From what little I know of the way Japanese humour works, there’s a decent chance this is all just a bit. There was a guy in Japan who married a different kind of virtual girlfriend not that long before LLMs hit the mainstream, and I heard from a few different Japanese people that he was almost certainly doing it as a joke. Apparently Japanese humour is very, very deadpan and they love seeing people really commit to the bit.
The book does offer the missing context, and is a truly fantastic piece of journalism. Mark Bowden went to immense effort to include the Somali perspectives on the events and the movie flattened out all of those details for the sake of creating some evocative villains.
I still think it’s one of the best war movies ever made, but yes, it absolutely is propaganda and needs to be understood as such.
“A long time” would be “Since Trump got back in”, since Biden’s administration was actually doing a lot to tackle monopolies. They just did a shit job of advertising what they were doing.
This is very obviously step one in a plan to kill apps like alternative YouTube clients that block ads, just like the Manifest V3 rollout was intended to kill ad blockers in Chrome. Once they have everyone using this verification system, then they can just arbitrarily deverify anything that contravenes whatever new acceptable usage policy they just made up.
By their nature, LLMs are truly excellent as thesauruses. It’s one of the few tasks they’re really designed to be good at.
We’re talking about repurposing the GPUs, not the AI.
OK, if we’re talking about infrastructure rather than specific equipment, then yes, I would broadly agree that the datacentre infrastructure itself can be repurposed.
Unfortunately, by that point the whole data centre will already have been sold off for parts because its never going to recoup its initial investment in the first place, and throwing even more money into swapping out those GPUs for CPUs is going to be a complete no go.
If anyone actually spent money on science anymore, I bet this would be great for, like, protein folding, that sort of thing.
Terrible for running websites though.
GPUs are only good for workloads that multi-thread really, really well. That’s why we don’t just use them as CPUs.
The idea that today’s GPU will be tomorrow’s CPU makes no sense. We’ve had GPUs for ages. If they were capable of being used in place of CPUs we’d already be doing it. Why aren’t yesterday’s GPUs today’s CPUs?
So what you’re saying is, he’s fighting to make the system better for everyone because he believes it’s morally right to do so, rather than out of some financial incentive. And this makes him a bad person because…?
All that government intervention in strikes does is ensure more strikes down the line. Empower labour to actually win decent working conditions for themselves, and you’ll see far fewer labour disputes. No one actually likes being on strike (and strikes become far more likely when the government constantly intervenes because the companies have less incentive try to avoid a strike in the first place).
See, the problem with your argument there is that portraying your opponent as a single minded imbecile would be an example of strawman fallacy… if it wasn’t also completely and demonstrably true.
Is every Trump voter like this? No. But the majority are, and those are the people being depicted in the comic. Don’t like it? Maybe sit down and spend some time unpacking that reaction.
What a lot of people forget is that for the vast majority of people, this is a progression. The reason petitions work is because they get awareness out there, which leads to more people showing up to the protest. The reason protests work is because that’s where you sign people up to the orgs. And the reason all of these things work is because the people on the other end understand that if there are enough people petitioning or protesting, some percentage of those people will, if pushed hard enough, resort to more direct action. A petition isn’t a plea, it’s a threat. A protest isn’t a complaint, its a show of strength. If people show up, those people can then be called upon for the next step, and the next. And when things go right, the steps further down the chain aren’t needed, because the threat is enough.
Because of course they’re fucking TERFs.
The problem, as always, is that parents don’t want to put the work into educating their children, they want the government to wave a magic wand and make the problem go away. And that’s what gets you half assed solutions like this.
I have to support a remote client that uses Starlink. It’s a nightmare. We can deal with slow connections, we can deal with bad ping, but with Starlink what we get is the entire connection dropping every minute or so, and coming back up a short while later. It’s unbelievably bad.
Pardoning Maxwell would be an insanely bad idea. The MAGA world love two things more than anything else; conspiracy theories, and imagining themselves in an endless war against a cabal of powerful pedophiles.
Maxwell directly aided and abetted one of those powerful pedophiles. To MAGA, there is no possible justification for pardoning her. It would be tantamount to a full admission from Trump, and it would send their conspiracy addled minds into overdrive. At best (for him), they’d wonder what kind of leverage she has over Trump in order to buy herself a pardon. If not evidence of pedophilia, then surely something else, right?
Is Maxwell angling for a pardon? Almost certainly. But giving her one would be a suicidal move for the administration right now.
Wait, so cancelling is good now? Dear MAGA, please make up your fucking minds.
And, y’know, grow a spine.