Exactly right. Funny thing is he’s had Pepper X waiting for just such an event, but decided to release it anyway because nobody could beat the reaper. But they were getting close, so time to pull ahead again.

https://kagi.com/search?q=the+intercept shows a nice wikipedia description:

https://i.imgur.com/OcVM3c3.png

I know Ed Currie personally. He’s a great dude, gives back to the community, and is a total mad scientist. He has peppers waiting in the wings which put this one to shame!

“Circumstantial Evidence”… yeah. The circumstance is that South Carolina is extremely racist (I live here) and the congresswoman who drew this map is extremely racist. The same shit was just proven racist in ALABAMA of all places… but not here? Unreal.

Comparing current LLMs to the ENIAC is thought-provoking; I understand the eagerness to extrapolate in that direction. That being said, I don’t think it will be linear or even logarithmic in progress. The current state of computing and technological advancement has become:

1. Initial introduction or release
2. Major hype and influx of greed money. <- we are here
3. Failure to live up to the hype, resulting in the tech becoming a punchline and gobs of money lost
4. Renaissance of the tech as its true potential is eventually realized, which doesn’t match the original hype but ends up very useful
5. Iteration and improvement with no clear “done” or “achieved” milestone, it just becomes part of society

Yeah the genie is already waaaay out of the bottle in the US. It would be logistically impossible to get rid of guns, nice as that would be. This is something both extremes refuse to accept, because they wouldn’t have a cause or solution to rally around. No, Bubba, nobody’s going to take your guns. No Stewart, we can’t just ban guns and wash our hands of it. Other countries have indeed mostly eradicated firearms in normal society, but nowhere near on the scale that the US has.

To be fair I’ve been abusing with alcohol since my late teens. So I guess we’re even now.

Hmmmm I do love to eat bananas 🤔 BRB, off to sue Chiquita

In my case, it was through no action of my own and merely bad luck. So the only “reason” would be bad luck or a shitty all-powerful deity.

“Everything happens for a reason”

The cancer disagrees.

Oh wow this is great

More eyes means more flavor!

I just think they’re heat!

Enshittification. They’ve turned the corner of chasing profits by being user-hostile.

Awesome, thanks!

I pay for it, it’s worth every penny.

Moisture is the essence of wetness, wetness is the essence of beauty.

Purelymail.com has been great for me for years. Insanely cheap and just works.

I love old dogs so much. My old buddies were so chill and we had such a great time together. Hope you’re enjoying it!

There’s a lot of buzz around Lemmy