“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”

Kevin Spacey will always be Kevin Spacey. I can’t watch him act and see anything else but Kevin Spacey.

That’s not how it works. You can tell the difference between radiation from a nuclear weapon and a conventional bomb used on radioactive materials. If they used nukes they won’t be able to cover it up for very long.

Its funny you say this because I once went in a Ross with my wife and someone had taken a monster shit in one of the aisles. It was absolutely horrific. I think about it every time she wants to go to Ross now. I don’t think I’ve gone in one with her since.

Dieter Rams

I missed that Dyson had sued people for calling him out on his hypocrisy. What a complete piece of shit that guy is.

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Bots are all over Reddit, you likely only noticed the obvious ones. There’s nonstop campaigns to manipulate people via Reddit and all sorts of groups have armies of bots posing as users.

In many ways, Reddit has evolved into what it is. Much like biological evolution, there’s all sorts of things about it that are vestigial, or poorly designed, or don’t really make sense if you don’t understand natural selection. Its also become a publicly traded company so in recent years the quest for profitability has been rapidly transforming it in new and specific ways that only make sense from that perspective.

Yesterday was the first time I noticed any in a long time.

The teacher had a favorite, who sat behind me. Anytime she tried to talk to me I got in trouble. I literally got detention once where I had to write out the same run on sentence over and over again 75 times about how sorry I was for being disruptive in class, all because this girl leaned forward and tapped me on the shoulder while the teacher was looking at me. I never spoke a word to her, I didn’t even look back at her. Teacher didn’t care, it was somehow my fault. I remember my hand cramping up writing the sentence and after the first however many minutes my writing started deteriorating so the teacher made me redo sentences. It was a very painful and miserable experience, I could barely hold the pencil by the end. Thinking about it now, that teacher was a sadist and had a very creepy fixation on that girl.

It seems pretty common in the industry to go see a movie during the workday every once in awhile. I think companies often get free or discounted tickets so its relatively low cost for them. Doing a surprise day of mandatory fun isn’t likely to go over well with anyone who has actual work to get done.

People are mostly dumb. Justice is largely a myth. Chaos reigns.

I would eat insects right now if they were cooked by a chef who knew what they were doing.

There’s different strategies and tactics to protesting. It creates a different vibe that can come across with a more unified and singular message if people only show up carrying the American flag instead of a bunch of different signs. It also avoids certain tactics that can be used to discredit the protest.

I’ve had cops come around to check out what they could when I was living with roommates and we had all kinds of equipment that used lots of electricity. We actually got a letter from the power company telling us we were in the 99th percentile of residential power use and to consider how much money we could save if we lowered our electricity useage. I’m sure if the cops saw anything they could construe as evidence when they were snooping around they would then easily get a warrant and do a raid.

Losing weight and not drinking alcohol.

Don’t be a dick.

Potentially yes, if you use existing IP to make music, doing it with a computer isn’t going to change anything about how the law works. It does get super complicated and there’s ambiguity depending on the specifics, but mostly if you do it a not obvious way and no one knows how you did it you’re going to be fine, anything other than that you will potentially get sued, even if whatever you did was a legally permissible use of the IP. Rightsholders generally hate when anyone who isn’t them tries to make money off their IP regardless of how they try to do it or whether they have a right to do it unless they paid for a license.

That feels categorically different unless AI has legal standing as a person. We’re talking about training LLMs, there’s not anything more than people using computers going on here.