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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I spent chunks of 2023 and 2024 investigating and testing image gen models after a cryptobro coworker kept talking about it.

    I rigged up an old system and ran it locally to see wtf these things are doing. Honestly producing slop at 5 seconds per image v 5 minutes is meaningless in terms of value if 0% of the slop can be salvaged. And still, a human has to figure out what to so with the best candidates.

    In fact at a certain speed it begins to work against itself as no one can realistically analyze AI gen output as fast as it is produced.

    Conclusion: AI is mostly worthless. It just forces you to accept that human effort is the only thing with intrinsic value. And it’s as tough to get out of AI as it is to put any in.

    And that’s looking past all the other gargantuan problems with AI models.


  • The far right are enjoying the opportunity to smear unions since they’re the most prominent and functional face of resisting ICE. These folks are actively discussing how immigration efforts can and should be directed politically. Flooding the zone is the tactic being used.

    But essentially a small portion of the profit landlords enjoy everyday was used by a union for purposes that benefitted the union, which may or may not have included things like rent control, and lobbying and campaigning on issues that would affect housing.

    The intentional hit piece you can expect from a ‘nonpartisan nonprofit’ within the techCEO ecosystem, in this case Google.














  • My city closed a two block stretch of road for a day this week. Instead of a sign or cones, they had cops just park their cruisers across the lanes with their lights on and sat there all day.

    Well the cops put some cones around their cruisers too, but this way about six got a full days salary, if not that overtime pay.



  • I remember Flayra from Natural Selection, a half-life mod twenty years ago. I remember him making appeals for investors/donations to keep Unknown Worlds afloat (or maybe just launch it as a company. I recall a video he posted where he showed us his tiny apartment and the milk in his fridge.)

    Then Subnautica came out years later and I thought ‘Well I’ll be damned.’