James Hollingshead

I've said it before, but it's worth repeating given everything happening now. Survival is an act of defiance. Every breath, every heartbeat is an expression of your sheer force of will to endure and overcome. Keep at it.

I have entered my lumberjack era. I have acquired multiple flannel shirts and a lightweight flannel lined jacket. Don't judge me

I was considering moving my business accounts to @proton.me. Well, not anymore! I think all the CEOs should be examined to see if they have AI psychosis.

Tonight is going to be a "clean out the fridge" dinner - beef and vegetable soup with tortellini Couple cans of fire roasted tomatoes coming up on their best by, half a package of baby spinach, 1lb ground beef, part of a bottle of blackberry wine, and dried tortellini (which we always keep on hand)

I don't know how many times I have to say this - Microsoft (and other large companies) aren't firing people because LLMs are good enough to do their work. They're firing people and using LLMs as cover as well as to offset extreme hardware spend. Smaller companies will mimic, believing the hype

The orange idiot is having a rally a couple hours south of here next week. The weird thing is that the FAA doesn't have any flight restrictions listed in the state for that day... TFRs and NOTAMs are usually set weeks in advance for known vip travel...

We are right on the cusp of AI utopia*. *-agentic AI makes the internet both unsafe and unusable, so I am forced to go outside and write everything longhand by candlelight

I just found out that Pumpkin Spice Mr Clean exists... Why........?????

This is rapidly where we are headed. And this is a totally believable real world example www.youtube.com/shorts/VremM...

Chat, are we cooked?

pseudo finance bro - "Take any 10-year period in the stock market. 8-10% gains" Challenge accepted. Jan 1 2000 to Jan 1 2010 S&P 500 started around 1,425.59 and dropped to roughly 1,115, resulting in a negative total return of approximately -9% to -14% Line Go Up is not a guarantee

Soon may my sanity come if I drink enough tea and rum One day, when the screaming is done my anxiety will go

We need ads that are a montage of Trump administration fuckups punctuated with JD Vance asking people if they've said thank you

as someone writing their dissertation on ai and the face, i must remind everyone that tech like this is nonsense at best and highly dangerous at worst

This idiot really needs to lay off the drugs

Starting to look like one? My dude, it's looked like one the entire time

y’all aren’t gonna believe this shit* www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Big blueberry or tiny tiny hand You be the judge :P

If only someone had seen this coming...

Updated LinkedIn with the last several contracts I've been on (I rolled off of a client a couple of weeks ago and have some time to work on things) Within 20 minutes my phone starts ringing. Interesting.

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

For the people who say that LLMs write better code than they do - what the heck does your code look like?

trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick

The reason they want to put the brakes on it isn't because they think it's gone too far. It's to give them a reason to quietly back out of their financial commitments and step away from a technology that they know is never going to be profitable and is facing huge backlash.

Drug addled Nazi says what?

Far less fanfare and media panic now that the proofs are proving to be, err... unproven. aiweekly.co/alerts/opena...

"Civility" is just another word for "capitulation" dressed up as virtue.

I started reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy last night. I can't suspend my disbelief /that/ much. This was written by someone who doesn't know how /anything/ in the world works. And this won a Pulitzer?

Every time. “OK I admit it’s still garbage, despite the entire world’s resources being poured into it for the last 5 years, but I have blind faith that it will magically improve in the future to somehow fix all problems that are inherent in how the tech works and can’t ever be fixed.”

I mean, he literally did... "Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.” The meaning is literally "don't screw up. Wait for the other guy to screw up"

I find in interesting that Forbes, a publication that should be squarely in his corner, used a photo of him that makes it look like he's a movie villain who grinds his teeth Yes, I am pointing it out for a reason - the image exposes the lie and even Forbes doesn't believe it

How long before they claim that abandoning it and not talking to it anymore is “abusive and cruel”

No, but it /is/ proof that most businesses magazines are bullshit. It's a great example of what your average mba believes

Do I think that LLMs are going to turn into skynet? No Are causing damage to society and the environment? Yes. Are they going to keep causing increasing damage as long as they're used? Yes. I'll say they are a potentially existential threat, but not because of Roko's Basilisk or skynet.

low spec student laptops (4gb ram, 64gb drive) are honestly kind of great. They're cheap and pretty rugged. One I have to toss in with my drone gear to pull images off the drones The other one I have as a low-end linux box for when wsl isn't enough. Not bad for $60 each, really

Computers with 16gb of ram and a 1tb hard drive are going for $700 now. Can the LLM bubble burst already? The longer it goes on, the more damage it causes in basically every direction

And we thought it was impossible to cancel Slim Shady because people have been trying to do it since the Clinton administration Turns out he was going to do it himself... Okay then