there aren’t a lot of nice places hiring foreign workers en mass, and meta, google, palantir, tormentnexus, etc, offer a chance at a better life for them and their families.

the major reason to make life a hell for as many people as possible is to have this kind of leverage on them.

police love a police state, film at 11

historian fails to understand that the company “palantir” was named by someone who, in fact, knew exactly what it meant, and it excited him.

sometimes i really question people’s reading comprehension

you’ve already said all of this. are you ok?

i’m literally reading the expression on her face. what does that expression say to you? does this look like an active, engaged participant in… well, anything?

having women look dumb in photo shoots is as old as photo shoots, and it’s done to reinforce misogyny. this photo isn’t an accident, it was done with a team of people trying to achieve a look. she’s playing her part, and she’s good at it. i bet she practiced a lot.

am i a misogynist because i think she’s purposely putting on a vapid face in order to attract chuds?

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exactly. he spent 30 minutes calling the irish ignorant, but the words “gulf stream” never tickled his neurons.

the extra-irony is that up until the last 10-15 years, “gulf stream” is what everyone in the usa called it, too. hank’s just so tech-pilled he can’t see anything else.

ah yes, hank green who spent an entire video chastising the citizens of ireland for being ignorant of the amoc.

dude never even bothered to think people called it something else there.

hes always been a self-satisfied, arrogant knob

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you gotta give the ai bros credit, they’ve managed to turn “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” into a multi-disciplinary corporate stratgy.

re-read, it says the opposite: helps a little.

although, tbh, i’m not entirely sure of that either, but the reasoning is complex and longer-term.

local models don’t appear out of the ether. using a local model solves one problem around privacy of your prompts, does little about consolidation of power, and nothing about the thousands of other problems genai brings.

if your organic coffee is made with slave labor, you still have a massive problem.

and they may not be of the devil, but they definitely are of the humans who most resemble the devil.

it’s way creepier to ask for consent to look up the stairs in a staircase than it is to just do it.

“ma’am, i don’t want to be a creep, so i need to know if you ENTHUSIASTICALLY CONSENT to having my eyes look in the direction of my travel. I AM NOT A CREEPER”

playing a really shitty game of the prisoner’s paradox

but ai is inevitable! it can’t be stopped! it’s impossible to regulate!

he has always been like this. god, he’s one of the most consistent public figures i can think of. nothing has changed except that now you can see.

i dunno, apple has a real habit of suing for theft and losing

monty python were boomer humor. there’s not a lot of air between “honse” and “the fish slapping dance”