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  • Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth

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  • Heretic! There is only one true god and its name is SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

  • Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth

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  • I've been in a situation where I thought I might well die, and this point of view flitted across my mind, as it is bound to do. Followed immediately by the certainty that this would be the most wretched, hypocritical and worthless way to spend my final moments. If I had no survival strategies to consider or ways to contact my loved ones, I'd rather spend the time looking out the window and admiring the view.

  • Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?

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  • How much have you got? I've got about 3kg of coffee.

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • Wait, you mean that when rich people say that taxing the rich is a bad idea, they aren't being completely sincere and don't have our best interests at heart? I'm shocked to the core

  • Perfect pairs like a square dance at the honky tonk

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  • Looks like Steven Pressfield and Frank Miller got blended together there

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  • Ikr? Who buys salt and pepper pots with their weekly groceries?

  • The future is now

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  • It's kind of like AI enhanced photos that can create scenes that never actually happened. I mean, yeah, it looks nice, but you're substituting bullshit for reality.

  • Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.

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  • The world was a puzzle with one big piece missing, until today.

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    "Dear AI Artists" by @pizza990

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  • Just saying "you're talented" and "it's not as hard as it seems" is really missing the point. 90% of "talent" is really just persistent work. If you want impressive results without effort, you're the target market for AI "art". If you're going to stick with it, you have to embrace the journey, accept that it won't be easy, and that you're often going to be dissatisfied with your own output.

    Which is not to say that all art will disappear, but I think it will become a niche activity. There was a time that if you needed a table and chairs, you'd go talk to the local carpenter. Carpentry was a major job sector. Now there are cheaper and faster options. That kind of carpentry lost a lot of its market, but didn't disappear altogether. I think the same goes for art. Most "art" requirements don't need originality or a human touch, just an image or object made to order, in the style you want. That's lost to AI, and that's just the way it is. It's a net loss to humankind, because with much less people choosing art as a career, it's largely relegated to being a hobby.

  • Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut

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  • That could have gotten embarrassing if they hadn't had those two guys ready to smoothly cover the stage with a curtain. Close call!

  • Binary

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  • Looks like 12 to me

  • Democrat who caved on shutdown says Chuck Schumer knew all along

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  • All branches of goverment have capitulated to him and effectively given him the power of a king.

    It's not 100% capitulation. There's pushback here and there. And it's a house of cards. In order to secure his position he needs to remove all potential opposition, including within his own party. There has to be a violent purge. Things need to be stepped up a notch.

    Same goes for his oppression of the people. His recent use of the armed forces to intimidate and silence the people is just a dress rehearsal. Testing out the process.

    "if you dont want fascism, make sure you roll over when confronted with it"

    I'm just saying you have to fight smart. By all means prepare for violence, but it's not the only tool in the box. If the democratic process can still operate, it offers a way to hamstring this administration. And if not, it delegitimises their position to a point where organised large scale resistance is both feasible and necessary.

  • Democrat who caved on shutdown says Chuck Schumer knew all along

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  • It seems to me that this might have been a strategic move to get the best result out of the midterms. The Republicans have shown their true colors. Trump throwing lavish parties while conducting a legal battle in the supreme court to ensure that millions of Americans are denied the food aid that was specifically put aside for that purpose, is about as much political capital as you could hope to gain from this. But why is it so important to Trump, to see Americans starve? I believe the reason is that starvation is what you need to instigate a violent insurrection, and that's Trump's plan for staying in power indefinitely. He will declare a state of emergency, martial law, suspend the midterms until the present crisis is dealt with, etc. The Dems caving in denies him the chance to do this, while still showing the maga party for the evil bastards they are. And maybe we get to see the Epstein files now? Maybe I'm giving establishment Dems more benefit of the doubt than they deserve, but that's how it looks to me.

  • She knows how to UUUSE them🧙🏻‍♂️🎸

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  • Maybe. Or maybe she likes to collect spare bits of furniture that might come in handy one day. I've got several legs.

    Although, I don't know how to use them. Yeah, all things considered, she's probably just Quelaag

  • She knows how to UUUSE them🧙🏻‍♂️🎸

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  • They didn't say she had 2. It's plural, but she could have 8 legs for all you know.

  • 2³² will get interesting...

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  • Kill the person who invented the trolley problem. It's the only way to be sure

  • The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

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  • I can easily imagine having this conversation with someone in the late 90s, when there was so much excitement about the internet. If, as a skeptic, you were to ask me why the internet was really needed or why anyone would take the trouble to connect to it on a daily basis, I wouldn't have been able to give a complete and correct answer, not being able to predict the future with any accuracy.

    But AI is already super useful as a tool for sifting through data, finding patterns and acting based on patterns. Its potential applications in medical diagnostics or surveillance (yes, I hate that too but it is what it is) are huge. People like to shit on LLMs but they do go beyond what search engines or scripts can do. But the real question is what AI will be in the next decade or so. And much like the internet in its early days, we can only guess at its future capabilities, how it will integrate with our lives, what will take off, and what is just a scam. Everyone is selling ideas that don't work yet but seem exciting. But just because it's inflated, oversold, and often untrustworthy, doesn't mean that AI as a whole is just a mirage. It will be huge, and change our world fundamentally. That said, I'm still shorting Palantir ;)

  • The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

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  • It's like the dotcom bubble. Everyone got all excited thinking the internet would be the next big thing, change the world, revolutionize the way we do business. And it did. But not without a lot of hot air and snake oil getting sold along the way.

  • Success Strategy

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  • the monkey’s paw curls another finger