use it to plot the destruction of the western civilization

Peaks around at the state of Western Civilization

Boots up another copy of DeepSeek

It’s a work computer, so my options are limited

“Sir, please. I’m begging you. Use a folder. Just one single folder.”

“THOG NO LIKE COMPUTER! THOG SAVE TO DESKTOP!!!”

This is why you people aren’t allowed access to printers anymore.

Me: “I’ve got an elaborate folder structure for all my documents.”

Windows: “You want to put this in the root directory of OneDrive.”

Me: "No, I want to put it in \SpecialFiles\ProjectName\IterationNo\DetailedSchematic"

Windows: “Root directory of OneDrive it is.”

A street rat? I don’t buy that. If only you’d look closer.

Please rename the Irish Sea to “Gulf of America 2”

I wonder what the ADL would think if people started openly doing Nazi salutes now around Jewish communities.

The Jewish people will never again be taken seriously as crusaders against genocide and fascism.

The ADL represents the Jewish people in the same way that Focus on the Family represents the Christian people.

There’s a whole song about why.

They’re really just basic input output mechanisms.

I mean, I’d argue they’re highly complex I/O mechanisms, which is how you get weird hallucinations that developers can’t easily explain.

But expecting cognition out of a graph is like demanding novelty out of a plinko machine. Not only do you get out what you get in, but you get a very statistically well-determined output. That’s the whole point. The LLM isn’t supposed to be doing high level cognitive extrapolations. It’s supposed to be doing statistical aggregates on word association using a natural language schema.

Fund them to do what? The US isn’t going to apply their emissions standards and we’re single-handedly doing 12% of the global gross emissions total despite being 4% of the population.

the bloodline ends with my ugly face

Highly unlikely, unless you’re fixated on the specific mother/father combo. You won’t be the first person who failed to reproduce with a shared set of ancestors. Just support your community and make the lives of your procreating peers easier. That’s all any ancestor can ask of you.

Teenage motherhood for the first child, sure. But women can continue having children into their 40s without significant difficulty. No guarantee that the firstborn will be the one who thrives relative to younger siblings particularly if the mother is an inexperienced or impoverished mom as a teenager.

So you really need to look at the median motherhood age, not the first opportunity of pregnancy.

So much of this is filtered through the national corporate media. Quite a few people bat an eye at the vulgar abuse of power by insurance adjusters. But they aren’t afforded a platform on your Cable News outlet of choice.

Vanishingly few people were sympathetic towards an unknown CEO of a notoriously skinflint insurance company. But he was lionized and eulogized on every national news station.

In the same vein, most people slept through Kapernick taking a knee. It wasn’t properly news until weeks after he first did it, in large part because it took that long for right-wing anchors to notice. By contrast, the Elon Fascist Dab was headline news within seconds of him performing it and only got talked down to “Autistic Man’s Arm Just Did That And It’s Ablest Of You To Notice” after days of equivocating in papers and news channels of record.

The Consent, folks. Its being Manufactured.

If you want to go back in time and prevent the Holocaust specifically, your time would be better well spent killing Henry Ford or Arthur de Gobineau or Martin Luther. Mass murder of Jews in Europe had been common place for centuries. It was a sentiment the Nazis capitalized on, not one they invented.

Similarly, if you wanted to deter shape of European politics that lead to the World Wars, temporal assassination of Bismark or Napoleon III would be far more effective. Those battle lines had been drawn well in advance of 1932.

Homelander jerking off on top of a skyscraper.

They won’t because they’re controlled opposition. A release valve for people to flock to when the GOP grows too difficult to render palatable to the public at-large. Dem Leadership simply waits to absorb discontent. They don’t function as an organized party.

The only role they do fill is to cast dispersion on any kind of third-party coalition building.

there should really be more pushback on them rebranding LLMs as AI.

That’s because the target of the language is the know-nothing speculative investor class. The distinction doesn’t matter to us because we’re not being sold a service, we’re being packaged as a product.

The increasingly-impossible-to-opt-out-of nature of LLMs/AIs illustrates as much. We’re getting force-fed a “free” service that’s fundamentally worse than what came before it, because its an extractive service.

the things it gets wrong are significant enough that no sane individual should rely on anything that AI is involved with making/running

The fundamental use-cases for AI are almost never customer oriented, either. You don’t see these tools deployed to reduce wait times or improve authentication or approve access, because the people who deploy them don’t actually trust them to do positive scope client interactions. What you see them doing is robo-calls, front-line customer service, claims denials, and (in the bleakest use cases) military targeting operations. Instances where efficiencies of scale accrue to the operator and an error/problems rebounds to the target of the service rather than the vendor.

People are effectively getting wowed by a glorified ELIZA chat bot.

An ELIZA chatbot that double-processes your credit card and then keeps denying you a refund when you manually catch and report it.

“Oh but I couldn’t do anything about it!” is the modern Democratic battle cry.

Just look at the fucking Gaza Genocide. Biden dithers for 13 months on a deal that’s nearly identical to the one Trump inevitably prompted. Trump immediately gets what he wants by putting the slightest pressure on Netanyahu, because he recognizes that this conflict is holding up initiatives his party wants (namely Saudi recognition of Israel into the Middle Eastern trading cartels).

All those people screaming about how “Trump Will Be Worse! You stupid Palestinian Midwesterners deserve the genocide your families will get for not supporting Haris!” and the bombs stop the day Trump takes office. How are these people going to respond to the next Democrat who runs for office, I wonder?