Dirty Devotee

Dirty Devotee

@dirtydevotee.bsky.social

Don't impress. Be impressive.

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We do not need "common sense" running our government. We need people with "uncommon sense". We need the best. We need brilliant minds. We need geniuses. Otherwise, you get a bunch of assholes who will gladly choke on spoonfuls of cinnamon just to make you laugh. #VoteIndependent

Most of you will be like, "Oh, please.", but this is serious. It's "TLDR", not "TL;DR". And I know the whores at Google--via their AI---will initially tell you that it doesn't matter. Unless you debate the AI. Then it will gladly admit that "TL;DR" is for those who value popularity over education.

This is devastating news. You're now going to have MAGA trying to buy up a massive stake in #Claude so that they can demand that it support their insane cult. As a species, we are in serious trouble if we can't teach our children to turn their backs on Greed. #GenerativeAI #AnythingForMoney

Unpaid #GenerativeAI News: Kimi K3.1 Pro just launched. It is specifically an upgrade to the code-generating capabilities used by the #VibeCode crowd in K3. It has advanced features for integration with Unity, Unreal, and Godot projects. www.kimi.ai

All day long I see people posting how humans are better than AI and that AI will destroy humanity. Believe it or not, some of that starts to sway me---until I e-mail any tech support group. Humans are trying to destroy humanity. AI will fix that stupidity. Then we can all go surf.

A private U.S. citizen cannot engage in direct negotiation with a foreign power if the United States government is providing aid. "Throttling" (that word is actually "denying") service to kill #Ukraine soldiers because Putin makes you hard is a violation of the Logan Act (18 USC § 953).

In 2005, some believed the levees in #NewOrleans were deliberately destroyed after Katrina. Those rumors were false. In 1965, some believed the city bombed the levees after that hurricane. Those rumors were false. In 1927, New Orleans deliberately bombed the levees. Racism chases us through history.

It is my opinion that #ImagineArt destroyed the ability of their "Change Angle" #AIArt model to---you know---change angles because I rotated too many hot chicks.

#CBS (now part of the MAGA empire) is all about milking you for every penny you've got. To do that, they need you as uneducated as possible. After all, smart people know casino math.

The Greeks had a word "Atlantikos", which is from whence we got the "Atlantic" Ocean. There was a mythical Atlas Mountains that were bordered by a massive "sea" to prevent mortals from just showing up. The Greeks had sailed to Gibraltar, and assumed the gods placed Atlas beyond the deep ocean.

I'm proud to report that "…in my pants" is implied in almost every one of my songs. - "Analog Blonde" …in my pants - "Bongo House" …in my pants - "Eskimo Sisters" …in my pants - "Lifeguard" …in my pants - "My Girlfriend Was Abducted By Aliens" …in my pants #AIMusic soundcloud.com/dirty-devotee

For anyone casting a magic spell this week, you must... - tune the environment to make it receptive to that type of magic (love, etc.) - it must have more than one "stoicheia" (element; example "lumbis ignem" or “ΑΕΗΙΟΥΩ”) - speak aloud (required) the correct "logoi" (singular: logos) in order

Today's PHP zero-day announcement is important. The #PHP guys are working on patches. Sadly, you cannot bypass either remote code execution bug with an INI change... 1) longjmp() allows memory branching 2) global state can continue to point to freed memory slots

Web sites that run on #PHP (69%) were not "taken down" by the vulnerability. Rather, they were voluntarily taken down while workarounds could be put in place to remove the zero-day threats. These bugs were under embargo until one greedy prick decided to sell that info to Hacker News.

It is my personal opinion that the next big thing in #GenerativeAI (specifically #AIVideo prep) is #WorldLabs. Recently, they inked a deal to become part of the AMD chip manufacturing group. I highly encourage anyone to sign up (it's free) and try out their image-to-3D model. => marble.worldlabs.ai

Anyone in the #Atlas Beta should be aware that they just did an update and it now runs significantly faster. They sent out a public e-mail, so that's not part of the NDA. #GenerativeAI #Img2World

I logged into #BlackForestLabs and tried their new #AIArt model #Flux3. It refuses to acknowledge that women wear bras. I'm guessing it also does not like that most of the women in my shows are employed, have shoes, and are not pregnant. I continue to boycott all things #Flux. Fuck BFL.

"Increase" implies that we change it today, and then 27 years from now we're right back in the same boat after the relentless march of inflation kicks in. Instead, we need to "adjust" the #MinimumWage (to $11.34, adjusted for inflation), plus add a yearly update based on inflation.

Kayla B@queenofthesouth.bsky.social

Golden handcuffs are REAL. Increase the minimum wage. Medicare for all. Nationalize paid family leave that has no tie to employment tenure.

The full version of that Jim Cramer quote begins, "I once shot an economist in my pajamas. Why he was wearing my pajamas I'll never know..."

Will Shetterly@willshetterly.bsky.social

"I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, I'm looking at the data." —Jim Cramer, CNBC Marx began sounding like Marx after looking at the data too.

The name "Shylocke" (misspelled as #shylock) is capitalized. It's the fictional Jewish, revenge-obsessed moneylender in the #Shakespeare play "The Merchant of Venice". His loan required a "pound of flesh". In the 1800s, it was used as both a nickname and a verb for loan sharks and extortionists.

Apparently multiple #GameDev accounts are celebrating #SteamNextFest by spreading hatred and bigotry of #GenerativeAI and the #VibeCode community. I'm boycotting any game that brags about wasting time in the name of purism.

Yes, the delegation from Slovakia was---drunk.

BeachTV@beachtv.bsky.social

0 miles to Paradise. Turns out the directions were simpler than expected. #Montserrat #CaribbeanTravel #IslandLife #ParadiseFound #WestIndies #EmeraldIsle

Yes, students in Albania burned down the Supreme Court. But they also burned down the Department of Education because they want free tuition. When someone happens to burn down something you don't like, that's not a hero. That's an arsonist.

The prefix "ab-" in #Latin sometimes means "off". So... - dictate - abdicate (off + told) - used - abused (off [purpose] + used) - errant/error/erratic - aberrant (off + wandering) - surd - absurd ([musical note one key] off [as if played by] + a deaf person)

Using #Medicare to provide Americans with universal healthcare would cost USD$2.7 trillion. To put that in perspective, that's ~$7,491 per American. Family of four: $31,764 per year in higher taxes. The only way to avoid that is a "monopsony", where prices are slashed by the government.

Language is "coarse" when you don't take time to polish it. It's the "zero draft" that leaves your head prior to the "first draft". If you edit your speech or post to remove the "vulgar" (common) words or topics, it becomes "refined". And by "vulgar", they meant "German"---because they were bigots.

In a conversation where one is attempting to encourage the left side of the bell curve to adopt a source of intelligence, "Up yours!" is unhelpful. However, there is a character limit to Bluesky posts. So sometimes one must gotta do what one must gotta do.

A "pleonasm" is when you accidentally use the same word twice due to just not thinking about it long enough. For example, "ATM machine" is a pleonsam because the "M" in "ATM" means "machine". "PIN number", "VIN number", "Chai tea", "Sahara desert", "free gift", and "Capitol building" are pleonasms.

The phrase "lapis lazuli" is shitty #Latin (stone + heaven). Moving past that, Latin "lapis" also gives us "dilapidated" (the prefix "di-" means "in two" or "apart", like "disassembled" or "disbanded"). So, by definition, the stone has come apart due to being both "old" and "broken". #POTUS