Do you like my hat

It’s weird she’s talking to you as if she were your mom.

I help people do science and math with their computers. I make around 100k, double the median income in my area. My commute is an hour and a half each way, at least, and sometimes I only have around 3 hours to myself after I get back from work before I need to go to bed. Still, I have it better than most (although, with the current attack on science in the US, uncertainty about clients is rising…)

Have you got any recs? I’ve got a 3080 in my machine atm

I dont really use LLMs so I didn’t even realize there were versions with different weights and stuff. I was using 7b, but found it pretty useless. Pretty sure I’m not going to be able run 32B on my rig. lmao.

guess ill continue being an LLMless pleb.

I’m moving to self host all my streaming stuff. Switching from local-only plex to self hosting all my media (spotify, google photos, LLMs) and tools behind a reverse proxy so i can access outside my home. It’s pretty sweet and a good learning experience using reverse proxies

Edit: Plus fuck these technofeudal lords who enclose access to markets, information, and culture.

Ask your conservative family members why Trump dropped charges on a Democrat

We are living through the greatest constitutional crisis of our lifetimes – maybe since the Civil War. The US has never seen anything happen like this domestically. We are rapidly moving toward the dissolution of the US and civil war.

If the courts do not prosecute Trump and Elon Musk, which is highly likely, the assault on EVERY federal service and source of funds will continue. “Throwing it back to the states” will cause the states to contract – without confidence in any federal assistance or regulations, states will need to figure it out themselves – and if they start seeing the federal government as something they need to protect their citizens from…well, why would they remain a part of that federal government? If the US government is completely unreliable due to the massive brain, experience, and regulation drain, what reason do states have to remain a part of that? Especially when the feds want to restrict speech and expression in the way they do.

And if the courts somehow slap down Elon and Trump and they are removed? Then we’ve got violence from the J6ers and likely more.

We very well might be witnessing the end of the US, as I see it. But maybe someone can offer some counterpoints

We are in so much fucking trouble.

ALTERNATE TITLE: A new memo from the U.S. Department of Transportation indicates that it will direct more funding to states with higher birth and marriage rates.

It’s all going according to plan…we are so fucked

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=Z-NPmxNVPlc79Oj5

damn.

just this past year i watched eraserhead so i could watch elephant man so i could watch twin peaks so i could watch twin peaks fire walk with me so i could watch twin peaks the return. and now he’s dead.

damn.

guess i gotta watch blue velvet so i can watch mulholland drive.

:( First you’re there, and then you’re not.

Night Palace by Mount Eerie for me

Maybe seconded by The New Sound by Geordie Greep

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I watched all of Twin Peaks because I was interested in the hype around David Lynch and wanted to see his most recent work.

This episode made it all worth it.

This is the only hot take in this whole thread lol

My lukewarm take is that Star Wars has varied so greatly in quality from product-to-product, that any take that categorizes some of it as bad and some of it as good is a lukewarm, standard take.

35mm film with picture negatives on it

One man has control over the widest-spanning and quickest-to-establish communication systems during natural disaster scenarios. He has previously used this control to affect military operations of sovereign nations. He also has control over one of the largest social media platforms. Now, he is in the ear of the soon-to-be worlds most powerful person. (Assuming that person isnt already him, himself.)

Get involved locally before it is too late for your community.

The Eye of the Storm, The Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene

I actually was fortunate enough to visit the Sistine Chapel this summer, and although when you take a close look at images online of the paintings, it’s clear they aren’t “realism”, when you see the paintings in person they look very real. I was especially struck by how real Jonah looked, as if he was just hanging out, sitting on a ledge near the ceiling. Very cool experience.