good to see the quality posts from dbzero are back tho
apparently came toward him shouting "I'M GONNA BEAT YOUR ASS"
hence the family stressing what a good Christian he was
https://xcancel.com/GuiveAssadi/status/1920232405324955825
Steven Pinker: I've been part of some not so successful attempts to come up with secular humanist substitutes for religion.
Interviewer: What is the worst one you've been involved in?
Steven Pinker: Probably the rationalist solstice in Berkeley, which included hymns to the benefits of global supply chains. I mean, I actually completely endorse the lyrics of the song, but there's something a bit cringe about the performance.
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTVJjmabaas which nobody should watch, obviously
In 2021, Gabriel Horcasitas shot and killed Christopher Pelkey in a case of road rage — Pelkey had jumped out of his car and come after Horcasitas, who panicked and shot at him. Horcasitas was foun…
does anyone know who the company who did the AI video was? This reeks of PR.
it's the button for more RGB
saw a microphone with RGB and i'm like wtf is this thing supposed to do, flash disco lights when you're on stream shouting slurs at your esteemed fellow gamers
oh really? I thought MS had demanded boot locking for the ARM laptops.
The poster has been assigned the complete works of Umberto Eco and escorted to the egress.
Now it's up to the Linux desktop environments for determining what to do if the new Copilot key is pressed.
launch ELIZA obv
quite annoyed that the Snapdragon laptops are bootlocked cos they'd make great Linux boxes
list them, as far as I can tell NPUs are shitty cut-down GPUs with a few functions much slower
OpenAI admitted that with o1! they included graphs directly showing gains taking exponential effort
remembering fucking stupid flamewars on comp.editors over vi variants, and then there's Sven Guckes (vim) and Thomas Dickey (nvi) having a lovely discussion
Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings press release talked up their new AI-enabled chips. But these are not selling. [Intel] In the earnings call, CFO Dave Zinsner mentioned they had “capacity constraints in In…
OpenAI has revised its plan to turn into a for profit company. [OpenAI] The original OpenAI corporate structure was bizarre. The nonprofit owned the for-profit company that spent the money and did …
current thesis is A Guy Instead in the Philippines, dressing up wireframes
Leopard nibbles at venture founders' faces in a new way - OpenAI researcher can't get green card
(will they reconsider their wholehearted support for trump tho? also no)
because if they try to ban accessibility they will get in trouble
oh yeah, none of this is new observation - but now it's the VCs admitting the 2+2 that we can then add to make 4
The UK government very much wants to give the AI grifters everything they ever wanted — including open slather on UK creative works. If you didn’t want the AI companies training on your stuff, you…
Popular language app Duolingo has declared it’s going “AI first.” The contractors who write the language courses will be replaced with LLMs. But Duolingo will “remain a company that cares deeply ab…
Venture capital is screwed. A bubble in AI is their last hope, and they’re betting everything on Sam Altman. It’s heartwarming. Today, we have the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor for Q1 2025. This i…
I am particularly pleased with the video, it was a lot of work that came out well, and you should forward it to all your friends
Here’s a headline from the Financial Times: “Microsoft shares jump after strong AI demand lifts cloud unit.” Wow, that’s amazing! [FT, archive] But guess what — it’s false! The actual reason Micros…
video version - I wear a tie
Worldcon is the science fiction convention where the Hugo Awards are voted on, the biggest award in the field. It’s had controversy in recent years, such as the 2023 convention in Chengdu in China …
I do believe this may be the first youtube video on the issue too
AccurX Scribe is a medical transcription tool. It listens in on your consultation and gives the doctor a transcript. Surely poor acoustics and the range of accents in the UK won’t cause problems? […
The purpose of generative AI is to oppress labour. That’s why all that money to OpenAI. But for all the claims that you will be replaced by an Excel macro with pretentions … it’s not working …
video - another outside broadcast from sunny suburban London
Google has a fancy “AI Principles” statement. In January, they quietly removed the bits barring AI that would “cause or directly facilitate injury to people” or “surveillance violating internationa…
video version - see my back yard!
All industries assume international trade and depend on equipment from around the world. That includes data centres — especially for “hyperscaling” AI. [Reuters, archive] Most data centre electrica…
archive: https://archive.ph/2Gk9F
original accusation: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/jaccuse https://archive.is/CHZx5
Back in the 1990s, there were several search engines for the World Wide Web, and they were all unusably bad. Then a new team called Google cracked the code of what made a website useful. Suddenly, …
Powerful figures in Silicon Valley advocate a new-age religion that sees humanity as a transitional species — one whose time is almost up.
The Australian Radio Network has three main brands: KIIS, GOLD and CADA. Across nine stations, there’s one non-white presenter — and she’s a bot. Thy has been CADA Sydney’s weekday host for six mon…
Video version, with clips of the bot-DJ
For the February 2025 California bar exam, the State Bar of California used a remote testing platform that just didn’t work. 80% of the candidate lawyers had technical issues. For over half the can…
video version - not a fan of the Pixel 4a front camera
In August 2024, Google was found to have abused its web search monopoly. In November 2024, the US Department of Justice proposed forcing Google to sell off the Chrome web browser — the moat around …
It’s not just Microsoft slowing down on data centres — it’s Amazon too. Eric Luebchow, an analyst at Wells Fargo, put out a note yesterday: [Seeking Alpha] Over the weekend, we heard from several i…
David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
https://davidgerard.co.uk/