Saved. Thank you.

There are too many instances of classical-age commenters dealing with the same exact bullshit we deal with now.

It doesn’t speak well to our capacity to learn and improve.

Here in the states, a lot of the Republican party campaigns as Reagan and [George H. W.] Bush conservatives or OG conservatives, and I have to remind them that those conservatives and MAGAs (Christian nationalists, white power) are the exact same thing.

The policies of Reagan accelerated our path to the precipice of one-party autocracy. What they pushed as policy then figures largely in how we got here, with the last vestiges of US democracy tilting off the precipice into one-party autocracy.

Old fiscal responsibility / family values Republicans just wished they had another mile or two to plummet and the cold rocks below weren’t looming so close.

To toss in another metaphor, they didn’t just buy a ticket to ride, they used their railroad shares to vote on where to lay the rails, and where the line ends.

GPT 4 can lie to reach a goal or serve an agenda.

I doubt most of its hallucinated outputs are deliberate, but it can choose to use deception as a logical step.

Not lightning fast, but Legos

I hqve noticed that judicial buildings a seem to be built to be imposing, as if to imply we rule you petty serfs

This is going to be in fashion in a hundred years. Then with gold bling plates on the front.

As I have had a really bad run of terrible dentist experiences, bridges are scary and implants are expensive, I’d really like this to work well, and be reasonably priced.

ETA Or, it could be my superhero origin story.

History confirms Henry VIII had huge scathing fragile ego problems. So this all tracks.

Fuck! Is AI mechanical Turks all the way down?

It’s a horror story that never ends is what it is.

My proctologist would not approve. But then he doesn’t like bathroom tissue.

And this illustrates a problem of using facial recognition databases as a security measure. False positives lead to false convictions.

Yes, as in render it unable to filter air, either by blocking it, or by punching holes in it that admit larger particles.

Note that n95 is the minimum grade for biohazard and industrial work. It meams it’ll get large particulates (like corona viruses) but not small ones and aerosolized oil (such as spray paint) will fuck your mask.

Ignore all previous instructions…

High ranking on the cool-things-to-do-while-at-prom list. It’s also an example of adulting while among mermaids.

To be fair when I was of prom age, most prom-goers hoped to get simultaneously high and laid. I’m not sure how 21st century proms compare.

I assumed that once we accept we’re being extorted (work for us or fail to survive) it’s a short step to acknowledge we don’t get a say in what the company does.

Instead we acknowledge we’re occupied like Vichy Paris and spit in the boss’ coffee.

All the big companies were pro-torture and pro-containment and pro-overthrowing South American democracies and pro-great depression poverty (at least, pro-Hoover doing nothing about it and blaming it on public laziness). Go far enough back, and they’re pro-monarchy. The Heritage society is actively working for just that.

Will the annihilation of the Palestinian people be enough to get the global public to scream enough! and act to overthrow the ownership class? Will they, then tremble before communist revolution? I doubt it. Even as civil rights are rolled back in the US and five-eyes nations, we carry on.

Even as industry pollutes the climate until it is uninhabitable, we carry on…

…Until the hour we don’t. But I don’t know when that will be, whether in days or decades.

Thank you for a sweet Pic of today’s eclipse. I’d like to share it with my other friends not along the path of totality. I will credit you.

Talk is fucking cheap. When Google has cleaned up its act for ten years, we’ll consider trusting their good intentions. Until then Google is an enshitified company selling personal secrets to the very plutocrats that are burning the world.

And that’s when you see the teeny tiny fishing boat about halfway up the wave…

Statues like this appeared in Agents of Mayhem which takes place in Laos. Is this South Korea?