tanek.bsky.social
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The eyeball-to-eyeball grin, maybe.
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Given how wealth inequality has trended, I'd say it never works like they claim it will, but always works like they want it to.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Why read a book or even watch the movie when you can just have a chatbot ooze out some word sludge "summary" for you?
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Phew. Joke.
But wow. With all that is going on, I was prepped to just toss these puzzles on the trash heap.
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Exactly. I mean, I'll take the genuine support of anyone in the protests if they want to give it, but I'm not going to count on their support for anything else. Many of them voted for Trump and these policies THREE TIMES. On some level they knew what would happen and did it anyway.
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Probably qualified immunity because no one had ever shot that specific reporter on this specific day with that specific bullet before, so without a precedent how was anyone supposed to know NOT to do it?
🤦
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Math obviously has Trump derangement syndrome. Or something.
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Is that the look of a cat who knows *something* happened, isn't quite sure what, but wants to be sure it doesn't happen again?
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This was my thought. Nothing secret about it. Some people just don't want to see it, don't want to believe it, don't want to do anything about it, or actually want it to be done.
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But how would that advance our goal of making every episode of Black Mirror a reality? (That is their goal, right? I'm just working off of context clues.)
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It is like a game dev version of the LLM "AI" thing where lots of data is mulched and then reconstituted without understanding what made the original work in the first place. Without the "human" part included.
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The times a big "surprise" hit does come along it seems to be because it was a small studio working on a shoestring budget. Then that studio gets scooped up, ground down into its component parts while business people look for the "secret" they can exploit for more money.
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I picture private equity execs sitting with these big studio CEOs on their yachts counting millions in bonuses while laying off low paid devs because the latest "live-service" trend did not make them all the money in the world, so was a failure.
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Maybe this is the wrong/simplistic way to look at it, but I feel like if we could just give game development back to, you know, game developers, we wouldn't be in such a deep pit. It is a business, sure, but single-mindedly chasing the money doesn't seem to be working.
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I, a lifelong arachnophobe, finally started reading the book and darn if I wasn't cheering on the spiders almost immediately. Went right to the 2nd book and have the 3rd on order.
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If the past few decades haven't moved the needle for them, I don't see how this would.
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Given the ethical standards ("take first, make excuses later") that have been shown by many companies using or creating "AI", I think pepole have the right to be very skeptical here. At the very least, I'd hope it is spelled out clearly in contracts and not just "we have no plans".
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I am not sure I'm even clear on what it means, let alone how it works as an argument.
(Although, if anyone using the argument is a renter, good odds they've ripped at least one eviction notice off a door in their lifetime.)
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How do we even have a legal framework where businesses (because this is not the first time I've heard of something like this) can just be sold as a means of escaping their obligations to clients/customers? Like, I can't change my name and be, yeah, those credit card debts? Not my problem anymore.
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Oh wow, I wish I'd seen this thread last year. Mistakes were made. 😬
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Ah, ok. It is not in the news section. It is in the "Social" section. And I have that site blocked. Good to know. Would have been nice to have it on the actual STO site, but my expectations have been adjusted for future. Thanks.
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Thanks for the heads up!
Where are these officially announced? I missed the keys yesterday and don't recall seeing anything on the STO news page.
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I'm sure it would be fiiiiine. Rich people do that all the time, so why can't we?
:p
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The stated desire is to watch a terrible movie. (Also, when I'm running on fumes, paying attention could take too much energy. This movie is probably better for NOT paying too much attention to it. 😏)
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All I gotta say is, the books on this list had better exist. 😁
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Sounds like work. We have computers to read books for us! (Or to just make things up about books that don't even exist. How would we know anymore.)
:p
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I think I prefer news outlets to report on what is happening with the plagarism engines, rather than making use of them.
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Explanation and apology were going well. Then...
"First, Chicago Public Media will not back away from experimenting and learning how to properly use AI. We will not be using AI agents to write our stories, but we will work to find ways to use AI technology to help our work and serve our audiences."
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"If we don't steal all your work (which we have determined is not worth anything anyway), how are we supposed to make our money?"
And yet I bet these same jerks would flip out and have their lawyers disembowel anyone they thought had infringed their "intellectual property".
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While I am not a reader of romance/romantasy books, I imagine that is like someone saying all science fiction MUST have spaceships. It would be silly to limit a genre (or a book or an author) in that way.
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When I play with the mousey toy, I know it is not real. Yet I am compelled to chase. To hunt. Am I but a slave to my insticts, or can I rise above them...
*bat*bat*
...it is fun, though.
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Darn. Thanks for letting me know where it stands. The back-and-forth compatibility was one thing I hoped they'd managed to get working over the past 10 years. (Part of me that remembers corporate shenanigans wonders how much of the reason they haven't is M$ actively sabotaging any effort to do so.)
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It has been a while since I was in a job where I kept track of word processing apps, but are the "open" alternatives a viable option for people? A decade a go they weren't all that great at translating some formatting from, say, Word to OpenOffice/Libre, but I hope it has improved since then.
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I truly don't understand the in-office thing. Covid is horrible and lockdowns were a pain, but if one thing came out of all that, I hoped it would be realizing how many jobs could be done remotely, opening opportunities and making lives better for workers. But no. Execs like power more than people.
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I would never make that comparison!
What an insult to the aggressive, untrainable dog.
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How does anyone have the power to just unilaterally do this? What the heck is going on?
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"Rebranding" for a company like that usually means they are saddling some other entity with destructive debt or trying to shift a lawsuit to somewhere else while they hide their cash.
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"Things? Bad. Birds? Good." Alt text? Great. :)
"Loudest Little Bird that has ever Louded"
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"He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times" makes it sound like someone might have thought it was ok in smaller publications. Like, is he sorry he did it, or sorry it was caught. Because at this point, who doesn't know "AI" just makes crap up?
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This feels like something someone would do specifically as an example of the dangers of generative AI and as a test of the review system (which seems to have failed at many stages).
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I was fine with thunderstorms until buying a house. Now I'm like, is the roof holding up? is the basement leaking? the backyard is going to flood! how many branches will fall? ... 🤦
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I might see my way to making an exception if the targeted people not standing up to the administration are politicians we elected to *checks notes* stand up to a corrupt administration.
But yes, many other people need to and should do what they can to keep themselves and their families safe.
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Knew you from books first (Redshirts), then started following on Twitter (can't recall why; possibly also Trek-adjacent as I was mostly following Star Trek and game accounts). Then one of your posts pointed me to Whatever. And by the time I found out about burrito crimes it was too late. :)
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I said at the start, they've pulled the "dark worlds" football away too many times for me to trust that this time will be any different. Great if it happens, I just can't risk hope.
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'Lost' was an amazing show, especially when I'd seen nothing else like it. I just wish it felt like there was a plan beyond adding more questions each episode.
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To be fair, looks like he is correct on this one. They are funding him with a bribe and $400 million is a pretty high level. 🤔
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I have been using the Bluesky word filters one day a week to hide any posts with the names of certain billionaires for 24 hours. I know it all comes flooding back when the block expires, but that one day is a great vacation.
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Agreed that corruption in politics is nothing new. The somewhat new part is not even trying to (or needing to) hide it anymore. For at least one party, anyway.