"I might someday need a phone, so let me put $100 down to secure my ability to eventually buy a phone"
... or ...
"Gosh, phones are so hard to purchase, I better put $100 down so I can be on that exclusive list"
What people are thinking this? and why? Just write a $100 check to the pedophile-in-chief's campaign and skip the middleman.
Not sure it had an impact here, but the Lara Croft/Tomb Raider fans are ... "special".
Recall that when when 26-year old Angelina Jolie took on the role of Lara Croft (2001), the Tomb Raider fans said she was not hot enough.
A significant amount of software is pretty common stuff -- database interactions, UI interactions, business rules and logic -- so it really isn't hard to see how AI could generate code like that, even quite "good" code. That's the nugget of truth that underlies a lot of these ... lies.
Can this dude get code with "no corrections needed"?? Probably?? It sounds like his code is pretty standard stuff (but if so, why would anyone need to buy his stuff?).
Does that mean AI can do all things? No. Can AI even do the easy things with "no corrections needed"? Depends.
(I get that nuance doesn't sell and this dude is trying to sell, but FFS can we just get over the AI-hype already)
I understand that they don't actually care about any laws being broken -- they just want to **** people up.
And IANAL, but doesn't this harm any legal case they might hope to try later?
Measles would like to announce that the winner of the 2026 Measles Peace Prize -- "Measles Infects The World" -- has been awarded to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.!!
“In an increasingly unsettled and divided world, it’s fundamental to recognise the outstanding contribution of those who work hard to spread measles and bring people together to be infected,” said FIFAMeasles President Gianni Infantino.
Not sure if this is still statistically true, but at least early in 2025, the only thing polling lower than Trump's approval rating
... was the Democratic Party's approval rating.
Isn't the disclaimer at the bottom basically just ... "Law enforcement people should follow the law" ???
The mere presence of an individual .. is not indicative of nefarious activity.
Law enforcement action should not be taken solely on the basis of the exercise of constitutionally protected rights,
... should not interpret this product as a tasking or encouragement to monitor activity on these platforms.
Did ANY of that really need to be said ... nevermind, I know the answer.
I would also like to request that people stop using the word "airport" and instead use "a place for airplanes to take off and land along with the buildings and supporting infrastructure necessary to maintain and refuel them, and the buildings and supporting infrastructure needed to get passengers and their luggage on and off of the airplanes." (*) The latter is clearly more accurate and descriptive so everyone should use it.
More seriously -- yes, the word is awkward -- but as you mention, it's been in use for several years, so it's now just a part of language.
(*) hat tip to IT columnist Bob Lewis for the wording
The tech details kinda matter too -- how do you measure screen time? (how do they know what the user is doing in between separate network connection requests?)
I might connect to the service at 3:00pm, then again at 3:15pm ... that could be one continuous interaction (15min of screen time) or it could be two, short 1-min interactions (2min of screen time).
(admittedly, today's social media clients are constantly making calls back to the server and can easily track this, but what if there is some kind of "offline" mode)
To be fair, there WERE a lot of "discrepancies" in the 2020 election:
There were those Republicans who breached a voting system
There were Republicans who disenfranched tens of thousands of voters, including Republican lawsuits to stop counting votes that had been duly collected
There were counts of Russian interference which benefitted Republican candidates (and a Republican candidate who seemed to solicit such interference)
There was a Republican plot to replace the chosen electors with a fake slate of electors
So, YES, I think we should teach all of that to our kids!
The article points out two-thirds of Idaho’s fetal medicine specialists have left the state because continuing to provide the care they have for years puts them in danger of being prosecuted under the state’s abortion law.
TWO-FUCKING-THIRDS of the doctors have left already?!?!
When I was a kid, there was "you're autistic" (meaning the barely functioning, incessant top-spinning, Rainman-esque view of autism -- no judgement here, just stating how it was) and there was "you're a weird kid". There was no spectrum.
As science investigated this more, we've become better able to diagnose people (hence the spectrum and cross-connections to other conditions, etc.) .. it's almost as if SCIENCE ACTUALLY WORKS!
But I suppose it's not surprising that the anti-science party doesn't get that.
(and, for what it's worth, his name is Bobby Brainworm and no one will ever convince me otherwise)
At first, I thought this was going to be one of TechCrunch's mergers-are-pointless writeups: Verizon sold assets to Frontier in 2009. If Verizon didn't want it back then, why now?
The report attempts to sidestep that conclusion by repeatedly ignoring the actual use in question—training —and focusing instead on how the model may be ultimately used.
This suggests that the trained model itself is the thing of value -- but that is demonstrably not true. No one wants the model -- the trillions of parameters and weights are not meaningful or useful by themselves. What they want is the ability to produce outputs from that model.
