andallthat @ andallthat @lemmy.world

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maybe he studies fascism in the way at CERN they study particles: once they found experimental evidence that one exists, they start looking for the next. Now given the abundant evidence that the US fascist exists and multiple collisions have been observed with everyone's balls, he's started searching for the more elusive Canadian Fascist

Technically agree that it's one of the nastiest. Definitely in the top 200!

At this point, it looks like Trump is trying really hard to mess with his voters and lose them. But unluckily he is failing hard even at that.

From a European perspective, this is very welcome news. It's a pity that it took a Trump for us to even start discussing these things but when there is real sense of urgency, COVID taught us that Europe can move fast.

And I'm not talking about vaccines. In a few months of COVID, digiital services have leaped forward probably 10 years (at least in my country). Suddenly we can have most of our government and public services online, I can check my child school records in an app, my grampa used his digital IDs to change his family doctor from his phone.

None of this is rocket science and mostly it didn't require building new things. But I'm pretty sure none of it was going to be done any time soon.

I hope Europe manages to get out of this more politically united, with a common defense, investment in critical infrastructure and possibly with stronger safeguards to Democracy (and since I'm basically writing my letter to Santa in advance, I'd also really like to have the UK back... )

It's tough, because historically European countries don't really get along well or trust each other much, and centrifugal forces are strong and too easily manipulated. But under direct threat from both sides maybe, just maybe....

yes, so typical and yet so effective so far.

Phase 1: eat a baby in plain view at a crowded event

Phase 2: get really angry and personally attack anybody who mentions it and their employer

Phase 3: after a few days just roll your eyes and dismiss with "again with that baby thing?"

If nothing serious happens right after phase 1, holding onto this as future political ammo seems to be worthless. I really hope I'm wrong and that the accumulation of these things is enough to turn enough of Trump's base against him but they accumulated a whole fricking lot by now and there is still room for more...

• Looks like shit, remove this portrait immediately!
• The portrait is on the other wall, Mister President, that one is a mirror.

They have been carefully assembled to make Trump look smart in comparison. It wasn't an easy task.

Being berated by Trump personally should be worn as a badge of honour. I'll accept a "personally insulted by Musk"as kind of a silver medal.

But come on... Witkoff? The only proper response is "do you kiss Trump's butt with that mouth?"

Was Steven Seagal ever relevant? I mean besides the "so trashy that it's occasionally fun", guilty-pleasure type of relevance he briefly enjoyed in the 1980s?

No. If there was a pee tape, Trump himself would sell it and his voters would buy it too. This is a man who sold his own mug shot.

If Russia has something on him, it is dear old fucktons of money. Or we have to prepare to the scarier scenario where he's not being blackmailed into doing Putin's bidding, he really wants to be Putin.

Looking forward to that "Failing Disney and nasty, perverted Mickey Mouse, going around in shorts" post on Truth Social. If there's one corporation that might even take Donnie down it's Disney. Kinda like Kong vs Dumbzilla

I want to believe that commoditization of AI will happen as you describe, with AI made by devs for devs. So far what I see is "developer productivity is now up and 1 dev can do the work of 3? Good, fire 2 devs out of 3. Or you know what? Make it 5 out of 6, because the remaining ones should get used to working 60 hours/week."

All that increased dev capacity needs to translate into new useful products. Right now the "new useful product" that all energies are poured into is... AI itself. Or even worse, shoehorning "AI-powered" features in all existing product, whether it makes sense or not (welcome, AI features in MS Notepad!). Once this masturbatory stage is over and the dust settles, I'm pretty confident that something new and useful will remain but for now the level of hype is tremendous!

It's not that LLMs aren't useful as they are. The problem is that they won't stay as they are today, because they are too expensive. There are two ways for this to go (or an eventual combination of both:

• Investors believe LLMs are going to get better and they keep pouring money into "AI" companies, allowing them to operate at a loss for longer That's tied to the promise of an actual "intelligence" emerging out of a statistical model.
• Investments stop pouring in, the bubble bursts and companies need to make money out of LLMs in their current state. To do that, they need to massively cut costs and monetize. I believe that's called enshttificarion.

My wife routinely makes me remove car keys or other bulkier things from my pocket because they "make me look bigger".

I love my wife dearly I really do. But she deserved having to put things in her bra. Maybe I should start putting my car keys in the front of my underwear. As a fashion statement.

Eppure è un prodotto fantastico! Cinque minuti dopo che il Tecnico Adelmo Pasoni ha stretto l'ultima vite, mi ha telefonato il mio scammer personale del "Gestore dell'Energia" piangendo, perche' nessun cambio di contratto sarà mai più conveniente per me.

Su una nota più seria, da una parte penso sia un bene che le recensioni false stiano diventando più riconoscibili grazie a chatGPT.

I didn't say anything different. If the last thing you bought from Apple was their stock, Tim Cook made it what it is. As a CEO that's his primary goal, so he is a great CEO.

why? Elon supports AfD and I think he's making it pretty clear that he's against Tesla too

A company that is now focused more on creating value for shareholders than on innovation? I'd say that's pretty accurate.

TIL... I thought he was South African (not that I ever cared enough to research). So once Trump annexes Canada he'll become a US national and be eligible to run for President? Pinky and the Brain level of planning there!