dylanmorgan
@dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 5 days ago:
Okay, I admit it. I don’t have friends.
- Comment on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 1 week ago:
I think of a tiny robot arm and sensor array that lets a human surgeon see and work on smaller parts of a patient than they could otherwise manage safely.
I guess that would be a cyborg surgeon.
- Comment on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 1 week ago:
The Pitt is covering this, and in an early episode from this season they had one of the doctors point out that the LLM transcription incorrectly labeled a medication.
Medicine has a very low tolerance for errors. If I ask ChatGPT what episode of Downton Abbey shows lord whatshisface vomiting blood and it tells me that episode was the Red Wedding, worst case scenario is I look dumb. If Claude tells a doctor “this patient doesn’t have any existing medications that are contraindicated for propofol,” and it’s wrong, that patient may die on the table.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 1 week ago:
I know it’s a shitpost, but…
As cool as they might look, imagine trying to keep those things clean. Just constant vacuuming.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 1 week ago:
It’s the name of the stadium ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on A lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously! 1 week ago:
I could not agree more. It’s pretty cheap to spin up a site, the content is what’s expensive (and the legal coverage.) A co-op would allow the reporters to distribute risk and revenue.
- Comment on Best gas masks 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know for certain but given the fact I’ve seen German riot cops with helmets and shields I’d bet the answer is “yes of course.”
- Comment on What if the Epstein files are the distraction? 2 weeks ago:
The overwhelming narrative has been “this (ICE raids, other Trump administration fuckery) is a distraction from the Epstein files!” Hence “if.”
- Comment on At least 4 Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers 2 weeks ago:
This should be disqualifying for any elected official. Regardless of party or other ideology, the most basic function of an elected official is to serve the public who elected them transparently.
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- Comment on TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS 2 weeks ago:
You mean “experts” who have even the slightest understanding of how software works?
- Comment on Le Tits, Now! 3 weeks ago:
It looks like there was some weird drama around her but I couldn’t find any details other than some vague claims about death threats.
- Comment on it's right there 😖 3 weeks ago:
One of the many calls of the void I experience frequently.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 3 weeks ago:
If no one buys these shoes that fall apart after breaking their toes, the growth of the Shoes-That-Injure-The-Wearer industry could really take a hit!
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 4 weeks ago:
Except there are zero contracts in place to actually build those data centers, nor is there enough power generated to run them. I really wish tech journalists would do the background to determine if what these documented liars are saying is even possible, never mind likely.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 4 weeks ago:
Appropriate that something in a neoliberal community is in the shitposting community too.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Every day is violent swinging between 7 and 9.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t Catholics subscribe to the doctrine of TRANSubstantiation?
- Comment on Sold in Belgrade... 4 weeks ago:
So…the orcs are the good guys in this one?
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
Assuming 50% of people in the world have a penis (it’s lower but for the sake of argument we’ll say 50%), more than 50% of bathroom visits require sitting. People with vulvas need to sit, but so does anyone who is pooping, as well as anyone who has one of a number of conditions that makes standing during a bathroom visit untenable. Therefore, the seat should always be put down.
- Comment on MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought 1 month ago:
I appreciate the TLDW because the thumbnail made me think this was about bee vomit, not a scammy browser plugin
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 month ago:
Yeah, I was looking around and I couldn’t find anything about an actual program which makes me think it may have been just a comment someone made suggesting something like that. I do remember thinking at the time that Japan is rather unwelcoming to immigration by non-Japanese people so there would have to be a major shift in culture to allow that kind of thing.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 month ago:
Didn’t they have a program a few years ago inviting foreigners to come and have (effectively) anchor babies?
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 1 month ago:
Aw, that’s adorable. You still think good things might happen.
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 1 month ago:
Nope, it was written for a minstrel show, to mock black folks. The songwriter later moved south to join the confederacy.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 months ago:
Yeah, his photos and other content he generated may be retrievable via personal backups, but if he bought media or apps from Apple, those are unavailable if he’s not authenticated via Appleid, and if his devices can’t authenticate he is basically unable to use them for anything.
- Comment on I browse. 2 months ago:
Sorry, let me clarify: your tattoos won’t look cool when you’re older. This dude isn’t you.
- Comment on Hmm 2 months ago:
“Hmmm,” as in “hmmm, is there already a dontputyourdickinthat community?”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think it would be both normal and probably welcomed by a lot of them (as long as you’re not pushing an MLM.) Worst case scenario, they decline your friend request, but it’s not “weird.”
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 2 months ago:
I was mostly joking about apple’s rule that they don’t show villains in movies using Apple products.