In fairness, they haven’t waited to be in cahoots with fascists to harm us. They’ve been at it for at least a quarter century at this point. It’s just that the fascist regime turbocharges corporate abuse and vice-versa.

They should care about who they side with today, because it might mean the difference between hanging from a rope and spending the rest of their retched lives in jail when the Trump regime falls, if we’re lucky enough to get to exact revenge on the sonsabitches some day.

How convenient: a handy list of fascist collaborators whose uppance will come after the fall of the Turd Reich.

When I machine a part, the lathe does most of the heavy lifting, but it’s a tool and it doesn’t deserve any credit for anything. Yet without it, it would take me hours to file a round part imperfectly that takes me 10 seconds to turn to perfection on the lathe. The lathe is absolutely essential to my workshop.

Two things can be true at the same time.

The billionaire psychopaths don’t want to prevent a disaster. To them, you’re just an NPC.

Witnesses present in the chamber said that “nothing was normal”

As opposed to non-botched, routine state execution matinees they go to every Thursday.

“Normal”?

Nothing about this is normal, even if the woman had died in the expected manner.

My company is not like that. They care about the employees. It’s actually written in black and white in the company’s charter: the purpose of the company is to do good by its employees and the community it operates in.

I’ve brought up my concerns about AI before and they’ve reacted: they invested in machines capable of running models locally for the engineers (I have one on my desk) and they formed a committee on AI safety and building local infrastructure to untie ourselves from the big cloud AI providers.

My company is one of a rare few such companies. Most other employers are like yours. Yet as good as mine is, AI is like cocaine to those who use it and to the bean counters: they know it’s bad but they just can’t stop.

The most interesting bit in this interview for me is when Tristan Buckmaster explained how OpenAI stole his PhD students’ work: the students didn’t even have to use a LLM. All they had to do was apply for a grant for their work, and for whoever reviewed the grant to write the summary using ChatGPT, and hey-presto, OpenAI got the outline of their work in progress to feed to their model and front run them.

I’m going to make my company’s CTO watch this. He thinks our software is safe because the company uses paid models and the contract says the material submitted to them won’t be used to train other models - and he believes it…

Unfit for service doesn’t mean he can’t be used as cannonfodder.
Russia’s gonna be Russia…

Billionaire thinks you should accept the misery he’s imposing on you. He’s only stopping short of telling you to stop complaining about it.

Fuck Scam Altman

I put “This code was not made with AI” in my GitHub repos’ README.md.

I feel it’s important to tell whoever tries out my code that I respect them enough not to give them cheap low-effort machine-made crap.

It’s not the only factor. The other, major issue with the UK is that it most often aligns with the US, and the last thing Europe needs is a fascist outpost in its midst.

This assumes the European Union is open to the idea of the UK rejoining. And I’ll tell you what: after all that needless drama, I don’t think Europe wants to deal with the drama queen for many years to come.

In any case, even if the UK does rejoin, it certainly won’t get the special treatment Thatcher got it the first time around.

A felon can be president, so why not.

The younger Paladino, who has served as a spokesman and adviser for his mother, initially told Streetsblog that the car “came with a temporary plate,” but he later denied knowledge of the fraudulent tag. He declined to provide further details about how he acquired the tag or car, an Aston Martin.

“I don’t know anything about a fraudulent temporary license plate,” he said. “I have more than one car, all of which are properly licensed.”

Hmm, somebody is auditioning for a job in the Trump administration…

The State Department confirmed the move, saying that U.S. participation, which requires an annual monetary contribution, “does not provide tangible benefits to U.S. national security.”

Yeah… That’s cuz anti-corruption has nothing to do with national security.

Yeah probably…

I will say this about Google’s AI thing: it really is useful to search for products with really precise criteria.

Like for example “Look for product xyz for sale in city xyz, sold in order of preference: 1/ by a local brick-and-mortar, 2/ by a brick-and-mortar that sells online in that city’s country, 3/ by an online retailer in Europe - exclude Amazon, eBay, Aliexpress and all the major marketplaces - exclude US businesses”: it WILL find what you want where you want and give the middle finger to Google’s advertisement, suggestions and plugs, 100%.

That’s a more useful, better search than Google Search ever was, and it certainly feels like Google shooting itself in the foot. Because I really don’t know how Google’s customers - i.e. advertisers - benefit from Google’s AI responses in any way. At least when you search for something to buy.

Altavista was much better than most search engines have been in many years now, on account of one killer feature: you could search an exact combination of strings that had to be in whatever you searched or had to be excluded, and it returned only pages that strictly had and didn’t have those strings.

In contrast, whenever you search anything on Google nowadays, even if you absolutely tell it to include or exclude something, it just serves up whatever it wants.

CB radios…

Definitely a Dad’s Dad joke.

This shithead and all the other kajillionaires shouldn’t have any right to voice their opinion about anything unless they pay their fair share of taxes like the rest of us.

Fuck Bill Gates.