That's more like it, thanks.

Sorry, that's not enough.

Which one is which though, because it feels like you put two glasses of rubbing alcohol in front of me here.

This is a true statement.

As far as I tried to find out, Meta doesn't allow to turn any of their slop makers off.

What's there to discuss? These are facts.

The last academic in the UK, please turn off the claude.

That sounds rather cool. It's also what I'd call designers' equivalent of turning emails into spreadsheets. Automating repetetive tedium is good in my book.

I mean, sure. My job rarely, but still involves coding for my data processing. I use the llms for help with it and it cuts my searching for solutions significantly. Not a major benefit, but a nice to have quality of life improvement. Nowhere near the boosterism claims, but it's there and I like it.

I don't know what landscape design can use claude for, but in image generation the baseline problems are basically still the same since midjourney. Lack of object permanence leading to completely messing up relative scales is a constant. Rendering and details improved, but not the big thing.

Speech recognition from quality recordings is pretty flawless now, apart from some niche specialist terms that you can iron out in editing super quickly.

I don't know what's so hard about it. If you're not coding or your job isn't about turning emails into spreadsheets that are then turned into reports in word, these tools are fairly useless and not really getting better anymore. Maybe they will eventually, but we're obviously in a plateaux here.

Notably he also dies because he's unprofessional idiot, leaving his gun on the counter outside the toilet.

could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left?

no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy

Especially a place where physical resilience is important, in a world of increasingly rough weather. I love solar and batteries, we need them like yesterday. But there's no point in pretending it's a panaceum.

True, and that's absolutely fair, but we also kinda need food. And you can replace the entire energy consumption three times over with <1 sq km of a npp. Which will also run for 80-100 years, when the panels and batteries need to be replaced several times. These are fair tradeoffs for a small place.

Luxembourg water area is about .2%. That's a fuckton of land use.

That's _a lot_ of land use. And Luxembourg isn't even an industrial economy anymore.

I don't think that's completely true in a sense that a lot of small, densely populated countries (basically all Europe and a lot of Asia) just don't have space for the wind and solar they'd need to fully electrify the economy. Energy density of uranium is still unbeatable there purely on geography.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

Reminder: The Trump regime cancelled nearly $500 million in federal contracts for mRNA vaccine development last year.

Is this the regime accountability @ericlipton.nytimes.com promised us?

I think that's 50/50. I, for one, hated it so much. Going out back to the lab, even when there was no one else there, was so amazing. And then meet people again - I felt drunk even before the first beer.

Point taken, forgot about that.

Well, yeah. It's the biggest nationalist media outlet, so it kinda does. Also this trend is like gravity, just look what happened to relative trajectories of Nicola Sturgeon and Joanna Cherry. One is out and one is still an SNP MP.

Quite funny* that of the two biggest parties on the left we used to have, one is now mostly (incompetent) racism and the other is mostly grift.

*not funny at all

How on earth I'm all three at once?!

It is a curious mentality of some of those defending Starmer on Labour's hostile policies that they will point to a line in a speech he gives to claim he supports x or y group and then completely ignore all the policies which his government has pushed increasing discrimination against those groups.

Somehow nationalists always go far right, even when pretending otherwise. Funny how that works.

Not sure about the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse "not making themselves truly bad. 😅

Well, that's the accountability @ericlipton.nytimes.com promised us!