Who are we to say Sam Atman can't do this? Why, I say, let him do this whenever he wants to!

"A whole Civilization will die tonight". Yeah. Ours. Regardless of what happens.

Any professors out there willing to discuss AI use guidelines/rules in their classes? I just encountered my first dun-dun-dunnnnnnn, and I hadn't put anything out beforehand, so I'd like to figure out what other folks are doing.

I must again angrily lament all the "very serious" Democrats who said I needed to be more "respectful" to the first establishment politician in Virginia who normalized and lent his credibility to allow Trump to make inroads into Virginia back in 2015. "But he's so nice! You shouldn't be so acerbic!"

I've been researching the Bronze Age, 1200 BCEish, for something, and the thing that strikes me is, even with the fragmentary records we have now, how things kept getting worse and worse and nobody would/could admit it. Trade, diplomacy, society flowing right until up to *the very last day*.

"Who are the... Krassensteins?" "Twitter reply guy." "I don't know what that is." "... i am so fucking jealous of you and your life."

Hats off to the Artemis II crew, who're as far away from all this bullshit as anyone possibly can be

Still awesome

This is incredible, how fast are they gonna end up going?!

I asked AI to finish this evidence-based research project I'm working on in my own style/the way I would do it, and it started playing a 240-hour game of Terra Invicta and browsing Steam for deals on games it'll never play.

Sometimes I really and truly regret not joining the fucking graft train. None of those people seem to have trouble sleeping at night and they have a lot more money than I do.

My daughter listened to this, and went "Wow. How timely." And I could've sobbed. music.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltrh...

I've been using Notepad, plain Notepad, for drafting writing since the NINETIES. All of my initial thoughts and feeling things out and trying different phrasing or formatting, goes in Notepad. I woke up this morning to see they put FUCKING COPILOT IN NOTEPAD.

Bullshit, Google, putting this fucking AI thing so I can't even scroll the page on a Google Doc without it butting in. It's bad enough I have to deal with Copilot every single email, I ain't doing this, too.

I have Andy Weir's hat! I still have time to be him! Yay!

Hahahahaha, man, is this ever more likely

Factoid: Robert Mueller died in Charlottesville, Va.

The absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence; it's evidence of a policy choice.

I'm not and have never been catholic but I'm saying hail marys at breakneck speed

Sigh.

God, I think the least you can do is make Duke lose to a sixteen seed. Please. We all need that.

Looks like the deposit I put in for a Rivian was a smart choice.

So the 31st MEU is sailing to the Strait of Hormuz with ample time for the Russians and Chinese to prep the Iranians, and our politicians are just going to stand around and put their hands in their pockets and go "aw, shucks, sorry Marine"?

The stock market is a graph of rich people's emotions.

I don't get why people keep walking into machine gun fire by thinking they're the ones who're gonna flip this guy.

I know they think the movie 300 is cool, but it's not real life. The Spartans were pedophiles and the Persians won, so... ... ahh, hell.

I'm patiently waiting for the c-suite retcon for why we haven't bought a new Stryker stretcher since 2008 as a focus on patient safety because of their resilience to cyberwarfare.

BRO WTF IS THIS

Oh no, they did it to me, too

Well Air Force 2 is apparently doing touch and goes at the Charlottesville Airport.

You know, I'm just absolutely astounded that The Folks That Be have made it entirely clear that the stock market is unmoored from anything but vibes and feelings. They're not even pretending. Progressives need to hammer this. Because as soon as a Democrat wins, they'll crash the economy.

Kid: Dad, what does it mean that some guy was sucking the measles vaccine out of baby arms? Source:

An interesting thing: The United States has more than enough oil production to satisfy every need that we have at what would be a reasonable price per gallon. But that would mean doing some scary socialisms. And once you open the scary socialisms door...

If the Democrats are terrified of voting against funding for this stupid, illegal war, then they should at least insist we raise corporate taxes above the 2017 rate to pay for it. I mean, come the hell on, it's right there.

My goal is to see how close I can get to essentially quoting "The Way The World Works" by Bo Burnham verbatim in a scholarly paper.

It's frankly pathetic how many people left of center will happily tolerate bald-faced liars if they think the liars are directionally supportive of their politics. Lying is bad, haven't we learned that? We will not win a political contest built around consequence-free lying.

You know, not just this, but I bet the military is sending servicemembers to the ER for standard care related to everything from Plan B to ectopic pregnancies, charging the government tens of thousands of dollars and risking their lives in the process.

Not too shabby a look from the campground this morning.

Fringe benefit.

So close. So close, yet so far away.

Ooooh. I do like keeping up with new works from my favorite authors!

Jesus Christ

Flu B is out there and it fucking sucks, just FYI

Just was part of a discussion on coupling SSRIs & GLP1s, and, dang. We'll really do anything but improve society to better people's lives. "How about pills that'll make you 20% less sad in 6 weeks. You won't be able to orgasm and you might gain 30 pounds, but we got a shot to fix that last part!"

No Kings includes Draft Kings

My God I went to cite a CDC page on adolescent vaccine schedules, one I've had bookmarked for fucking EVER, and it came back as a 404 error. I just... cannot believe this.

no! no! bad snow, bad!