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as a child i wandered the forest of illusion helplessly as my ancestors before me wandered the desert for 40 years

made pancakes with the black forest sauce

she's the first politician i'm aware of to make this observation. not some half-baked "it's powerful technology and we should should make sure it benefits the working class"--no. that's not what it's for. that's not the intent of the people who made and operate it. it's exactly as she says

update: it's amazing

i am repeatedly impressed by this technology's inability to make money. chatbots? nope. programming? nope. videos? nope typically, something this harmful at least makes for a profitable business. but here i find myself unusually aligned with the amoral capitalists asking, "where's the revenue?"

new friend discovered

junior's doesn't have black forest cheesecake anymore so we're making our own

i love being in demand in my industry

same energy

"the thing i'm good at is the thing that's most important" is a baby-brained take. you want your top time to be recognized? we have that, it's called a leaderboard. it doesn't entitle you to anything else an important and unrelated skill for people doing runs at events is being likeable

i know this is radical socialist talk, but historically you could entice someone to share with you the product of their labor by paying them money

hilarious decision from a company that regularly complains about profitability. openAI's sora video generation service cost them $15 million per day while earning them $2.1 million over its entire six-month lifetime. nobody will pay for this, and it will die

the socially interesting thing about this is that it's a means of opting out without interacting with the mixtape system. to that end, if the mixtape people attempt to defeat this, they will demonstrate that they're completely unserious about respecting opt-outs

this fragment is doing a lot of heavy lifting for the story, and openAI helpfully omits the actual prompt text which is necessary to determine whether anything worthwhile happened

i think the sun is sick?

the failure of comrade general secretary altman's first five-year plan. openAI employees wait in line for hours for their ration of LLM tokens

a corporation, as enshrined in its charter, puts itself and its shareholders above its customers loss of control is the cost of many modern conveniences. DVDs sitting on your shelf and .mp3 and .mkv files sitting on your hard drives (back up your shit) are immune to this sort of corporate caprice

there's like a five-year-old child chanting "ref, you suck" at the game and i don't know that i would expose a child to this energy

office wall update

got back from my evening run and noticed two new friends hanging out in front of the house

happy pride

deep purple dio joe satriani buckethead eric johnson bernie worrell & socialybrium gov't mule king crimson the eagles ... femtanyl bet you didn't see that last one coming (old man who goes to shows with his somewhat younger trans gf sometimes)

if anyone has the time and energy to dig up a lawyer to sue for unauthorized use of likeness, i pledge $20k for legal fees. we can probably collect quite a few plaintiffs

oomfies with experience, what's the best n64 flash cart? like sd2snes is unequivocally the best snes one

potatoes au gratin omelette with extra veggies goes hard

made eight pounds of potatoes au gratin

the concept of buckethead but it transcends brian carroll, like dread pirate roberts in the princess bride

copilot being "for entertainment purposes only" is funny because microsoft used to have an entertainment division called microsoft gaming which they cannibalized so they could make an "entertainment" LLM product nobody wanted

an overlooked consequence of codeslop is how long it takes to debug. there's an inverse relationship between how fast something is written and how well the author understands it. at one extreme end, if you didn't write it, you don't understand it but tell me more about how LLMs increase velocity

these mfs really be paying a company tens of thousands of dollars to take down their website, i can do it for half

for the foreseeable future, we should just blame LLMs for bugs and outages in software (like this website) unless we know for a fact they're not involved. any response will reflect poorly on them

openAI and anthropic should get j.d. vance to speak at their initial public offering announcements

added more decorations to my desk area at the office