@ciaranmak @Rairii the easiest way to get this LEGO set built is to buy it pre-built from this meth-head who shoplifts them from the local Target, builds them while high and sells them on eBay
i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than curl | sh
"prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code" is the most absurd headline I've seen this year
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Okay I'm a teacher. So let me explain this to you in as simple a way as I can.
Let's say I want to buy a cake. But not just any cake. A specialty cake for my nieces quinceañera. A cake like that costs at least $100 bucks. But I don't have $100 bucks. What do?
Well, I could save up to buy the cake. But that might take a long time and by then her quinceañera would be long over and gone. I could go take out a loan for the $100 bucks. But I don't want to take out a loan because it might make my credit look bad to have that much debt. So what's the solution?
Well if I'm particularly creative and not overburdened by an abundance of morality, the solution is easy. I make another me. A special me. A me designed for one purpose only - to saddle with debt.
So I create another Lana. A legal fiction. Let's call her Twona. Twona's only purpose in life is to get a bunch of credit cards and then cakes for my niece's quinceañera. Twona gets a MasterCard and a Visa, and puts $50 on each. When the cake arrives, Twona gives me the cake, and keeps the debt. And if the IRS or the banks ever come calling asking pesky questions about how I managed to afford a special quinceañera cake, I can legally and truthfully tell them I do not have any quinceañera credit card debt.
And you may be asking why the credit cards would do this. Why just give Twona those lines of credit, knowing that she was just going to buy a quinceañera cake with it. It's not like they can repossess a giant 5-tiered specially cake with "Congratulations Niece on Your Quinceañera" written on it in bright pink fluffy icing. No one would ever buy that from them. It's worthless as a repossessed asset. And the reason is that I signed an agreement with MasterCard and Visa saying that if they ever had to come collect on the debt, that I would pay them a certain amount of interest on the debt for the next 100 years.
So let's recap.
- I got: the cake, and no record of debt on my financial documents
- Twona got: the debt
- The credit agencies got: promise of residual income for the next century
Congratulations, now you understand how all these enormous data center buildings in rural places are being funded. Just take the quinceañera numbers and multiply them by 10 orders of magnitude. Meta and Amazon and Oracle and the rest of the tech companies are set to invest almost a trillion dollars in AI buildout just this year alone. And none of it is going on their financial documents. Because technically, none of them have taken out any loans. The loans are being held by shell companies created specifically for this purpose, with names like (I am not making these up) Beignet and Sopaipilla. These shell companies own the debt. And in return, Meta gets to build a $27 Billion dollar specialty data center building in the middle of rural Louisiana. And then Beignet rents that building to Meta. Nobody except Meta will ever use that building. It exists for one purpose only. But legally, Meta does not carry the debt on constructing it. Beignet does.
And the big burning question here is why. Why would Meta do this?
The reason is because if Meta had that debt on its own books, $27 billion dollars of debt looks like exactly what it is - the biggest financial gamble in the history of modern finances. Bigger than the housing bubble of the late 2000s. Bigger than the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Bigger even than the stock market bubble of the roaring 1920s. And we all know how well that one went.
So what's the fallout here? Nobody knows. What I'm saying is that you, the public, are not getting the full story. It's being deliberately hidden from public view. But now that you know it exists, you know what to look out for. This is a bubble. And when it bursts, there will be almost no warning. And some people stand to lose everything.
Thimbleweed Park was 10 years ahead on the whole AI thing. The key is Tron Tube technology.
"where do you work?" she said. "Torment Nexus" he replied. "oh, i've heard they're not too bad" she said. he added: "yeah, and i don't have to deal with any torment myself, i just work in accounting". "well that's good" she conceded.
"and what about you?" he inquired. "Orphan Crushing Machine" she sighed. "oof, i'm sorry to hear that" he murmured. "thanks" she said with defeat. she continued "i was unemployed for 8 months and it was the only thing i could get. i'm still looking for other places but in this economy..." - "in this economy..." he echoed, "in this economy, i had to take what i could get". "for sure" he reassured her, "you made the best decision you could from a selection of solely shitty decisions. in a perfect world we wouldn't be crushing orphans, but we have to be competitive globally..." he trailed off. "exactly", she said, "we don't want to be left behind".
I am a very uncomfortable and frustrated person in busy and crowded places.
I know this.
People who know me know this.
Yet still I am encouraged to enter busy and crowded places so the people I am with can sit and enjoy those busy and crowded places even though I'm happy sat outside on my own eating my ice cream.
I like ice cream.
A computer can never be held accountable...
My favourite kind of book?
The kind I can buy directly from the author's website, without DRM!
Sometimes your timeline just needs a big white cloud with paws.
Even if AI wasn’t unethically built, I’d avoiding using it just from the mental atrophy alone. Every story I hear about AI dependency is alarming.
People are using AI to respond to all their text messages…write their vows…solve their relationship problems…
& I couldn’t imagine feeling any sense of accomplishment using it for art. I didn’t make it!
I cannot tell you enough how insulting it is for artists to see any use of AI-generated images.
This technology was made from our work, our labour, stolen from us, violating our consent and copyrights. Somehow without any legal consequences, and without any financial compensation made to us, but making billions in profits exploiting us.
I feel rage each time I see an AI-generated image.
Each time it's a reminder of how much people devalue the hard labour of artists and feel entitled to their work for free.
It's disgusting.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS: They took all the swag out of the Nesquik bunny
August And Everything After.
In engineering we say "Good, Cheap, Fast. Pick 2"'. AI is when you pick Fast twice.