Sailor Sega Saturn @ sailor_sega_saturn @awful.systems

I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the bles

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Google Translate having a normal one after I accidentally typed some German into the English side:

What's the over/under on an LLM being involved here?

(Aside: translation is IMO one of the use cases where LLMs actually have some use, but like any algorithmic translation there are a ton of limitations)

I "ugly cried" (I prefer the term "beautiful cried") at the last episode of Sailor Moon and it was such an emotional high that I've been chasing it ever since.

Thursday--that liminal day that tastes of almost-Friday

Beep boop... training data located

Sweet mother of Roko it's an infohazard!

I never really realized that before.

Without a captcha the AIs would be trained on cutting edge AI alignment research like "videogames are unintuitive sometimes", and this would greatly increase the chance of P(Doom).

In completely unrelated news my dad texted me out of the blue to ask what percentage of my investments are international and saying he was re-balancing.

During the trial, Penny’s defense brought in a forensic pathologist who claimed that Neely hadn’t died from being choked but from a “combination of his schizophrenia, synthetic marijuana, sickle cell trait and the struggle from being in Penny’s restraint,

I get that defense attorneys have to work with what they have but goodness am I tired of this argument.

"Your honor the deceased did not die from being shot through the temple, but due to having chronic migraines and exposure to second hand smoke 3 years ago and also walking towards the bullet thus increasing it's relative velocity slighty"

Ziz helpfully suggested I use a gun with a potato as a makeshift suppressor, and that I might destroy the body with lye

I looked up a video of someone trying to use a potato as a suppressor and was not disappointed.

The final race to bubble collapse AGI is afoot so Sergey Brin thinks his workers should work 60 hours a week, and churn out LLM assisted code, and be in the office "at least" 5 days a week https://9to5google.com/2025/02/27/sergey-brin-google-agi/

Of course most people don't have enough money to hire an army of assistants, they have friends and family that they actually like, or they have aspirations beyond babysitting shitty Gemini output every waking hour to further enrich billionaires at the expense of their own health.

But no no, he's right! Those lazy 40-hour workers (the ones who dodged layoffs so far anyway) are doing the bare minimum and have poor work ethic!

US techno-fascism roundup part the fourth:

1. DOGE is reportedly using AI to assess the "what did you do last week" bullet points form all federal workers
2. Their privacy impact assessment for this had this to say

   The individual federal government employees can opt out simply by not responding to the email

   But Mr. Musk apparently forgot about this as he threatens to fire everyone who won't respond (stuff like maternity leave be damned I guess)
3. A particularly unhappy person got an AI generated video of Trump sucking Musk's toes to display on TVs in government buildings.
4. Hey firing people is hard. I know, what if we got the computers to fire people for us!

Help an unaligned cigar smoking super boss baby got out in Chicago and put that baby's spell on me to force me to work at a paperclip factory :(

The interviewer gave only softball questions and most everything here has been said before. You don't lose anything by skipping it.

SBF is now on team tear down the administrative state tho:

I've grown I think over time more sympathetic to the chainsaw

Excuse me but I need the tech industry to hold up just long enough to fulfill my mid-life-crisis goal of moving to another country. Please refrain from crashing until then.

Thanks.

Usually SSN yes. In recent years airports and secure federal buildings are starting to require "real IDs" / star cards which are state IDs which meet federal identity verification requirements. I couldn't be bothered with all that since I already have a passport so my driver's license says "Federal Limits Apply".

For thinks like bank loans, state IDs are widely accepted.

OK this is just my unresearched opinion as an American but I really don't know what I'm talking about so keep that in mind and treat it as vibes more than research. It's messy and I haven't learned about any of it since highschool (and my highschool left a lot of important parts out):

Media companies continue to impress me with their hard-hitting investigative boots on the ground reporting

Write a brief article titled "ICE Prosecutor Linked to Anonymous White Supremacist X Profile: Report"

The worst part is I can't tell if that's not meant to be taken literally or if it is.

Relevant political cartoon (though I feel gross after looking at it)