Ok so I’m like… not upset about this at all. Also, I know this is the millennial equivalent of “get off my lawn”, but fuck me if I don’t find the concept of “being an influencer” fucking dumb. Do a thing you love, post the content if you think you’re good, and be a known expert with a following. Don’t just PR for the sake of doing PR and then hope people listen to you. What the fuck even is that?

Oh, did you just get the memo?

LLMs are largely worthless (in the context of improving human society).

Neural Nets aimed at much more specific domains (recognizing and indicating metastases or other abnormalities in pathology slides for human review, for example) are EXTREMELY useful and worthwhile.

Interesting! Thank you for the information! And yeah, while “center-right” isn’t something I’m enthusiastic about, tbh it’d be hard to do worse than Orban, imo.

Any Hungarians around who can provide additional colloquial context on the challenger?

The (infuriating, I absolutely agree) choice was “Gaza in rubble”, or “Gaza AND the West Bank AND wherever else Israel feels like annexing (probably a good chunk of Lebanon) in rubble, and the possibility of open war with Iran”.

Glad you got what you thought you wanted, I guess.

Hey, Arab American Trump voters:

WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO. YOU FUCKING IMBECILES.

Fuck, dude. That sucks.

I’ve had to go through that, and it’s awful. Just try to remember: you love your pup and made her whole life better, and she loves the fuck out of you for it. Not letting her linger and suffer, while tragic, is simply a final - albeit deeply bittersweet - act of fundamental love.

Tbh I’m having a hard time understanding why these authoritarian leaders are basically low key begging Ukraine to actually commit to their theoretically-possible crash nuclear program they’ve mentioned a couple times. They can do it. If people stop giving them support, they will.

They are still bleeding edge. Samsung is making really impressive strides, but TSMC is simultaneously not resting on their laurels.

Nobody’s saying NATO should invade Russia.

We’re saying NATO could EASILY establish IADS over the vast majority of Ukraine to defend their civilian population and infrastructure.

Their security guarantees involve “we will melt our chip foundries to slag if the PRC invades”. That’s not a joke. That’s an official element of their strategic defense policy. They are pointedly tying the bleeding edge of semiconductor manufacturing - which corresponds to a very fucking big chunk of the global economy - to their sovereignty and territorial integrity. And it’s frankly an extremely shrewd policy.

Narrator:

it definitely happened.

I’d like to make it clear as an American that I’ve thought US policy has been extremely wrongheaded for a while now. But at the same time, China is going to exert just as much - if not more - leverage in the long run, as compared to the US.

And it’s gonna get worse, because it’s a very lucrative industry AND it’s highly effective for propaganda.

Yeah, after Tuesday, I think that’s a pretty shrewd estimate tbh

Post an overly obsequious yelp review? Believe it or not, also jail.

China’s 100% gonna shoot their shot at invading Taiwan in the next few years

Also COP29:

let’s make some fuckin money, bitches

The counterplay, of course, is to simply not read said report.

Trump is a world fucking champion at not reading things.