Born at 318 parts per million carbon dioxide. On 2025/02/14 it was 427.44 ppm.
"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice […]
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Born at 318 parts per million carbon dioxide. On 2025/02/14 it was 427.44 ppm.
"He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice […]
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Had the option of being angry at the people who screwed them rather than people who have nothing to do with them. ... If you're not armed, you should be. Their murder fantasies are right at the top of their minds these days.
Some of those things strike me as a little dumb. Some strike me as perfectly healthy for the right people. But good God, the world is hard enough. It genuinely amazes me that people have the energy to be mad about this shit. I can only think that their own lives are so horrible that being angry […]
I don't care if you want to have sex with people of the same gender. Or multiple genders. I don't care if you never want to have sex with anyone. I don't care if you want to change the gender that was assigned you. I don't care if you want to tattoo your face. I don't care if you want to use […]
Blocked a guy elsewhere yesterday for irritating me. He kept at me on a stupid argument about NBA defensive ratings, so finally I blocked him. ... and then realized he was right, and I'd been reading the defensive rating backward. I *know* how defensive rating works... And read it backward […]
@paco shrug. The anti AI people in broad don't understand the business of AI or data centers, or a variety of similar things.
A 20 billion shortfall is still relevant, though, and it's still (almost certainly, miraculous hockey sticks aside)... a bubble that's going to burst.
Charlie Kirk was publicly executed after arguing for public executions. ... let's hope for similar irony with Hegseth.
The MAHA creeps are probably less healthy than your average American. Certainly dumber. They're all about "you can't tell me what to do! No matter how many of my kids and immune compromised people I kill!"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/fda-toxic-chemicals-food-analysis
I'm not too good to mock conservatives or TERFs or tankies or Russkis individually. But you do have to make sure you waste more of their time than they waste of yours, at bare minimum. A crowd howling at you is winning.
Both inside the Singularity, and with an AI bubble highly likely to burst. Interesting times.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure
Not bad for an old man. I miss boxing. I've got a bum hip, can't move that well. But I like hitting other men and I'm willing to be hit for the privilege. (Men who aren't don't like fighting, they're just abusers, sadists.) If I'm not one of those who enjoy getting hit, don't get me wrong […]
Not completely unreasonable on premise. We do need to chase the fash out of the Defense Department and nationalize SpaceX, though.
I've eaten ants. Cricket. Grasshoppers, locust. Rattlesnake, alligator. Puffin heart, frog legs. Not the world's most adventurous menu, but nothing that embarrasses me. I'll try most things once. Just watched a video where a lady tried cockroaches. No. Not unless I was starving and maybe not then.
The number of people in Donald Trump's orbit whom a fair trial would result in being hanged? Gets larger every day.
Hillary was never more right than when she called them deplorables. Degenerates is closer, though.
https://apnews.com/article/fort-hood-shooter-execution-pentagon-818853afc1be5c70fe41c5b781a8d559
It's not just Trump, folks. He'll die. We'll celebrate. But the problem won't move until we move it.
Last piece of mine that ran on NPR. I did a dozen or so, but this appears to be the only one that's survived online (though I have audio of 2 or 3 of them on my computer.)
https://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162524325/writer-embraces-technology-to-save-sight
I don't know if "men are simple creatures" is true or patriarchal bullshit. But it's nearly true in my life. One day I was out shooting from distance, hadn't been on a basketball court in a while. Not playing, just putting up shots. I was bad. 2 out of 10, 3 out of 10, territory. Amy was […]
But again, that's near term. Longer term? Ten years, twenty? You got me, bunky.
BUT ... migrate all these agents into switches, power backups, etc? A more (but not very) likely scenario would be subversion of human operators, backed up by control of parts of the infrastructure gen AI can't currently access.
It's more involved than fusing a switch shut, fortunately. (Though if you can call lightning from a cloudless sky, well, maybe it's not. But that's fantasy.) Most of the near-term scenarios involving AI murdering the human race involve things like hacked nuclear or biological weapons: not […]