After 20 years of nobody having heard of my favorite, entirely too long to recommend, book series, I am an absolute shill for the show. (Without the “smart enough to get paid for it” part.) 😆

Ishamael tried. If it weren’t for that bastard Lews Therin, maybe we would have some peace.

You’re probably correct, but the possibility of federation does provide a safety valve. Any step in the wrong direction taken by BlueSky only makes it more likely someone will set up a new node.

BlackSky is heading full speed that way. A lot of users would like their own space regardless. The money doesn’t line up right now, but being able to port our information out means that that switch will flip sometime soon.

It’s okay! We have “clean” coal! 🥲

Just spit balling, but it doesn’t make sense to translate things literally. A po’ boy is delicious, but eating a poor boy is generally frowned upon.

You can see the merit written all over their skin color.

As a San Diegan with a lot of Mexican friends, I think it’s “El Pendejo Americano”. They always yell that when I come over.

Do you not know any other words?

This is your brain on American exceptionalism. It’s kinda funny when people think an organization that practices war crimes across the world wouldn’t do so at home. I’d love an explanation about how Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay happen when soldiers would never follow an illegal or immoral order.

Police kill Americans every day. The National Guard has killed Americans before. Maybe the military won’t be called in to kill Americans, but I think people saying “The military would never kill Americans” really mean “I would never kill Americans”. American citizens were killed by drone strike without anyone batting an eye.

How many right wing militiamen are ex military? Does anyone really believe there are no White Supremacists in the military? Probably most of the military wouldn’t fire on Americans, but anyone who thinks there are zero service members just itching to murder people needs to read more history.

Europe needs to follow the USian example. Shining city on a hill and all that. Get rid of all of your regulations and protections and Europe will be as great again as America! 🤡

Skill issue

Derek is a decent person, so you don’t have to worry about that.

The problem with that is that a guy who murdered his three kids is known for something.

At the most generous, maybe the professor in the article shares a name with the killer. Articles will include enough information to clear the professor (like maybe the killer has been in jail for a decade ). A LLM will weave together real information about the professor with the “fact” that he killed his kids.

ChatGPT shouldn’t be used to find any real information, period.

People thinking a glorified autocorrect is a source of factual information is horrifying.

This is a big world, people’s customs vary, and I’m not one who expects everyone to follow my moral judgements, but “COUSINS ARRESTED AFTER REFUSING TO STOP HAVING SEX DURING FUNERAL CEREMONY” doesn’t throw up any red flags for you?

Not trying to dunk, more wondering whether I’m missing dry humor or a language barrier.

When you want a job done right, don’t leave it to amateurs, go to stealmytesla.com.

Lots of people like Microsoft and/or don’t know any better.

I think 10% of people believe nearly anything. It’s basically the rounding error for a survey.

Honestly, if you had asked me 10 minutes ago “Is MacOS based on Linux?” I would have gotten it wrong. But if you asked “Is MacOS based on UNIX or Linux?” I would have gotten it right.

Shitty title. Business school professors claim they trained an AI to judge workers’ personalities based on their faces.

The article talks about why that is such a stupid and terrible proposal.

If we are ever invaded by monkeys with balloons, I am ready to serve.