8D In space no one can hear you scream, "Freeedom."

.. are rattled by having to age verify on porn sites.

In other news..

Tor downloads are up. Kleenex sales are down.

"LLM chatbots become sentient"

That line comes from the grifters pushing this AI revolution Bullshit. LLM's are marginally useful and prone to error, hardly revolutionary, humans have been doing that for years.

AI will bring your hair back baldy. AI will get you a girlfriend, hey it will be your girlfriend.

This poor man fell for the hype too. "Sentient wife," Jesus and the Holy Bloody Mary, there's more sentience in the reptiles in the Whitehouse than you'll ever find in an LLM.

Yes it did play a critical role. US industrial might made the difference. The US leased weapons as a strategy to enable allies to fight and reduce their own casualties. They knew if Europe and Russia fell, US would be next or forced to trade with a much more powerful fascist alliance.

WW2 was always a cooperation and though I don't like everything the man stood for, Churchill showed excellent diplomacy convincing US to get involved as they were late to the party, again..

Militarily, US wasn't that great, they started green, inexperienced, but learnt fast. Europe's military tradition was a lot older and more experienced. I am particularly proud of the Brits, we took asymmetric warfare and our intelligence, special ops ran with it. Taught everyone else how to do it.

I don't want to take away from your age of heroes. Hold that close and compare it to the shit show you have in charge now.

Old is gold mate. And your new world looks like a shithole in places, if you are not shooting other people around the world, your kids are shooting each other at school. Most violent country in history, built on violence and prospered from it.

And recompense, for what? Learn your history, lend lease. Urmerican capitalists made a ton of money from WW2 then established safe global trade to move your production to China. Helps to have a poorly educated, addicted population to get away with that con job.

If you are talking about US lives, my respect and gratitude goes to them, but you got off lightly compared to Russia, Germany, Yugoslavia and the Holocaust victims and your country did the best from WW2, it led to your golden age the 1950's.

And the rebel's the Democrats. Or is the other way round? Discuss.

What started like a commentary of the US kicking out some British Nazis, the Imperial officers sound like they come from Surrey and are wicked old Tories from 1984, now seems to be the progressives vs Project 2025. Manufactured "Star wars is for everyone" Disney corporate bullshit. I know, let's have a screen kiss for every combination we can imagine, let's have a Trans Wookie kissing Jabba who's discovered he's metro sexual. It might be well meant, but it's a distraction from the story , it's writing by focus group and the marketing department worrying about getting cancelled on Social Media. Ended up forgetting to write an original story and looking like a camp pantomime trying to please everyone.

And Han Solo got killed by an angsty emo.. I will never forgive that. Bastards. It's Jar Jar all over again.

Andor, Rogue One they hit the old tone. Hope Starfighter is the same.

The capitalist's Achille's heel.

It's a balancing act of service vs profit. You like your stock price going higher so you've got to grow your revenue and rather than making difficult efficiencies it's easier to grift more cash from your customers and damage the experience they signed up for. It looks like that taps out at some point. I am cancelling Prime since they started pushing ads.

Ads are micro stressors, they assault your attention, create desire for something you probably cant afford or probably shouldn't buy, their outcome is disappointment a sense of missing out. You might be happier using your money to work less and spend more time enjoying what's free like nature and friendship.

My guess is we'll have a star trek universal translator soon, an earpiece hooked to your phone, so why learn a language? Or English becomes the universal language.

It's being used for crime, child porn, scams, disinformation.

It's strength is general purpose and that's it's weakness.

In that respect it has the same devilish appeal of Social Media and Crypto. It's a good looking snake.

You could say Altman's naive if he believes he can take on Uncle Sam. Mendacious is more likely. He's burning venture capital and making lots of unfounded promises that are just not bearing out in reality and producing low quality, industrialized content. We see this everywhere that hand made items are valued more than mass produced, and Gen AI is content mass production.

LLM's are a really useful tool for augmenting work, but it's unreliable, the flaw in the kernel is that it depends on data from unreliable, inconsistent humans. We frequently lie, exaggerate, make mistakes and call truth opinions and belief. LLM generated content compounds our errors.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Jurassic Park:

It's a shit show.

USA landed on the moon, inspired the world.

That was SCIENCE!

That was ENDEAVOUR!

The bravest thing humans have ever done.

Shame.

Where will that money go now? Making the few richer, the world poorer.

... everyday with his hysterical ranting.

From a country that produced heroes that won WW2.

WTF is happening to the USA?

Impeach this corrupt geriatric pant shitting friend of a paedo already.

Where has American pride in freedom gone? What would Lady Liberty say to this dick? Fcuk off you orange asshole!

You lead the world once. Get back in the game ffs. China's going to eat your lunch.

Mind if I add. Who also appears to have no bowel control and was mates with a paedo.

How the fcuk is anyone proud to have that as a president? Are they paedo pant shitters too, is that it?

Trump sits on his golden toilet, shits on the American people and wipes his arse with the constitution. And the peasants cry, "more please sir".

The intention is good want to protect kids, the Interweb is wild west, too many weirdos and crims. Kids aren't ready for that. Going on the internet is like going to the lawless rough part of town. It's a human instinct to protect kids, defy that and defy nature, good luck with that, fights start for much less.

"Net-Nanny" home firewalls can’t be solving the problem of protecting kids. Government could incentivise that, certify/legislate home routers that need to ship with one and block VPN. Make it law that parents have to have one or its neglect. Government can publish the safe list, that’s their job, protect the people.

The software could be easier to use so Mom and Pop can look at edgy stuff if they want. I am tech and they confuse me, awkward to maintain and hard to use.

Social Media and Content providers get away with far too much. They are leaning into AI/LLM and that’s a perfect tool for spotting bad actor patterns. Few high profile cases where the CEO’s are sued and assets seized will get them motivated. They should never have been able to get away with “We are not publishers”. If a newspaper was telling kids to off themselves we’d burn the office to the ground and hang the editor.

Just blame the parents, is a rubbish argument, cited by non-parents mostly or moaning old gits, doesn't help anyone, least of all parents and kids. The threat is always evolving.

Obviously it was this

Moonfall

And the backup lifeboat?

It's just a capsule right? Doubles up as the fart box when not in use.

Less people = more lesbians ? I guess that could happen, if its only the loony right wing meatballs staying, who want women in the kitchen pumping out babies, yup I can see why the girls would say fuck that I'm a lesbian.