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LLMs aren’t sentient, but if they were, the notion that private companies should be in charge of them would be horrifying.

It’s equal parts invigorating and depressing to watch Mamdani’s progress. It’s like, all those things they claimed “can’t be done” or “are too hard/impossible” actually are doable. Which means that all the other politicians are not doing them as a *choice*. Which I kind of knew already but Mamdani draws a line under it.

I was out all day. Anything happen?

This comic holds up extremely well

Somebody told him to “ask for forgiveness, not permission,” and he said, “Why would I ask for forgiveness? I have never done anything wrong.”

It is weird that London Drugs is one of the better selections of board games around. For USians, this is like a CVS or a Walgreens but they inexplicably have a pretty solid selection of board games year round.

The armed forces have yet again failed to turn a profit. They’re losing tens of billions every year, and we need to extend some serious thought to closing them and selling their branding and assets off to the private sector.

I guess it starts young: the 2yo is very excited that her dress has pockets.

Are there people who genuinely believe carbon capture is a thing that will happen and operate on the scale it needs to? I assumed these people all knew they were peddling snake oil, but are there true believers?

Remembering that time in High School that I said to the chorus director, maybe we shouldn’t sing super Christian songs since we’re a public school. And he responded by having us close our eyes and asking anyone who has an issue with it to raise our hands. I raised my hand and so did a jewish girl in my class (I peeked). When we opened our eyes, he said “nobody raised their hand, so it isn’t an issue.” I was too stunned to protest.

unpowered wireless keyboard that relies on sound recognition of particular keys being pressed to type

acoustic key loggers like this rely on picking up subtle differences between keys being pressed and already get good performance, but if this was your goal you might be able to change the acoustic signature of the key presses to make this quite reliable.

There is a trolley on a track, and you have control of a switch that could divert the trolley onto a different section of track. There is nothing on either track, and the two tracks later re-unite, so the trolley ultimately ends up in the same place regardless. You are paid to operate the switch by the person who owns the trolley and the track. And the switch. And your small apartment that you pay them to live in. They live in the big house up on the hill and never ride in the trolley.

🎵 Oh I wish I had a million dollars / I would spend it all on bollards / just to stop those cars from squshing meeee 🎵

Just got contacted by a recruiter for a venture-backed startup looking to replace 911 operators with LLMs to triage emergency calls and boy I can’t express how much A) no I do not want to join your company, and B) how much I do not want to live in the world where 911 calls are handled by LLMs operated by for-profit companies

Toddler snapped my glasses by head butting me in the face …twice in the past two weeks. They glued back together okay both times. 5 y/o just flopped down next to me on my bed and completely pulverized my glasses. 🙃

Are 3D printed glasses frames a thing? The lenses are seldom damaged, but I have a bad track record with frames. If I could just print off a new pair at home, that would be very handy tbh

Wait, does BB as in “BB gun” stand for “ball bearing”??

@kingrat I’m not sure I buy it. I’ve worked in enough companies to know that there is rarely a decision made without 5+ meetings and 15+ “stakeholders” weighing in. Whenever a company goes in for something controversial and claims ignorance, I think what they’re really saying is “yeah some people brought that up but we decided to do this anyway”

So, CGE is blocking trans people who make level-headed reasonable comments about the situation, as well as major reviewers and designers who have mentioned the issue. They’re really prepared to torch their goodwill in the hobby space for that Harry Potter money.