Everything posted by Captainant
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Who's been covid vaxxed? Stand up and be counted.
ABC News'Take the vaccine, please,' a top US health official says...A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
- Epstein and Maxwell
Weird. The Epstein files included a federal statement dated August 9 about Epsteins death. Except He didn't "kill himself" until August 10. The StandardFederal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day be...The statement announcing Epstein’s death was dated one day before a corrections officer found him hanging in his cell- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
This is exactly where I land. GenAI is a very powerful tool, but it still needs to be in skilled hands to be used effectively. You can't just give an apprentice a power drill and nailgun and expect everything to be perfect and plumb just because they've got power tools. The tools just let you scale out your expertise and do more. But if your expertise results in bad a bad product, then hot damn you're gonna scale out a ton of crap. And that is what the youfs are calling "slop".- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
I've already seen quite a few slop commercials leading up to the Superbowl, I'm sure it'll be rotten. And this is a really good example of enshittification: Superbowl ads used to be huge productions with loads of people contributing their artistic skills and creativity for something hundreds of millions of people will watch. Now, rather than recognize the social value of such a stage, it's just another cost center to drive down with cheap slop. And yes, basic genAI tooling like what you can run on a MacBook is incredibly useful and powerful. But once again, that ain't what nearly a trillion dollars (and counting) of investment is building towards. And that's not what business leaders have in mind when they get all horny for layoffs so they can get bigger bonuses. Ironically, the executive class is the most easily replaced by genAI. Neither have an understanding of the core business nor understand what the employees actually do, and both are good at rolling out the same rote playbooks and shirking responsibility when it goes to shit- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
The people who don't understand AI are the biggest boosters and executive cheerleaders of its adoption. They have had it repeated back and forth so much that "AI will let you cut headcount" that they've taken it on faith. It's the same dynamic as Jan6'ers repeating that the election was stolen until enough inattentive useful idiots started saying "well many people are saying...." It's the EXACT same dynamic with AI, and I've seen it first hand with many MBA business idiots from Fortune 500 executives to striving startups grooming for PE buyout. None of the biggest cheerleaders can fully enunciate their strategy aside from "we invest in AI .... Profit!" It's an astounding expression of contempt for their employees that they think they add zero value and are just a cost center. Between AWS and Microsoft loudly making a shift to fire devs in favor of more genAI tooling, and the immediate outages and major Windows bugs.... I'd say the proof is in the pudding, and it's not great.- The Supremes
Which was part of the Republican effort of trans extermination- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
ABC NewsJudge orders 3 families returned to US after finding agen...A judge has ordered the administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S. after finding that immigration agents used "deception and coercion" to remove them.A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S. after finding that federal immigration agents used "lies, deception, and coercion" to remove them. The families, according to U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw, were originally separated at the southern border during the first Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance" policy. They were supposed to be protected under a 2023 settlement that granted them temporary legal status and a path to reunification, but they were deported last summer. In the eight-page ruling, Judge Sabraw found that the government's removal of the families rendered the protections of the settlement "illusory." "The manner in which each of these removals was affected, in addition to being unlawful, involved lies, deception, and coercion," Sabraw wrote. In previous filings, the government has argued that the court lacks jurisdiction to order the return of the families while simultaneously arguing that certain families --including one that was removed despite having valid parole -- had actually departed the United States "voluntarily." According to the judge, one mother who was separated from her 5-year-old daughter in 2018 was told by immigration officials last year that her legal status "did not matter." Officers instructed her to bring her minor children and their passports to a routine check-in. The mother was told that if she did not "self-deport," her children would be placed in foster care or put up for adoption, according to the ruling. The family, including a 6-year-old U.S. citizen child, was eventually detained in a motel for three days before being flown to Honduras.- These Jubilee 1 vs 20 social discussion videos
That's been their MO (on surly) for more than a decade now. Whataboutism and #bothsides are two sides on the same coin, and proud carriers of the classic soviet propaganda technique- Building a gaming PC
5070ti with 16gb of vram is gonna play everything at 1440p max and 4k with dlss no problem- Trump’s America
Ah the good ol "they're hurting the wrong people"- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
And now you know what it takes to be an Olympian- Building a gaming PC
Well 18TBs is what's in my family archival NAS that holds our docs and media and photos etc etc. It is a shitload and not everyone is buying that volume. But EVERY tier of storage has doubled, not just the high end. Home builders and enthusiasts are paying >2x what they were just a year ago for nearly every component that uses electricity. It's not intended as an insult to say you're acting like an out of touch rich guy, it's just an observation. Comparing current prices to 80s storage pricing is also ridiculous in terms of cost per capacity, tech tends to be that way when you compare across decades. Gigahertz of CPU clocks with billions of instructions per clock is unfathomable too compared to decades ago, but that's just table stakes these days.- Building a gaming PC
Shrugging off a 2x unit price increase is certainly an opinion lol. All my life tech prices have gone down as hardware and software improve, I think it's notable and not a "who cares" kind of thing. The prices aren't doubling because they're twice as expensive to make - COGS has certainly gone up - firms are simply extracting the greatest margins possible from debt driven enterprise customers. Gotta say, you've been having quite a few more "out of touch rich guy" posts lately- Building a gaming PC
Sheeeeeiiiitttt the 18TB Exos X18 HDDs I bought two years ago are more than double now. For spinning rust! The 16GB sticks of DDR5 I got for $45 each (on sale) last year are $300 each now. It's fuckin looney tunes how badly the genAI debt spending bubble has furked consumer markets- Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
As Texas taxpayers, we are literally paying a subsidy to keep bitcoin miners around and on the Texas power grid.- Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
The other thing to keep in mind, if mining rewards are halved then that necessarily means that transaction fees will need to go up for miners to continue mining, and for the network to remain viable.- Markets still falling like whoa
Other side of that coin: perhaps stonks have been overvalued and inflated from rampant AI speculation?- Epstein and Maxwell
Genuinely, I would have guessed that roblox would be more Epsteins cup of tea- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
You sound like an executive class type evangelizing on LinkedIn- Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Historically speaking, the price is right around the last plateau where it had settled before the presidential grift got involved with crypto Following lines on chart, the next natural floor is around 20-30k USD/BTC. Who knows though, economics and energy costs are SIGNIFICATLY different than before. The competition is genAI workloads and datacenters, which are pushing a higher premium on power than miners can tolerate. Just to make things EXTRA fun - Epstein and Maxwell
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