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“This feels like a return to Meta’s old days of overspending on things that are frivolous or which don’t have appropriate return demands tied to them,” said Tiffany Wade, senior portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, which has about $714 billion in assets. “Investors are losing patience.”

Play the god damn theme song

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Area Man Afraid Some Woman Might Come Out Of The Woodwork To Hold Him Accountable For Something

Area Man Afraid Some Woman Might Come Out Of The Woodwork To Hold Him Accountable For Something https://theonion.com/area-man-afraid-some-woman-might-come-out-of-the-woodwo-1820345646/

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

Weird Little Guys by @socialistdogmom.bsky.social is podcast perfection but this line especially had me choking with the “anyway so back to…” of it all. Hahahahah podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

The CEO of NVIDIA has to tell the president of the USA to not invade San Francisco? What the Fuck is this timeline.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Suomessa asuvat tyypit hoi! Kansalaisaloite ei-binäärisen, juridisen sukupuolimerkinnän lisäämiseksi lakiin on nyt julkaistu, kävin allekirjoittamassa 💛🤍💜🖤

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Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Niin sitä taas oppii uutta sinitaivaalla: fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4...

The image is a six panel black and white comic. Panel 1- A little girl yells, "I'm tired of all this! I wish I were a cat!" Panel 2- Someone from off screen says, "You wouldn't be able to open things!" To which the girl, now in the form of a cat jumping replies, "That's okay! I could jump really high!" Panel 3- The person now says, "You wont be able to eat candy!" The cat-girl replies, "Yeah but I could climb really good!" Panel 4- The person says, "You wouldn't be able to play video games." The cat girl starts to reply with "I-" but stops. Panel 5- The cat girl is deep in thought Panel 6- The girl, now back in her human form, is still deep in thought. In the bottom right corner there is a watermark that says "Shubbabang"

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

9-1-1 s8 e09. Basically.

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases WASHINGTON, UT—As he described a massive backlog of murders that continued to stump the agency he leads, desperate FBI director Kash Patel reportedly asked the family of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin ...

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff.

It’s worth noting that these claims came before any evidence at all about the shooter emerged. This is a textbook example of agenda-setting 101, showing how MAGA Republicans have borrowed a strategy from the Kremlin’s authoritarian playbook.

10/18

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

maria... i've been thinking the same...

Yup -- it was said in happier times, but the fundamental wisdom of Dave Barry still applies: "someone who is nice to you and a jerk to the waiter is NOT a nice person."

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Yksityislääkärien Kela-korvaukset: hallituksen uudistus lähes kolmin­kertaisti kulut, mutta käynnit eivät juuri kasva Hallitus korotti yksityis­lääkärikäyntien tukia kannustaakseen ihmisiä julkiselta yksityiseen hoitoon. Verorahat valuvat muutoinkin yksityis­lääkärissä käyville ja terveysjäteille.

Jostain syystä esimerkiksi minä osasin ennustaa tämän lopputuloksen paremmin kuin pääministeri ja muut ministerit, joilla ainakin teoriassa pitäisi olla pääsy parhaisiin tietoihin.
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Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

-"Moi! Sattuuko tatuoinnin ottaminen?" -"Moi! Riippuu alueesta." -"Olen turusta."

Tässä tapauksessa sattuu varmasti.

This is the real story here btw. Not a single article about the "talent war" actually breaks down why these scientists are so special, mostly because nobody really understands what they do, including Meta and OpenAI. This is two billionaires blindly picking guys and handing them money for no reason