Intel also aims to make products that are directed towards the end-user and the company’s partners

Who were they making stuff for before?

Well, that and the companies doing it are also a litigious scourge on traditional farmers, and are responsible for causing cancer in conventional farm workers, and are suspected to be the ones responsible for the increase in food allergies.

A hammer is just a tool. They can be used to do a lot of good, potentially. But, if in practice the only thing that hammers ever really got used for is assaulting people, then it might be reasonable for people to give hammers & their manufacturers a bit of side eye.

“No, you justify your position.”

The eggs are from these flappy guys:

unsent emails kept in the gmail drafts folder allows syncing notes across devices, and its searchable

.ml is an unserious instance that you should be proud of getting banned from

The first time they banned me it was for mentioning that the book “1984” was written by a socialist who didn’t like tankies.

The next time it was for posting a link to a clip from the cartoon “Futurama”. 🤡💩

Fox “News” and their malicious swarms of disinformation spreaders are concerned about losing their monopoly.

Floor 2 is a fucking mystery. Its too low to walk around the perimeter, but they didn’t install a floor in the middle. There’s not enough room for insulation between the sun-beaten roof and the living space, but that might be less of an issue because of the huge holes in the trim letting in a steady flow of outside air. That vaulted ceiling also means the house will lose all its heat in the Winter.

There’s no window or exhaust fan in the bathroom.

It looks like there are holes in the outside wall where windows could be installed, but there are metal flaps there instead. Best case scenario is there is no wall insulation between those flaps and the interior drywall, getting wet and doing biology.

Futurama did it, S2E12 - The Deep South:
https://comb.io/pFCAib

Industry likes it too. Without a Federal standard, appliance makers would need 50 smaller, less efficient production lines to meet each State’s individual standards.

We’re still burning fossil carbon for energy.

Carbon capture does not make sense until we have an excess of clean energy to power it.

Scaling it now would do more harm than good.

I unironically love parking lots & garages, and feel like a city without parking is a prison.

If I had my druthers, existing bike lanes would be turned into medians, side of road parking would become bike lanes, and enough real estate converted to parking garages to meet peak demand.

Sharing a bus or train with a lot of other people every day isn’t appealing because of the way a lot of other people are.

At that time, the first second of eternity will have passed.

We’ll be back the next time protons happen.

There is no escape.

A dozen, a hundred, there’s no way to tell.

yeah, just serve up some r34 animated rats and put cocaine in the beverages

There’s a lot to unpack here.

Lets start with the attempt to define “usefulness” as the degree to which connection to humans happens. Human connection on the internet has always been illusory. Yet we still find utility in it.

“Trusted sources” have always been 100% biased in favor of whoever owns them. We all have equal free speech rights, but some of us are more free than others because the ability to purchase a bigger megaphone scales with access to capital.

Organized, capitalized propaganda farms existed before LLMs and have been engaged in the same kind of destructive information warfare. LLMs seem to be more persuasive than the wage-slave humans employed by troll farms and other mass media outlets, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing if it manufactures a more rational public opinion.

LLMs lower the capital requirement to begin competing in the propaganda war. The biggest players who could afford to buy enormous media empires and fund human-generated influence operations are going to have to compete against the rest of us.

This planet has been a soulless hellscape longer than any of us have been alive, and LLMs are more likely to improve the situation than make it worse.

That’s rough buddy.

π == 3

When billionaires use those agglomerations of capital to manipulate markets and engage in other types of anti-competitive practices, it turns a free market into a captured market.

Anti-monopoly regulation & enforcement is required to maintain a market’s freedom.