Thanks, these sound great.

Correct

Can you recommend any books, blogs, or podcasts to learn more?

Can you recommend any books, blogs, or podcasts to learn more?

This is clever.

I think to complete the concept, it needs to have an absurd feature that is supposed to justify connectivity, and a way to stop it from functioning when commanded.

How can a pan break? I guess the handle can fall off? So it has a solenoid that locks on the handle. The pan is sold as a subscription where they replace the pan part to keep it’s Teflon coating fresh. And if you mess with it or use it more than 20x the handle falls off.

China?

I consider myself pretty skeptical of American media, so if I’m wrong I welcome correction. But I assumed this wasn’t really disputed even among leftists.

Am I crazy for thinking both Koreas are puppet states that oppress their people?

Yeah, agree. Tables can be used standing or while sitting in the floor. Chairs are nice, but without tables a lot of stuff would happen at floor level anyway.

Definitely easier to get by without chairs.

This is an excellent shower thought.

I get that that’s the intended meaning, but op makes a good point.

I think this is the main story. I don’t think it’s new info, but it confirms the issue persists: this LLM is so heavily trained to fawn over Musk that it doesn’t exercise any application of context or attempt to find truth.

Which is sad.

The other issue I have is that this is an example of a recurring issue in which the tech obsessed ultra wealthy declare their plan to solve a problem for which a very straightforward policy solution already exists.

We don’t need tech to extend lives or feed the hungry. We just need to remove the paywalls to existing resources.

This is what I was going to say.

Also, long form narrative. Right now LLMs seem to work best for short conversations, but get increasingly unhinged over very long conversations. And if they generate a novel, it’s not consistent or structured, from what I understand.

It’s an amusing premise, but I think that if you actually pay attention to the arc of his life and everything said by the people who understand him (Mary Trump’s book is perhaps the best on this), it doesn’t bear out.

By all evidence, Trump doesn’t really experience romantic attraction, and his sexual appetites have always been primarily for power and attention. Read Stormy Daniels account of his “lovemaking”. He doesn’t really like getting sweaty. During the years he was a famous lothario, he widely faked this image due to having an enormous fear of STIs, especially HIV.

He does seem to enjoy bodies, but almost always through the thrill of conquest: he likes taking something he considers a prize.

Does he secretly long for cock? Has he suppressed urges under social pressure? Almost certainly not. He’s always revelled in being sexually deviant, and thrilled in violating social norms, so if he wanted men he likely would’ve direct the 90s getting rich for being a famous gay pervert instead of a getting rich for being a famous straight pervert.

It’s highly likely that he’s gotten sexual service from men or femboys, because that fits the profile. But suck a dick? No. Never. Not because it’s gay: because it’s giving. This is a guy who has almost certainly never given oral service to anyone, man or woman.

What show is this?

Better for whom?

He probably is better for me, and for you, and for most of the folks in this comment section. But one thing the debacle of 2024 taught me is the “better” is relative, and there are a lot of folks who are going to die of a lack of healthcare under both candidates, or lose family members to US weapons under both candidates.

Better for me? Sure. But I’m through bullying and blaming the victims of an abusive relationship.

Fuck voting blue no matter who. Vote for who earns your vote. The bar is as low as it can get for Democrats at this point.

I greatly dislike Newsom, but tbh this article is less damning then the headline sounds.

Ultimately, the only thing that will reliably stop Newsom from becoming president is a better alternative. I loathe him, but we need to talk less about him and more about who is going to beat him.

AOC? Elizabeth Warren? Is Lina Khan interested??

Neat.

I’ve been listening to the podcast Greatest Gen, where they’ve been doing a watch-through of Enterprise, and it’s fun to listen to. It sounds like a better show than the reputation gives it, but also really unbalanced in terms of cast attention.

Is that universal on Star Trek? I feel like TNG was overwhelmingly focused on Picard, Ricker, and Data,. Then Troi and Geordi were present by being associated to Riker and Data and each got like one or two episodes a season where they were the star. And Worf would get a few eps a season, but was usually around. It wasn’t even attention, but there was some balance.

From the watch-through on Greatest Gen, it seems like Trip Tucker was one of the three main characters, Phlox was a constant presence even if rarely the main character, and then Mayweather and Hoshi got like one episode a season in which they were even involved.

You know what? That’s a mean things to say.

Be nice to him. It’s his first day.

I really love your analogy. I’m imagining early 90s Windows and AOL bombarding folks with pop ups that say ‘want to take this with you? Print it!’ and ‘Did you know you can print anytime you like with our new dedicated keyboard print button?’ and ‘Try our new cassette music player, now printer-powered to give you the best sound you’ve ever heard!’