thethirdgracchi

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No no no, you've got this all wrong. We've had this struggle session before, upon becoming Dahn al Traampfi he will use Palantir's Mavin program to destroy the Zionist Entity, intervening in his war against Iran on the side of Iran. He will then draft all Americans into the military, immediately discharge them (granting them all universal healthcare via the VA) and then form NATO 2 with China and Russia to denazify the original NATO. He will also overthrow Sisi and use Juche necromancy to install Nasser in Egypt, helping him to achieve the pan-Arab socialist republic to join Iran's jihad to take back Mecca from the demonic capitalists of the Gulf States.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would honestly be sick. Can't imagine how it'd work because missiles and drones are dispendible though. It would be an RTS where like all your units are petards from AoE II or something. I am sure there's a way to make this work, just don't know how.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

After an intense dream, Trump converts to Shia Islam and nukes Tel Aviv, bringing peace to the West Asian region and sending stock markets soaring.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The AI slop is here to stay unfortunately. The bubble will pop and like 99% of AI companies will die, but LLMs are actually very easy to run locally AND at least one of the big AI companies will "win" and capture most of the AI traffic, kind of like how Google "won" search. As models get more efficient all those data centers are gonna be unnecessary, but they'll only become unnecessary because it's easy to run frontier models on your own phone or whatever. AI slop will never disappear, that's a Pandora's box that cannot be closed.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Copilot will never go away. The only way you can get that thing off your computer is by removing Windows. The AI bubble is gonna burst but Microsoft is still gonna have LLMs baked into their OS.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

It is very funny that we seem to have this conversation every time Trump threatens to do something. When it comes to the military, he never bluffs. Once the assets start moving, it's gonna happen. Just a matter, as you said, of scale and of when.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago (9 children)

100% they're gonna do something in the islands at the mouth of the strait. They can't even get to Kharg island, and it's irrelevant for changing anything about the war. Every day the strait remains in Iranian control, billions of dollars are lost. Taking Kharg does nothing to change that. Attempting to take like Lark island or something would

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

You can train most mammals, because mammals are generally smart and understand rewards, so yeah I imagine you could train squirrels.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Me and the Ayatollah are gonna control the Strait"

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

Think of President Xi: central casting, brilliant guy. When I say he’s brilliant, everyone says, ‘Oh, that’s terrible.’ He runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist: smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There is nobody in Hollywood like this guy,

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-adds-xi-jinping-to-list-of-men-from-central-casting-during-fox-news-town-hall/

Trump said in remarks from the White House’s State Dining Room. Xi called over to aides, Trump said, noting the Chinese president has "got people standing behind him. Everyone is central casting – central casting. Glasses. Pad. Boom.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-adds-xi-jinping-to-list-of-men-from-central-casting-during-fox-news-town-hall/

 

A superb artist and pioneer of ambient electronic music, Éliane Radigue died yesterday at the age of 94. Radigue was making music like nobody else in the late 20th century. She's an icon, and her music is simultaneously so simple (often just one note layered over itself on an ARP-2500) and yet as vast as the ocean, seemingly containing the entire universe in the soundscapes she constructed. She was composing and making music until the last years of her life; in fact, one of my favorite pieces of hers is Occam XXV, which she made just a few years ago. Truly a titan that will be dearly missed.

 

Culleton has lived in the US for more than 20 years, is married to a US citizen and runs a plastering business in the Boston area. He has spent five months in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record.

Pretty crazy stuff in the article, including the horrible conditions ICE is holding these folks in. Not surprising in the slightest, but they really are running concentration camps:

After being held in ICE facilities near Boston and in Buffalo, New York, he was flown to a facility in El Paso, Texas, where he is sharing a cell with more than 70 men. Culleton said the detention centre was cold, damp and squalid and there were fights over insufficient food – “like a concentration camp, absolute hell”, he told the Irish Times, which first reported the story on Monday.

 

RIP Ka, unsurpassed in hip hop

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