Ruby, pretty ape machine

It's crazy how many people Working In Tech are genuinely illiterate when it comes to technology. I mean, it explains a lot, and I should have known there's no such thing as a meritocracy for years now but... really? You didn't know water + electronics = bad??? Of course you think AI is the future

yes, part of dismantling capitalism is going to include marching all the ceos and shareholders of all these companies to the guillotines, I don't know what part of that is hard for you to understand ron

What's funny is that I didn't know about the Amazon/Anthropic relationship until now. But the story is such shameless PR that I decided to google it. I knew there had to be something. So I typed in "amazon relationship with anthropic." Et voila!

Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion The cloud giant holds convertible notes in Anthropic. As the AI startup raises more money, this debt converts to equity.

If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.

awww, Roxy so pretty

This is such an important piece of journalism right now; kudos to Cosmo for having more courage than the rest of the British media combined.

oh this guy has to go

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maybe I'll do a reading of each of the stories, but in increasingly unhinged voices as the tone of the book goes from dark to comedic

now my good laptop has died and I'm stuck back on an older one that's nearing 10 years old and still trying to figure out some way to generate income with my rapidly decreasing resources and y'all, it's kinda a fuckin drag, y'know?

at the rate things are going, I'm never gonna get on SSI for my disability; so capitalism demands I continue grinding out labor I'm no longer capable of performing to stay alive, and every time I think I got a ray of hope, something breaks or gets stolen or someone I trusted attacks me with a weapon

was gonna keep workin' part time for my friend, but the IRS decided to fuck w/him since they no longer audit anyone rich enough to have lawyers on staff and he did an oops when he was trying to sell off all his stock in retirement accounts before the market completely collapses and he loses it all

I was gonna do a lot more painting, do art tutorial videos, but my fuckin' wacom tablet's USB port broke while it was shoved in storage

was gonna start making costuming and cosplay how-to vids, but the sewing machine got stolen

was gonna do star trek model building, but the 3d printer got stolen

if I could just get a steady income of like $500/mo, I could save up and eventually replace most of the things he took, but rn I can't afford any big expenditures when I don't know if I'm gonna be able to afford rent and bills next month

honestly the biggest and most life changing thing thing I could get right now is just a steady income each month thru subscriptions, but with my ex roommate having stolen so many of the things I was gonna use for doing a prop and costume making youtube channel, I gotta find something else

I'm tryin' to come up with ideas to make some kinda "content" I can sell or make some income with, cuz while I'm capable of livin' off a couple hundred bucks in donations a month, I'd really rather not keep begging ppl for money cuz I know others need it more

I only know of the king in yellow from it's inclusion as part of the cthulhu mythos; does it predate lovecraft?

Boosting this, thanks all

Trans girls gassing each other up all time way to spend a night

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

service members across all forces of the US military always have the choice to be real heroes and truly serve the people of this world

yeah, if you look at the architecture, all this current LLM stuff is just the same kinds of word prediction we used to use markov chains for, just run thru a neural net trained on a lot of material written by real people to fine tune it's predictions; it's fancy but it's still just predictive algos

I’m a bit shocked that it’s taken so long for people to realize LLM’s are a huge scam because it’s something I always knew with minimal tangential knowledge.

Like, I dropped out of undergrad degree on math and that taught myself HTML at 11 years old, I’m *math smart* but also just a random person.

which kinda sucks cuz my fav type of horror is existential cosmic horror, and anything newer is gonna still be within it's copyright period

for horror stories, I know poe and lovecraft are public domain, I don't suppose there's any other good sources of appropriately horrific stories that are public domain? would really rather not do readings of a buncha stuff from the latter, given what he was notorious for

I'm thinking of looking up vintage sci-fi and horror stories that are public domain and recording audiobooks of them, since doing weird/funny voices has always been fun for my echolalia-having ass

I think it would be fun to narrate in strange or scary voices, especially for creepy stories

In case you needed any more proof that corporate media is built on a foundation of white supremacy...

Don't forgot how in October this past year young republican chats got leaked and showed rhetoric that was on par with this. This is a feature not a bug for the GOP.

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

if you feel fundamentally undesirable you can fill that yawning hole in your heart 10kg of high flow petg filament