Dr. Dabbles

More and more, I find myself saying this. The only correct response is, "Shut the fuck up". Cops being losers, Epstein defenders, "ai" ghouls. Just reply "shut the fuck up".

From Ken's lips to every god's ears. Anyone implementing electronic vents in 2026 deserves all the bad in the world.

I instantly judge anyone that recommends "Clean Code" by uncle Bob. I know I'm not supposed to, but I do. #programmers deserve better, and #developers require better.

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.

Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

Hey look. These people are defending child fuckers. And we should say so.

It's probably easy to overestimate given one side's entire policy is to burn the world down and everywhere you look it's currently on fire.

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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My Patience | FML-426 | End of Mission

Having watched the state not just slide right, but go over the cliff like an avalanche, has blown my mind. The influx of anti-government weirdos from outside states since 2012 has been crazy.

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Curious what your deeper take is here. I see this as when you are free of consequence, you resort to your most base behavior. These people continue to face no real consequences, they didn't hide their behavior, and the victims are still in danger.

It's already been 60 years of this nonsense.

A 2000 kcal diet is 2.3 kWh per day. This is so stupid on its face that even his most hyperventilating fan should see it's another scam. Yet here we are.

This is a bad take and you should feel embarrassed.

Feeding your token guesser a stream of racist, sexist, homophobic content guarantees its output would fundamentally be biased. Like. What?

Grammar checkers existed long before the LLM token guesser dogshit. They just made it less efficient and less deterministic by stealing the world's data, energy, and money.

I've said Doctorow wasn't worth listening to for decades, because he waffles on his takes depending on audience, and doesn't seem to take meaningful positions on actually important topics. His LLM takes finally have people seeing what I see.

the "open source LLMs running locally" idea is very naive

nobody in the OS community has the resources to build an LLM "from scratch" - mainly ppl use a variant of Llama - meta's LLM - trained on stolen data that was cleaned by underpaid workers in global south - and thus exhibit the same biases

A point made by a moron that doesn't know anything. Cool.

Tell it to do the most mind numbing simple shit anyone can do, correct it countless times, give up correcting it and do the thing myself.

"vibe coded"

Dumbest shit imaginable, and people clap like wind-up monkeys about it.

Neither of those first two points are correct. We don't just use our eyes, and we are fantastic at driving when sober and attentive. We've demonstrated almost infinite flexibility in adopting tools.

There's almost certainly been more than that, and Tesla has just covered the stories up. They're very savvy at getting their social media marketing team to flood the web with cover so the search engines don't pick up the real stories.

The best part of normal people buying Teslas has been the refusal to silently settle with the company out of court.

The Last Idiot Who Earnestly Believes in the American Experiment Still left out of the joke, even now.

Why don't the people of the Twin Cities just stay home and let DHS do as it pleases? Speaking only for himself, Mike Somes explains that he personally does it because he is an idiot who does it because he failed to realize that all that talk about inalienable rights was an elaborate joke all along.

On top of just misrepresenting the data, it also ignores the possibility of entire data set of children receiving blockers not for dysphoria reasons. Like, this is why initial raw numbers are useless to anyone but researchers.

Agreed, and this makes me question all of their reporting even if this was just some quote attribution tool.

I feel like the story here is that writing staff is ignoring guidelines and using AI tools to create slop. How does that staff not see this as devaluing their work? How common is this at Ars, and what does their policy say about recourse?

P4 is one of those things that I've always wanted to apply to a dozen problem spaces, but for whatever reason never have.

BROKE: installing a bidet for a cleaner ass

BESPOKE: installing a bidet so you can wash down your meal

This in particular is just called an economy.