So I might grant you that the training is fair use, but the moment you use the model, it sure feels like that's infringement.
That resulted in the Max lineup being inundated with just a bottomless array of reality TV dreck with names like “Fuckboy Island.”
This s*** is breaking what's left of my sarcasm and irony detector ... I was gonna google if "Fuckboy Island" is a real show or not ... but I just. can't. even.
Inaugural NetGear Peace Prize to be announced next week!
(I wish I was kidding, but FFS could anyone even tell with this timeline we're living in?)
Never have I ever said ...
"I might someday need a phone, so let me put $100 down to secure my ability to eventually buy a phone" ... or ... "Gosh, phones are so hard to purchase, I better put $100 down so I can be on that exclusive list" What people are thinking this? and why? Just write a $100 check to the pedophile-in-chief's campaign and skip the middleman.
Not sure it had an impact here, but the Lara Croft/Tomb Raider fans are ... "special". Recall that when when 26-year old Angelina Jolie took on the role of Lara Croft (2001), the Tomb Raider fans said she was not hot enough.
A significant amount of software is pretty common stuff -- database interactions, UI interactions, business rules and logic -- so it really isn't hard to see how AI could generate code like that, even quite "good" code. That's the nugget of truth that underlies a lot of these ... lies. Can this dude get code with "no corrections needed"?? Probably?? It sounds like his code is pretty standard stuff (but if so, why would anyone need to buy his stuff?). Does that mean AI can do all things? No. Can AI even do the easy things with "no corrections needed"? Depends. (I get that nuance doesn't sell and this dude is trying to sell, but FFS can we just get over the AI-hype already)
I understand that they don't actually care about any laws being broken -- they just want to **** people up. And IANAL, but doesn't this harm any legal case they might hope to try later?
So ... water is still wet?
Measles would like to announce that the winner of the 2026 Measles Peace Prize -- "Measles Infects The World" -- has been awarded to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.!! “In an increasingly unsettled and divided world, it’s fundamental to recognise the outstanding contribution of those who work hard to spread measles and bring people together to be infected,” said
FIFAMeasles President Gianni Infantino.Me: Did you see the batshit insane thing he wrote this morning? Wife: You're gonna have to be more specific. ... that's just life in the USA in 2026.
Not sure if this is still statistically true, but at least early in 2025, the only thing polling lower than Trump's approval rating ... was the Democratic Party's approval rating.
companies like Facebook were too innovatively incompetent to dethrone them in the open market... but ... but ... Threads!The disclaimer at the bottom is telling
Isn't the disclaimer at the bottom basically just ... "Law enforcement people should follow the law" ???
Did ANY of that really need to be said ... nevermind, I know the answer.I would also like to request that people stop using the word "airport" and instead use "a place for airplanes to take off and land along with the buildings and supporting infrastructure necessary to maintain and refuel them, and the buildings and supporting infrastructure needed to get passengers and their luggage on and off of the airplanes." (*) The latter is clearly more accurate and descriptive so everyone should use it. More seriously -- yes, the word is awkward -- but as you mention, it's been in use for several years, so it's now just a part of language. (*) hat tip to IT columnist Bob Lewis for the wording
The tech details kinda matter too -- how do you measure screen time? (how do they know what the user is doing in between separate network connection requests?) I might connect to the service at 3:00pm, then again at 3:15pm ... that could be one continuous interaction (15min of screen time) or it could be two, short 1-min interactions (2min of screen time). (admittedly, today's social media clients are constantly making calls back to the server and can easily track this, but what if there is some kind of "offline" mode)
To be fair, there WERE a lot of "discrepancies" in the 2020 election:
- There were those Republicans who breached a voting system
- There were Republicans who disenfranched tens of thousands of voters, including Republican lawsuits to stop counting votes that had been duly collected
- There were counts of Russian interference which benefitted Republican candidates (and a Republican candidate who seemed to solicit such interference)
- There was a Republican plot to replace the chosen electors with a fake slate of electors
So, YES, I think we should teach all of that to our kids!When I was a kid, there was "you're autistic" (meaning the barely functioning, incessant top-spinning, Rainman-esque view of autism -- no judgement here, just stating how it was) and there was "you're a weird kid". There was no spectrum. As science investigated this more, we've become better able to diagnose people (hence the spectrum and cross-connections to other conditions, etc.) .. it's almost as if SCIENCE ACTUALLY WORKS! But I suppose it's not surprising that the anti-science party doesn't get that. (and, for what it's worth, his name is Bobby Brainworm and no one will ever convince me otherwise)
Full circle?
At first, I thought this was going to be one of TechCrunch's mergers-are-pointless writeups: Verizon sold assets to Frontier in 2009. If Verizon didn't want it back then, why now?