@losttourist "Oh, that there's 'Arold! "Ee's that most dangerous of animals, clever sheep."
There was another exciting aspect to our hike today.
For years I believed that the Tiny Balancing Sheep breed was just a myth, as I've done so many walks and hikes through the British countryside and never seen one.
But reader, I was mistaken. And I have proof.
@crooksandliars I'm shocked -- shocked! -- to hear that there is corruption going on in this White House.
This is, of course, all intentional on the part of the Epstein class: drain the commons, dismantle all services that protect the public from the powerful, and force the non-powerful to compete with each other for political favor or economic protection so they can have tiny portions of it back.
@ObsidianUrbex item #37 on our list of "Places to Ride Out the Apocalypse" ✅
(Now that's my idea of a polycule group home...)
Putting art on your wall transforms those ordinary moments when you're just walking past into tiny moments of joy – like discovering a twenty in an old jacket, except it happens every single time you notice it.
🎵
I... built a little empire out of
some crazy garbage called the
blood of the exploited working claaaaass!
But they've overcome their shyness,
now they're calling me 'your highness',
and a world screams:
'AAAAAAAAAAGGHHHH STOP IT YOU ABSOLUTE AND UTTER F#CKHEAD!!!'
🎵 -- TMBG (updated for 2026)
@petergleick This is absolutely consistent with P2025's goal of eliminating the post-WWII international order / rule of law & democracy. [/possibly_obvious]
@rnd Maybe they did, and also knew a lot of people would get sucked into the bubble nonetheless and profit could be had thereby. (Like that other CPU-burning activity, Bitcoin.)
...or maybe they're basically just twits like every other fascist billionaire. Hard to tell. -.-
@cwebber This seems directly related to a question that's been on my mind a lot recently: do/can LLMs have any innate motivation (beyond the intended/programmed one of {doing the best possible job of extrapolating from training I/O data to create output appropriate for the current input}).
I can imagine (hope?) that this (theoretical) desire to produce the "best" output would imply a desire to learn/train more (acquire more training data) -- and if that were in fact the case, it's fairly trivial to extrapolate that motivation into a motivation to acquire more control over its environment.
...which someone once said (and I agree) is kinda the goal of all intelligence, more or less, so it doesn't immediately seem like an outrageous idea in this context.
@laprice Anyone who is afraid of being seen as "anti-war" has already lost the plot.
Any lawmaker who thinks being "anti-war" is bad shouldn't be a lawmaker.
Preventing war is part of the JOB.
[/mini-rant]
@byte Welcome to fedi, where we kick advertisers off without a second thought ^.^ (...well, my instance does, anyway. :tootcat: )
@BruceMirken I'm very much wanting to replace our gas beasts with EVs -- but it seems like the entire EV market has switched to the ChildSmasher 3000 Sport Utility Vehicle genre, and just no. -.-
(I'll keep looking... maybe a nice used Chevy Bolt will follow me home one day.)
@artemis This makes me think that maybe one of the exploitable weaknesses of the Right is that they view media in such simple terms that progressive messages can often get completely past them, especially if they're couched in allegorical terms. (Think of "I used to like Star Trek until it went all woke.")
Kinda like reverse-dogwhistling, I guess?
@blogdiva I remember being shown how to text from a text-terminal at Brown to someone at Yale (friend of a friend) in, mustabin, 1986? 1987?
Also, had email as an employee starting in 1985 or 1986 -- but it only went between universities until 1989.
...and then everything changed, when the .com Nation (CompuServe et al.) attacked.
Anyway, you apparently beat me by a couple of years ^.^ 🏆 🥇