Blame Trump.
hurr durr muh drag queen story time!!
None of this was happening when Biden left. The rest of the world is doing fine but Americans are importing mystery meat, rationing medicine, and trying to scrap together nuts and bolts like the apocalypse has already happened.
Surely another front to this global trade war will solve things, right?
Check in on your local gay because they are in shambles right now
Good thing we got rid of the only candidate who’s ever polled above her, huh?
Fuck it, Im going back to VGA
Who’s seriously out here connecting their monitor to the internet?
I don’t need to change your mind, I agree completely. Something I wrote a couple weeks ago:
My unsolicited rant:
The technology is good and anyone who says it’s “just autocorrect” are wrong. Having said that, I agree that LLMs are useful really for nothing more than low-risk, personal research and/or signposting to other sources. It’s in no way a replacement for a human (unless your definition of what a human does is that it’s just a thing that produces words at you - in which case, you’re probably a middle manager - very myopic, regardless). It’s also not appropriate for anything financial, professional, or confidential. Here, the first L in LLM is a hindrance. Local, small language models are more appropriate and cost-effective here.
Anyway. I don’t “use AI” like some people but over the last year I’ve used my access to Proton’s Lumo (already included in my subscription) a handful of times and been pleased with the results. The way that I see it is that all the LLM libraries are trained almost entirely on Reddit or websites that stole their content from Reddit anyway, so use it like you would Reddit: “LGBT horror movies before 2000,” “Summarize and cite criticisms of Camille Paglia,” “Was Bioshock 2 well-received at launch?” All very low-stakes. Doesn’t really matter. Could’ve been a Reddit thread, but it’s likely that any response there would’ve been a middleman for an AI answer anyway.
Anyway. More: Call it cope but I’ve been developing a theory/outlook that the internet as a thing is basically dead and that the Pandora’s Box of LLM tech, which can produce a basically infinite amount of what was once the internet’s currency (read: information, but really: text), has killed it. The Fediverse is utopian but I don’t think anyone here really believes it will ever be anything more than a cluster of fringe communities. Having said that, I justify good LLM use (like mine, lucky that) as being the “New Game Plus” mode of the internet. Everything is already there, everything’s unlocked. There is no challenge. It’s kind of cheating and you’re not really supposed to play the game like that. But at the same time, there is no going back to the real beginning, I just have the option of nostalgically re-creating it by going to old.reddit or postfixing before:2022 to all my Google DDG searches. Fun, and game-ish in it’s own right, but also artificially limiting for no reasons beyond that.
/rant
Snowcrash (1992) by Neal Stephenson. Literally coined the term “metaverse.”
Fuck Zuckerberg for ruining my favorite cyberpunk novel
This guy looks like Nosferatu doing blackface
Making sure I have enough missiles seems to be the kind of thing I would take care of before launching a war against military superpower but what do I know
Okay
Do you think Garland wasn’t the worst possible pick for AG?
Literally everything bad about right now is because Biden could not have cared less about it happening. Even moreso than the DNC at large, who also wanted Trump again. Merrick Garland was his pick, chosen with the express purpose of not prosecuting Trump.
It’s insane how bad of a president Biden was. Truly, truly awful
The fact that it was a very plain-language amendment proposing to do one of the most popular things on the left (block on arms to Israel), but she voted against it.
NTA but I did lose a lot of love for her when she voted against MTG’s bill to ban arms sales to Israel. It showed a kneejerk reaction to vetoing anything the other side did as opposed to a willingness to neutrally review any proposal.
Elaborate?
I deadass got called ableist on here once for saying theres no excuse to not be using an ad blocker because of someone’s “executive dysfunction”