I just read an article that only 15% of people have kept up to date on those particular vaccines.
Probably because it made them sick as fuck and they got friggin covid anyway.
Probably because it made them sick as fuck and they got friggin covid anyway.
Imagine if Trump goes full Millei. Probably won't happen but it might change everything for America.
Yes, except he's not president right now so they need more because reporting on what a guy with no political office who is banned from most of the Internet just doesn't hit that hard.
The media is dying of drowning in bullshit, so they need to find a Goldman to implement their two minutes of hate to keep the gravy train running.
6 months ago: "we hate you, you racist sexist homophobic transphobic monsters!"
Today: "haaaalp us, you racist sexist homophobic transphobic monsters! Why aren't you helping us?"
Today: "haaaalp us, you racist sexist homophobic transphobic monsters! Why aren't you helping us?"
A lot of authoritarians don't think they're authoritarians because they only want to limit people or things they don't like.
Unfortunately, the paradox of liberty that to be free you need to also give freedom to people you don't like who will do things you don't like.
In spite of that, liberty is still an ideal worth pursuing. Perhaps not the only ideal, but definitely one of the most important.
In spite of that, liberty is still an ideal worth pursuing. Perhaps not the only ideal, but definitely one of the most important.
Everyone who follows me knows I'm a big fan of nextcloud. I just added some features to my installation that are pretty neat -- locally hosted AI. It isn't a chat thing, but it can do translations and text generation, summaries, and the like. I installed the Local Large Model app which gave me the option to use freely available large model files, the nextcloud assistant app presents an icon at the top to actually do the generation, and the OpenAI and LocalAI integration that brings everything together.
Since my entire web empire is hosted on parts scavanged from roadside signs the generation doesn't run too quickly, but it does produce meaningful output.
The meteoric rise of locally hosted AI makes me think 2 things: First, I don't know that companies thinking they can gate this off and monetize it are going to be in such good shape since anyone can presently host it and on 5 year old hardware models are getting pretty decent and quick. Second, how soon until it's just a local feature nobody thinks about on standard hardware?
Despite the excellent output from AI image generation and large language models, it is still my stance that the real intelligence at work are the humans who apply algorithms to create the output, and when the output is flawed, they modify the algorithm or decide not to use AI for the purpose.
I've asked several AIs to do what is a relatively simple task: "Write a review of Beowulf in the style of beowulf". I've done it before and posted it here. The thing is, it'll produce something that seems servicable until you start reading it and realize something: It rhymes, and beowulf never once rhymes. It makes heavy use of aliteration rather than rhyming. So next you say "Beowulf doesn't rhyme", and it will come back with an agreement that beowulf doesn't rhyme and instead makes heavy use of alliteration. So you say "So rewrite the review to make use of alliteration rather than rhyming" and it'll present a rhyming review yet again. It cannot be convinced to complete the task correctly.
I've had the same issue with coding problems, where the AI writes an objectively wrong answer to a coding question, and even when given direct instructions about the correct answer, it will continue giving the wrong answer.
Since my entire web empire is hosted on parts scavanged from roadside signs the generation doesn't run too quickly, but it does produce meaningful output.
The meteoric rise of locally hosted AI makes me think 2 things: First, I don't know that companies thinking they can gate this off and monetize it are going to be in such good shape since anyone can presently host it and on 5 year old hardware models are getting pretty decent and quick. Second, how soon until it's just a local feature nobody thinks about on standard hardware?
Despite the excellent output from AI image generation and large language models, it is still my stance that the real intelligence at work are the humans who apply algorithms to create the output, and when the output is flawed, they modify the algorithm or decide not to use AI for the purpose.
I've asked several AIs to do what is a relatively simple task: "Write a review of Beowulf in the style of beowulf". I've done it before and posted it here. The thing is, it'll produce something that seems servicable until you start reading it and realize something: It rhymes, and beowulf never once rhymes. It makes heavy use of aliteration rather than rhyming. So next you say "Beowulf doesn't rhyme", and it will come back with an agreement that beowulf doesn't rhyme and instead makes heavy use of alliteration. So you say "So rewrite the review to make use of alliteration rather than rhyming" and it'll present a rhyming review yet again. It cannot be convinced to complete the task correctly.
