Oh, fair enough.

Regular Tesla drivers who bought their vehicle several years ago, before Musk showed very clear signs of being a Nazi POS? Yeah I have some sympathy for them.

But Cybertruck users knew exactly who they were buying from. They deserve no sympathy.

Did they rename him ‘Mask The Pain Marco’?

She has that boomer mentality, so I know what you mean. But she was born in 1943, so she’s technically not a boomer. She’s in the silent generation. That makes it even worse!

Eighty-fucking-two years old and writing nasty letters to little kids who bring up very reasonable requests! The old ghoul should be sitting in front of a TV watching soap operas and playing mahjong or whatever, not shuffling around in Congress ‘representing’ people.

I’m not sure how practical that is (seems like it would be more complicated than that). But if something like that could be done it would be great.

Conservatives want to try starving vulnerable Californians? Without our revenue dozens of red states will start starving. Would be funny seeing this administration shoot itself in the foot yet again.

While very different in some ways, some parallels between the AI-driven layoffs and the offshore outsourcing layoffs of the mid-2000s are striking.

Ultimately both scenarios were/are driven by corporate greed. And it looks like the AI one is backfiring for many of the same reasons as the offshore one.

They are replacing experienced staff who have strong critical thinking abilities and hands-on knowledge, and the replacements lack the institutional knowledge and the ability to look at the big picture, and they substitute speed for methodological discernment.

Time is cyclical.

I’m sure that soundbite won’t come back to haunt him.

Yeah, he was a good contributor. Shame he’s inactive now.

In other news: water is wet!

Republicans: “Congrats Venezuela, you are now America’s 51st state! Go be Americans!”

Venezuela: “Okay, here are our two Democrat senators. K, thanks.”

Republicans: “No! Not like that!!”

Every accusation is an admission.

Obama is living rent-free in that addled brain.

even though he had a REAL ID identifying him as a U.S. citizen.

I don’t think REAL ID can be used to explicitly identify you as a US citizen. But it can be used to identify you as a legal resident of some form (either a citizen or a permanent resident). So they should still be good enough.

But when have ICE agents in this administration ever cared about legality or proof of anything. Gotta make them quotas!

Oh you’re right. So they are using the fraud/theft to punish him for his pro-vax opinions.

I’m expecting the current administration to intervene and a) frame him as a hero, b) exonerate him of the theft charges, and c) offer him a paid position in the administration.

Edit: Nevermind, I read that wrong. He’s pro-vax.

This is a good summary.

One thing I will add though, I don’t think AI is going away any time soon. The hype and saturation will probably fade a bit (hopefully). But what we are also seeing right now is a move to more self-hosted AIs due to price increases in things like Copilot.

I wish some if my coworkers would realize the limitations and hazards of over-using AI. Too many of them are still deep-throating all things AI, pushing for it to be used for every single little thing.

Hey, maybe he’s finally found a use for Eric!

He’s looking for any excuse to get in there so he can walk out with some of the gold.

Fuck knows what he’ll do with it, given his obsession with that precious metal. Shave bits off and put it on his hamberders; melt it and create a gold crown with built-in toupee; create yet another fucking statue to himself or another gold toilet to shit in; store it in his Mar A Lago bathroom like it’s some sort of classified info; use it for his stupid ball room; jizz all over it.

Is it possible? In many ways, yes. Combining a cutting-edge LLM with something like OpenClaw and lots of IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity, it could do a lot of what Jarvis does. At least in managing a building and doing some chores for a human locally.

Is it a good idea? Arguably hell no! LLMs are remarkable, but they have blind spots. Notably with being exploited and gamed by malicious players. Or just in making strange decisions or hallucinating shit. And there have already been a lot of horror stories about OpenClaw-enabled LLMs either getting exploited or just unilaterally doing detrimental things under (mostly) good intentions, and leaking PII or bank details or similar. Then you factor in all the security holes that IoT devices can be prone to, and the expenses of buying all the needed technology, and paying for all those LLM API tokens. Not to mention the environmental concerns of using a very powerful cloud-based LLM. I’m probably forgetting some other negatives too.

ETA: If you’re going to try creating a Jarvis type system for home automation and sooner online tasks, really make sure you take security and financial precautions. Don’t give it access to bank accounts and sensitive PII, ensure limits are in place for token usage, be very specific with any prompts you use, and for the love of God lock all devices and systems down behind really strong passwords/passphrases and (where possible) MFA that goes directly and only to you on a separate device or number.