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by drweevil 1y ago
>How do we share life without enriching billionaires? Indeed, How can we live life without enriching billionaires? You can’t even get sick without doing so. And that is the problem with this late stage capitalism. Every aspect of our l
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by drweevil 1y ago
A major part of the anti-social aspect of the AI hype is that it is profoundly anti-democratic. Resource consumption—power, land, water—-are discussed as if we weren’t in the midst of a climate emergency that affects us all, nor are competi
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by drweevil 1y ago
"Peace Prize Winner Has Supported Trump’s Military Actions in the Caribbean" ( https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/americas/maria-cori... ) From the article: >should Mr. Maduro fall,
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by drweevil 1y ago
In asking this question it seems it would be important to consider the true cost of replacing juniors with AI. What I mean is this: So far none of the big AI providers are turning a profit. There is also talk of greatly increasing the numbe
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by drweevil 1y ago
This was my experience as well while I was stationed in Germany. If you wanted to go downtown, public transport was the clear choice. It was faster, and I didn't have to spend time parking my car. We have a lack of imagination when it
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by drweevil 1y ago
>“I don’t think anyone has hired more people or given more money or supported San Francisco more than I have,” Mr. Benioff said. So that entitles you to call for an invasion of the city? > Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on th
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by drweevil 1y ago
María Coria Machado very much fits the mold of someone approved by exemplars of western neoliberalism. See for example "María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan Margaret Thatcher" ( https://english.elpais.com/internatio
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by drweevil 1y ago
Very highly paid executive complains because the peasants aren't willing to work for nearly nothing. Where have I heard that before. But Ivanovko brings up a great point: manufacturers are making their products difficult to repair, for
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by drweevil 1y ago
And in a Democratic society it is subject to citizen oversight (in principle). We have a right to know, iow.
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by drweevil 1y ago
>The pattern is clear: mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that they’ve abandoned their basic responsibility... I think they are terrified of their bosses, who in turn are terrified of this president. His serial
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by drweevil 1y ago
>U.S. trade authorities also say that, by protecting consumer data that PIX collects, the Brazilian government is hurting American companies that use such information... OMG. Everyone knows that companies steal our data. But to demand th
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by drweevil 1y ago
>The RPi integrated into a keyboard looks very cute. Indeed. And you can still access the GPIO pins for hardware projects. The RPi OS is Linux, derived from Debian, so apps or your favorite programming language are just a 'sudo apt
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by drweevil 1y ago
I too have Spain to thank for being a 'Premature Anti-Fascist'. My mother lived through that war as a teen girl. She lost her father, an uncle, and a brother to Franco, all retribution after the war ended. I've no time for fa
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by drweevil 1y ago
Word. Lots of heartburn between today’s cars and smart tvs. They aren’t really meant to satisfy the needs of the purchaser.
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by drweevil 1y ago
"X, but written in Y!" has always been something of a red flag. We don't need rust versions of solid, well-established projects. It just causes strife within those communities (see Linux kernel), confusion for users, and oppo
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by drweevil 1y ago
Is there such a thing as a left-wing billionaire?
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by drweevil 1y ago
PL. Small web. Builder. NOT AI. The ROI on reading those articles is slim.
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by drweevil 1y ago
No. One can safely infer the semantics, because how we generally use language is what is encoded, and that how is closely related to the semantics. I imagine that this is why so-called "hallucinations" occur, when there is a s
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by drweevil 1y ago
Exactly this. LLMs synthesize language, based solely on statistical data, shorn of semantics. The "magic" happens when we humans re-insert the semantics into the LLM's output--because that is why language is used: to convey m
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by drweevil 1y ago
I intermittently get timeouts when loading Archive.is.
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by drweevil 1y ago
"We hear them everywhere— their bad ideas, their grievances are all amplified." Bridget Todd discusses these guys with her guest Anil Dash on the latest episode of her pod "There Are No Girls on the Internet", if anyone
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by drweevil 1y ago
The UK has been arresting leftists protesting the Gaza genocide with some regularity now. But the Republican/rightists in the US are silent—-not a peep, even—-because they don’t like the speech.
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by drweevil 1y ago
Nvidia is making a profit. Their AI customers are not.
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by drweevil 1y ago
"Prosecutors fail to indict ham sandwich." Ok, I'll let myself out now.
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by drweevil 1y ago
This is embarrassing. The people involved need to take a chill pill--looking at you, Financial Times. A simple go-around caused by a switch from GPS to ILS turns into an international incident, complete with Russian villain, paper maps, and
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by drweevil 1y ago
Indeed. Claimed to be Tren de Aragua. It would be nice if US media actually checked into the existence of that gang, MS13, and any other such bogeymen before taking this (or any) administration's word on anything. At least the Journal
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by drweevil 1y ago
Agreed. Passkeys are not as simple and straightforward as their proponents make them out to be. They are device and vendor dependent. They'll work with one browser, but perhaps not another one. Or device. Or app/web-site. Or passw
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by drweevil 1y ago
If two entities--one an "AI", one a real, thinking person--happen to say the same thing, one is a stochastic parrot, and one isn't. The "real, thinking" part is what makes all the difference. We use language to comm
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by drweevil 1y ago
Great question, been asking myself that for a while as well (no sarcasm, I swear). After all, why not take our natural language instructions and output perfect machine code? Why mess with the HUMAN interface to programming a computer? Well,
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by drweevil 1y ago
> “No one my age wants AI. No one is excited about it,” she told me of her high-school-age peers. > OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was telling he US Federal Reserve’s board of governors... > Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Axios he believes

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