AutistoMephisto

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[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yep. The ship computers are basically terminals that are sub-space connected to the mainframe, called Memory Alpha, in San Francisco, where Starfleet is headquartered.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

A lot of firefighting company actually used to be private, owned and operated by insurance companies

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

they're utterly incapable of defining male as anything but a 20 year old getting drunk, playing sports, and breaking things.

Don't forget ramming his cock into any woman he wants, regardless of whether they could give consent or not.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

You know, now that you say it, it makes sense. They're affirming their gender to deny their age. When they look back at their teenage years and/or their early 20's, that's when (they believe) they were at their "most maximal manliest manliness", or in biology terms, the point when their testosterone levels were at their highest. As soon as a man hits 30, it's all downhill from there. And I speak from experience as a 35-year-old white guy. Some of my shit doesn't work how it did in my 20's. Some parts of me now ache that previously did not. It's harder for me to get up from a sitting position than it used to be. But I don't think the answer for that is to amp up my testosterone levels to try and go through puberty again.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Hmm. I didn't think of it like that, but I never considered that either gender has an "ideal state". It's also, I suppose that, for them, at least, that gender doesn't really factor into their desired state.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

UPDATE: After taking all the responses to this into consideration, I now understand testosterone therapy to indeed be gender affirming care but Hegseth and the "Manosphere" crowd he identifies with prefer to affirm their gender by denying their age. They still want to be the "studs" they (thought) they were in high school. They're the same guys who wax nostalgically about their "glory days" when they were on the football team and how they "led the team to win the regionals"(but not state) and they "coulda gone pro" but one of "those people(you know who they're referring to)", "stole" their scholarship.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

True, but if that final output had not been known to you, and/or you had set off the machine that triggered the bomb under duress, that changes your liability.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You know there was an opinion piece I read in the Guardian about the reason the wealthy love private jets. It's because of the reduced number of human "touch points". They yearn to glide through life without ever interacting with another real human.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Watch them claim that the holding cells are actually hospital rooms. Hell, why not say that the entire detention facility is actually a hospital? But it's a very special hospital that only admits certain kinds of patients and they also cannot be discharged. Of course, good luck getting the inspectors to believe the guards are actually all doctors and nurses.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

So, basically like that one episode of "SuperJail!",? That one where the Warden basically takes over the US and turns all the citizens into inmates?

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Nothing wrong with a hero being at least middle-aged. Maybe they even have a spouse and kids they're leaving behind, or the kids are coming with them on the quest.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah, they'll likely have some kind of remote-activated self-destruct feature that fries them to prevent us from using them.

 
 

I got this from a news/OSINT group chat. The implications are troubling for the USD as the reserve currency of the world. The first being that the US$ is incompatible with tokenization. Then there's the effect it will have on anyone holding USD. If you're poor, then you have no savings, and you're not any better or worse than before. If you're rich, you already have non-liquid assets, and are also not worse off. If you're middle class, you have some liquid cash in savings that you should probably drop ASAP.

 

Interesting piece. The author claims that LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT are mere interfaces for the same kind of algorithms that corporations have been using for decades and that the real "AI Revolution" is that regular people have access to them, where before we did not.

From the article:

Consider what it took to use business intelligence software in 2015. You needed to buy the software, which cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. You needed to clean and structure your data. You needed to learn SQL or tableau or whatever visualization tool you were using. You needed to know what questions to ask. The cognitive and financial overhead was high enough that only organizations bothered.

Language models collapsed that overhead to nearly zero. You don’t need to learn a query language. You don’t need to structure your data. You don’t need to know the right technical terms. You just describe what you want in plain English. The interface became conversation.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

Just want to clarify, this is not my Substack, I'm just sharing this because I found it insightful.

The author describes himself as a "fractional CTO"(no clue what that means, don't ask me) and advisor. His clients asked him how they could leverage AI. He decided to experience it for himself. From the author(emphasis mine):

I forced myself to use Claude Code exclusively to build a product. Three months. Not a single line of code written by me. I wanted to experience what my clients were considering—100% AI adoption. I needed to know firsthand why that 95% failure rate exists.

I got the product launched. It worked. I was proud of what I’d created. Then came the moment that validated every concern in that MIT study: I needed to make a small change and realized I wasn’t confident I could do it. My own product, built under my direction, and I’d lost confidence in my ability to modify it.

Now when clients ask me about AI adoption, I can tell them exactly what 100% looks like: it looks like failure. Not immediate failure—that’s the trap. Initial metrics look great. You ship faster. You feel productive. Then three months later, you realize nobody actually understands what you’ve built.

 

Ideally, I'd love for Dems to just start taking credit for everything MAGA brags about. Since apparently the Republicans aren't in charge.

 
 
 

Typically, events such as these are organized by the Koch Family. They handle the nuts-and-bolts and technical end of things. Trump's campaign may have called this meeting, but I guarantee the Kochs will be providing the support.

Don't expect any leaks. They take extreme measures to prevent leaks:

1.) The guest list is kept a closely guarded secret, and has pictures to prevent impostors.

2.) The location where the conference will take place, usually a swanky, secluded resort, is also kept secret, and accepting an invite means you are also sworn to secrecy, as the location will not be told to you until you accept the invitation.

3.) The resort staff is screened and work assignments are changed to be far from the actual events and the rooms of the attendees.

4.) They routinely sweep for bugs and listening devices, and use white noise emitters to throw off parabolics.

5.) Any paper materials, either distributed by the event host or personal notes of the attendees, of the event are confiscated and destroyed.

They basically follow all the same rules that might be in place at a convention for people with TS/SCI clearance and the convention hall is a massive SCIF. But full of people plotting to undermine our democracy.

 

They do this all the time. Maybe Biden should call their bluff, execute his powers as Commander in Chief, and order the National Guard in Texas to turn on State Police.

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