I've had the same issue with coding problems, where the AI writes an objectively wrong answer to a coding question, and even when given direct instructions about the correct answer, it will continue giving the wrong answer.
I had a dream, but I swear it was a plot from a light novel, but I can't for the life of me remember which one.
It starts out as an isekai where the MC is transported into an RTS, and he uses his power to win the RTS battles he's in (pretty normal so far), but the second part turns into this sorta heist where the MC and these two kids who are also part of his retuine are sneaking into this mob run daycare (or something) to steal some incriminating evidence, and in the end the MC has to use his special skills and high stats to steamroll over all the mobsters and escape with the kids and the evidence.
It was a pretty cool dream, honestly.
It starts out as an isekai where the MC is transported into an RTS, and he uses his power to win the RTS battles he's in (pretty normal so far), but the second part turns into this sorta heist where the MC and these two kids who are also part of his retuine are sneaking into this mob run daycare (or something) to steal some incriminating evidence, and in the end the MC has to use his special skills and high stats to steamroll over all the mobsters and escape with the kids and the evidence.
It was a pretty cool dream, honestly.
I doubt that'd change from year to year unless someone was like "Good news everybody! We've finally found a cure for fatal gunshot wounds! All those murders are now just attempted murders!" and everyone cheers and throws confetti
It's a magic trick on several levels.
first, there's more than one crime, so homocide numbers don't actually mean anything in the context of crime overall. There's thefts, there's assaults, there's burglaries, there's robberies, people don't want crimes occurring, there's no particular focus on murder. The fact that one particular crime drops doesn't mean crime is dropping, it just means that the one is down.
Second, of the remaining crimes, a lot of them specifically have been messed with in ways that make the numbers go down but not the number of crimes. In California the cops won't even come if the dollar amount of thefts is below a certain threshold, so why even bother reporting it? The number of crimes reported goes down while the number of crimes goes up.
Finally, the negative consequences of government policy are resulting in more crimes that nobody with a heart is going to report. There are tent cities showing up in previously wealthy cities around the world as people are driven from their homes by poverty (while friends of politicians become richer than ever). They gotta go somewhere, most people aren't so heartless as to report the giant mass of various crimes that is this.
Meanwhile, the powers that be push news stories like this, hoping people believe the newspapers instead of their eyes and ears. All it's doing in my opinion is driving newspapers our of business because nobody wants to pay to be lied to.
first, there's more than one crime, so homocide numbers don't actually mean anything in the context of crime overall. There's thefts, there's assaults, there's burglaries, there's robberies, people don't want crimes occurring, there's no particular focus on murder. The fact that one particular crime drops doesn't mean crime is dropping, it just means that the one is down.
Second, of the remaining crimes, a lot of them specifically have been messed with in ways that make the numbers go down but not the number of crimes. In California the cops won't even come if the dollar amount of thefts is below a certain threshold, so why even bother reporting it? The number of crimes reported goes down while the number of crimes goes up.
Finally, the negative consequences of government policy are resulting in more crimes that nobody with a heart is going to report. There are tent cities showing up in previously wealthy cities around the world as people are driven from their homes by poverty (while friends of politicians become richer than ever). They gotta go somewhere, most people aren't so heartless as to report the giant mass of various crimes that is this.
Meanwhile, the powers that be push news stories like this, hoping people believe the newspapers instead of their eyes and ears. All it's doing in my opinion is driving newspapers our of business because nobody wants to pay to be lied to.
Giving foreigners control of your military never ended a nation. I mean, other than all the ones that actually tried to...
When people are like "Oh, we're making sure we make banned books available to little kids!", I always think "Banned books like Mein Kampf?"
That's true, which is why it's so terrible that people go "oh, you're enjoying your personal life in ways I don't agree with? Maybe your employer would like to hear about this!" -- unless you're doing something associated with your job, of course you aren't in work mode and you shouldn't be because we aren't owned and operated slaves of our job 24/7.