uriel238

@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In my culture we had nothing but roadkill and weeds to eat, so we got really good at making stuff palatable. << Most cultural food legends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do not recommend.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But did you get high?

  (Most AC recipes are for rec drug use.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6🤷‍♀️7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get six-seven at all, but it’s not the first time I didn’t jibe with slang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems legit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Offline LLMs exist but tend to have a few terabytes of base data just to get started (e.g. before LORAs)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bosses win if winning is continuing to manage the company poorly.

  The shareholders lose since cruel treatment reduces productivity and weakens profit margins. It depends on how seriously the business controllers want to actually do a capitalism and create a product and turn a profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In actuality, yes, their job is to maximize productivity for the dollar spent, hence maximizing profits, and the best way to do that for most job pools is by improving the QoL of the workforce.

  They likely do value control over productivity, but that’s not the job of upper management. A lot of jobs (the bullshit jobs ) are to fulfill a personal need for an entourage, the illusion of business activity. That is a – human – trait.

  Our c-suite execs might believe it controlling the workforce is their job, though, if they’re inadequately educated about the current state of the art. Hopefully, their AI replacements will be more current and won’t be interfered with by the BoD or shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replace your boss ... before they replace you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disappointed this is a parody.

  There are actual AI-based services to replace company upper management, and take it seriously, since AI in its current iteration is strong enough to manage companies even when its art is quotidian.

  Mr. Whipple’s days are actually numbered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crunching does not work!

  Instead, it reduces productivity to a fraction (often 10% of normal), countering any time added.

  You want to improve your productivity, you make your workers happy. Make sure they can eat, have good healthcare, have adequate family life, etc.

  We now have studies that counter the crunching myths and time theft myths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨freddie mercury⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So…a muppet version of the Joker?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it is, then I failed to get the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The 2025 trash icon no longer looks like a trash can. It’s no longer intuitive. At the same time, I don’t actually keep one on my desktop, so meh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACTS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Andrew Tate is the kind of hyper-masculinist that drove me to walk away from my manhood, so rather than being enby (meh, whatever), I’m enby ( not a man)

  All attributes that that were once virtuous of men now apply to everyone, especially all the features of adults: The rest of us are expected to conduct ourselves politely and maturely, and to take care of business. But not men, and especially not rich men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We use about 20% of our caloric intake (at rest, not doing math) for our bio intelligence. Having superpowers of social organization is expensive and power hungry.

  So it’s really no surprise that the computation machines that can run AI require tens of megawatts to think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not 2025-12-25, or 12/25/25, or 25/12/25?

  I’m confused why we have a 25th month this year.

  Also, assuming the human species is still around and celebrates Christmas, there will be a 2525/12/25

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting Political Map⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  Some of us knew Trump had a history of fucking 13-year-old Russian girls in 2016 before the election. The victims tried to sue but were pressured to drop the suits via classic mobster-style threats of violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, my dad is a total MAGA loyalist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True romance, despite everything.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have contempt for Trump over a lot of things, but being gay isn’t one of them, whether or not it’s implied by circumstances.

  But I do enjoy that Trump loathes being thought of as potentially gay, even though I imagine he’d fuck anything, including flags and his own daughter.

  PS: Stormy Danials spanked Trump with a magazine, so he does have submissive bones in his body; at least a few.

  The humor is the same font from which all the Tinder jokes are made: it’s not that they’re gay, but they’ve collectively dug a hole in which they have to hide it and slink away when the evidence reveals itself.

  All that said, I think the blow Bubba comment was more likely a reference to prison sex which is situational. For some reason, we have an archetype of a scary black man named Bubba who is in – and often runs – maximum-security penitentiaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Dickheads!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Dickheads were those who followed Phillip K. Dick and all things Dickian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because upper management is less checked, they make a lot of human choices, such as keeping a lot of bullshit job positions open as garden hermits (there for scenery, to look busy).

  AI tasked with actually increasing profits may run the business better than their human counterparts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was the ironic outcome of the Twilight Zone episode The Brain Center at Whipple’s ( @WP ): After the labor was replaced by automation, the upper management was easily so replaced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Yawn*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A yawn is a signal to regain some alertness, so when you yawn in order to become more awake, it signals your fellow life forms they might want to be alert too. 🥱

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🔥Leaked copy of the Epstein Files🔥⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of the redaction that was a page of black lines with a single word, approximately center-page, that was still legible:

  research

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I hope we have an LGBTQ+ president"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, all of the twenty first century so far in the US could be someone mucking around with a monkey paw.

  …Or a time machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quite the Conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, Clinton won the majority in 2016. Trump won because the EC fucked America. Again, as per the last time a Republican was elected without being an incumbent.

  If we don’t fix the Electoral College, I anticipate more Republicans will be unexpectedly elected in upcoming general elections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A hill I will die on: Marie Antoinette deserved better.

  Source: The You’re Wrong About episode about her. (on buzzsprout)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfection⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first thing that comes up on a websearch is books being chained to desks, to keep them from getting borrowed. I can’t imagine monks chained to their desks will be motivated to do good work, let alone fine art like illumination. Especially if they’re under a deadline, which would serve to propagate errors and misspellings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought phrenology was still a science at the time of the German Reich, only made defunct later. Now I have my doubts.

  Social darwinism was disproven in the 1900s and supply-side economics died in the 19th century so it’s not like pseudoscience does not spring up like weeds when rich people want to sponsor it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfection⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Middle-ages cloistered monks really had a lot of time on their hands and no other entertainment, so yeah, crazy art of whatever comes to mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly that you have way more theory than I do. It’s good to know that these ideas can work when we’ve a collective mind to make them work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember there was an end-goal of a communist state to ultimately disband bureaus. Marx explained how to get things started, less the ultimate goals, so I might be thinking of a dubdivision of communist theory. Soviet communism (lower case, like soviet – referring to committees) still had public officials in its provisional state that had more power than the common citizen, at least within the purview of their office, but officials trusted with power is regarded as a necessary evil.

  Participatory democracy (in which everyone votes on every little thing – at least every thing to which they’re a stakeholder) is another model that works similarly, but again, without some amazing databasing tools and personal platform customization, it’s not possible to do this effectively even if we master internet voting: We’d need to find a balance between reducing constituent administrative burden and providing enough time and means so that everyone is sufficiently participating in their civic duties, and voting as suits their personal best interests (and not on any superfluous issues that don’t concern them).

  Communism and democracy are multiple models aiming for the same outcome, but again, we expect to get closer without ever reaching absolute perfection of even distribution of power… Well, we expect to get closer when a society actually strives towards doing so, contrasting allowing a select few elites secure political power for themselves.