Every time a Democrat mentions how to talk to "ordinary people" they mean "how I was told to talk by a handful of weirdo consultants in DC with gross fixations on throwing certain groups under the bus and who would not last a day in an ordinary job interacting with ordinary people."
youtu.be/f51YNwL4zaY
turns out people don’t respond well to threats
Canada’s elbows-elevated ambition to secure digital & technological sovereignty faces a lot of practical hurdles.
But, at a minimum, it requires disentangling government and public services from at least this one company. If they continue to operate here, everything else is just hand-waving.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin
The Baldwin line about children gets so much mileage on social media that it risks becoming trite but I refuse to give into the cynicism because at the end of the day he’s 100% right
I'd add, our government remains all over Elon Musk's Nazi site, as do many other institutions, associations, and 'respectable' people for some inexplicable reason.
I love this
I saw his face on my skyline again, so I’m reposting this
‘your tattoos will start looking shitty as you get older’ i mean so what it’s not like i’m getting a security deposit back on this body when im done with it lol
As for what happens when I get older? Age, and death, comes for us all. My body & skin are changing anyway. At least I got some cool art.
Like Kristen Schaal, I'm letting my face naturally fall to my collarbones.
Haggard witch era incoming.
I have a tattoo that turns 30 next year. No regrets on that one.
A couple of the other tattoos I got in the late 90s I'm a little unhappy with only because the quality of tattooing has improved so much since then. They don't look as good as my more recent ones.
A smiling mascot with a monkey’s head and a tiger’s body stands in front of a supermarket.
Nuezaemon, from Izunokuni City in Shizuoka, is a “nue”, a legendary supernatural beast which has the head of a monkey, the body of a tiger, and the tail of a snake.
Tom Longboat's great-great grandson, Kristian Jamieson, is attempting to match his marathon time.
Last year, someone gave Jamieson his great-great grandfather's 1907 Boston Marathon trophy. Lovely that it's back with his family.
We can have economically-induced decarbonization due to pointless wars, but not have a carbon tax, which would achieve the same outcome, but far more equitably.
I have always said if you ask women how many of them have been attacked, the numbers are staggering, but if you ask men who's doing the attacking, it's not them or their friends or their brothers.
So when the loudest voices on the subject belomg from group two? Questions.
AI is a scam that empowers fraud, disaster capitalism, and fascism. It's a real problem that Carney seems to be so credulous or complicit about what's fundamentally and obviously a billionaire techbro boondoggle.
Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.
And it was sixty two million *in a month*. That is still a huge user base.
A big part of why the elite media and politicians have been railing against the supposed power of the purple haired baristas with their frivolous concerns and moralistic hectoring for years now is the older people’s struggle to reconcile the fact that the lefty students protesting against war and ICE and for trans rights and so on have something that they will never have again which is youth. There is an abundance of everything available to every human being on earth except for one single thing. And running out of it can drive a person insane. To be fair it's driving me insane too but it is pushing my soul in the opposite direction. Life is supposed to be beautiful and everyone should get to live it without a gun metaphorical or literal pointed at their heads every second of every day. Do you suppose that gluttonous self interest above all is a kind of serenity or does it more closely resemble the torment of the damned? Not only dwelling in isolation from God and humanity but doing so by choice. A self-imposed exile.
There is an abundance of everything available to every human being on earth except for one single thing.
Carney is still talking about AI like Evangelicals do about MAGA Jesus, despite the bubble nearing collapse.
It makes his previous, but abandoned enthusiasm for green tech and environmental development clearly a market driven affectation.
We have a stock market huckster as Prime Minister
this is one of the most interesting things I've read about AI. Ben Affleck just sold his AI startup to Netflix for $600m. it's based on his analysis - as someone who's worked in movies for decades - of what AI is *actually useful for*. which is eg: adjusting film lighting.
archive.ph/OLsfn
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How often does Ford even leave the GTA?
It’s weird working for a big company with so many hierarchical layers. I have a manager, a grandmanager, a great-grandmanager, and they even tell me I have a great-great-grandmanager but I never met them
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history
The first modern advertiser who does an ad like this gets all my money.
Art majors using AI for ideas or research is just incomprehensible to me and I think the charade of ‘ethical AI usage’ is robbing these young people of key aspects of their intellectual and creative development.
But they weren't focused on 1 technology. These are broad portfolios.