When asked why in his science-fiction stories he said the robots had "positronic" brains, Isaac Asimov replied that when he started writing, the positron had been discovered only a few years before, and he thought it was a cool sounding technical term to use. So he did.
Generative AI is the sort of thing that an evil version of Clyde Crashcup would think up. Look him up, boys and girls.
Every time someone asks Trump about Epstein now, it will be more and more like playing Slim Whitman to the Martians.
When Leela wants canned food, she will initially lick my arm a bit, and then over a period of time deploy a carefully calibrated series of nips, beginning with tickle and ending with the kitty equivalent of a 20 megaton blast. I am convinced that if their providers dropped dead cats would ultimately eat them.
So Trump is saying God saved him from assassination. So the idea is that God is about saving sociopath felons like him but not about saving young girls and the adults caring for them from horrific floods? George Carlin was right.
There needs to be -- and as far as I know it doesn't currently exist -- some mechanism to get important warnings in front of all #Mastodon users (with the permission of their site admins) as quickly as possible. I'm thinking specifically about the current "verify your identity" scam and similar problems that are likely coming down the pipe soon. Some way to push out a butter bar or similar warning to as many users as possible. Details of implementation to be determined.
Am I incorrect in assuming that a similar mechanism does not exist at this time?
I just want to have fun with computers and I've never cared about "X11 vs Wayland."
And those suspicions might very well be correct this time!
Every time someone at the White House or otherwise in the GOP says that it's "time to move on" regarding Epstein, they further fuel the suspicions of a massive coverup.
Keep up the good work!
It occurs to me that Trump is like a bunch of the characters from "The Wizard of Oz" rolled into one:
No brains.
No heart.
No courage.
And definitely Wicked.
One day I'll write up why some of the notable problems with the first "Star Trek" film ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture" - ST:TMP - 1979) were fallout from a battle directly involving UNIX, that I was caught in the middle of ...
"Pay no attention to the Epstein behind the curtain! The Great Trump has spoken!"
I should add that the rotating background effect was computer generated, but Max himself was not. Still the show won a BAFTA award anyway. Max himself was actor Matt Frewer in costume.
Fun Fact: "Max Headroom" won an award for computer generated effects, even though it was not computer generated.
@simon I always thought that the Django logo should be a cowboy dragging a coffin, but nobody would listen to me about that. I guess they didn't like the movie.
Google's new Gemini AI "summarize your Gmail" feature permits hiding
malicious instructions
Noticing many "young" people calling all computer generated effects (stretching back to the 80s), by the term "AI", just like so many people consider the start of the Internet to be when the Web was introduced (only off by more than 20 years).
Just saw the Fox and Friends discussion of the Epstein situation and Trump. Pretty brutal by any standard.
If there really were a pedophile ring, somehow you just know that Republicans would be at the heart of it.
In a famous song famously sung by Burl Ives, an insect takes a literal bite out of slavery.