I use a chromecast and, good golly, the number of times I get 90+ second ads is insane. I downloaded nebula the other day and, once I finally get my fill of avgn in the next week or so, I’m leaving and never looking back.

The maps were correct, New Zealand doesn’t exist.

“It’ll happen this time, I’m sure of if guys.”

Court sizes have shifted before, they can shift again.

This is disconcerting. China’s not going to slow down on their build out of infrastructure.

And for those who spin this as a positive. AI is not all LLMs. Real diseases are being cured by the complex modeling, real world tangible products, like airplanes and ships, are being designed safer.

I speculate that there’s a good chance that the modeling will eventually help to resolve the climate issue too, rather than continue to contribute to it. Physics models become more robust for simulating nuclear fusion; logistics models for transportation and energy distribution too.

Living in a tourist town, I don’t want a large data center in my backyard either, but there are plenty of places that do and where it makes sense to do so both from a logistical and resource perspective.

We get behind the curve here and it’s going to be near impossible to catch up, and when the smart people can’t play ball with the newest toys, that leads to brain drain.

“Outlook is looking bleak, I’m seeing double.”

At some point, about a decade ago, I started using inciteful rather than insightful in messages. I only realized my mistake after I got a new phone that flags it as a spelling error.

Oh man, what a dunce! I don’t know when my spelling got so aweful! I’m really glad to finally get that one off my chest.

Relevant- around 5:45

https://youtu.be/PlUZv0BV7aw

The market will make what the market will bear. If a whole bunch of SpaceX fanboys decide to buy at the valuation, then it will exist.

Same reason some doofuses thought that a bunch of bits tied to a bunch of other bits that were in the shape of a funky monkey was worth millions and now it’s worth thousands.

Well, that’s gonna take an act of congress to get done.

I take it you haven’t been to Tijuana?

And you think Nixon did?

At long last, now women can also feel the pain that comes with getting your external bits caught in a jeans’ zipper.

And it’s worked before. The protests largely helped end the Vietnam war. Women got the right to vote because enough people spoke up. The civil rights act was passed. Enough small ripples in the same direction can produce a crashing tsunami.

Bikini atoll? They scraped all the top dirt off the island as well as anything else they thought was remotely nuclear and threw it into a big hole, then capped it with cement.

Now folks are worried the waves are getting into it and leaching all sorts of nasty into the ocean and island water table.

Well, that’s just a price you pay for not springing for the premium service.

Now, watch this ad about a funeral service provider in your area before we can open the doors.

Beet on the street says you’re the one who spills the beans.

Ain’t got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don’t worry, be happy

The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don’t worry, be happy

But aren’t they all running on open source infrastructure? Well, except for the ones who’ve undergone cosmetic surgery

• Ad free music, especially if most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free content creation, especially is most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free games, especially if most of it….
• lichess.org
• Activity pub development and hosting
• ability to pay my bills online
• central platforms to buy goods and services that I want (clothing, furniture, car parts, etc) mostly eBay nowadays as I try not to support Amazon and had a terrible experience on Mercari
• ad free podcasts that like to listen to
• direct from manufacturer car……soon-ish