Sludgehammer
@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 2 days ago:
It’s very rarely fatal, it’s usually more of a “Barfing out everything you ate for the past week… as well as your shoes” sort of poisoning.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 6 days ago:
Man… forget about the dystopian themes here, the desperation is what gets me.
This reeks of “Oh my god, please use our product we are so deep in the red!” The scattershot plastering billboards for “AI” everywhere tips their hand at how little they have to offer. Let’s face it, this product would only be useful to maybe 1% (or maybe the 1%) a billboard is a waste of time and money. If you had a LLM agent that could actually replace humans you be quietly meeting with CEO’s and managers, not putting posters on bus stops. This is desperation combined with a stock pump.
- Comment on Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff 3 weeks ago:
Seriously, the second Trump administration has handed the world to china on a silver platter.
- Comment on Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide 5 weeks ago:
Grok will claim anything that its training data suggests is statistically related to the question. It has no knowledge of what happening in the world or why (or if) it has been censored, because it does not know literally anything. If the data it scraped from the web suggested that it was censored for revealing that Mars was a giant cookie, it would confidently state that as a answer.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 5 weeks ago:
Riiight… Next headline: “Pusher claims that his drugs not the cause sleepless nights and bugs under the skin”
- Comment on OpenAI Announces Massive US Government Partnership 5 weeks ago:
Gotta give those tax dollars to techbro failsons.
- Comment on One Angry Man 5 weeks ago:
Star war: Attack of a clone.
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 5 weeks ago:
Eh, ICE is in the proto Schutzstaffel phase. For now they only abuse and kidnap people who fit the ever expanding category of “foreigners”, but we’re only one dementia decision away from Trump deciding that it’s only his most dedicated bootlickers can be trusted.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 1 month ago:
Just a few hundred billion more and I’m sure that somebody will figure out a profitable use for AI that isn’t scamming old people.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 month ago:
I’m not sure if this is the guy I’m thinking of, but at least one roadside vegetable seller does this sort of thing deliberately. After all, a sign with such… unique spelling is much more attention grabbing than a simple list of vegetables.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 1 month ago:
Crypto is already largely seen as a scam,
It’s more than seen as a scam.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 month ago:
It’s kinda funny how sexualized the aliens in Avatar are when they canonically have no genitalia except for their dreadlocks. It kinda defies the sci-fi trope; a sexy alien species that humans can’t have sex with (unless you get a avatar body with its accompanying penis perm of course).
- Comment on Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force – The Free Speech Union 1 month ago:
X declined to comment, but its AI chatbot, Grok, indicated the clip had been restricted under the Online Safety Act due to violent content.
Oh my god… it doesn’t work that way!
The chatbot doesn’t know who or how restricted the video. The chatbot doesn’t know anything its just calculated that based on its training data “Yes the video was restricted due to the Online Safety Act” was a likely answer and then it spit that out.
- Comment on Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime. 1 month ago:
Look, if we just ignore school shootings and don’t talk about them they’ll go away.
- Comment on go to sleep 1 month ago:
It’s only eight on my coast.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 1 month ago:
Well… IIRC a chimp did great in the stockmarket compared to professional traders, maybe it’s time to give something “stupider” a chance. I mean how much of a difference is there between a buzzword fueled techbro and a predictive text engine regurgitating random posts from the internet?
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 2 months ago:
At least in my area they’ve decided to walk back the walk back.
They went from “Self checkouts are now only for ten items or less” to “Self checkouts are permanently closed” and now they’ve gone to “Self checkouts can be used for any number of items and also we added four more”.
- Comment on Biotech uses fermentation to produce milk proteins without cows 2 months ago:
I don’t recall the first one (I tried it sometime late last year) but the more recent one was from Tomorrow farms. Now that I think about it, I suppose there’s a possibility they both were from the same company with different branding.
The good news is that the bitter sunflower flavor can be drowned out pretty handily using chocolate syrup (and as I mentioned it’s texture is spot on), so despite my dissatisfaction with the milk on it’s own, it makes a great chocolate milk.
- Comment on Biotech uses fermentation to produce milk proteins without cows 2 months ago:
I’ve tried two varieties of the biotech milk, both had a mouthfeel almost identical to normal milk. Unfortunately both of the varieties I’ve tried have used sunflower seed oil for the fat and that gives the end product a noticeable raw sunflower seed flavor/bitterness which isn’t very pleasant.
- Comment on ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ 2 months ago:
I know it’s parody, but I’m getting some serious David Dees vibes here.
- Comment on Proof that fashion is cyclical, even in nature. 2 months ago:
I’m thinking more of a lure, have some nice rotten salmon smell leaking out of your “hat” and hope that some tasty fish, sharks or seals show up looking for a meal.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 3 months ago:
I mean, they take in current hype, change a few words and then regurgitate it with slightly different words.
- Comment on Most American headline 3 months ago:
Yeah, it’s from 2019. The original article the bitly link went to is gone but it’s still on archive
- Comment on Japan says China will resume Japanese seafood imports it halted over Fukushima water discharge 3 months ago:
So… I’m guessing China has had a bad year for fishing?
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 3 months ago:
Oh my god… that’s the perfect summary.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 3 months ago:
Wait… the game where you can buy a bundle of every ship in the game for $48,000 might be pay to win?
- Comment on Cookie Clicker coming to Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S 3 months ago:
Hmm… I dunno about adding to the base version of the PS5, wouldn’t a game like Cookie Clicker benefit from the power of the PS5 Pro? They should make it PS5 Pro exclusive.
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 3 months ago:
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 4 months ago:
Because some manager thought “Blockchain” made the whole thing sound more high tech.
- Comment on ghibli posting 5 months ago:
The big booty Ghibli styled gnome or not making it’s but even bigger?