Where were all the cool Greek gods? I only saw Athena, and she barely had any dialog.

What about Mistral (France)? Their new model is getting pretty close to US frontier models.

I’ve just talked to a friend who is working on this. A few new apartment buildings will be created and a data center. They will share a Fernwärmenetz to use the warm water from the data center for heating. Won’t be free, of course, but cheaper than having to get 100% of the energy from heat pumps.

To be fair, I’ve never used Photoshop. I’ve started using GIMP as an edgy teenager in 2010 to create the 4chan memes your parents laughed at back then. I’d probably think different about GIMP if I ever had the sweet taste of Adobe, but since I didn’t, I don’t know what I’m missing.

I’ve been using GIMP for 15 years and it’s a great tool for image editing. It doesn’t have the cool AI functions that Photoshop had even before generative AI became a thing, but for most common and advanced image editing needs, it’s a perfectly suitable tool.

Elon Musk turned himself into a military target

Good!

Yikes. It’s only missing a Rick and Morty poster.

It was an impressive tech demo. You know that every idiot who saw this thinks to himself how awesome he would look, jumping over the car in front of him. The ultimate road rage power fantasy.

Love the meme.

I guess this is how speedrunning was born

That’s cool and all, but an LLM just built me a dashboard for visualizing data, following my instructions and asking clarifying questions when it needed my input. I don’t care what you call it, it’s the most impressive new technology and the most powerful software tool I have seen in years.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said

We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.

I don’t see how anybody could see this and think it’s democratizing something. It gives the rich a way to reduce their dependency on the skilled worker, shifting power away from the people with skill to the people with money.

There used to be a promise that if you worked hard and studied diligently, you yourself might be able to capture some of that wealth. Now this option is slowly disappearing.

Even a 2% ANNUAL wealth tax would not take anything away from them, it would just make their wealth grow SLIGHTLY SLOWER.

Isn’t Trump the self proclaimed crypto president? Isn’t crypto the main source of his family’s wealth by now?

I’ve never seen any price displayed in Dogecoin, Safemoon or CumRocket, nor have I ever been offered Shiba, Bitcoin or Monero for anything. It’s been almost 20 fucking years and you can’t pay shit with crypto. The only thing that works perfectly in crypro is paying bribes to Trump by buying his own shitcoin, which many sketchy rich people have done. No, this is not the salvation you are looking for, it only makes everything worse.

To be fair, crypto only enabled scams, NFTs imploded because of how useless they are and the metaverse seems like a dystopia to most people. AI on the other hand has changed the way I do my job significantly. It’s not just a promise, it’s a genuinely powerful tool.

I like to imagine that at least some of them are proud that their work has endured. They showed of their bodies and what they can do with them at the peak of their attractiveness. I hope they look back at this and think “Damn I was hot!”

If AI, specifically LLMs, are so great, how come it’s been 5 years and they haven’t meaningfully contributed to a cure for anything?

Reminds me a little of cryptocurrencies. They were supposed to change everything, but all they did was enable unprecedented levels of scams and grifts and enable criminals to move money across the globe without any sensible control mechanisms.

I mean, I was hoping we could give genuinely intelligent people and educated experts more of a platform, but I guess that works too.

Look, this politician says really stupid things. Let’s all point out how stupid he is, share it, comment on it and boost it in any possible way.

Yeah, screw this. Haven’t been subscribed to Disney+ for a year now and I certainly won’t return. If you have children, I guess you’re fucked though.