Lvxferre [he/him]

As I mentioned in another post, about the same topic, he’s tying a sinking ship to another. So both can sink together.

Musk said the combined company will “build a platform that doesn’t just reflect the world but actively accelerates human progress.”

The funniest part is that this might not be a lie - I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk genuinely believed that.

…let’s get real. xAI’s main product is Grok, a text and image generator. Twitter is basically a blog platform for the sort of people who whine “WAAAH! TL;DR!”. Merge both and you’ll get what? Automated shitposting!

It’s pretty much ethnic anglo stuff.

If it’s for fish-and-chips lemon juice is a good sub. Otherwise white wine vinegar; note however that depending on the amounts the taste difference will be noticeable.

This topic is not for me as it’s clearly focused on USA alone, but the mention of ambrosia salad reminded me a dessert with the same name:

Made with caramelised sugar, eggs, milk, citrus juice. Iberian in origin, still fairly popular here in southern Brazil.

On chicken Kiev: I know that the dish is supposed to be fancy and all of that, I’ve seen Marco Pierre preparing it, but frankly? The idea of a deed-fried dish filled with butter definitively does not please me.

Which is also how Digg v4 ended up, the brands as content submitters.

Exactly. Almost like Reddit decision makers know how Digg died, and yet they’re unable to not follow its steps.

Cordwell and Barker expect user growth for Reddit to stall in 2025 and, as a result, see revenue growth becoming more reliant on making the platform’s proposition more attractive for advertisers.

This won’t be even remotely fun for the people still using that platform. Because “making the platform’s proposition more attractive to advertisers” boils down to either more ads or ads that are more obnoxious, more disguised as content, more targetted.

Etymologically “agent” is just a fancy borrowed synonym for “doer”. So an AI agent is an AI that does. Yup, it’s that vague.

You could instead restrict the definition further, and say that an AI agent does things autonomously. Then the concept is mutually exclusive with “assistant”, as the assistant does nothing on its own, it’s only there to assist someone else. And yet look at what Pathak said - that she understood both things to be interchangeable.

…so might as well say that “agent” is simply the next buzzword, since people aren’t so excited with the concept of artificial intelligence any more. They’ve used those dumb text gens, gave them either a six-fingered thumbs up or thumbs down, but they’re generally aware that it doesn’t do a fraction of what they believed to.

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Correctly highlight when a programmer is being assumptive as a brick, even when assumptions are one of the biggest sins in programming. Done, you’ve triggered a lot of programmers.

The meaning kind of clicked to me the first time I’ve seen the word and tried to pronounce it - it ended as [ẽ.'ʒĩ 'ʃis], the first part is close enough to English [ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn] ⟨engine⟩ that the association was obvious. ([ʃis] is just the Portuguese name for ⟨X⟩.)

I know that URL.

I’m not surprised. And I heavily recommend people to ask questions about a topic that they reliably know to those assistants; they’ll notice how much crap the bots output. Now consider that the bot is also bullshitting about the things that you don’t know.

If a billionaire slapped someone’s face, I’d expect Forbes to narrate how the second person cruelly hurt the billionaire’s hand with their face.

Our US government would consider it anti-semitic not to use a nazi salute twice on stage in front of millions of people.

I was almost going to mention Musk’s gesture as an example of how context dictates meaning, but removed it from my comment. Glad to see that someone else mentioned it though - that gesture can be only understood as a Nazi salute and as support to Nazism, nothing else.

[I’m neither from Australia nor USA, but it’s clear that Australia got it right. Musk and his puppet, on the other hand…]

Depending on how this is implemented*, that sounds sensible.

*the key here is that context should be always taken into account when interpreting symbols.

This is so fucking stupid that I had to check other sources on what he said, to confirm it. (It does.)

No, it is not just immoral, it’s also fucking stupid. Why would he get the Palestinians or the State of Israel pissed, if he can get both pissed at the same time? The State of Israel doesn’t see those lands as belonging to some banana maize republic dammit, it sees those lands as belonging to itself.

inb4: “but Netanyahu said he was thinking outside the box with fresh ideas! That it’s unconventional thinking!”. Well, his reply is superficially polite (likely to avoid the offend the other Nazi’s precious-oh-so-precious ego), but it’s non-committing and can be easily understood as “this is crazy talk”.

It gets worse. So far the State of Israel has been trying to masquerade the genocide against Palestinians as a self-defence war. Now with Trump suggesting ethnic genocide, more people will ask “wait a minute… isn’t that what Israel is doing already?” (Yes, it is.)

The opponents likely won’t do it because there’s an asymmetry going on here: they’re far more likely to care about the legitimacy of the electoral process than Trump does. And when someone says that elections were fraudulent, no matter if true or false, that legitimacy takes a blow.

Critics argue Trump’s aggressive diplomacy weakens trust, while supporters claim it reinforces U.S. strength.

It might be worth to mention the concepts of soft power and hard power here. I’ll oversimplify it here:

• soft power - “do what I say, it’ll be better for you”
• hard power - “do what I say, otherwise I’ll go against you”

The critics are focusing on the soft power, and they’re IMO spot on - Trump is ruining every bit of soft power that USA has (or had), by taunting allied governments.

In the meantime, the supporters are focusing on hard power… and they’re completely off-mark. Hard power depends on your economical and military capabilities, and those threats are not improving either.

“But what about the tariffs?”, someone might ask. Does anyone here genuinely believe that they’ll improve USA’s economy?

OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention.

Yes, that is correct. And perhaps it got the most attention because of all the ruckus Pigboy did over “his” precious data (i.e. users’) + because it made the whole thing hard to ignore.

Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?

Yeah. I was talking about this with my mum today - the chat started with my cat refusing litterboxes, then “if this was the 90s old newspapers would do the trick”, then on how you don’t really own books you buy from the internet (unlike pirated ones). But it’s the same deal with some physical goods, if someone can brick them from a distance they aren’t really yours.

[Sorry for the rambling.]

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

This process has been happening since ChatGPT was released. And it’ll only get worse.

And when are those corporations get that people hate this sort of system? Ask Clippy.

For context, it’s somewhat common here in Latin America to name markets after the owner’s name; doubly so in smaller cities. (The city where this happened has 9k inhabitants)

It’s also common to name supermarkets “Super [something]”, to highlight that it sells general goods instead of just produce.

With that out of the way: seriously? Nintendo going after a mum-and-dad market in a small city in North America??? This only highlights that the current trademark and intellectual property laws across the world are toilet paper - they aren’t there to defend “healthy competition” or crap like that, but to ensure megacorps get their way. Screw this shit and screw Nintendo - might as well rename their company to Ninjigoku/任地獄, bloody hell.