ConradTM

ConradTM

@conradtm.bsky.social

I LIKE BEING STUCK IN THIS STUPID WALL IT'S MY FUNCTION I've got a technical interest in LLMs as a programmer but that doesn't extend to any of the generated ''''art'''' posers would try to pass off as their personal expression. Be real or fuck off.

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I think people need to hear that the cheesecake factory is ostentatious and tacky rather than actual fine dining, you wouldn't let a dog eat antifreeze just because he thinks it's sweet

Like I think it's pretty condescending to think "oh just let the poors have their thing." I'm not going to BELITTLE anyone for enjoying something but people need to know when there's better shit out they're not getting. It's a chain restaurant worth millions, not a religion.

It doesn't take much for me, if you're an Italian Place with chicken piccatta that doesn't insult me I will go to war for you. As an example of insulting Chicken Piccata go to Olive Garden, which has a lot of low-quality food but their piccata is the culinary equivalent of keying your car

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When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

I realize RFK wants to just kind of will this to be the truth but it's so stupid you'd think he'd want to like… put even a LITTLE distance between himself and provably being a fucking dumbass

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

He's glancing off camera as someone signals to him that normal human behavior is to take a bite, but they lock eyes toward the end as he tries to form a hand sign for "what the fuck don't eat the whole thing what are you doing?"

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social

ESPN goes to break with Pat McAfee choking on a potato

"Yes, and"-ing this, to be clear, but the closest this comes to existing is DEFLECTION. My mother has had to convince politicians and rich guys to keep donating to charitable orgs in the face of being asked about all kinds of means-test bullshit but she's not gonna say "yeah single moms are bums."

ceej@ceej.online

there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

She can't just scream at their heads until they explode like she wants but she can assure them the program has adequate fraud prevention and does significant good. It's just when she tells ME later that her jaw starts doing that thing Adam Sandler does in Uncut Gems

The only wild cards left for me are the GPU market itself which, even if it's NOT in "artificial scarcity" mode it's at least in a hype cycle still, and the legal landscape because it's currently not legal for anyone to work on government infrastructure with Qwen in some states (like mine).

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Like I think scarcity and price on GPUs will severely hamper the public's ability to contribute to efficiency gains until we've got more EXISTING efficiency gains to build on and make it possible to run more locally. There's a lot of progress but it's slow, likely slower than it HAS to be.

The Qwen thing is just dumb and I hate it lol, that kind of thing always knocks on beyond government infrastructure and it's stupid. I haven't found a better bang for my proverbial buck on VRAM and it's completely free.

Game of Thrones of all things had such a beautiful sentiment about love, don't know if it was in the book or not but that old blind maester talking about a love of his from long ago: "I can see her now, she's more real than you are."

ConradTM@conradtm.bsky.social

What kind of life is a cavalcade of trinkets with sentimental value?

Tbh to some extent I'd argue they don't have much, if any, competition in their sphere. I feel like Microsoft assumed they'd be able to just FORCE people onto copilot even though they ALL hate it and Google/OpenAI seem to just be playing catchup. AND THE GOVERNMENT BANNED QWEN.

The unit economics here are frankly shocking they're so good. This is wildly stronger than I expected tbh.

The closest I get to fluency in Portuguese is my high school Spanish lessons from 16 years ago, except for this sentence, which I understood instantly without translating it to English in my head first.

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You know how in FromSoft titles they give you these scrub enemies you have to kill early on that almost CAN'T kill you and then they introduce a new evolved-looking type that has actual attacks but he's still pretty trivial to take down?

clownpenis.fartlow@kvarnsen.bsky.social

this photo was my introduction to Ethan Klein

Look all I'm saying is my son can't even talk yet and I could come up with 3 bullet points about him in less time than it takes me to type them, if you can't do that then frankly I don't know what to tell you other than "think about your kids more often than you think about stupid bullshit."

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I have no faith in the US because I still see our pride, our deeply unwarranted *national* pride. But I have faith that if every country on Earth can keep humiliating our """"luminaries"""" in grand and dramatic fashion that pride will finally die as it needed to a long time ago

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waking up from a nap to check my phone and see unambiguously good news for the world… honestly a little beautiful. fuck bolsanaro fuck zuckerberg and musk and everyone who controls the internet and thinks they can just take the whole world away from us for free

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infiltrated our political system and made deals in exchange of our natural resources and injected money into the right wing candidate. The same candidate, tried to coup our elections. EVEN WITH ALL THIS, EVEN WITH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE AND OTHER THAT I DON'T WANT TO MENTION FACTORS We won.

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THIS IS FOR THE GRINGOS WHO FOLLOW HERE (I love you) Peter Thiel bought the biggest TV presenter here to try to overturn the elections. Mark Zuckerberg and Meta actively sabotaged the left wing president. Trump and Marco Rubio not only threatened the country, they also actively with proof-