"Multi-modal agentic self-supervised latent-space singularity." I have been a professional software engineer for over 30 years, so it takes a lot of empty babble to impress me, but damn...I'm saving that one for later use.
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Captain AMERICA
And if he does manage to steal the election, the passports will still be useful.
A classic story, and one that nearly all of us have lived through. I am proud to have mentored several great engineers into great engineering managers. The fewer frat bros of the CEO out there, the better.
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i strongly feel that llm "writing" is an insult to life itself
Dayum.
Just heard a minister say, as perhaps only Black ministers can,
“We will fight until hell freezes over, and then we will fight on the ice.
This right here!
Any way we can get that White Nose thing happening soon?
“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.”
she did it! her! way!!
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
Purchased! Currently still only 50% through Wanderers, but glad to have this waiting for me.
"The Irritating Gentleman" by Berthold Wotlze. A young woman dressed in dark clothes, sitting on a train with a bag beside her, looking fed up as an older man leans over the back of the seat behind her, trying to talk to her.
Generative AI, in nearly every piece of software you try to use these days.
#AI #SpeirGorm #GenAI
Or tomorrow.
Is somebody saying they do? It's hard to believe anyone is that stupid.
Oh. Ah. I take that back.
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And that's saying something.
Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"
No.
2026 is already a better year than 2025. Not a high bar to get over, but still...
The Library at Mount Char is gripping, peerless fantasy, and I have been eagerly awaiting news of new work from the author.
The voice of disappointment: I listened for an echo and heard nothing but praise. -- F. Nietzsche
Damn. Some cold, hard facts right there.
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It's transcendent on YouTube, so live demands a different word, I am sure.
I remember reading the Grey Goo thought experiment about runaway nanotech and finding it plausible -- we do live in the Age of Unintended Consequences, after all -- but it looks like Slop is going to get us first.
Parts of Knives Out were filmed in my town. We have a lovely, three-screen theatre, so the whole town turned up to see it there. During one of the car travel scenes, you could see the theatre's neon lights reflected in the car's window. The loud ruckus that followed was great, if a bit shameful.
Moxie hat!
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Nationalize Tesla?! Hmm...would there even be anything there without Elmo's constant lying and bloviating? Actually...if we forgot all about the cars and just turned it into an energy-storage company?