ZDL

@ ZDL @lazysoci.al

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4w ago

Ed Zitron: The AI market may actually be run by toddlers
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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago
It's amazing how there's so many angles from which to attack LLMbeciles—technological, social, moral, and fiscal—and yet the clank fuckers out there remain convinced they're at the cusp of "Real" AI.

4w ago

"lessons learned"

Can someone more technical than me correct me if I'm wrong here, but … isn't scheduling alerts for things something that has been in PRE-FUCKING IPHONE ERA DUMB PHONES EVEN!?

Like … am I taking crazy pills or something? Computers (and later phones) have had schedulers and reminder apps since before I was born (1966) right?

4w ago

X Office Raided in France’s Grok Probe; Elon Musk Summoned for Questioning

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

A very unfortunate suicide that involves a guillotine and—he'd appreciate this—a vote on Xhitter whether the lever should be pulled or not. After 500,000 online votes, the computer either activates the release to let him carry on, or it drops the blade.

If the former is selected, then he has an unfortunate accident with a runaway Cybertruck.

4w ago

X Office Raided in France’s Grok Probe; Elon Musk Summoned for Questioning

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

Nobody says it has to be done legally.

4w ago

U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

Exactly this here.

The problem is not Trump. The problem has never been Trump. Trump is a symptom of the problem. The problem is a social rot that has been going on for all of my life (well over half a century). All y'all done fucked up your whole society and that problem will remain long after the current coterie is gone.

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I will never trust the USA again. Nor will anybody else who was alive to watch that country turn to open Nazis over the course of two elections. We now know what's lurking within the USA, and how large it is, and how much power it has. We can't unsee this. It will be generations before anybody but the stupid trusts Americans.

4w ago

X Office Raided in France’s Grok Probe; Elon Musk Summoned for Questioning

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

I'm gonna have to escalate that to "execute".

4w ago

U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 4w ago

Our national neighbors to the north have already caved, setting off alarm bells in some U.S. operations, and now NADA is hoping to amplify that warning.

Fuck off you Yankee cunts. Go fuck yourself through both ears with a rusty chainsaw.

"Caved"!? You mean "are purchasing higher quality vehicles for lower prices" means "caving" these days?

Seriously. Fuck all the way off.

1mo ago

AI controls is coming to Firefox

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

That's what it says, yes, and that's genuinely laudable (especially if the control defaults to "block").

But what companies say now and what companies say in the future are different things, no? I mean I could be trite and point to Google's "don't be evil" ... so I will.

1mo ago

AI controls is coming to Firefox

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

I use Zen. (For features that are harder to use in other spins.) I've had generally good experience.

1mo ago

AI controls is coming to Firefox

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

But are these current and future degenerative AI features going to be opt-in or opt-out? 'Cause if the latter, they'll still be sticking AI into random things and hoping we don't notice.

1mo ago

White House Uses AI to Alter Protester's Face So That She's Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

I think that's just what he does while playing golf.

1mo ago

France BANS American Tech Platforms - Europe DETOXIFIES From USA

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

Can we start with the hanging?

By their entrails?

On live television?

1mo ago

France BANS American Tech Platforms - Europe DETOXIFIES From USA

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

Well given the Starmtrooper you've got as PM, I guess people are saying "why settle for the lesser evil?"

1mo ago

Far-Right Dweebs Are Getting Scammed by an AI-Generated Waifu

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

So ... sometimes ... slop is used for good?

1mo ago

France BANS American Tech Platforms - Europe DETOXIFIES From USA

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

The problem isn't and never has been Trump.

The problem is Americans and the deep cultural rot they've allowed to set in. Trump is a symptom of the USA's problems, not the cause.

Trump is, at least, and quite inadvertently, a friend to the world, however. Because of him the rest of the world got to see the USA's real face and is now doing the right thing: disengaging.

1mo ago

Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 recap: 'Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as Americans' - PCGamer

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

I'm not at the point of thinking that Americans are non-human. I am at the point of considering them, however, to be a cultural cancer that needs to be rapidly hit with chemotherapy and excised from the body politic of the world.

1mo ago

Poll: Trump voters support military intervention in more countries

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

What really gets me is that beforehand the big sales pitch for Trump was he was going to pull the USA out of all those wars.

Now he's starting them.

It's almost as if you can't believe anything he says unless it directly involves his benefit.

Almost.

1mo ago

Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

That’s why you should not use or install ~~the app~~any Apple product of any kind.

Fixed that for you.

1mo ago

When we say "Fuck AI" are we inadvertently helping the "AI" companies by referring to their products as "AI"?

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

Speaking about AI, Stallman warned that "nowadays, people often use the term artificial intelligence for things that aren't intelligent at all..."

Ah... Something just dawned on me.

Didn't he … I think I'll just quote Wackypedia for this:

In 1971, near the end of his first year at Harvard, he became a programmer at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory …

In 1971 there was nothing that was intelligent at all in the world of computing. (And, as is normal, in 99.44% of humanity. This is a constant. 😉) It's almost as if the term "Artificial Intelligence" has never meant, you know, actual intelligence. And it goes on:

He pursued a doctorate in physics for one year, but left the program to focus on his programming at the MIT AI Laboratory.

[…] in September 1983. Since then, he had remained affiliated with MIT as an unpaid "visiting scientist" in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Until "around 1998", he maintained an office at the Institute that doubled as his legal residence.

That's an awful lot of "not intelligent at all" places he's worked for or been affiliated with that use the term artificial intelligence...

1mo ago

this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain (by Angela Collier)

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ZDL @lazysoci.al 1mo ago

Dr. Collier is one of my favourite Youtube personalities. Because she has one. A personality I mean. She's not a professional presenter with polished style and carefully-selected words. She's raw, unfiltered, and low-key hilarious when she gets going on a rant. Or on a sidetrack.