These people literally think their shit don’t stink.

My god. This administration couldn’t be more on the nose if their noses were literally browned.

Next season on GOP…going around with black shoe polish on their noses.

Tbf Taron makes an excellent Elton.

I gotta wonder if his role as Johnny (the gorilla) in Sing is what led to him as Elton in Rocket Man.

Is Elton John hosting Carpool Karaoke now?

You’re really dismissing the reality that the biggest reason dems didn’t show was because the troll farms and their disinformation/amplofication worked.

Or do you just not understand? Because that’s fine too. That just means it worked on you.

Let me clarify. They didn’t just hype up the red guy. They also drowned out the blue gal. A lot of the “both sides” talk, all of the “but muh genocide” abstaining voters…some, sure, were real, but most of those that were, were pushed there by the bot farms.

Propaganda isn’t just glorifying the leader. The other real important part is inhibiting the opposition.

They all knew, and continue to know, that they didn’t have to get people to vote for Trump. That’s a fools errand. Most everybodies mind was made up about him well the elections.

But keeping people from voting for Harris is just as effective. Because ultimately the winner has to be one of the two parties. We can hem and haw all we want about the need for third parties (and that’s totally true), but the fact is that it will always be a two party system until the voting system get fixed, and it will always be the same two parties until one inevitably implodes on itself and re-brands. Republicans are very much aware that the easiest way to win isn’t to attract voters, but to disuade people who vote against them.

They gave up the honey a long time ago, and they’ve gone all-in on vinegar.

Let’s stick to reality tho…neither did Republicans. Troll farms did, and people bought it hook, line, and sinker.

Buckle up my man. Remember how shit programming got during, and then following, the writers guild strike? How many shows just…could not recover?

Imagine if the writers were to strike again. They’d be replaced with AI scabs in a heartbeat.

Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.

It’ll be here. Better than before

Twitter?

Never met her.

I miss being able to get that high.

/sus

Jason grew up in Boston and took a job as a landscaper in Hawaii.

Everything is legal in New Jersey.

An old $20. Wow. Haven’t seen one of those in forever.

I don’t disagree.

The genie is out of the bag with AI. I don’t think there’s any “going back” to a pre-AI world. It cannot get back into the tube.

It’s a bubble, for sure, but we aren’t going back to pre-dotcom, either.

In the meantime, though, it’s an arms race. Especially when it comes to things like offensive and defensive cyber security. LLM is especially well-suited for throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks, and that’s a perfect use-case for offensive cybersec.

FOSS has its own set of issues to deal with with regards to LLM code…even beyond the vibe-coding aspects of it, the ultimate problem of licensing and attribution is incredibly complicated.

That is more of a philosophical issue than anything else. Not to be dismissive if it, it’s quite important…I had a conversation recently with a major FOSS group’s sysadmins about their defenses from web scraping. They have outright blocked a major cloud proxy platform’s ASN because of abuses frok their IP blocks.

(What follows is my interpretation of what he said, not his wording)

A lot of that probably isn’t even “offense”, but poorly coded tools run by the platforms customers performing excessive web-scraping…but it exposes the bigger issue that’s more philosophical than anything, because from his perspective, this looks, smells, and has the same outcome, as a DDoS attack. And the only ways to really, truly mitigate such an attack is with CDNs and such, and usually with SSL Decryption on a cloud provider.

These types of methods are diametrically opposed to something like their mission, putting them into a position where they have to outright block a lot of legitimate use to stop a handful of bad actors who are probably more ignorant than maligned.

I kinda see AI as the same. Shaming it, in FOSS projects particularly, isn’t a matter of code quality…it’s a philosophical matter, and the problem-users are usually more ignorant than maligned.

It’s over 9000?

Stores should be grateful when people steal condoms.

Regulated capitalism may actually work if we regulated it fairly and didn’t have megacorps writing the laws.

Here’s the thing…that’s true for literally every form of governance/economic planning you can conceive.

The problem with socialismcapitalism|communism|anarchism will always be “the ones with all the de factode jure power”.

Fossil fuel emissions are also a human construct.

Huh what?

It’s a human activity, not a human construct.

What it essentially is, is sequestered carbon from millions of years ago, now being burned off and released into the atmosphere. Lion King’s Circle of Life is essentially the Carbon Cycle, and lots of blades of grass don’t get eaten. Carbon that returned to the earth in large quantities and under the right conditions became oil/coal, and now we are digging that back up and burning it for funsies.

But that’s besides the point. The point is that each individual emits an amount of carbon per year, much of which was formerly sequestered. Some countries, each individual is using less than others.

The problem is that you won’t be able to pull out a number that makes America/the west/Capitalism look good, because such a thing doesn’t exist…so instead you just try to brush it off as “oh well our country is better because of this number”.

It’s xenophobia and nationalism. Not science. Not even statistics.

This is a bad faith argument. You are arguing the efficiency of a country based upon its CO2 per GDP. That’s kind of a shit argument because GDP is a human construct. Global warming doesn’t give a shit about GDP.

How much “value” a country produces based upon…what, exactly? How much it extracts from the ground? How much value other humans assign to those goods?

Capitalism got us into this fucking mess and you’re still using it as the goddamn ruler.

If you want to compare states, fine, I guess that works as a proxy for cultural differences, but if you are going to compare the efficiency of the people within the state, you measure per capita.

Using GDP is just a shit excuse to be able to defend capitalism while simultaneously dismissing the fact that China supports more people with fewer per-capita emissions.