Tim Maughan

if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

That Samsung AI ad where the guy goes to a museum and his phone tells him about all the art is such a good idea. I hate when you go to museums and they never tell you what any of the stuff is

if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode

both delicious and practical!

one of the things I’ve appreciated about Pluribus - that final exposition scene in the first episode really felt like Gilligan saying “hey don’t worry, this is the set up, this is not a fucking mystery box show”

For me it's the next gen "mystery box" show, so a copy of a copy, smoother edges, less going on, for a generation of people who review movies based on whether "it has a lot of twists and turns" or "it didn't have a lot of twists and turns"

still find myself scratching my head not just about how bad it was, but how much ppl seemed to enjoy it? the best idea in S1 was that the mythology was invented to stop innies going crazy, but they just threw that all out for “it’s real and generations old”? and that the severance tech is old too?

the legend returns with an absolute spanker

shout out to to when I wrote that short story about (amongst other things) celebrity branded finance grifts www.noemamag.com/line-go-up

I know all my mutuals are shitting on this and a lot of people on the post are frowning on this. But it's not enough. The fact that there's still a subset of people that worship this fucking monster genuinely disturbs me.

photo of a monitor running Linux gaming distro Bazzite, with the performance monitor showing both CPU and GPU at 0%

what your computer should be doing when you’re doing nothing on your computer

review of Another World Isn't Possible

am kinda over the damn moon about this review of ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE in The Whitney Review (but you'll have to buy it to see it)

ICE is staging in a garage on Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan ahead of what neighbors believe is a planned large-scale raid of Canal
Street this afternoon.
Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.

tfw you’d temporarily forgotten who the DA of DC was

I just find this really sad. Imagine being so certain that you need slop machines to do your work, that you convince yourself that EVERYBODY must need them.

The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time

ah sorry only done a handful of mods on bazzite so far, and just did them manually. still dual booting with W10 to run MO2 for Skyrim VR :/

I have almost certainly lost more sales to people's bad taste than to piracy over the years lol

Calling authors petit bourgeoisie is indeed insane. We are artisans and we deserve to profit from our labor.

That said, digital piracy has never been shown to represent actual lost sales, and may in fact DRIVE sales. I think authors should cool out about it.

its already nuts out there. I've got a 5 year old Nvidia 3090FE GPU that i bought (used!) 3 years ago. right now they're going for 30-40% more than I paid for it on ebay - just because it has 24gb of VRAM. prob going to sell it and buy a released this year, 30% faster AMD card and make a $300 profit

Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIn...

don't think most ppl get quite how badly the Open AI memory deals are going to raise consumer prices for basically all electronics - consoles, smart phones, GPUs, laptops etc

If you really want/need to buy something, you're probably best doing it ASAP

www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-alt...

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Magician loses password to his hand after RFID chip implant : Storing credentials safely and securely is the real trick

Ooops.

true, but as I understand developers are archiving chat logs to use as training data. so not teaching the LLM you’re using now, but almost certainly being used to train the next iteration

A screen shot of a bleet that says "You know for a FACT this guy has been to a few raves in the 80s. In Chicago. On the SOUTH side. Where house EDM was born 😎🎶"

I think this is appropriate here. Jesus fucking Christ. "House EDM"

piss awful track selection for someone allegedly from chicago

Time for our main story of the week: Chozo Artifacts

Next - try fascism. That should be easy, right?