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I'm pretty sure it's impossible for a TV show called Cadillacs and Dinosaurs to suck even if they tried.
Like here look at me trying to come up with a bad episode idea
Two people out for a picnic on the mesa. They are eating their sandwiches when suddenly one of them hears the distant but unmistakable sound of a dinosaur stampede. She thinks maybe it'll be fine. The dinosaurs don't tend to venture this far north. But they look and the stampede is heading right for them.
To make matters worse their 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Ville's is having trouble running due to an improper gasoline mixture (in an emergency they had to make their own gas from a dinosaur). They have no choice but to get some anti-dinosaur weapons out of the vehicle's spacious trunk. They manage to fend off some of the dinosaur scouts with some pre-1994-ban assault rifles. But can they make it to the garage to warn them, and tune up their Cadillac, in time?
(oh no it's politics)
Trump's new cryptocurrency scheme is surprisingly forthright about being a pump & dump:
CIC Digital LLC, an affiliate of The Trump Organization, and Fight Fight Fight LLC collectively own 80% of the Trump Cards, subject to a 3-year unlocking schedule. CIC Digital LLC and Celebration Cards LLC, the owners of Fight Fight Fight LLC, will receive trading revenue derived from trading activities of Trump Meme Cards.
Essentially according to their own website, they started by selling 20%* of the tokens to the public, and over the next few years will... sell another 80% of the tokens to the public. To the moon!
* half of that they describe as "liquidity" instead of public distribution -- whatever that means.
I read about this gross Robo Anne Frank LLM by a company called "School AI": Bluesky post (looks like via an activitypub bridge, but I can't be bothered to find the canonical link), News Article, School AI's website.
Gee it sure is weird how all these digital clones the AI companies keep coming up with all have the exact same (lack of a) personality.
‘Many of the groups that we are concerned about disappearing – gay couple couples, lesbian couples – from a traditional organs-bumping-together standpoint, can’t have kids… that are genetically both of theirs,’ says Simone.
No no they're super smart and unless we come up with some sort of way for gay people to have children they'll disappear entirely (gay people of course first came to earth from space in the year 1952, but the starship's egg chambers were damaged in the crash landing)
The article says in a couple parts that this couple claims to be pro-LGBT rights. This could not be farther from the truth, at least for the T part. They speculated on one of their podcasts that trans people exist because of anime avatars, and also derided trans people as "the priest class of urbanism".
FYI previous discussions here about the Collins couple (there's no quota or anything, just if you want to read more comments):
We all know the real use case is chatbots tricking people into embarrassing themselves. Ideally in court documents.
Microsoft’s excuse is that many of these attacks require an insider.
Sure we made phishing way easier, more dangerous, and more subtle; but it was the user's fault for trusting our Don't Trust Anything I Say O-Matic workplace productivity suite!
Edit: and really from the demos it looks like a user wouldn't have to do anything at all besides write "summarize my emails" once. No need to click on anything for confidential info to be exfiltrated if the chatbot can already download arbitrary URLs based on the prompt injection!
The one catch is that because responses from the blockchain can take variable amounts of time, it’s best to request and receive from blockchains using asynchronous methods.
"You may be used to writing websites that actually load in fractions of a second, and so rely on obsolete web2 technologies like synchronous fetches. But don't worry! With modern techniques like async / await your loading spinner will animate flawlessly while the blockchain spends 20 minutes burning down a forest in the background."
You can practically taste the frustration in the "prompt engineering" here. Just one more edge case bro, one more edge case and then the prompt will be perfect!
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sailor_sega_saturn
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Yeah my favorite historian on ActivityPub made a similar point: