Not to sound like a tankie but China has made smarter decisions with regard to power generation. The current shift away from renewables (and shift back to fossil fuel) AND more reliance on central power generation are great for billionaires but just dumb for every other reason. And with the what appears to be advancing in battery technology more distributed solar cells with local storage would free up more power for the power hungry data centers. Not to mention the AI programs there are not run by douchebags like Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman.

I also think the current path of AGI study via more advanced LLM research is the wrong path. A language generator is never going to be “smart”. But what do I know, I don’t have billions of dollars and lie constantly.

Honestly what Microsoft should have done was sorta what Apple did with BSD but with Linux, write a killer front end but leave the Unix bits underneath. There’s your workshop to make a mess.

My brother and ex-wife were both psych majors so I’ve heard lot about this experiment. I’ll give it a shot. Mac, windows or Linux. I’m pan-OS-ual 😀

“Ask nicely and don’t be a twat” sounds like an awesome t-shirt.

Brain damage?

Nothing

I was driving to the store on Sunday around 5:30ish and I wondered why it was so dark. That’s when it hit me. The only clock I have in the house that doesn’t set itself is the coffee pot and I rarely drink coffee.

Fuck Spez

That’s what whisparr is for.

Well that’s just depressing. I mean true but still depressing.

Well yeah, you’re 100% right about that.

I just find it ironic that it’s two white guys mansplaining about two prominent Asian cultures.

I was generally referring to Trump and Jan 6.

8 years… ha ha ha!!! I know you said at least but I’m not sure will ever truly know how much they’ve fucked things up. I’m 55 and I doubt it will be fixed before I die.

And if they don’t put some guardrails with some serious teeth and consequences to fix all of things most politicians generally followed in good faith it’s just gonna happen again. I’m seriously starting to believe the American experiment is over. Late stage capitalism, tribalism, and any appearance of empathy have killed it.

And anytime a wall looked a little weird I’d be trying to smash through it.

“Tariffs are affecting everything”

Gee, ya think?

Why the fuck are they both white?!?

I’m guessing they don’t see the irony of this strategy…

I figured that’s what it was because of the spelling but I had to look it up.

I’ve never understood why there are naming differences across the pond.

Oh his doctors know some shit but the issue is nobody will do anything about it because as soon as they do the house of cards will fall. I expect his inner circle has had to walk him back from the precipice several times. And there’s the rub. His handlers actually control most everything he sees, and when they don’t he sees riots in Portland from several years ago and thinks it’s current. As soon as he gets 25’d they lose all that power. Kinda like what was going on with Dianne Feinstein. She was barely lucid at the end and was being puppeteered by her staff.