. I’d really prefer not to have to find content on YT, copy the URL and use Piped/Invidious, but this ongoing escalation is steeling my...

anachronist,

Yep, most of them aren’t anti-gay maybe.

But they’re all 100% anti-union, anti-social welfare, anti-tax, pro-inequality, pro-monopoly, and anti-democracy. Kristal Ball called them “woke pinkertons”.

anachronist,

The IDF will likely try to claim that they thought she was a sniper, but if that were true they wouldn’t be standing around in the middle of the street before they shot.

anachronist,

Bloodthirsty warlord.

In Newfoundland, a handful of practitioners are taking on skyrocketing MAID requests (atlantic.ctvnews.ca)

But in the province’s eastern region, which includes the capital of St. John’s and is home to roughly three-fifths of the provincial population, the number of people seeking medically assisted death climbed from 16 in 2019 to 107 in 2022, McKim said in his briefing note. There were 37 requests in the first quarter of 2023....

anachronist,

Nearly everyone who received MAID in 2022 was at least 46

This may be the most unintentionally dystopian thing I’ve ever seen written.

anachronist,

Some people like the antics of Bozo the Clown. I enjoy the antics of Stammering Elon.

anachronist,

From the looks of them, about 1/3 of a typical singlewide mobile home, built of similar materials. Basically more of a shack.

anachronist,

If he really was doing a good thing he’d take himself out of the equation: have the community be a co-op that buys itself over time rather than him being a permanent landlord.

anachronist,

Especially when you consider that Netanyahu has been supporting Hamas:

timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-…

anachronist,

I guess they’re in a maxxpro or something?

anachronist,

“Your honor, in my defense, I was on shrooms.”

anachronist,

You mean shoot himself twice in the back of the head?

anachronist,

Is there a way to open a large version of this image?

anachronist,

Does the trackpoint work like an old IBM thinkpad? If so this would be a really neat computer.

anachronist,

Do you have one? The Thinkpad trackpoint was great but no other company that put a “nub/nipple” on their laptops was as good. I think IBM put a lot of effort into that device and whatever knockoffs Dell, HP etc were using were clumsy and uncomfortable in comparison.

anachronist,

I feel like we can agree that the ARENA system is totally ineffective against top-attack missiles if it can’t even defeat a top-attack from a comparatively slow-moving and under-warheaded drone?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_(countermeasure)

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