Wow. No. What profound religious arrogance. Your messiah would be very disappointed.

You don't get to claim American culture is Christian by default. Christians have been pulling that same trick on every culture around the world since the beginning.

In a normal world full of people who could still think critically this kind of story would end a respectable new outlet, especially one such as the Wall Street Journal, whos readership is supposedly a bunch of rich business owners and free market advocates that actually understand how business works.

Gross.

Forasmuch as we're prone to the use of univerbations, contractions, and the occasional metaphor- the utility of our linguistic vehicles and our love of philology is sure to atrophy for our Bonafede learned practitioners, as well as our amateurs and abecedarians. We all find ourselves using shorter and shorter-handed prose in our professional and personal correspondences as a matter of course. Time is money after all. We rarely consider what society as a whole gives up in our linguistic evolutions and transformations in the interest of expediency and efficient communications until it's gone.

This holiday season, many of us will once again marvel at our own sloppiness in script when confronted with the signatures and holiday well wishes of the elders in our lives that have for whatever reason chosen not to employ the automated spellcheckers and grammatical tools most of us have come to rely on. :)

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What are you gonna do? threaten to dissolve NATO and impose tariffs?

We'll see.

FIGHT TO THE DEATH

It's not about who's exposed. It's about who's trying to hide it, you goddamn well know it.

History is going to count the times the GOP refused sunlight on this issue and judge accordingly, and all of the different GOP excuses disintegrate without the conservative propaganda machine spewing bullshit 24/7. 25 years form now- we're going to look at the pictures of this clown-shoe foolishness like hanging dear leaders mugshots from federal buildings and accepting made up awards and on and on its going to go... taken as a whole- the entire conservative party is implicated. We're going to look back in shame- and all of the supporters are going to hide the swag and try not to talk about it.

We'll do our best to move forward as a country- but I don't think the people are going to accept no consequences in the interest of national healing this time. This time- heads are going to have to roll to move forward- GOP spent what national grace it had on Jan 6th. Everything since has just been insult on injury.

Maybe, but business leaders should consider the pain of government crawling all the way up their ass when this gross spell finally breaks.

Right now we're so far right we're taking swastikas off the hate symbols list and rolling people up in the streets. When the pendulum swings its gonna swing just as far in the other direction- but it's actually be done with laws and legislation. The Orange empower is ruling by EO.

Nearly every single dumbass thing we've been doing in the past 9 months can be unrolled with a single signature because the GOP are buffoons and don't actually understand any of this stuff.

lol @ "undermine the credibility"

As soon as Trump is gone the spell breaks and ALL this shit is gonna get rolled back and patched.

Enjoy the free for all while you can because it's poisoning the republican party. The GOP will forever be know as the party child diddling corrupt and disrespectful feckless leaders when this is over.

The Original Xbox and the 360 were amazing pieces of tech for their time and could be again.

MS could rescue the whole division by just committing to a rerelease of one of those consoles alone. Give me a refreshed OG Xbox with a user partition that I can install homebrew on like it 1999. Release the games on physical discs for $25 and drop the dumbass addition charge for online multiplayer. Watch Crimson Skies take the world by storm. Halo:CE rises from the dead in 2026. Dead or Alive III with online multiplayer.

Nintendo proves to the world every generation that hardware horsepower is not as important as it used to be. People want good software, and the crazy resurgence of 90s style pixel art and 00 style 3d in the PC games space proves there's a market for it.

There's a lot of ways MS can turn around its gaming hardware division. A old school Xbox re-release saved a ton of money as a lot of the titles are already developed. It's too bad nobody seems to care what the consumers want anymore. Monthly subscriptions for game-pass scams will NOT last forever.

There's a clear hole in the market wide enough to fit multiple retro game stores in every city. MS could fill it if they can just give up the subscription model.

Right, but this is Steams numbers, who're mostly interested in gaming, and the Linux Nvidia drivers are way behind AMDs. I've been buying Nvidia for decades- but having recently dropped Windows in its entirety- My next big GPU will be AMD.

My RTX2080ti runs fine, but an equivalent AMD card would just run better.

That fox garbage is on TV over the place. I live in a hard blue PNW city- every real fucking bar has 3 TVs playing sportsball on mute and one spewing hate and fear on fox news at max volume. Super hard to avoid.

I actually used to like watching that goofy Tucker Carlson clown because his silliness was so far right it might as well have been parody. Now though? It's all just hate, culture war bs, and fear.

It's crazy how they're able to just dictate the conservative hivemind though. Interesting as hell to see conservatives do complete 180s on their views based on what the pornstar on fox news had to say.

I hope labor remembers this kind of shit when the whole dumb LLM spell finally breaks and these giant tech companies realize there's not actually a market for "Synthetic Culture" and the whole idea of AI replacing human labor goes up in magic smoke.

I love my LLMs- they make my life easier and help me learn new things- but the clowns thinking they can axe their lawyers creatives and rely on openAI or Anthropic or Metas latest offering are fooling themselves and their investors.

It will increase human productivity for sure- but you still need the human in the loop or you're going to have a computer confidently feeding you lies and fantasy with nobody to fire when it all goes shithouse.

Government behind the curve again. I suppose it's better than nothing, but these people can't spot AI filling their inbox with marketing everyday, AI attempts at all the same old scams, and AI appearing in media pretty much everywhere- but it took a fucking videogame to rattle their cage? You missed the six fingered children in the cereal isle and the endless pretend political theater being shoved in everybody faces? Videogames are the bridge to far?

It's already everywhere. You can't even discuss things online without running into low effort gpt copy-paste silliness in your replies.

This genie is all the way out of the bottle at this point. This was clear to me when I was arranging to meet a seller on craigslist and recognized the helpful style and prose of chatGPT in their replies when arranging the time and place.

Now I have a buddy hosting a couple of local generative models on consumer hardware and calling himself an artist.

Crying foul is not going to slow this down, its just too easy. We're already in a world where artist must cloak their work in AI poison to stop it from being stolen and regurgitated on command by big tech. AI is everywhere-

We missed the window to stop this thing. Now there's too much money involved to even slow it down. We need to learn to live in a world where the computers are actively stealing the collective works of the entire world and reflecting them back to use without attribution and our massive out-of-control tech companies are propping up our entire system while using generative AI to chase divinity. In this brave new world we'll all have our own personal surveillance model assigned atbirth cataloging our entire lives and training itself on our own human experiences paid for by the taxes we're all compelled to pay- and if that's not a reality yet it's only because the right ghoul hasn't yet pitched it to the right g-man.

I don't know what the right answer is, but I'm certain things will never go back to normal. I used to believe that we'd all have out own personal offline assistance models running on our local hardware but the direction the hardware is going I don't think we'll even have our own personal hardware at this point.

This shit used to be fun to think about. I only hope the models and weights eventually trickle down to normal tech people so we can actually make them useful and maybe use them to counter balance and filter the endless generated bullshit we're already shoveling though.