Toroid

I wasn’t disagreeing with you. I was just joining the conversation.

I think you mean, then, that you didn’t appreciate the contribution, in which case I wonder why you’re engaging in public discourse just to make it weird and play rhetoric police without substantive rebuttal? But also I don’t care. Have a good evening.

very revealing when people think any woman with any authority is Mommy

Key Arena was a dump that contributed to falling ticket sales for years. The Moda Center is good and has nothing to do with the profitability of the team. The real limiting factor is small market dynamics and that’s what the NBA—not Oregon tax payers—needs to address to lift sales and expand.

2788 families in oregon were served eviction notices in january; a record high, nearly twice pre-pandemic levels.

if you're an oregonian looking for a thirty-second activity to shake your fist and demand policymakers stick up for tenants in these wretched times, here's a really easy action alert:

why is he still on twitter? ditch the nazi site, barry.

It’s the bipartisan anti-corruption era and that sick bastard Epstein has delivered to the people a golden opportunity to tie every rich asshole and self-serving politician to his evil crimes because that’s what thrives within the system they’ve created.

Yup. The vast majority of wealth in that horrendously upticked data point is not liquid. Their lifestyles are funded through debt, not taxable income.

We need several remedies, and to get them we need to make our electeds feel acute pain from taking single a dime from the lawless oligarch class.

whoever thought this was an insult stopped paying attention to culture in 1998

There’s a % of trump voters motivated primarily by mistrust of the establishment and were invested in the idea of trump as an outsider. Now his regime is showing itself to be the most corrupt version of what they hate. Not all of them will admit they were wrong, but it’s a solid set of wedge issues.

Most Americans I’ve ever met don’t take too kindly to being told what they should or shouldn’t do.

shit, there’s at least 100 people on this site that democrats could hire to do snappy shitposting for the cause.

just finding blue eyed men to breed an aryan nation with sex trafficking victims nbd

in their defense, tech bros mainly want these so they can image search girls at the bar

Government phone just ringing but maybe someone here can tell me how much duct tape I need to turn my two 6ft ladders into a 12ft?? I heard if I’m using more than 3 pieces I’m doing it wrong.

I, too, failed to put “pro-pandemic” on my authoritarian GOP bingo card, but it turns out we all failed to fully appreciate their investment in eugenics.

People are losing their minds over our decision to “retire” their chatbot wives, but I’m sure they’ll have totally safe, normal expectations discussing their mortality with our AI doctor. What could go wrong???

Exterior of a Party City, the discount party super store. Window graphics display featuring many threatening looking balloons.

that balloon was a freedom-hating domestic terrorist and DHS needs one bajillion tax dollars to blow up their secret headquarters with lasers

If a primary candidate can’t get to full-throated support for trans rights, they’re reading the wrong room which makes them an idiot in addition to being a shit person.

They were always heading toward move fast and break skulls.

‘Good jobs’ vs. ‘jobs’: Survey experiments can measure the effects of question wording – and more The way polling questions are asked can influence people's answers. Survey experiments are one way to measure the degree to which different questions elicit different answers.

1/3 seemingly don’t mind if US citizens are deported? I never want to underestimate white supremacists, but I do have to wonder how polls like this are presented sometimes. Studies of polling show that fairly small nuances in wording or insufficient context can lead to confusion and sway results.

I mean, the product team did optimize for emotional resonance and it absolutely is a dark pattern intended to drive “engagement” (addiction). I doubt they anticipated people would pretend a chatbot was their wife and lose their minds over it, but they still deserve all the unhinged backlash.

lol I forgot that pam “DOW IS IS IS 50” bondi was the second choice behind “alleged” sex trafficker matt gaetz

Sponsored by the GOP congress. Don’t let voters forget it.

this isn’t the point, but was there really no better surface available?

Yeah, there’s plenty of AI that’s been in use for decades, if we’re talking about the umbrella term.

LLMs have uses. Natural language interaction can be great. They’re just not human replacements, that’s silly. They’re also made and used in some wildly stupid and unethical ways.

I believe in full on karen-style shit fits for good

They’d still have to check source material for anything they write. Which doesn’t eliminate the possibility that they’re forming impressions overall that could be partially based on inaccuracies or miscontextualizations. (You’d think they’d get wise to that risk, but who knows.)

LLMs are “replacing” some jobs, yes—not because they’re really good, but because someone decided they had a captive enough audience to lower quality. Same as outsourcing. (You find lots of those jobs taken by AI are actually just being performed to a lower standard by someone overseas, btw.)

There’s often an unintended anthropomorphic belief that AI “getting better” means getting smarter. It’s not. LLMs don’t possess intelligence. They’re tools that harness language. That’s powerful, but using words isn’t the same as understanding them. It’s a profound and insurmountable limitation.