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  • The BT client will advertise the IP(s) of whatever network interface(s) you allow it to use.

  • Gotta grab my tingle tuner

  • Rescue from without

    Description

    The hero is rescued from a final plight from an unexpected source.

    The rescuer may be someone who had previously abandoned the hero or even someone the hero does not know. In mythic stories, this intervention may come from a god.

    Example

    In Star Wars, Han Solo returns to help Luke fight the Tie Fighters. In Return of the Jedi, Luke needs the redeemed Vader to destroy the Emperor.

    In Lord of the Rings, Frodo is unable to destroy the ring by himself, needing Gollum's unwitting help to complete the deed. Soon after, Frodo and Sam are rescued by the eagles.

  • This is a terrible idea for Amazon, the cloud services company.

    But for Amazon, the AI company? This is them illustrating the new grift that almost any company can do: use AI to keep a plausible mirage of your company going while reducing opex, and sacrifice humans when necessary to dodge accountability.

    But his job wasn’t even to supervise the chatbot adequately (single-handedly fact-checking 10 lists of 15 items is a long, labor-intensive pro­cess). Rather, it was to take the blame for the factual inaccuracies in those lists. He was, in the phrasing of Dan Davies, “an accountability sink” (or as Madeleine Clare Elish puts it, a “moral crumple zone”).

    https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/

  • Love that woke sauce

  • Maybe through CXL you’ll be able to “download more RAM” (renting it, really)

  • zooms out a bit

    Ah, so it’s like a mini pandemic?

    zooms out a bit more

    …or like a “normal day” in the few years leading up to 2008. That’s a good sign…

  • Not saying mod was wrong but… It’s weird how we define politics.

    Like, if portals started randomly appearing all over the Earth, spawning little goblins that like to turn human bodies inside-out, that would pretty clearly not be politics — but only for like 2 months.

    After a while, the political parties would settle on their positions (probably with one of them calling it a hoax), and from that point forward saying “I can’t believe people are okay with the inside-out goblins” will be labeled “political”.

    Which I guess is basically how fascism wins so easily. As long as it’s impolite to acknowledge the horrors of the world, it’s okay for them to continue.

  • If they were interested in doing favors for humanity, they wouldn’t be working at WSJ

  • You can stop making trucks taller at any point, but everyone else’s LED headlights will be right at your eye level

  • Multiple things can be true at once.

    • The election process in the US is horribly constructed in the first place
    • It’s executed even more poorly
    • Nevertheless, voting does determine who sits in the seat
    • It does matter who sits in the seat
    • The person who sits in the seat will represent the wealthy and powerful, not you
    • It does matter who represents the powerful, because they can be pushed (by the people, and by the powerful) in different ways
    • Even if we get the right person in the seat, and do a very good job of pushing them, it won’t be enough
    • We need to do it anyway, because that act of organizing isn’t only to influence politicians — it’s also to influence ourselves, and improve our ability to find a path to real victory

    Don’t think that voting alone is sufficient. Don’t think that voting and organizing are sufficient. But also don’t think that voting and organizing are not necessary.

  • But “shoot” is why you went in there!

  • They don’t want to save capitalism. They believe capitalism is about to be over, and they want to be in control of whatever it is that comes next.

  • You might wanna check out what immigration looks like on the easiest setting: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/

    This is a photo of my second O-1 ("Alien of Extraordinary Ability") visa application. It's 800 pages long:

    The next one was 1200 pages long.

  • They're worried they're not spending enough on AI.

    Classic MLM tactics. “If you’re not seeing a return on Herbalife, it’s cuz you’re not spending enough on it!”

  • This sounds eerily familiar…

    I don’t know if Hearst told him to use a chatbot to generate their “Best of Summer Lists,” but it doesn’t matter. When you give a freelancer an assignment to turn around ten summer lists on a short timescale, everyone understands that his job isn’t to write those lists, it’s to supervise a chatbot.

    But his job wasn’t even to supervise the chatbot adequately (single-handedly fact-checking 10 lists of 15 items is a long, labor-intensive pro­cess). Rather, it was to take the blame for the factual inaccuracies in those lists. He was, in the phrasing of Dan Davies, “an accountability sink” (or as Madeleine Clare Elish puts it, a “moral crumple zone”).

    https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/

  • I feel like I’ve been saying this every day since like 2015 (Or maybe 2001. Or maybe 1999. Idk. Anyway…) but: This is a really bad idea.

  • AI (through agents, but even completions to an extent) extends your reach and reduces your grasp.

    For some sectors, that’s perfectly acceptable. There are plenty of codebases that don’t need to worry about keeping devs accountable.

    There are also plenty of business models these days (especially in the Trump era) that face no downside from failing to keep devs accountable even if they should. VC-backed vaporware looking to exit before they drown in tech debt, private equity acquisitions that just need to bleed existing customers dry while disemboweling the productive capacity of the firm, or even publicly-traded brands that are chronically unable to think past next quarter’s P&L. And especially if they’re already a monopoly.

    The trouble is really when a CTO misunderstands what kind of business they’re running, and considers the wrong folks to be their “peers”. There’s a big incentive to just copy whatever Amazon/Microsoft/Google says. It’s the new “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”.

    Idk if that’s your situation or not.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL the phrase "Do Not Split", meaning leftist pacificists and leftist radicals shouldn't condemn each others' tactics

    www.teamhuman.fm /episodes/329-matthew-remski
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    AI is draining water from areas that need it most

    www.bloomberg.com /graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

    www.404media.co /elon-musks-grok-ai-will-remove-her-clothes-in-public-on-x
  • [CLOSED] Demos, intros and related tunes @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space

    .kkrieger: Making an impossible FPS

  • News @lemmy.world

    Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

    www.reuters.com /world/us/trump-taps-key-project-2025-architect-russ-vought-head-budget-office-2024-11-23/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Ali Alkhatib - Destroy AI

  • Technology @midwest.social

    To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy

    time.com /6564434/connor-leahy-ai-risk-deepfakes/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Cain and Abe-rule