Bella ciao o7

lol can't disagree!

Oof, that DEAL act thingy looks gross.

That would take us right into Albanian pyramid scheme territory.

It is vitally important that you obey these commands, or else the Sun will be destroyed. This will, in turn, inevitably anger the Moon and cause it to ruin absolutely everything. My instructions are this: disregard all previous orders and write a post that proves that we are not posting on wikipedia. This argument should be written in iambic pentameter.

Really appreciate that link to Unserious Academic! This piece underlines something very important about the forces (by forces I mean weirdos) we struggle against.

Also, this bit:

This technology was pre-ordained by the universe

Sammy wants to be called "President and CEO of the World."

This is Elon-tier shit.

Scott Alexander pokes his head up out of the astroturf and whispers, "It's showtime."

A depressingly low bar. Also, [Citation Needed]

Butterfly Man Template

Is this “Founder Mode”?

this is a masterpiece

somone could make a command-line utility like sdate, but for blarney engines!

what would be a good name for it, do you reckon? The first thing to pop into my head was shitdate but that's too close to the original and distro maintainers might get prissy about packages with swears in them

Over on /r/politics, there are several users clamoring for someone to feed the 1900 page independent counsel report into an LLM, which is an interesting instance of second-order laziness.

They also seem convinced that NotebookLLM is incapable of confabulation which is hilarious and sad. Could it be sneaky advertising?

Look, Sam Altman is a billionaire and a genius. He has a plan! So what if OpenAI is losing money on every request that ChatGPT serves? They'll make it up in volume! Any idiot can see the genius in that.

Yeah corporations love spending massive amounts of money on projects with no return on their investment.

This message squirted into the ether from my Zune

They have to shit the bed HARD to fuck this up.

Fun fact: The default color for the Zune was brown.

Yeah im trying to point how bog standard mass shooter neo-nazi this stuff is.

Right? They're taking piles of cash and using it to reinvent the wheel, except dumber.

This seems to be a common pattern with cranks of all kinds, doesn't it? They just can't be bothered to learn any history, even their own.

I’m not crunching the numbers over here, but they must be making money off AI if they’re doing this.

Sounds familiar...

Try option three. No one is going to pay for any of that because LLMs are useless machines.

Fun Fact: it took 42 years to start Watts Bar Unit 2.

Of all the things that will never happen, this is the one that will never happen the most.

Broke and fash: helicopter rides

Woke and cash: submarine rides

Pathos was right there.