Tony, Supervisor at Nubby's Number Factory

This thread reminded me of how much I hated Mewgenics, how much I wish I liked Disco Elysium, and how badly Breath of the Wild bounced off of me.

"Stand on business, defend trans people, don't let the bigots think they are normal or right or accepted. The rest is out of your control." A line that's gonna sit with me for a while.

Things must be going really badly for the slop machines if they're busy doing Weekly World News crap like this to try to convince people that Markov chains can do more than write bad code and drive people nuts.

This game rules and you should play it.

Even if this was true (it isn't), the issue that it would be pointing to is the degradation of social sciences, not some nebulous "rise of AI" slopaganda.

The point of this whole shitshow is, once again, pretending that LLMs can do things that they cannot do. The whole deal is pure advertising slop.

Hockey draws the very worst out of people. It's a rotten sport built on rotten people rotting their sons with putrid dreams of pointless brutality. Maybe we in Canada can learn from this and stop lionizing the mediocre sons of cops and robbers.

No small part of what I look forward to after the fall of OpenAI is the end of this slopaganda. It's little more than ragebait and it permanently damages my opinion about any institution craven enough to publish it.

They aren't. They're probability models. Hope that helps!

Thanks for reading!

Bonus bit: because you don't have your own desk, it's quite likely that you don't even work near your team even if you're in the same building! If you wanted downtown Ottawa to not suck, getting rid of the $20 Sysco "lunch" slingers that prey on civil servants would be a great start.

Please be a crypto grift please be a crypto grift please please please anything but running for office...

"A budget is a statement of our values" is weapons-grade summarization of a concept that too easily hides in shadow. Zohran's communication style is truly something else (good).

The Democrats think Ezra Klein is a voice of reason. Unserious party. The liberal nobility do not understand the world and we should not take their guidance.

The sans culottes in the United States are beginning to realize that they don't need the liberal nobility to push for needed reform. Schumer, like Lafayette before him, will fail to meet the moment and quite likely be brushed aside. The liberal nobles' offer is no longer acceptable.

This is really one of those "READ THE ARTICLE" moment. They want AI companies to use a dedicated API and PAY to get Wikipedia content instead of just scraping it as regular traffic. That's all.

Grew up near Deshkaan-ziibi (Antler River), also known as the Thames by people who haven't learned the Ojibwe name for it. It is a much-abused river that deserves far better than it gets.

Meanwhile, in a country that isn't a de facto vassal of the United States... Rare is the time that I say I wish Canada behaved more like the United Kingdom, but, just this once, you gotta give it to them.

The only plausible reason to continue using the harassment site is to placate our political overlords. Shameless capitulation from a shameless political party.

Was not expecting to have my Canada-skepticism validated in a video about Jarhead, but here we are. Thanks, Dan! (Folding Ideas is brilliant and every video is a day-one watch for me).

Shit like this doesn't cut it. Using a platform is a form of support for said platform. You don't get to have it both ways. Leave the fascist slop-app and stop wasting my taxpayer dollars on having your posts throttled by a drugged-up billionaire.

What does this defeatism seek to accomplish? An inability to fathom a better world based on half-baked understandings of procedure serves nothing so much as it does the forces of reaction.

Canada has always been a master of marketing. We're so good at lying to ourselves that we've transformed Merrie Canada into an (Anglo) national identity. The problem is that this starry-eyed branding makes reform challenging and expressing our troubles internationally almost impossible.

This response to a NYTimes "reporter" requesting the murder footage shows more spine than the entire Democratic Party.

"I demand a meeting with the people who have repeatedly lied to me" is an...interesting strategy. Chuckles and Carnage working on out-Quisling one another.

Ronald Reagan was a monster who inflicted decades of suffering on the world. He was a conman and a liar. His regime is topped only by Trump's and Andrew Johnson's in terms of damage caused to the Union. Democrats need to keep Reagan in the cold, wet ground where he belongs.

Wow, @schumer.senate.gov, what a brilliant play!

If you hoard, say, Nintendo Power magazines such that you can no longer navigate your living space, you are considered unwell and in need of treatment. If you hoard money, you're seen as a paragon of virtue and someone who needs to be taken seriously. Make it make sense (impossible challenge).

The Disney/OpenAI deal is a story meant to suggest that OpenAI is "making money", and it's important to remember that $1B is nowhere close to profitability for the money-burning machine that everyone hates.

A country where the colonial governor has carte blanche because most votes mean nothing and the major parties are closed aristocracies is not a healthy country. People don't like Carney; they simply have no alternative. We'd rather bleed out than have our heads cut off.

I like spending other people's money. I like Bolts. Simple as.

Climate-related cartography: "so, are we like *screwed screwed* with this whole climate change thing?", because it is almost invariably followed by some iteration of "I don't buy that humans can really do that much to the climate, you know?".

An added bit: if you're a kid and you don't adhere to these things, like I didn't, you're set up for a childhood of bullying. Solnit's "straitjacket with a gun" is foisted on the little ones from the jump.

People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are. How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.

Working at Starbucks in downtown Ottawa 15+ years ago to help stretch the money at the end of the month was a more physically and mentally exhausting job than my current one and it isn't close. And Starbucks is *designed* to be as seamless as possible!

"Sacrifices" for everyone except the wealthy and powerful. A more avowedly radical NDP promising a wealth tax could probably claw a lot of turf back once the elbows up crowd realizes that they got got by Mark Carney.

At this rate you could show up to your campaign launch announcement wearing nothing but tattered boxer shorts and say "yeah, my opponent, uh, whatstheirface, uh, they suck ass. Go me!" and probably have a floor of 20% in voting intentions among Democrats.

Chuck Schumer's next post on this website might well be the most ratio'd post to ever exist here.

This reminds me of the Australian consumer affairs show The Checkout. It was on ABC and I saw it through YouTube. Very Leslie Knope-kinda thing (affectionate) that taught people about their consumer rights. It was cute!

Great and correct observation. This is part of why I think I am more skeptical of "angry progressive" candidates (Fetterman comes to mind) than I am "earnest progressive" candidates (Mamdani).

I feel like doing "if you don't like LLMs you're bigoted" is a pale horse for the entire slop machine industry. This is the last stand of the desperate. For the record: no, you can't be bigoted towards a calculator, whether it calculates words or numbers.

Holy shit is this guy washed. "You deserve better than dying" is about as inspiring a sentiment to rally around as cottage cheese. If the Democrats can't primary and turf this bum, they might as well walk themselves to jail.

Being labelled as "Antifa" (whatever that is) and stomped out of existence by nervous executives may be the only way that SNL could be relevant in the 21st century. On that note, why is our society run by craven mediocrities whose power comes from craven institutions?

Please, for the love of God, primary and bin Chuck Schumer. Dude and his imaginary friends absolutely do not get it, and at this point it has to be willfully so.

The French took four tries to get to a modern republic. No shame in starting from scratch. True for both Canada and the United States.

"See the primitive wallflower freeze/When the jelly-faced women all sneeze/Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees"" - Bob Dylan, Voices of Johanna Dunno why but it reeks of "we live in a society" to me. Not a Dylan guy, I guess.

I saw Gordon Lightfoot in a cafe in Ontario some 15 years ago. Walked up to him and said, "hey, you're Gordon Lightfoot!", to which he responded "I sure hope so". Didn't have much more to say, but he was a lovely fellow in that brief interaction.