alexander solsten

I loved the book! The miniseries was pretty alright too!

Hahahaha love it

Which of his books should I read? I’ve always wanted to

This is sick. Would be a cool project in a lot of cities

I don’t think it’s helpful to criticize people who rightfully point out the obvious errors. Ok so LLMs use different logic? Good stuff, still fucking wrong so much of the time. Not to mention the points you raised above. There’s many better uses for AI than “making people dumber, faster”

I was saying to my friends last night that I am so paranoid when I let my cats on the balcony occasionally (even though I have netting) that it doesn’t bode well for my anxiety levels should I ever decide to have children 😅

Agreed on everything but good luck on getting traction with an admin focused on the race to the bottom 😬

Bold of you to call it hair

I need someone to come take pics of me in my Off Duty Megalomaniac pose, please

Okay so you’re saying you have no idea who actually voted for Trump then, you’re just making up people in your head? I’m not trying to be argumentative but I don’t think you’re grasping the realities at hand lol

This goes for so much of metal lol. Like for example I love Death, one of my fav metal bands ever but sometimes I listen to the lyrics and I’m like “what on earth are you talking about” hahaha. But that is such a minor complaint in the grand scheme of things there are far worse examples

That is an incredible misreading of the situation. Who do you think Trump’s base is? Uneducated whites that are somehow also wealthy?? Where are you getting this from lol

Bottom line, social issues are the #1 tool in the playbook to distract us from the fact that we’re all being exploited equally. There’s nothing to be gained by making reductive arguments that eliminate entire sectors of society as potential allies against fascism/billionaires

The fascist agenda uses these inequalities to exploit fears and cut education so it’s less likely that common understanding will be achieved. It’s happened before and it’s happening now

No one is culturally or genetically predisposed to hatred. That’s the part you’re missing. Yes it can be cultivated but it doesn’t happen without pre-existing material conditions that create these scapegoats. When I talk to the avg RW voter I hear a shitload of shared values about inequality

If you truly believe that certain groups of people are predisposed to hatred then you have already lost the plot and quite honestly, that’s just as bad on your end

That is an extremely narrow-minded way to look at it. Reducing the election of right wing governments to “white male fragility” lacks so much nuance I don’t even know where to start. How about here: a shitload of Hispanics voted for Trump. Bigotry is a symptom not a cause.

Where is Cuba’s money? Secret records show the military has massive cash hoard In the midst of the misery plaguing the island, the Cuban military has dollar reserves larger than the international reserves of nations like Costa Rica, Uruguay and Panama.

Money means(remaining in) power. Cuba’s military has a massive cash hoard: as much as $18 billion — an amount larger than the international reserves of nations like Costa Rica, Uruguay and Panama — even as the country founders in a protracted economic collapse. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Although there’s much more to think about if you desire, this post is a very good starting point if you’re looking for a reasoned and realistic viewpoint on what actually happened in 1945 @segyges.bsky.social

There’s always been a direct link between inequality and people exploiting it for ill gains whether that’s for profit or otherwise. I’ve been saying for years now that the time is ripe for someone to step up and catch the people who are falling rightward simply bc they feel they don’t have a choice

Yeah I know I just don’t get how it’s possible to fail so miserably at what should be a very basic function lol. Have a nice evening man!

Off to work a bussing shift tonight at my friends restaurant, hope everyone has a great Friday night 😎

I don’t get the point of this though. You can already look up lists of Nova Scotia premiers etc and it doesn’t seem like it should be *that* difficult to generate an image/caption grid. Completely broken technology

Meta AI doesn’t even understand its capabilities

This was one my favourites trying to get Meta AI to do shit, constantly claiming it can’t produce images and then producing shit like this 😂 (the emoji accent is mine obviously)

*bodget

It’s not theft if you’re training your AI algorithm

“YOU WOULDN’T TRAIN YOUR ALGORITHM ON A CAR”

Jag älskar kaffe och att spela baseboll

#svenska #solsten #DuolingoPosting

Manhattan blackout. Hurricane Sandy October 2012

Unforgettable experience and thankfully we were staying in bushwick, but it turned a 3 day trip into a 8 day slog to try and get out of the city because all buses planes and trains were cancelled lol

Hahahaha FUCK that must’ve been what I was doing when I took a last minute trip to NYC in October 2012 without reading the news….”12 degrees and raining? Sounds alright enough to me!”

Get on the Amtrak and start talking to this lady and she’s like “uh you know there’s a hurricane coming right?” 😂

Just think of it like grabbing fries straight out of the fryer with your bare hands…first couple times it hurts like hell and then all your nerve endings start to die and you(r fingers) can’t feel pain anymore 😅

#JustNormalLineCookThings