Libris Calibris

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Stewart has the right idea. Anthropic should’ve included more books; all the books it could get its hands on. The idea that AI is a “plagiarism machine” is a fucking ludicrous notion by unserious people. And that $1.5 billion is a ridiculous judgment as no actual author was harmed in any way by an AI “reading” their work that then transforms the text into tokens, runs that through the LLM’s network and then only keeps the weights at the end (no book text). That’s a really, really basic gloss of how LLMs work. If you accept that as plagiarism, then your brain is also plagiarizing any time it reads something.

I’d like to give an throp up side the head to anyone who instigates shit like this. Copyright prevents so much, and now the idiot left — after being against copyright maximalism for three decades — has gone to that camp because it now appeals to their degrowther tendencies. Fortunately, Stewart is on the left but not the now-majority idiot left.

Fabricated

Chill Art

Lord, look at the detail on that satin. I cannot even begin to imagine how to do that. Lady had skill.

Anti Anti

Chill Evil, Gutter Philosophy

The modern left is extremely weird because they have suicidal empathy for what should be their sworn enemies, but extreme antipathy and hostility to those who should be their natural allies.

My hypothesis is that this is born of long-term internalized self-hatred, catalyzed by precarity and a feeling of ideological and cultural rootlessness. It’s a sickness peculiar to empires that have no frontiers left to the expand into, and whose people see no future beyond decline and decay.

Still, I hate those people as much as they hate themselves. One thing I do not possess is suicidal empathy; I wish to destroy my enemies. I can pity them after they are deceased.

Marina Sena – Coisas Naturais Ao Vivo

Chill Music Video, Video

Even though it was next in a YouTube playlist I was listening to and watching, I have to admit I almost skipped this because it looked like a thirst trap and clickbait1. Glad I didn’t because it’s an incredibly good live performance.

Alas I do not know Portuguese so you get nothing from me in that. I can kinda/sorta understand it as it’s a lot like Spanish and Italian but that’s it. Also, Marina’s hair is cool.

  1. Generally, the fewer clothes there are in the thumbnail, the worse the performance or song will be.

Goalpost Movement

Chill Annoying, Clowns

The degrowthers are always moving the goalposts. For example, with self-driving cars. Degrowthers:

1) Self-driving is impossible anywhere and shouldn’t even be tried!

Reality: Self-driving is working pretty well via Waymo in quite a few cities, and is improving all the time.

2) Ok, self-driving works but it’s incredibly dangerous.

Reality: Self-driving appears to be much safer by any measure.

3) Self-driving can’t work in bad weather conditions! Ever!

Reality: Also improving all the time and humans are also terrible, terrible drivers in adverse weather.

4) Self-driving cars can’t work while being attacked by a dinosaur during an earthquake combined with an alien invasion and the gates of Hell opening up!

Reality: Well, ok, you got me there.

Degrowthers just hate any improvement in life, tech (especially) or anything else. It’s like some horrid personal affront to them. So let’s affront them a lot more, since they suck!

Chill Links

Trump is Making Health Care Unaffordable Again.

Homeland Security Relaxes Species Requirements To Join ICE. OMG I love those images.

No, Gaza Is Not the Worst or Deadliest War by Any Measure.

Prices in the Machine. AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.

The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again.

Men are physically stronger than women…This is not a “harmful stereotype.” Unless you’re nuts.

The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.

To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder.

Wokeness as respect redistribution.

Sticky Boom

Chill Oof

If I were a woman alone on the street, I can’t think of anything scarier than a buncha obviously-Islamic men approaching me.

Too bad they can’t carry big-ass guns in Europe. I used to be against concealed carry, largely. But a woman has no hope against that. She needs the boomstick and to lay down shots non-stop till they Quran-thumping asses drop.

Micro Milli

Chill Annoying, Clowns

In the main, developers attempt to implement microservices because they have no networking knowledge and do not understand the huge latency of network calls compared to a local call. Concomitantly, they believe that a millisecond is not much longer than a microsecond1. (In fact, a millisecond is 1,000 times longer than a microsecond.)

From this nonchalant cluelessness, much pain is caused.

  1. I’ve had a developer say this to me directly in person

Flee Fly

Chill Evil

Well, that’s very sad — for the elderly people and for my friend who recently moved to Switzerland to get away from this shit and the constant state of fear she lived under due to North African and Islamic economic migrants.

Where will she have to flee to next?

Chill Links

How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine.

The self-driving taxi revolution begins at last.

Seeing a Molecule’s Quantum Shadow.

Modern cars are spying on you. Here’s what you can do about it.

You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them? Only the hundred or so largest companies in the US need microservices. The others, it’s a huge waste.

The Printer Tracking Dot Scandal.

And mainstream sources, especially those targeted to women, didn’t address obvious things, like the fact that some women were more attractive than others, and that men predictably liked certain traits in women on average, like fit bodies, curves, natural-looking makeup and long hair (the fact that not ALL men liked these things was presented as proof that these generalizations meant nothing.).

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings. Clownish.

Target’s layoff push exposes corporate America’s cold new normal.