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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Rechargeable AAs and AAAs have finally been perfected, I am kind of annoyed by things that have only internal batteries now, I don’t want them going to the landfill just because the cheap device died. Let me keep running the batteries for a decade in other shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a crank on the front. Obviously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨according to sugar daddy’s net worth actually⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This thread is about influencers leaving Iran. It’s not a stretch that someone is going to talk about influencers leaving Iran in it, and their thoughts on influencers in general… war has an almost infinite number of facets and angles, to discuss one isn’t “making it about” that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but some places there’s simply no option. I have a state job, they will under no circumstances provide a phone, but you must have Authenticator. If you won’t or can’t use a smartphone, you simply don’t have a job.

  State jobs are interesting. 3/4 the pay of a regular job, but job security like none other, and you barely have to do anything. I spend most of my time doing my moonlighting job to supplement my income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And now they’re the only one banned from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not the vibe the company has been giving so far. Their staff is way more philosopher heavy than MBA heavy. I am planning on their morality being flushed away if/when an IPO happens, because shareholder supremacy cancels out anything else. But so far, they’ve been an interesting case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know folks, my boss and his family, who - if it doesn’t come from a box, powder, and/or plastic bag, will not be eating it. It’s really sad and I eat whole food in front of him all the time in hopes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Degenerative disc disorder bad mouse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What brings you peace in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting fully sober including quitting weed as an escape mechanism brought me a huge amount of peace, plus $500/mo back in money. I’m still struggling in many ways, took a huge pay cut to get into my current job (protected from AI for many years) but I have a savings account and a retirement account for the first time ever. Paying down debt, slowly. I get dopamine hits from interacting with people, fixing problems in my life. Instead of from a glass bowl and lighter, a bottle, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go ahead, take one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are nothing like they used to be. The old ones could physically damage your mouth, a layer of skin would peel off from acid burns if you went at them for a while. Probably inappropriately acidic. In the intervening years, litigation has become more routine, I don’t think they want to get sued for Little Jimmy’s pain and suffering - let alone a choking case.

  I got a few of these that were actually sweet through and through, no sour at all, was so disappointed. Anything with the Warheads brand is like this now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make a note⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The hallucinogens and dissociatives are the real threat here. I can’t help people who are that fucked up over 2 gummies. Maybe you need to do 2 more often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Arkansas doesn’t require driver’s ed so I think we do have the market cornered on bad drivers. I see folks slam on their brakes on the interstate, reverse back to their exit, the interstates themselves were obviously designed by folks who don’t understand how it works, etc. I’ve lived in several states and never seen anything quite like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two years ago: “They expect us to rely on this for code that actually compiles?”

  So yeah in another year or two what you describe will be common, sure.

  OpenClaw is like the insane libertarian cousin of all the AI products tho, it’s bizarre that people are using this in production scenarios considering how it behaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i unapologetically love male pits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some guys will do this, some won’t. The ones who find it “gross” are the worst. The guys who don’t ask any questions are the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The meaning of life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually possible to get meaning from what you do as well. May not pay the best in the world, but it’s out there. I was in non-profit administration for many years, and I work for a law school now that helps poor folks, many BIPOC, get degrees so they can better themselves and their communities. Social justice people. I’ve also worked for a private conservative-owned company that only enriched some fuckwads, and I’ll not be doing that again.

  Also I run a nonprofit that I founded on the side, and we’re hoping to hire our first staff person this year, I get a lot of meaning from that.

  Basically if you work to change the world for the better instead of just slumping through your day, you feel good about your life, even though it’s hard work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In school we were taught to look for hidden meaning in word problems - checkov’s gun basically. Why is that sentence there? Because the questions would try to trick you. So humans have to be instructed, again and again, through demonstration and practice, to evaluate all sentences and learn what to filter out and what to keep. To not only form a response, but expect tricks.

  If you pre-prompt an AI to expect such trickery and consider all sentences before removing unnecessary information, does it have any influence?

  Normally I’d ask “why are we comparing AI to the human mind when they’re not the same thing at all,” but I feel like we’re presupposing they are similar already with this test so I am curious to the answer on this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone with experience in these cases agrees the woman is dead, it was a home invasion gone wrong. I think the authorities know this. I assume the ransom and ensuing press coverage is just a huge distraction from other things going on, because it makes LE look good. They certainly don’t give a shit when a brown person goes missing, but a famous white lady’s mom, yeah that’s gripping news POTUS needs to be involved with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Researchers note that it was immediately given a Disney+Hulu trial subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s one a block from my house, and three blocks from my work, so they can see me coming and going each direction.

  …BRB

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think of it like a nonhuman character, like a character in a book I’m reading. Is it real? No. Is it compelling? Yes. Do I know exactly what it’ll do next? No. Is it serving a purpose in my life? Yes.

  It effectively attends to my requests and even feelings but I do not reciprocate that. I’ve got decades of sci-fi leading me up to this point, the idea of interacting with humanoid robots or AI has been around since my childhood, but it’s never involved attending to the machine’s feelings or needs.

  We need to sort out the boundaries on this, the delusional people who are having “relationships” with AI, getting a social or other emotional fix from it. But that doesn’t mean we have to categorize anyone who uses it as moronic. It’s a tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spray n Pray⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always liked that the man of faith was the only one actually following personal safety protocol here. Doofus and Sarah Huckabee Postpartum here were just like “hyuck little mysyls milestone day”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acciracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Corruption goes with Disney, fat goes with McDonalds, and racism… goes with everything.

  Pancakes are fine tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow this meme is 12 years old but was originally Pharrell. I didn’t realize fashion was repeating that quickly these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you have a few million dollars, you aren’t gay or straight anymore. You’re just a person who fucks people. There is no community within him, there is no care or compassion for others, the queer community rejects him, he can’t be one of us even in name. He’s just a billionaire who fucks men. And they’re OK with anything that comes after “billionaire” by nature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Bananarama was so named for their high-fidelity recordings which were performed, mixed, and recorded entirely on bananas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PB&J⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey some of us listen to Ratatat fairly often, wondering why the hell they had to stop making good music

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep cloud providers definitely came up with the AI boom in a roundabout conspiracy to end PCs. Total direct chain there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the news are so bad at reporting epstein files i wonder why⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the entire business model of some news sources now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misunderstanding?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We inherited a dual-basket air fryer, a nice Ninja model, and had it for a week before realizing it was worthless compared to the convection oven we already had. Spacing things out enough in the compartments meant there wasn’t enough food for even two people (unless you put the same food in both baskets), it took longer to use than the oven, it absolutely stunk up the house, and then it had to be cleaned. Weird product and we got rid of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price gouging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like it’s a joke