and extra bills

Ethics clearly don’t really work in this profession, so schools should hammer home legal liability as well.

I’ve thought about this a bunch in the past, and tbh the only answer I’ve come to over many forms of it “fuck the fucking USA”

it’s a place that is structurally built to allow for that kind of evasion and abuse to happen

irunno, that photographer deserves a goddamn fucking bonus imo

(as a shooter of random moments) it is extremely hard to catch things/moments like that. it’s helped along by gear (faster capture time, lenses that suit distance ootb, etc etc), but it’s still no fucking around

and that photo is a goddamned masterpiece of capturing a probably-quite-rarely-seen moment of derpitude fuck that fuckwit

Ethereum is a store of energy.

fucking WHAT

hah, didn’t know of those, neat. might try a few

okay at this point I should probably make a whole-ass perplexity post because this is the third time I’m featuring them in stubsack but 404media found yet more dirt

… which included creating a series of fake accounts and AI-generated research proposals to scrape Twitter, as CEO Aravind Srinivas recently explained on the Lex Fridman podcast

According to Srinivas, all he and his cofounders Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho wanted to do was build cool products with large language models, back when it was unclear how that technology would create value

tell me again how lies and misrepresentation aren’t foundational parts of the business model, I think I missed it

it is also something that’s been of passive interest to me over some years: things as published often shift underfoot, and the time at which someone reads something then shares on and then someone else reads … there might be quite a substantive difference in the contents of such things at the times. this ranges from the benign (inserting late-received comments, errata, etc), to a complete contextual/content rework. I’ve often thought that there’s a possibly for a really interesting part project there…

I’ve had this open in a background tab, reading it in pieces as time allows, and I only just noticed one of it exhibits one of the things I like noticing about various publishers’ system fucking up: a lurking page title before a post-publish edit

the page title as it is in my browser right now: Opinion | AI boom led by antihero Altman is reviving Valley dreams. the page title as it displays in the content area: Opinion \n Sam Altman is the snake oil salesman who might restore Silicon Valley to its former glory.

the url slug also seems to be mostly the former - most of these renames on various publishing platforms seem to do that (keep the original slug instead of a rewrite+redirect)

can’t make direct guesses as to the exact reason why this one was updated whenever it was, but I expect public perception/reception might’ve been part of that?

ah yes, flashbacks to when they bought pocket and instantly forced it on everyone

where you had to remove the ui icon, untick shit in settings, and then STILL go into about:config to kill even more things there. which I just wanted to share, but then found that apparently at some point my old settings got nuked? or decommissioned or something? and others reinstated/introduced? because none of my changes for that are there anymore

sigh

also, their push to telemetry, to labs, to getting people to cohort into running things, them pushing selective bans on plugins because of legal pressure in countries, their absolutely fucking awful track record in spending their cashflow on utter and complete bullshit instead of actually improving the browser, …

surprise lemmy feature discovered:

that’s what makes it even better - from the “self-custody of keys!!! your own credentials! v v v v v importants!” world, these dipshits still had no clue

just truly awe-inspiringly terrible

and here I am building up a fucking pile of infra in advance of deployment of boards for exactly this reason

it’s almost like, irunno, maybe you could say I’ve thought this through! only maybe tho. I’m not backed by decamillions+ vc dollaridoos, so who can tell whether I know what I’m doing, amirite

Even as far back as AI Dungeon he was claiming they had an intuitive understanding of physics

omfg, every day a new opportunity to learn things that hurt my brain even more. how the fuck can someone have looked at that shit with even an ounce of understanding of gradient descent and think “yes! it has COMPREHENSION!”???

fucking hell, what an utter fucking moron

followed by the next level of hell: “oh god, what, these are all made of Posts? seriously? what?”, and crying in a corner

“what do you mean you can’t model your whole site on Posts”

nod

I ran into some fedi post somewhere recently where someone showed some neat all-css hacks (for doing this), and I’m sure I have the tab or bookmark somewhere but … going to be hard to find atm. and flipside is probably it won’t work on the wp modes anyway because wp is of course utterly fucking cursed

speaking of, with darkreader loading your blog occasionally makes it go a bit wild. I haven’t tried to dig into it but you just made me remember about it

if/when it happens again, I’ll see if I can profile it to see what’s going on

a couple years back I recall seeing some interesting stuff re the nyc subway (link1, link2)

leaving aside how hilariously far they’ve overrun constructions and estimations (wow nyc is bad at this), it was kinda wild to learn that they didn’t even know where trains were during operation. made perfect sense in context with the info, but still wild

I asked my phone charger about the chances of the same

didn’t get an answer I could bet with, tho :<

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