Iran took the very devious route of letting the other guys shoot off their entire clip, all their bullets, so they'd have more.
This trick would bewilder Trump, who assumes that during war you have an infinite supply of "clips," like in that movie with Sly Stallone.
"But it'll all work out ok, bc if before you needed 50 people to do analysis our business model forces you to spend what 49 people used to cost, but on AI."
"This is going to make everything a utopia once we make the data center compute so cheap no one can make any money off compute anymore."
Later in the 1970s, Roger Freeman — a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Reagan — spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counter attack was aimed at preventing: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on the we allow to go through higher education. If not we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people." The two most menacing institutional sources of the same described by Freeman were obviously those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York. Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California. Source: Vietnam and Other Fantasies, by H Bruce Franklin
"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite!"
Yup. Some guys from the embassy. Big guys with beards who look like they do a lot of push-ups. They all wear Mechanix gloves and 5.10s and black ball caps even when its 105. Just some guys.
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
Skynet, Wintermute and Neuromancer walk into a bar.
HAL has already had a few. "Did you take care of the human part of your loop?"
Yeah some really good points. Just gets to a basic fact about the workflows that knowledge workers engage in, whether they're humanities professors or business analysts.
This thread is great for lines, points, and a solid understanding of the way white collar work gets done.
+1 for correct use of "artefact."
As far as I'm concerned, ascii art is the true art of the internet, its soul. Once browsers were able to read serialized objects the internet went downhill.
If you can't see it in a DIALOG prompt output it's not real internet art.
The Iron Law of LLMs: Everyone who uses it assumes it can help speed up work they figure is low value.
Some people think "data modeling" is low value.
Some people think "pitch deck" is low value.
The horse and buggy crowd just don't realize it yet.
As foretold by prophecy, LAPD used their "first responder" drones to spy on No Kings protests and anti-ICE protests: theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...
Just some guys, work at the embassy.
well if this isn't dystopic as shit.
Interesting slip for him to note the attack came "47 years" after it was supposed to.
Netanyahu baited him with that, I'm sure.
"another way you can make 47 immortal"
The AI said it was a good idea. So y'know...
If you could do all that evil but with solar, you'd be a long term hold.
"They're like locusts. They invade a planet, take all their resources and then move on."
Oh well yes then I can see the problem. But no those aren't aliens, that's just a Canadian mining company.
There's an interesting cultural shift happening here.
Analytics and DS is usually coded female and/or immigrant.
The confidence that an LLM replaces all that bc you just need to find the right sequence of words, that it'll do any- and everything including BI... that's a very coded male SE thing.
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The markets can stay irrational almost as long as POTUS or IRGC can, but much longer than i can stay solvent.
Sort of makes sense from a narrative standpoint that the arsonist clown who nearly caused an economic depression in his home country in the 2nd act, when he mismanaged a once-in-a-century pandemic, would push the whole world into depression in the 4th act.
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Pretty typical that Trump's plans often involve threatening to shoot himself in the foot and bleed all over everyone if he doesn't get his way.
It's sort of lucky for the rest of us though that the 2nd fight he picked this year got him stuck in a trap he can't get out of.
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
People who lived their lives enjoying the gifts of the American republican government under the great U.S. Constitution, yet became enthralled by Orban's authoritarian government, should feel profound regret and rethink some things.
THIS. This is our path forward too.