Vance doesn’t know that

Insult Musk on Twitter, wait until posts are censored, sue X for not having freedom of speech. How’s that for American values?

Didn’t Erdogan try to do the same in Türkiye? After some currency crashing and cost of living crisis he did change his tune.

Robocop tube begins playing. OCP starts construction of Delta City.

Alright, what are the best options for blocking mentions of Trump? Last term there was so much noise from that guy or about him.

Engineers: we can’t make transistors smaller because they wouldn’t work because of those quantum effects

Different engineers: but what if we use quantum effects as the basis to make smaller transistors work

Ok, so use a combo shot with a maser. If the light beam doesn fry the outside, the microwave beam will fry the inside.

Technically a checkers program is also AI if you check the dictionary definition. Many will say it’s not “real AI” as it doesn’t have general intelligence but it’s still AI. Snake oil salesmen love that.

Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.

An order of magnitude better would give trust. Slightly better doesn´t convince people.

And then the car mistook the side of a white semi for the sky and plowed full speed into the semi, decapitating the driver. These systems see, but don’t really understand what they see.

It’s the modern version of sacrificing people in a volcano to appease the gods.

“Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

And that last group is going to be angry when they can’t keep doing their stuff when insurance rates go insane so they can’t buy houses or cars, or when food prices keep going up even faster than they are now.

Dithering, it’s a lost art. It always reminds me of Monkey Island.

Living out the last excesses of a broken system before it all falls apart

You can almost hear the EU lawyers cracking their knuckles and quietly saying: “about that user data protection.”

AI is a ridiculous broad term these days. Everybody had been slapping the label on anything. It’s kinda like saying “transportation” and it means anything between babies crawling up to wrap drive and teleportation.

Traditionally kids do the rounds for candy on December 31th or on epiphany (three kings bringing gifts) around here. It depends on the region if one of those traditions is maintained.

Everybody forgets poor ol’ Saint Nicolas.