Honestly, this factoid is the closest thing to a real Total Perspective Vortex that I’ve ever felt.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Documenting the descent into madnessEnglish
5·28 days agoFucking hell, I didn’t even notice the wig but here I am, fully clowned.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•POV: The highest paid engineer at your company gets firedEnglish
2·29 days agoI work with John, my role is as the replacement for another John. I’m trying to be open and fix the issues, but they just want John back, and the other John who’s here, is so territorial, even when I try to help, he just tries to undermine and fight me.
Fucking John.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Is Hannah Montana linux a good option for beginners?English
4·2 months agoIt is now for me too :).
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?"English
2·2 months agowhich is a nonconformist
Thank you for this, it puts it in terms that make a lot of sense. This really helps explain a phenomenon I see so often. I know a few folks who are certainly not pro-trump, but are very anti-political. I’ve been told that I need to shut up, and things would be fine once the next election rolls around.
These folks might not like what’s happening, but they are fine conforming to it.
Maybe it’s a me problem, but I think it’s going to take a little more work than the bare minimum.
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Privacy@lemmy.world•The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitcoin Self CustodyEnglish
6·2 months agoWhen the only people supporting these new grifters are the regular old established grifters, the result was inevitable.
Nah, I mean that even thought they look so picture perfect, my brain just doesn’t see them as real, and parks them in the same category as a cartoon.
Whereas a practical effect, might look hilariously bad, but sometime a jello filled, papier-mache head exploding, is the perfect amount of gore to make me wince.
My theory is that since practical effects ultimately rely on physics of the world we occupy, that despite their unpolished look, they feel more real. The hyper realistic, but completely reality breaking effects of today just hit the same way cartoons do.
Speaking of cartoons, I love finding the shortcuts that animators would take, there’s something so artistic about how they did it.
I am just so much more engaged when I can watch a movie while also trying to figure out how they pulled off an effect.
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Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creatorsEnglish
17·3 months agoI have noticed that some of the regular creators I watch seem to look a little AI lately. I honestly have been questioning reality a bit; that’s probably the point.
Lol, I meant Reimann too since he’s German, but mostly because I’m an idiot.
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Technology@lemmy.world•U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big businessEnglish
79·3 months agoFucking hilarious that this is party that starts seizing the means of production.
It was never, ever even once about states rights. It was never about fighting communism. It’s all racism, always has been.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying.English
441·3 months agoMy relatives who’ve been screaming about mark of the beast and shit for years sure confuse the hell Out of me when they voice support for this while wearing their maga hats.
Excellent choice, would be amazing, a perfect pick. I’d toss Riemann or Ramanujan into the mix if I could pick anyone and ignore the language barrier.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Let's hear it, little lemmings.English
11·3 months agoTo be frank, if you put Angela on this list my answer would be her a thousand times over. Shes just so damn engaging, love her content.
Agreed, not the person I respect the most or believe is going to reveal the most truth. But he’s the best one on the list to keep you engaged and entertained for 3 hours.
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Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in officeEnglish
733·3 months agoI can’t help but feel like this is the most important part of the article:
The model’s refusal to accept information to the contrary, meanwhile, is no doubt rooted in the safety mechanisms OpenAI was so keen to bake in, in order to protect against prompt engineering and injection attacks.
Do any of you believe that these “safety mechanisms” are there just for safety? If they can control ai, they will. This is how we got mecha-hitler, same mucking about with weights and such, not just what it was trained on.
They WILL, they already are, trying to control how ai “thinks”. This is why it’s desperately important to whatever we can to democratize ai. People have already decided that ai has all the answers, and folks like peter thiel now have the single most potent propaganda machine in history.
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Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partnersEnglish
54·3 months agoI’ve been playing with ai, pushing the limits of it as a therapy tool (I’m being honest, but I’m using myself as a test case). I’m really trying to evaluate it in good faith, mostly to try to see what’s addicting folks to it these days.
I just cannot get it to pass my “Turing test”. It’s just so sycophantic. Every time I get close to feeling like there’s something there, it falls back into the “blow smoke up your ass mode.”
So far my hours of conversing has only convinced me that folks who follow chatbot advice for such important life decisions, probably deserve it. I’m happily married, but if a girl ever broke up with me because a LLM told her to, I’d probably login to thank it (joke).
Pretty much today old.


I just absolutely love this comment, especially the dismissive bit at the end. Damn fine nerding my friend.