What even are these platforms? Why would anyone use them?

And those “real” posts

Albert Einstein

At this point, it’ll cause a disaster and they’ll still keep going.

Yep there is a deep attachment amongst AI boosters to certain doom and gloom scenarios that stem from their philosophical “think tanks” which use imaginary problems (e.g. “AGI ‘misalignment’ destroying the world through turning everything into paperclips”) to lobby and alter our laws to benefit their real bosses – anthropic, open ai, and friends.

Profitability has pretty much nothing to do with stock prices these days.

Never seen more definitive proof that there’s “no there there” then when this fucking asshole acts like this is a big deal.

Love how we’re setting a low bar for 2028 two years ahead of time and without having a candidate first. 👍

The infinite scroll goes hand in hand with that type of algorithm. Even if there isn’t more content, some versions of the infinite scroll keep loading assorted shit you’ve already seen before.

It’s also part and parcel of a mindset switch from looking at some content on a fixed number of pages and then moving on with your day, to pushing the screen up forever even if you’ve already seen most of it.

It also usually makes it so that you cannot bookmark the state, and the state often reloads fresh when you hit back and you’ve lost what you’re looking at.

In other words: it fucking sucks and I hate it.

Because all infinite scrolling does is remove to annoyance of hitting next page

That is definitely not all it does.

YouTube comments are almost never worth reading in the first place (top comment is usually: who is here in <<current year>>? 😆). I never look at the descriptions, and the only time I watch YouTube is for either music videos or concert captures or links someone has sent me. Congrats YouTube, I don’t care about any of the features you turned off.

I thought about lying on my last report but decided to not. At this point they’re going to have to fire me if they can’t accept the truth. I’m not lying to save my skin.

Yeah, I don’t get too deep into that game. I do have some higher-ish quality headphones and speakers though. I also find that subwoofers are largely underrated by audio snobs.

Not here to argue I can hear the difference, because I can’t. But in audio collecting where the size and burden of even large lossless files isn’t much different from lossy files, why care? I download the flac files and compress upon delivery to the client where the space might be of a larger concern.

Hitzig said a potential “erosion of OpenAI’s own principles to maximise engagement” might already be underway at the firm.

Um, hate to break it to you bud, but there were no principles to erode.

I’ve seen many boomers either stare at their feet or the ceiling & they have no clue how to solve their situation because they are disoriented. Same with young kids learning.

Any last words, Jim?

The Republican party is not a monolith guys, it’s made up of several distinct groups such as child rapists and child rapist enablers.

Reddit went past the level of shit that I was willing to tolerate. What I find amazing is how little I miss it.

The little, plastic gnomes of coloration

Yes, in the same way most Germans didn’t seem to know that the SS camps were death camps, it’s very possible – if not probable – that these places are either death camps already, or going to become death camps very soon.

There’s a reason that the administration is so cagey about allowing Democratic politicians in to see the facilities. The other thing is that concentration camps never start as explicit death camps, and the first casualties are always from things like lack of food and disease. Nothing about this suggests any differently.

A question to nobody in particular: would it be possible to make license plate covers that are made out of the same material as those anti-facial recognition glasses?