This is pretty much my posture regarding ICE and the Trump Regime. If I am destined for one of RFK’s plantations, I intend to kill any ICE bastard who comes for me.
More importantly, if this cold war goes hot, I will engage with ICE bastards in warfare. I am simply waiting for the Blue States Military to give the order to assemble and uphold the spirit of the Constitution.
Uh-huh, I sure will trust the word of Captain Bonespurs and his spawn about the “corrupt” rich of a country in a war with Russia. 🙄
A world with one less dictator.
I hope Putin is discovered while fleeing, and promptly suffers the divine plight of kings…
Really, all dictators should end up this way.
AI might be good for simulating attacks, because they can do lots of attempts and iteration. IMO, AI and (competent) people would make for a good pairing for trying out ideas before deploying a project into the real world.
Considering that we may have WW3 started by the United States, I very much approve of Europe and friends cutting out America. It would be preferable if they had fully vetted and stockpiled arms, rather than makeshift drones made out of bedframes.
China’s CXMT might go for it. Apparently they are rolling out DDR5 8000+ memory, two or three years from now. They can rebrand as Crucial for the western market, thus using familiarity to push their product.
“Crucial’s Xtreme Memory Technology will push your Steam Machine beyond the limits, dddduuuuude!” 🤘
As someone who does AI and gaming as hobbies, I look forward to a corporate bubble popping. Being able to max out an EPYC or Threadripper Pro’s DDR5 capacity would be awesome. :)
I view AI to be like the internet: Most corporate players won’t survive the bubble, but the ones that do, will be incredibly influential. Ordinary people made great use of the internet - but failed to make it really decentralized. Thus the enshittification of Reddit, Youtube, social media, and so forth.
We can choose to embrace local LLM that is fully under our control, or cede ownership to the 1% forevermore.
I can see this as an actual tactic. It means that do-gooders have to handle each and every one of the released, or be forced to focus on just one.
Considering the nature of MAGA, unleashing violent criminals upon the innocent remains in character. 😞
If Illinois decades to get off their butts and prosecute ICE, they should cross reference the rentals with traffic cameras. Presumably the rentals have GPS trackers - so check the routes they take with the cameras, and see if the plates magically change.
Scar would make for a better leader. Or most Disney villains, for that matter. They at least have some level of competency.
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That one is the Italian Sausage flavor. A mite too spicy for me. Still, I recommend it for folks who don’t mind. :)
The ways I cheat depends on the game. Sometimes to get rid of grind, others to obtain abilities that are mutually exclusive. EG: X-COM, where I had soldiers with all branches of their abilities active, rather than having to pick just one. Max stat spreads, without having to pick a specialty.
I pretty much play games for narrative or to simply keep my hands busy while listening to Behind the Bastards.
Someday, we will be using AI to generate fake IDs and faces, simply because our governments refuse to respect our privacy. They will have uncanny resemblance to political critters who enacted the surveillance.
As with everything born of enshittification, I do not know if this is to be a lame joke or reality. 😒
I have no idea what a seahorse emoji implies, and never had the desire to use one.
Anyhow. I personally believe that AI can be used to empower the common person, provided that it is available and publicly funded. Something along the lines of Switzerland’s Apertus could be very helpful. Be it keeping an eye out for discount goods, pairing news with investments, or determining the legality of a Kavenaugh Stop, AI can make it easier for people to have agency in their lives. But that is dependent on whether we support the establishment of that agency.
I personally feel that anti-AI people are bad for the future of humanity, because they encourage the 1% to become the sole owners of AI, by trying to deter the ordinary person from becoming masters of it. Rejection of tools and power, only ensures it is used by the worst people.
Also, all existing human artists derived their skill and creativity from observing the works of other people. IMO, the same can be said of AI. While an AI currently isn’t fit to independently create original works, eventually it will be able to make great creations, be it in collaboration with a human partner or by itself. It is simply a matter of when that AI becomes capable. Of course, I can’t prove that - but neither can the technology vegans. We will have to see in a couple of decades.
AI, being a technology, will become more economical and effective over time. My gaming rig isn’t well suited for running medium-sized AI like GLM Air, but it is an AM4-socketed machine. When a post-AI boom socket is released, such as AM6, the memory and PCIe lanes for it will be much faster and larger to account for AI usage. It is through the improvement of software and hardware that the progress of AI will march forward. For example, we can expect GLM to run about 30% faster on consumer hardware once MTP is implemented in LlamaCPP. A prompt that took 40 minutes to generate an response for me, becomes 28. Time savings like that, translate into less energy and heat being needed to run AI. It isn’t dissimilar to how aircraft massively improved over time.
As to why the Pro-AI don’t need to prove our beliefs: we aren’t claiming that people aren’t artists, nor are we trying to make other people feel sucky. We just want to do neat things for our folks, without bothering other people. Anti-AI folks tend to throw around accusations and generally be jackasses. It is why court systems and society needs the accusers to prove their points, otherwise they will just bully people for anything and everything.
Probably a grift, as MAGA is prone to do. I suspect a fair bit of the massive ICE budget is engineered to end up in the 1%'s pockets. I am not sure how to feel about these shitbirds cannibalizing their political goals for the sake of mammon…
If Costco doesn’t refund the tariffs to customers, instead bringing back the Kirkland beef lasgana and big muffins, I would be alright with that. The last three or four years had some shrinkflation and loss of variety at Costco, which disappointed me.
While Costco is still one of the best stores to shop at, the American decay is still touching them. It doesn’t feel good.
It has been an devolution at my store: Big lasagna for the last few decades, then a twin pack of smaller ones the last three or four years, and now this flavor is simply gone.
That is for the best. The US is a hostile power, and allowing it to embed enemy troops or sabotage NATO operations should not be permitted. Europe is better off without the traitorous Trump Regime.
It sucks that it has to be this way, but to deny the intent and nature of the current United States, is to invite disaster.
Got it, the EU should buy Congress!
…that might be an improvement, considering how dumb our political animals are. 🤔