Gotta say, that was surprisingly hard to watch.

Zelenskyy was gonna get screamed at no matter what. This is just a matter of controlling the narrative and manufacturing consent to stop military aid.

I didn’t know about this so I checked out the Wikipedia article. Wild shit, I tell you.

Yarl sought help at three different homes before someone finally complied.[14] Neighbors had found him lying injured in the street and called police, who found him with at least two gunshot wounds to the head and arm.[13]

The district attorney stated there was a “racial component” to the case.[3] Assistant prosecuting attorney Alexander Higginbotham clarified that “there is not a racial element to the legal charges that were filed”. Legal experts noted this was likely because a hate crime charge would have carried a lower maximum sentence.

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Indeed. It’s a lot to put on Canada and Mexico, but such is the situation. You’re the world’s first line of defense against the McReich.

I’ll do my part by buying your exports the most I can, especially if the other option is to buy from America. If there’s anything else you think we can do to help even on an individual level, please share.

I agree, but something has to give. It behooves the world to treat current version of Repubs as the 2nd 3rd Reich. Appeasement concessions is what they’re looking for. As such, it’s on Canada & Mexico to establish robust trade partnerships that don’t include the putrid carcass of Uncle Sam that’s being marionetted by that orange psychopath.

The worst case scenario here was complete capitulation. Chamberlain’s appeasement policies didn’t work and neither would bending the knee to Herr Drumpf.

Now double down. Tariffs on Teslas and ban X (the everything app (f.k.a. Twitter)).

I’m just gonna shove the list here, cuz archive.is doesn’t play well with the fancy frontend that MIT has cooked up:

• Vera C. Rubin Observatory

A powerful new telescope will come online this year in a remote region of Chile and begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky. Inside is the largest digital camera ever made for astronomy, which will snap photos continuously for years to help astronomers study dark matter, explore the Milky Way, and untangle other cosmic unknowns.

• Generative AI search

Generative search promises to make finding what you’re looking for simple and quick. When you type in a query, an AI model summarizes information from many online sources to return a unique answer. On your device, it can comb through documents, photos, and videos, recognizing objects and people to help you find them faster. This may signal the end of traditional search engines and the rise of personal AI assistants.

• Small language models

Large language models can do amazing things because they’re crammed with hundreds of billions—even trillions—of parameters (the values that determine their behavior) and were trained on most of the internet’s data. But cheaper and less power-hungry small language models can now stand with the heavyweights across a range of specific tasks. Move over dinosaurs. The future belongs to smaller, nimbler beasts.

• Cattle burping remedies

Cow burps are one of the largest sources of agricultural emissions—and one of the trickiest ones to solve. A food supplement that significantly reduces the amount of methane that cattle belch is now available in dozens of countries. Other products, which might prove even more effective, are likely on the way.

• Robotaxis

Robotaxis have completed years of beta testing, and they are now finally becoming available to the public. In more than a dozen cities worldwide, riders can summon one whenever they want. Now, the biggest players are ramping up for intense competition as they expand into new cities under regulators’ watchful eyes.

• Cleaner jet fuel

New fuels made from used cooking oil, industrial waste, or even gasses in the air could help power planes without fossil fuels. These alternative jet fuels have been in development for years, but now they’re becoming a big business, with factories springing up to produce them and new government mandates requiring their use. Why it matters

• Fast-learning robots

Thanks to today’s generative AI boom, robots are now learning new tasks faster than ever. Today’s automatons are not one-trick ponies—we’re getting closer to general-purpose robots that could be dropped into new environments and tackle a variety of tasks on our behalf, almost instantly.

• Long-acting HIV prevention meds

A trial of a new HIV prevention medicine found that 100% of treated women and girls were protected from acquiring HIV infections. And it only needs to be injected once every six months. The drug could help us end AIDS once and for all—if we can ensure access for those who need it.

• Green steel

Making steel is one of the largest industrial sources of carbon dioxide, emitting more carbon than all of India (the world’s third largest emitter) and far more than air travel. The first industrial green-steel plant, which uses hydrogen made with renewable power, is being built by Stegra, a $7 billion startup that is scheduled to begin operations next year in northern Sweden.

• Stem-cell therapies that work

Stem cells from human embryos will cure disease. That’s the big promise scientists made decades ago. And now it’s finally coming true. Experimental transplants of lab-made cells seem to be helping treat two very different conditions—epilepsy and type 1 diabetes. Why it matters

Ye ye fair enough. My point is that LLMs can double bluff if need be and in the end the only thing we’ll have to identify them by is trying to like stress-test their tokenization.

