The fact that they're training AI with another AI would point towards them getting high on their own supply. So high they forgot about GIGO, so this probably isn't being pushed by engineers.

You'd think that even the suits would be familiar with the phrase "model collapse" though. It's new and cool.

Exit the Stargate
Initial perception quickens my heart rate
This dark place, planet Earth orbits one star
I come from a far, far away state of mind
Open up your third eye
Black helicopters in the sky

China has been cultivating markets in the past few decades, but with the type of heavy control people typically describe as "Communist", especially when anyone suggests a similar arrangement be implemented in the US.

Capitalism didn't fix Russia either. It was a very bleak place in the 90s, having a Pizza Hut did not improve their lives much. An oil boom provided a bit of enrichment for them in the 2000s, but there was a dictatorship and oligarchy in place, which clawed all that back from the people within a decade.

Reconstruction in the US was at the very beginning of the first Industrial Revolution and I'm not sure anything from that era is relevant to an industrialized economy.

"Socialism" just seems to mean whatever you want it to mean, but always something scary and very bad.

It has many of the characteristics of nuclear fallout - disperses throughout the entire environment, the whole body, where it may take decades to cause disease.

Probably we didn't realize how dangerous it was because it's not apparent until it becomes persistent in the environment. With a high enough dose radiation sickens you immediately, and does all kinds of other weird things, we realized it was dangerous not long after it was discovered. (Yes, I know it took decades for the general public to catch up to the science.)

This shit needs to be removed from our presence starting yesterday. We need clear guidelines for people on which types of food and drink container to avoid, and strict regulations on the producers to minimize the amount of microplastics in the food. Probably also HEPA filters in our homes, cars, and offices, given that you breathe it in too.

What's new is that the AI is being pushed directly to kids ("homework help") in a context where they are most definitely going to be tempted to use it.

The product has been designed to lure kids who otherwise may not have cheated. It's designed to make the kids beholden to the product, unable to learn or function without it. Addicted.

It's disgusting, and it's critical that people know about it. It is news. The fuck is wrong with you?

Any competent IT department would have planned for the large number of nodes connecting, and set up a separate network for the actual demo.

Hard to tell if it's incompetence, or lying, when you're dealing with incompetent liars.

They were asleep throughout the entire ascent, way before he had the power to fire anyone.

I imagine most transgenders don't like competitive sports either. Certainly none of the ones I've known have. Sports culture held no attraction for them. (Nor for me, so I admit I may be biased to associate with people who don't like sports.)

First I'd like to disclaim: The government should absolutely not be dictating who plays sports anywhere. That is for whoever is organizing the game to decide. (I realize the ship of government regulating sports has left port, but maybe we could bring it back, or at least hit it with an iceberg?)

Secondly: I'd like to point out that the insistence on transgenders playing on specific teams is, in part, why transgenders continues to occupy such a huge part of the discourse.

There are some things I can't do because of various mental and/or physical issues. I recognize that I'm not normal and I can't do some of the things normal people can. I've found a thousand other enjoyable things and physical activities that I can do.

Press asleep at the wheel, no credible opposition, and mountains of propaganda (foreign and domestic) fed to social media addicts 27 hours a day.

While the electoral system in the US is slanted in favor of Republicans at many levels, "rigging" in the sense of altering vote tallies isn't necessary when you have all the rest of this going on.

I don't think it's just the support, I recall hearing the whole site was contracted out and the online shopping division within Wal-mart was pretty segmented from the rest of the company.

HEB isn't really comparable to Wal-Mart. They don't offer much but groceries. HEB is more comparable to Kroger.

They do have the grocery thing down, though. Nowhere else that isn't a dedicated (and large) liquor store has a better beer selection.

So it would seem they have a choice,

(1) Sign the document and lose all credibility as a journalist,
(2) Be excluded from the room where Hegseth is pontificating

I'm not sure what value sitting in the room with that guy even provides. Whatever nonsense he's spouting, it's going to be public within 5 seconds from the conclusion of the press conference, and then any banned journalists can just refer to that reporting. Not sure what the obsession is with being in the press conferences. Is it just old people remembering when there wasn't internet and the news only happened for 1 hour in the evening?

I know a lot of these journalists don't have any credibility to lose, and have probably already signed it. There's a big opportunity here for some news organizations to differentiate themselves. But I think most of them will follow the approved script for this 2025 season of The Apprentice.

I was more saying that your post looks like regurgitated mush shoveled up by Grok.

If they apply the same level of care to their logistic services as they do to their so-called "marketplace", I'll pay extra just to avoid it.

Thankfully I've yet to see anything I really need on Wal-Mart.com that isn't readily available in-store or from someone else. "Someone else" is always going to be the preference when considering doing business with either Amazon or Wal-Mart.