Adrian Smith

True now, but the hardware and models will improve.

I hoped that getting a "certificate of citizenship" would be an easy/cheap alternative, but it turns out it is a hard/expensive alternative.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Pendragon? Ars Magica?

Hypothetically if someone was accused of having sex with goats by over 30 different people and regularly denied it, but also dropped very public hints about how much he liked to have sex with goats for decades, and ran a goat pageant to find the best looking goats, and was best friends with someone who got convicted of fucking goats and trafficking goats to friends all over the world who also liked to fuck goats, and his name was in the classified goat fucker chronicles 5,000 times, and he wished other goat fuckers well in prison, what do you think the odds are that person is also a goat fucker?

Chevron's Gorgon CCS project is the biggest and ‘best’ carbon and capture project in the world.

Gas processed there emits 36x more than the CO2 stored.
@ketanjoshi.co #auspol

Even computer games can be reading, some of them have more words than a novel.

This is a pet peeve of mine!

I think it just lets you install an LLM locally should you want, it doesn't install one for you. So no harm leaving it there.

In USA, sales to poor and middle class are well down, so either people have woken up (unlikely) or the economy is in very bad shape.

Personally, I’d pay for a button I can press that issues an increasingly strong electrical shock to whoever added the “try ai!” buttons to things I use

I'm coming to love the DuckDuckGo AI summary answers, despite myself.

I believe it is due to that great movie, Mr Smith goes to Washington

Nice. Would have been handy -- I just finished running an RPG campaign based on BSG.

It's a good title.

Apparently we've recently crossed the 50% line, where now over half of posts and blogs are written by AI.

sumo wrestler is handed a giant bottle of soy sauce

This looks like I made it with AI but no, when the sumo wrestler won the big tournament today at the Royal Albert Hall he was gifted a gigantic bottle of soy sauce.

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.

“An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a ‘perp walk’ of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras.” Via Reuters

Same here, did my calf muscle, trying to get back into exercise

I've heard LLMs described as automated mansplaining, so this doesn't surprise as much as it might.
BBC needs to fix itself though

Great book

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Satire is the undoing of AI.

Isn't there a footpath star for Trump that's in LA and accessible with a jackhammer?

Stormtrooper-ass looking cops standing in front of a giant donut.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Soundcloud claims the right to train AI on all your songs — but swears it hasn’t yet, honest Soundcloud is a site where musicians can host their music. On Thursday 9 May, Bluesky user Thomas Brunet noticed something in the Soundcloud terms of service: [Bluesky; Soundcloud] You explicitly a…

Soundcloud claims the right to train AI on your songs — but swears it hasn’t yet, honest

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I hate doing it, but sometimes it has to be done. Sympathies.

Happy birthday

Not so much, but I do have friends who love completely different genres.