I see through your ruse BrundleFly, if that even is your god-given Christian name. You clearly wrote written by ChatGPT at the end so that I may think that you are, in fact, an organism. The ol’ double-bluff eh? Get the fuck outta here! Do you know who you’re talking to? Do you know how many captchas I’ve passed? I’m a real god damn human being and that’s final!

Wait…

Obviously I don’t know what Reddit is. Sounds like a Lemmy alternative. But if anyone here finds out what Reddit is, go check out any subreddit where you’re supposed to just write stuff. r/AITAH, r/stories, r/AmIOverreacting. More bots than a TF2 practice match. Every post follows the exact same narrative structure. Dumb shit like “My dad killed my chihuahua, cooked it and fed it to my other chihuahua, so I’m not going to the family get-together. AITAH?” It’s genuinely shocking to me how comments don’t realize it. Maybe they’re LLMs as well, hence why they don’t say anything. Some of the mods might be LLMs too, considering they don’t do anything about it. Am I the only one who’s not an LLM? Am I just talking to myself at this point? Wait, am I also an LLM? What’s happening? Why have we made robots whose only job is to dilute reality?

Dude was a massive piece of shit. No one simped harder for Marine Le Pen.

I love how the “only good nazi is a dead nazi” folks are suddenly nowhere to be seen when the nazi is made dead by a Muslim (allegedly). If he actually was killed in the name of religious extremism, I see it as a nazi being murdered by a nazi-adjacent, so kind of a win win. Yet I’m seeing people mourn this guy for some reason and I can only attribute this phenomenon to either internalized islamophobia in the entire political spectrum or Israeli astroturfing.

The bad guys did a sufficient job of dismantling your joke of a democracy while the good guys had the presidency. I’m not saying that they’re the exact same, hence why I’m differentiating between good and bad. Obviously the good guys give more of a shit about the lives of the populus. I’m just making the observation that the good guys don’t seem all that broken up about losing.

I keep seeing people say stuff like this, but are you seeing the good guys do anything? The article itself said that they’re now getting together to discuss how they can start stopping the bad guys. So one begs to ask the question, what have they been doing thus far?

Mmmhm, Republicans are more likely to tackle Big Tech issues by funding them with a cold hard 500 billion smackaroos for AI research, right? /s

Gimme a fuckin’ break. D being trash doesn’t excuse this blatant endorsement of R. Never entertain the whims of the far right, no matter how sweetly they sing to you. History has taught us better.

Honestly the lesson I took away from this is to not vendor-lock myself if I can help it. Maybe it’d be better to have a domain through which you can route incoming emails to any inbox? That way you can just hotswap email services if their CEO turns out to be a cannibal or something.

I’ll be honest, I’m just hoping this AI shit calms down. Every 5-6 new papers published in the Journal of Computer Science is some AI slop. Like we get it, it’s fun filling a big ass matrix with weights which then inadvertently solve a problem you have. Could I please have some novel research that probably won’t go anywhere anytime soon but is kind of fun to think about and tinker with?

I migrated literally everything from Gmail around 2021. Gotta tell ya, I feel just about dumb as shit right now. I kind of understand people with those “I bought this before he sieg heiled” bumper stickers on their Teslas.

From an outsider’s perspective, it seems to me that the US got here by not being equally as petty. Lie, cheat, defame, appeal to tribalism, argue in bad faith. Populism is the meta and democrats need to get with it, cuz the whole world is on the line.

Precisely what I’m talking about. They can afford to do so, since they lost the trust of the user about 2 statements from the CEO ago.

And not to go too deep into it, but how the hell are you going to create a brand new pricing scheme in only “a couple of days”, without already having a draft of it ready? Don’t you wanna check in with your lawyer? Your CFO? This shit must take more than 2 days to do.

We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused. We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of days. Thank you for your honest and critical feedback.

Allow me to translate:

We’re now publishing the terms that we were actually going for from the very beginning. We’ve always known that the flaming bag of shit that we laid on your doorstep was unreasonable. If it worked, it worked, but if it didn’t, it can stand in contrast to the new less shit terms that you’re either supposed to agree to or rewrite your whole game. Not like our PR was great before this gambit. What have we to lose?