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  • If Marc Andressen gets in some sort of public trouble, could we call it the TPOT-Dome Scandal?

  • as someone who grew up in an "old timey" baptist church, I am 100% comfortable with someone yelling things at me that I agree with, but ymmv.

  • "Decepticons" is right there!

  • ain't nobody got time for that

    Edit: on reading the newer posts on this thread...oof

  • Big Yud is the all-time champion of shooting his mouth off from the hip.

    BTW, there is evidence emerging that all of this is a downstream consequence of chronic pain from a back injury. As a lifting-things enthusiast who mildly tweaked their back once, whew, I can see this being a thing.

    https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione

  • On the flip side, this gives American doctors a new way to explain child birth in terms of hamburgers.

  • Ed Zitron found this post about a WIlly-Wonka-Experience-style cheese injection facility in Toronto:

    https://xcancel.com/i_zzzzzz/status/1865956680481354184#m

    This is what it was like to live in Chasm City during the Melding Plague.

  • I'd heard of the Basque space program, but the Catalonian moon landing is news to me.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senyera

  • The "splitting" thing is eerie to me. It's like watching people training themselves into a psychiatric disorder.

  • 2024 when I was a kid: "I wonder who the first person on Mars will be?"

    2024 we have at home: Synthetic Assholes

  • tired: checking incoming packets for the evil bit

    wired: checking LLM outputs for the truthfulness bit

  • Older article, but relevant in light of current events:

    UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims

    I wonder if we'll see a new edition of the Shinzo Abe Effect.

  • ...which made everyone exposed stupid and aggressive...

    Funnily enough, this seems to be true for gen-ai, too!

  • Glad to hear that the game engine hasn't shit the bed!

    Ed really brings home the feeling that all of the AI-boosting VCs have taken their billions to the roulette table and bet it all on green, doesn't he?

  • Looks like SK gave the bastards a hard nope, at least.