The big cost is in training the models (which the rubes are paying for). But the big utility will be in doing the much less chip-intensive work of inference training them for various small or even niche tasks. AI wants to be decentralised.

Here I am on The Debate, on France24, discussing AI, the AI bubble and how the run of technology's history suggests that the home for these language models will be on your desk, not in data centres. youtu.be/KFIW6ElOD7E?...

Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.

I hope she wins. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

So the Olympics in order to ban maybe one or perhaps 2 trans women that would be good enough to compete in the Olympics will just ban scores of cis women, despite no evidence of performance advantages, only because it makes ignorant people feel icky. Looooool

The steam machine needs to be under €450 and preferably more like €350-400 to make sense imho. It's not as powerful as the playstation 5, and doesn't really have enough vram so it needs to be cheaper. That's really the only way to bring it to Sony as far as I can see. Otherwise it'll only be niche.

I drafted a response anyway fwiw. I have very low hopes about this whole thing tbh. In the end it'll be more of the same I'm sure.

Might be if interest. Got a response from the department of health today about trans healthcare in Ireland. Apparently the community correspondence has been already done #SpéirGorm #trans #ireland

About 30 % of the nation is still trying to pretend Trump is their god. As soon as really bad Epstein information comes out involving Trump they just normalize it. Half of the Christian Nationalist movement have had fathers and pastors who committed or covered up the same crimes as Trump.

Today I learned how to self host my own search engine! No more Google tracking my search queries yay!

Dreadful picture of me! But we are here!

We're in court today and tomorrow, taking on the EHRC's (now withdrawn) interim guidance, issued in haste following the For (Some) Women Scotland decision. In accordance with our general practice, we are publishing the Skeleton Arguments of the Parties. goodlaw.social/h3nw

All Airbnbs being rented year round are in contravention of planning laws. Houses built for private residential tenancy need to apply for change of use. If you built a house without following the rules it could be torn down. We could solve this Airbnb problem overnight, there’s no political will.

The lead author on all the SEGM reviews of trans health is a “hypnotherapist and Reiki Master.” You can’t make this shit up.

⬆️,⬇️,⬅️,➡️,🅰️➕START

Recent Sonic pixel art in the Quake 1 palette because I like Quake 1's weird blues

Very glad I got to meet Michael d in the Aras. Very special day. He's possibly the only politician I've ever really liked.

Gonna miss him 💜 was great to meet him and the dogs.

Woop! Beat orange stake so now I've unlocked all the decks. Gold stake here I come! #balatro

Catherine Connolly has to really make her own mark on the Presidency, and that is why I am advocating she stroll around the Aras' gardens with a 10-foot-long Asian water monitor lizard.

Haven't looked it but let me guess, adults in Denmark are going to share id or use VPN or the internet breaks

So goddamn fed up with my stupid fucking back jesus Christ. Two years of this fucking agony haha! How am I supposed to return to a job with a back like this! 😭 As soon as I sit in a chair for long periods while trying to get stuff done or ride the train it flares up again.

I finally beat the blue stake 😁 only took me 2 weeks lol.

Went to the protest in Drogheda today. There were tears and defiance and chants of céad míle fáilte. Drogheda is the most culturally diverse town in Ireland. The fash can't organise here like they do in other parts of the country so they resorted to attempted mass murder. Fuck them. Fascists out!

Outstanding work by @erininthemorning.com getting Washington State University to suspend SEGM’s medical courses. Groups like this rely on legitimation that they would not otherwise be entitled to.

it strikes me now that with zohran’s election (about which im v excited!) a whole new crop of young leftists is about to experience a very specific variety of disappointment

A historic win for equality in #Albania! Parliament has passed the Law “On Gender Equality”, keeping protections for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and withdrawn a proposal to recognise only two genders. A victory for unity, dignity and democracy. 🧵

Please read this statement by Anne Health. Trans children are being subjected by Sussex NHS to the physical torture of being forcibly detransitioned. This is unnecessary cruelty and in my view constitutes torture, violence and child abuse on the part of NHS Sussex.

[4297461276428462846 hours later] oh sorry i was playing balatro

I'm not very good at balatro. God damn blue seal! I both love and hate balatro at the same time.

An important solidarity event this Saturday in Drogheda. It's up to us in our own communities to stand together against racism and hate. It is in the face of the far right and government stirring hatred against vulnerable people in our communities. We must push back!

I've a bunch of videogames I want to play but I've sunk 50+ hours into balatro instead. I knew this would happen. I resisted so long! I've not been this hooked since baldurs gate 3. It's soooo addictive. I wanna win each run and unlock everything. Been stuck on the blue stake for a week.

Civil War politics is long gone, keeping this third of the population quiet and in their place is everything now.

Uhm, I've not been following the NY mayoral election much because I just find the US centricity of bluesky a bit nauseating at times and impossible to avoid but perhaps it shows that being 'woke' or not transphobic actually gains you votes rather than looses them.

Is this the sort of racist fantasy bullshit we're going to have to put up with now from our government? The more FF & FG politicians that get into power the worse housing gets, not asylum seekers! People fleeing conflict and persecution aren't stopping the building of houses. Jesus Mary and Joseph!

April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed. November: Housing crisis here until 2040.

Crying about not being able to talk about migration while being one of the most powerful politicians in a country that has had almost 7 years of non stop talk about migration is top tier useless crybaby behavior

🚨New Study Added🚨 A new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics of 432 #trans adolescents and young adults receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy found statistically significant reductions in suicidality following treatment. open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...

Fwiw, a pharmacist can't force you to out yourself or ask what your prescription is for so if you can get your free hrt anyway. The way things are worded it doesn't seem it explicitly excludes trans hrt and if you're like me and post-op it's treating the same thing anyway despite what the indo says.

Yes journalists have to cover what senior politicans are saying on an issue, but much like the data protection issues around the Public Services Card, sometimes you really do need experts to call out their nonsense.

The idea that Ireland has ever "gold plated" the transposition of EU Environmental law, is causing a lot of people in my world to chortle manically.

Their Facebook page says that the Taoiseach’s officials promised them a mediation meeting on Monday. It has now been postponed to Wednesday. They have now been on hunger strike for over 40 days. This is an appalling way to treat people.

im learning more every day

Wow the IT actually printed my letter #speirghorm

At what point does my hrt stop being trans healthcare and start becoming menopausal care, because if I stop taking it at this stage guess what happens? This feels discriminatory to me archive.is/VJaP0

We did warn everyone…

As a parent to a trans teen I'm following with caution. There is a need for vocally supportive & affirmative parents to counteract the likes of Bayswater & Esther Ghey types. But I am concerned that ths could go the way of many autism/disability parent groups where those experiences are centred

“Renewal is only possible if complicity is confronted, responsibilities are met and justice is upheld”. Read 👉 buff.ly/H7TjXWg #GCNnews