Making Art in 2026 (alt link)

Indiana is at the far end of a very large (too large) time zone, so the clocks always felt a bit off. I would have had the same problem when I was in western Michigan, but it was cloudy 6 months out of the year so who knew when noon really was. I always just assumed the noon whistle was noon and let the Sun do its own thing.

Great. I wonder how many members of Congress think this means we get more daylight.

Mmmm, sweet h2o!

I'm more of a Baby Ruth fan, but they renamed it and changes the recipe so it is basically extinct.

Good question. Their POWER series of CPUs were not insignificant in capability, their chip designers were clearly technically sophisticated, and GPUs are just specialised vector processors with a few extra bells and whistles - stuff IBM is extremely familiar with.

It would not have been difficult to release a GPU or other LLM-specific processor to go along with the POWER11. They'd been working on the POWER11 for 4 years, they knew in 2020 that LLMs had a strong potential to be significant for Big Data processing - an area you use big iron for, they're not rank amateurs, they have plenty of reserve, they could have assembled an emergency team to build a vector processor that was custom-designed for just LLM work, and released an LLM processor card that could run circles around nVidia.

They didn't. Because, as has happened before, their management is simply too stupid and too slow.

What's the point of blaming the previous administration when they can no longer do anything about it? I could blame Nixon for not doing something about climate change, for all the good it would do.

As for AGI and worse, ASI, the risk to human civilization is very real. The rest of us are in peril right now without regulation and an international framework to inspect and confiscate materials for dangerous AI projects. A failure of leadership to lead. A failure of governments to protect its citizenry. Treating AI as just another business is a massive blunder.

Change the laws and tax AI. Perhaps a per token fee, or a flat annual tax based on computational side. All on the assumption that copyright violation is just going to happen. Not unlike how some countries charge a tax on blank media.

Ideally it should be done by treaty and cut through every major economy in the world.

Bow down to me as your overlord. Fetch me those sugar.

Where are the space ants? /s

I keep hearing things like "my grandmother got so confused, I set her up on Zorin/Mint and she couldn't tell the difference."

The more people just use their PC's to get on websites the less they seem to notice if they use Windows or Linux.

Some of us still cynically hang onto our Cold War experiences. Once we started realizing that border agents can search your phone if you travel within 100 miles of a border, we got a little paranoid about what the government would find in our profiles and on our devices.
With my text messages, there are quite a few conversations that end with "hang on, let's talk voice" or "let's meet up later". I'm not the only person that is distrustful of the power that the federal government has. And of course, anyone with a half a brain distrusts what private corporations are going to do with your data once they get their claws on it.

How are we supposed to sell ad space in children's loot box games if the government takes away all of our users?

It doesn't matter if it's bad - if China and Russia agree it's bad you have to be for it.

You can never agree with China because they have a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State there so you must support a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State here.

If you are against techo-feudalism you must be one of them Putin Lovers.

- The New York Times / Langley, apparently.

Half my salary at my old job was paid in stock. I assure you, both the federal and state government consider it income. I pay taxes on the cost basis, same rate as any ordinary income on a W-2. The I pay taxes again when I have realized gains.