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Dear tech bros (and it is bros pulling this shit),

For fucks sake, no. No. NO!

FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS--NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

MY ANSWER IS NOT CHANGING.

EVER.

I DO NOT WANT TO USE YOUR SHIT AI FEATURES.

They are energy wasting garbage.

They are invasions of privacy.

They are theft.

GO AWAY!

... and of course it's completely clouded in and raining here...

This is why I get annoyed when people try to compare US and Chinese incarceration numbers. China doesn't incarcerate people, they execute them.

Like, lots of the drug stuff that fills US prisons; in China, that's death.

If they're mentioning it in their profile, it's probably the later.

Probably something like 3M 434. It's ~$250 for a "normal duct tape size" roll and will take your skin off if you touch it wrong.

Honestly, it's kind of a pain in the ass to work with.

I mean, in terms of "things an angry mob can do to you at the South Pole" it sounds like he got off pretty light.

Wait, isn't "the microwave" how you're expected to cook them?

That just seems like bad packaging/product design on their part.

Excel is the third-best tool for any computing job.

The best tool is prohibitively expensive and the second-best hasn't been updated to work on anything newer than Windows XP (when the sole developer died).

And no one around him liked him enough to go "you should probably keep that thought to yourself" before he went public with it

If not in actual age, definitely in demeanor.

My guess would be it's the MacBook Air M5 refresh. Drop MSRP to the $800-$850 street price the current M4 base models are perpetually on sale for and they're right in the mix with 16GB RAM Chromebooks.

We're in a bizarro world where Apple offers the best value* in computers.

*base models only

I think you’re overestimating people in general and Democratic leadership in particular.

Convincing their voters that others are to blame for the problems they created is the modern GOP’s core competency. They are exceptionally good at it.

Democrats meanwhile can’t even get a unified “that wasn’t us” message out.

I would assume she does. But (I’d hope) when you’re an org who’s cheesy insta posts can start shooting wars, you don’t assume anything.

To be fair, a significant portion of the people “on welfare“ that I meet are racist, white, shitheads so I can see how thinking about who it benefits could reduce support.

Imagine being NATO and using Taylor Swift without clearing it with her.

People think China and Russia are scary, nah, an army of pissed off Swifties would be the nightmare scenario.

Booo! Boo on you! This ”dark before dinner” stuff is bullshit of the highest order!

So, this is even more fucked than it seems at first blush.

That rule exists so stores don’t price gouge the SNAP system. I have *never* heard of USDA having any issue with a “SNAP price“ being *lower*… and yeah, that’s a thing (not saying more because we’re dealing with assholes).

If you’ve got friends in the Seattle area, have them check Uwajimaya’s and T&T Supermarket for you (or come to @hushcon.com).

It’s bizarre the things you miss when you stop having a reason to do them.

Voice changing is one of the things the current gen-ai models are actually good at an there’s plenty of Swift material to train on…

The problem is that in opening up the definition and diagnostic criteria from the *extremely* constrained “Autism” to the much broader “Autism Spectrum Disorder“ the APA went a bit too far. Now you’ve got diagnostic and symptom overlap with just about everything so ”it’s ASD” became the easy answer.

“Do you mean the ‘ethically sourced fur’ wardrobe and furnishings?

It’s a free upgrade. You’re welcome.” - The Dogs

And you should never, ever, ever expose the bare metal to a white vinegar + hydrogen peroxide + salt mixture.

Definitely no one should ever do that.

That’s because the vast majority are owned by their cultists and the opposition is actively working to disarm themselves.

But then how would people know it’s our own super serious special threatening threaty threat and not like everyone else‘s “not at all threaty because they don’t involve computers” scams?

He’s not wrong in that LLMs can pass Turing tests. It just turns out playing “the imitation game“ is kind of a crap proxy for measuring if something can think.

Dude was brilliant, but I think it’s time we acknowledge that one as a miss.

Agreed. It’s good in its own right, it just isn’t “bacon” and it’s never going to live up to that level of expectation.

If you're reading this, you're "three-hops" from this dude:
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Which brings us back to "don't let developers..."

*no shade, left to my own devices I prioritize "the fun thing" too