If people were truly trying to destroy his influence, he wouldn’t be around for much longer.

Fuck no.

Fuck all these motherfuckers.

Fuck, looks like it’s time to start looking at more alternatives to Android phones.

Already got an old one rooted. We need a solid Linux alternative or potentially a European company to start development.

If any of y’all know of a good, usable platform, I’d love to know about it.

Damn–looks like the same terrible type of people are taking power in Finland as they are all over the world:

“The current government has pursued an exceptionally aggressive policy of cutting welfare and unemployment benefits, housing support for low-income families, and exemptions for part-time work,” said Hukka. “Their aim has been to drive down budget deficits, and they have done so without the customary parliamentary evaluations—which usually involve taking into account the cumulative effects of policy changes. Added to this is the downturn in the national economy and the reduction of state-supported affordable housing.

“It’s not a real surprise—a rise in homelessness is what happens when you cut housing benefits, tell low-income families to find cheaper housing, and offer no feasible supply of affordable rental properties. A huge shame, really, and totally preventable. Finland’s national debt is not out of control. Biting the bullet and accepting that investing in social housing and welfare benefits during a downturn – even if it requires increasing budget deficits – is, in my opinion, a reasonable alternative. Welfare reforms can wait for an economic upturn.

“Sadly, national debt is being used as a smokescreen, and the current government parties have a long-standing antipathy toward the Nordic welfare state as a whole. So, any adjustments to the current policy package seem unlikely.”

It’s the same scam everywhere, run by the same people:

Finland’s … most right-wing government in recent history.

I suspect that when their leaders disappear they’ll likely get a lot less malicious. These are the lowest rung monkeys in the monkey hierarchy–they simply mimic the monkeys at the top of their hierarchy.

They’re not particularly smart people.

Finland ended homelessness in Finland.

It doesn’t exist there.

It’s entirely possible to fix this problem. It’s possible to use our tax money to fix this problem.

But there’s one small group of people in the way.

There is a long historical tradition of artists using images like this to mock the powers-that-be getting too big for their britches.

Another day, another reason to point out that ***Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers *** is now up to the 54th installment with 1,350 entries of people either in, voting for, or directly affiliated with the Republican party. Evidence for their Republicanness is presented with each entry. The list is comprised primarily of police, government officials, teachers, religious officials, and politicians.

This guy, and many others of this ugly breed, will likely make the next list.

It’s useful to remember that his actions are not an anomaly—this is who they are.

Yes, I love that movie. Great science fiction and somehow always seems to remain relevant.

This episode is beautiful: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Darmok_(episode)

It is about communication.

Digital piracy can get you at least one of those happy things.

Most of the identification of things like ‘horses’ falls in line with the identification of things like ‘crosswalks’ and ‘motorcycles’–in other words, the majority of the words associated with particular images in Google maps comes from people like us filling out Captcha, not from AI.

lol

I think the fact someone would need to explain this to you makes it pointless to try and explain it to you. I can’t tell whether you’re honestly asking a question or just searching for a debate to attempt to justify your viewpoint.

The consumer-side AI that a handful of multi-billion-dollar companies keep peddling to us is just a way for them to attempt to justify AI to us. Otherwise, it consumes MASSIVE amounts of our energy capacities and is primarily being used in ways that harm us.

And, of course, there’s nothing they direct at us that isn’t ultimately (and solely) for their benefit–our every use of their AI helps train their models, and eventually it will simply be groups of billionaires competing against one another to form the most powerful model that allows them to dominate us and their competitors.

As long as this technology remains determined by those whose entire existence is organized around domination, it will be a sum harm to all of us. We’d have to free it from their grips to make it meaningful in our daily lives.

Inchworm by Danny Kaye.

Figure Eight by Blossom Dearie

Payback by Slayer

I was just thinking while I drove aimlessly that the internet used to be a real way for real people to communicate real information to one another, often when they had no other way to do so.

This is a perfect example of that. We must all know the many faces of JD Vance so we can recognize him at the kids’ table in the country club and ask him about his big-boy suit or if he’s enjoying the Jell-O®

Is this a free trial followed by a monthly subscription?