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“I can tell because of the pixels, and I’ve seen many Photoshops in my time.”

(who also, strangely enough, had welcomed Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis)

The man liked tourism.

Today we’ll be debating the moral calculus of President FuglyDuck’s initiative to explode all children.

All I know is, my gut says maybe.

Sensible effective regulation is forbidden. All that’s left are desperate indirect efforts toward harm reduction.

Abolish consoles.

The war is over. Software has won. Everything’s a computer now, and some of them act stupid. We should tell them to stop.

As much as the remote AI stuff is good for, really. Local models have been catching up to commercial big-iron fare at an astounding pace. Last year I would’ve said they’re a year behind. But in April, Qwen released a 27B model that outperforms their 397B model… from February.

I’ve seen a variety of Youtube makers build a thing and then hand-wave some code with a nervous laugh. Even if it’s a coin toss whether the chatbot-that-codes actually works - you don’t lose much by trying. Epecially if the alternative was reluctant procrastination.

Red team has more fun.

Relevant XKCD. (Upper right.)

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