Now we have governments telling us we can't burn all the oil we still have because of the dreaded CO2
Ignore governments. Ignore Al Gore. Ignore the theatrics.
Scientists have been warning us for 150 years that carbon will do stupid things to the climate, and so far climate predictions have been pretty much spot on.
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Once upon a time I'd suspect it had been "slashdotted" , but I doubt Slashdot generates the sort of firehose of traffic it once did. Which means this things just fallen on its arse in normal traffic. Not a good way to launch a
The vine people must be pretty bitter they gave up the ghost and then a year or three later tiktok did more or less the exact same thing and turned into one of the biggest gen z sites on the planet.
I think its important to think about the context of a decade ago. At that point language models where pure research. Things that generated absolute gibberish outputs and maybe might one day be useful in spam detectors, search engines, grammar checkers and translation apps, and the "Attention is all you need" paper that basically changed everything was 3 years in the future. You could be forgiven if one of your investors said "Hey, mind if I scrape your site? We're doing some research on language processing" thinking it was pretty harmless.
Yeah we do the same in australia. Its fine. It was the 1980s when we did it, and I remember being a bit bummed out the 2c lollies wouldnt be a thing no more, but I figured I'm a teenager now and probably should be eating something more substantial than 2c lollies from the delicatesan. (although Im sure my mother was relieved, sweet things where banned in the house except for special occasions, but she couldnt control what me and my brother did outside the house)
Well none of them really ever where. The closest we had was pre franco spain in that brief moment when the anarchists actually where doing the "workers running the economy" thing that the marxists promise but innevitably turned into turned into the state running the economy instead. Which ironically got smashed first by the communist party which did NOT like the idea of workers doing a communism without them, and finally by Franco and his fascist goons.
Why isn't there ever a hate button?
There is! Its up the top of the browser window, and looks like a little [x] in the tab next to the tab name
Hell, its a major part of Star Trek Lore. Khan and his band of genetically engineered evil super soldiers. All of which lead to the federation banning genetic engineering (something the show has been trying to walk back ever since Roddenberry passed away since, well
A good example of Trek realising they kind of cocked that one up is the Julian Bashir arc where its realised he's so damn smart because his parents had secretly gotten him illegal medical treatment after he was born with significant cognitive impairment from shady space doctors. The end result being he ends up a super genius. But a good one, not a khan!. In the most recent series its realised that "Number 1" is heavily genetically engineered, because she's from a species that practices it routinely, and the show then wrestles with the fact it'd basically be biggoted discrimination to punish her for something she didnt choose and is part of her species native culture.
Except now they've done it on purpose, knowing that the earlier harms would return, and the lawsuits will be bigger.
Oh mark my words, the fallout from this ludicrously malicious administration will be felt for a generation, just not by the generation that got the administration into power.
The odd thing is, I could have sworn that C was used for the original Unix, and was written for that purpose. Apparently not.
Guess I had a few of those facts mixed up in my head since Unix and C had so much mutual history together.
But why does it matter. Why not let China get there first and buy it from them?
Why should any of us give a shit which set of worthless billionaires get there first?
Regardless of whether its the west coast or the east coast thats to blame for this mess, the reality is;- its a fucken mess.
And yes, theres a particular cohort of SF zillionares, Musk, Thiel, that weird psycho who loves to rant about killing people at Palantir, Zuck, Larry Elison, and the Nvidia dude, who are very clearly of the opinion that there is no cost too high, including the errosion of civil liberties, democracy, and public sanity to achieve AI supremacy while the rest of us are left wondering "Who actually gives a shit if China gets there first? Is it worth burning down the planet and causing massive poverty to avoid that?!"
Theres a simple way to clean this shit up that would end this kind of thing overnight.
Put Meta financially on the hook for these scams. If facebook convinces some poor old lady with low tech literacy to hand over her retirement fund, then facebook should be on the hook to repay her. Facebook then can, at their own leisure, chase the scammer down to pay them back, but facebook must be held accountable.
Do that, and those scam ads end overnight.
What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.
Sir, you are infringing on my trademark of Micro Softwad.
Sorry, but the only person here with Stockholm's Syndrome is you. You are held hostage to your failed beliefs that communism and socialism are the only way forward when history has shown that they simply lead to authoritarianism.
Well they sure as hell aren't when we get so intellectually lazy we dub anything to the right of ghengis khan "COMMUNISM".
Is Keynsianism too "communist" for you? Theres a solid and battle tested set of principles that build wealth while protecting the little guys.
If it is, then maybe just follow Adam Smiths advice and regulate capitalism in the interest of the common man. Is Adam Smith too communist for you?
What IS your baseline here beyond vapid libertarian-ish slogans?
Invest in physics -- own a piece of Dirac!
