impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

TBH this is the main reason why I'm not super concerned about AI art. People really like making art, and they do so even when it costs them a lot of money and time and they have no hopes of compensation or profit. The market for brewing might change, but I don't think the art form is going anywhere

I think with brewing in particular, enough people *like* doing it the old-fashioned way that I don't think that will ever go away, and I think there will continue to be a (small) market for it as long as people are willing to keep making it

I'm not sure if you're referencing Chartreuse specifically, but I bought a bottle of Green Retake from Trial & Error Distilling in Richmond VA, and they claim it's the ONLY American product that replicates it. It was pretty good!

This Jason guy seems like he's suggesting that once AI creates the "perfect" beer, and creates it cheaply, then everyone will just drink that beer and no other beer, and that seems very silly to me. Maybe I'm being uncharitable

One of my bedrock beliefs as a human is that they should make a movie series of Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire, and that they should Star Wars it by starting at the 2nd book, and then adapting the 1st as a prequel and the 3rd as a sequel

You must not follow enough leftist AI users (I get it, they're rarer than they should be). UBI should come not from taxing AI companies but from nationalizing them. AI was built on the entire body of human knowledge and endeavor, so we should all own it together

You don't have to care about labels at all, if you support good leftist policies then the leftists will support you. Democrats often fail to win this audience because they fail to support the policies that leftists want. It's very simple, it's their choice. They could make other choices whenever

The label isn't important, what it stands for is. Democrats don't align with Leftists because they won't align themselves with systemic solutions that actually meet our needs (M4A and other social welfare, Union strengtheners & sectoral bargaining, social wealth fund+ UBI, etc etc)

Help Our Pollinators

I'm not saying the Dems don't face obstacles. But it's the exact same obstacles that have existed all 40 years of my life and, if anything, the Dems have become *less* ambitious and *less* effective during that time, while the Republicans have gone full fasc and the Dems failed to stop that too

I mean this is a really good case in point. You're promoting Kamala as though she had a very ambitious policy, which is much less ambitious than you made it appear, which was also implemented, but then still failed. Trump can make the government do anything and the Dems couldn't even make this stick

"Better than Trump" is an even lower bar than "Better than Republicans". If Dems want people to vote for them, they have to inspire (like Zohran or Bernie) and you can't do that with policies like "forgive some student loans for people who operate businesses in low-income neighborhoods for 3 years"

bad news for my new weed delivery startup, Bombadil

The reason people don't believe Democrats when they signal general support for minor technocratic changes is that Dems usually fail to even implement those, let alone the major systemic changes reality actually demands. There is nothing that the Party stands but "slightly less bad than Republicans"

The problem is that "helping people" isn't a platform. Every politician "wants" to help first-time home buyers (hence the million programs already existing), every politician has lip service to give to price gougers and building homes. Biden also said he wanted to raise the minimum wage to $15

??? I googled to find out what you're talking about and all I saw were references to a rule removing medical debt from credit reports, not "eliminating medical debt". Was there a different elimination plan during the election?

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

I always think of Powfu and Bebadoobee

I thought this from Derek Thompson was useful, I wonder how long it will take for people to stop saying "no one wants the tech" when they're absolutely surrounded by people who want the tech
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-ai-vib...

Adam was 15 or 16 in 1999 so with respect I'm not sure I completely trust his recollection on this topic

I worked at a teleresearch company in the mid 90s making calls on behalf of Sprint for their soon-to-be launched PCS service and I can tell you that at that time the (US) public was not sold

I don't love the way the hyperscalers market their products. But if I defend AI on the merits - by describing ways I personally use it to great utility - I'm invariably expected to answer for the marketing, as though thinking the tech is good necessarily means loving Altman and everything he does

I think one of the underrated aspects of the AI wars is how much some people have over-indexed on marketing. The presumption that bad marketing = bad product is pervasive, especially from a group of people that don't follow the tech closely and have no idea how it currently performs

Yeah toast is a funny example to pull because I use my toaster almost every day. It's a good appliance because it uses the minimum amount of electricity for the task, is faster than most alternatives, and gives an electrical option to people with gas ovens

Milla Jovovich by Peter Lindbergh (1996)

Inside a stone temple, with an altar / stage area carved as a giant reclining lion man, holding braziers in each paw

A zoomed-out illustration of the city of Tarna, with step pyramids with giant lion's heads on top, and giant standing lion-man statues holding braziers

Maybe not "statues" per se but the big lion statues around Tarna in Quest for Glory 3 always awed me

at least until there's better league parity i think women's sports team apparel should be allowed under business casual dress codes but men's sports team apparel should not

I would rather we encouraged women leaders to have actual values and beliefs, and to run on those, rather than encouraging people to vote for women for the sake of voting for women. It ain't the female gender's fault that Kamala lost

TV and vhs tapes

This is what going on the internet used to feel like