Your choice. Many have died from avoidable diseases over history convinced they were right and science was bogus.

If you mean just Covid, then at a minimum you probably helped spread it without getting sick, so thanks. If you mean vaccines in general, good luck, there’s some nasty crap out there that over time has shown vaccines helped protect people. Ask any old person who witnessed polio. Or measles. Or didn’t get their shingles shot in time and had to go through that mess.

I mean, you can ignore science, but reality doesn’t care what you believe.

Like complaining about how children act, or how no one wants to work anymore. Or how the politicians have lost their minds.

You win the hardcore award. I can only beat this by remembering the few times when I had typed something in for hours and saved it. And then when I went to load it later it would run the tape all the way and throw a LOAD ERROR. At least you knew it was going to go away at night.

Huh. Who would have guessed?

“We’re the People’s Front of Judea!”

Lol, I started out with a Datasette too. I feel the pain.

He was one of the writers.

continues to silently set up two daisychained Commodore 1541 drives

o7, RIP

An awesome life.

What federal laws were broken?

It is absolutely B-movie. It just happened to hit a certain vibe. Compare Highlander to the infamously MST3Ked Cave Dwellers, and it’s the same level.

“What’s he writing?”

“The script.”

In a lot of ways the TV show was better. Mythos and that whole idea was incredible.

Already is I think. The term “AI slop” is thrown around so much that sometimes it seems to be used to mean “I don’t like this” and not anything AI related.

The main problem is defining it.

The second is that moderation for details like that gets complex.

If it bothers you enough, you can still report it even if there’s not a set rule. Enough people do that and it will be clear a rule or more enforcement is needed. Doesn’t change the points above, it’s not as easy as it was only a few years ago.

He couldn’t think of a better way to test Johnny’s parent’s faith.

My orange does that with the robot vacuum. The other cats ignore it, or move to where it can’t get to, but he has to watch it, even though it does the same thing it always does. Shiny thing.

They’ve done a good job mixing them into the results so that you might click on an AI generation, thereby increasing their numbers. The results can vary depending on the topic. Something easy to summarize from hits, it will look good. But I’ve seen some completely wrong results too, because even with the flooding of the “AI” label to make the ignorant think their computer is better, it’s still an LLM under the good with its limitations. Actual search algorithms worked better, bring them back.

And then something moves and both scatter in random directions, knocking things down.

It’s the Fediverse. You can literally run your own little instance on your own or or a friend’s computer and restrict only the ideas you want to talk about. When you say “this place” you mean everyone else since there’s not a single entity controlling the flow of discussion.

And if “we” sold out, I’d like to know how much each of us got. I seem to have missed a check.

It’s just not the disruptor it’s advertised to be (smart AI that is better than ten employees). The fact that it’s being shoved into everyone’s faces and threatening or actually replacing people’s jobs (inadequately or not) means it is a very large disruptor. Fixing the mess left if we ever get a chance to get back in control is going to be fun.

And it’s not just LLMs. The whole everything-in-a-cloud shit, the constant monitoring of clicks to determine productivity, the forced obsolescence of working equipment for new crap that doesn’t. We hit a peak in tech quality some time ago, the LLM factor is just another thing on the pile of junk.