BenQ

I bought this monitor as a second one both for the work machine and my Mac Studio. It’s an unusual 3:2 aspect ratio and so far I’m really liking it; it’s nice to not have everything be so crazy wide as is the fashion these days.

I’m not watching a movie (most of the time). I’m tryna work. It’s great to have it be tall enough to see some stuff. I just wish it were 5K or better yet, 6K. Then it’d be perfect. As it is, it’s just good.

Recommended, though.

Tighten

Horoscope nonsense.

Nope. If a girl asks me my zodiac sign I immediately know we are 100% incompatible and that we are done. I will also think she’s an idiot but will be polite enough not to say that.

I have no interest. I couldn’t even bring myself to sleep with her for one night no matter how hot she is (ask me how I know). It’s just over. There is zero reason to continue with someone who is repellently intellectually incompatible with me. It’d be doing both of us a disservice to keep up the charade.

Actual Crash

That is how crashes work. AI is not going anywhere. Did the internet disappear when the dot com bubble popped in 2001? Because I think I still see me some internet around here.

Just because you want something or believe something doesn’t mean you must live in fantasy world. Why do so many people do this?

AI Agents Break Rules Under Everyday Pressure. Shortened deadlines and other stressors caused misbehavior.

All about automotive lidar.

The Gender-Based Rights Conundrum.

The Junior Hiring Crisis. People who claim this is not a crisis are wrong wrong wrongity wrong. So wrong.

Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer.

A cross-cultural study involving participants from 25 countries found that participants who have children tend to report lower levels of romantic love, intimacy, and passion toward their partners compared to individuals without children.

New homes in London delayed by ‘energy-hungry’ data centres.

What Are Lie Groups?

Libris Calibris

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

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

Anti Anti

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

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

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!