Too much risk of fireball ear.

It’s fair game after getting legally married, though.

Not my living room. Nice try, fuckers.

Why does it cost so much to engineer new models?

We need at least two massive quantum leaps in quality before this stuff can be long-term profitable; and there probably simply aren’t two quantum leaps left in the current pathways being explored.

But turning off all the bots, contracts, and lies would cause the investment money to stop immediately, rather than later.

Everyone perpetrating this scam wants to cash out a tiny bit more before it crashes.

Right. But Fermi’s Paradox applies.

Everyone is buying and selling software miracle cure…but all of the software itself is still exaclty as healthy as a con artists prize race horse (not healthy, and actually a mule).

And a lot more money. And so much more power and water. And more data. And more money, too.

Brief off-topic aside: This recurring thread has been a bright spot, for me, in a sad Internet, this year. Thank you.

As for what I’m playing - mostly Palworld. The late game has allowed me to try to breed perfect pals while getting as deep as I like into farm management and interior decorating. It’s been very fun. Well worth the sticker price.

We can try to amplify the voices of the underrepresented.

Sometimes that might mean sitting with “let’s all take 5”.

“Let it kill ten people. I’m still not eating mushed peas, Dad.”

“Someone may inconvenience you, today. Give yourself permission to knock things off of their desk.”

go south

The path south is blocked by lack of DM preparation trees.

slip between the trees

These are really packed in there. Roll dexterity.

20

Needed a 25, sorry.

“Anyway, Kevin - the kid your fiancé is pregnant with is mine, so it’s fine. We’re cool, right Kevin?”

Anything you do on USPS also goes to Google.

Opening a PO Box in person should avoid this issue.

Post Office Boxes are the solution.

My experience with ethically run (if unethically created) local models has been similar. Lots odd hardware to get slow mediocre answers.

But the biggest reason AI competes with plain old web search is that they’ve enshittified the web search available to us.

Corporate assholes are breaking search to force people to use their centralized harmful AI answer guessers.

We can fight back with Searx. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Searx

There’s an earthquake happening due to the ride behind them rumbling by between frames.

I’m working on adding to my vocabulary:

“Please be yourself.”

I’m excited about the day when these shop owners learn about Furry Porn.

“I found pictures online that looked like our two shop mascots. They seem to really love each-other, Bob.”

It’ll be glorious.

But maybe they’re all already aware and are just advertising their support for the Furry community.

Please fix the tabs thing.

Nice.

This duck is the new acceptable answer, when someone asks “what is art?”.

All philosophical answers need not apply. The answer is just this picture.

Any detailed philosophical arguments about art are still allowed to continue, but those discussions must now treat this “smoking duck stuck in traffic” as their shared first axiom.