at the moment

Get the proper tools to do the job right. There’s no gun to your head making you distrohop, so this isn’t an emergency. Just wait to get a real SSD first.

No thanks. Who do I sue, please?

Oh no, I get it 100%. We’ve sailed right on past the point of no return. You give treatment to someone that’s dying, not a bloated corpse found after a year in a storm drain. No use in CPR anymore.

But, we do need to remember that transition times like this are normal throughout human history. The World Order we all grew up with is 3-4 generations old. Fuck, can you imagine living between 1916 and 1945? What tendentiously shitty time to be alive. WWI and II. Flu Pandemic. The Great Depression. Invention of the black light. JFC. I also want to just get it all over with. But that’s not how this works. We all have to live through this. And we can find our little places out of the way to hunker down.

In a sort of funny irony, you’ve more or less arrived at the same reason my mom voted for Trump. She’s an accelerationist that wants to crash it all because she thinks the world is too stick to survive and would rather get whatever comes next than what we have now.

As for the bubble, ROI isn’t coming for a while, but no one wants to be left behind as an early adopter, which takes training, which takes time and contractors and suddenly you’ve spun up economic buoyancy here and there. But the way both generative AI and genuine machine learning are being used across huge parts of the economy, it’s simply not going to be a standard bubble.

Standard bubbles, TL;DR, are when everyone runs to invest in a single industry or type of thing until there’s no one left to invest in it, and investments are producing returns. Gen AI systems aren’t like that at all. Their inputs are massive, they have yet to enshitify and start including ads, and some people actually do get real use out of them. So unlike a single invesmtnet (Beanie Babies, fiberoptic line, etc.), there’s GPUs, data centers, power generation, water, nuclear SSMs, and more on the backend, that are actually providing bottlenecks that prevent the typical bubble runup from happening so quickly. IMO, anyway.

IIRC, we’ve already seen the collapse of the frothy churn of “startups” that were all custom GPTs in wrappers and “vibecoded [insert bullshit here]”, as that’s a fucking stupid thing to pay for. Everyone trying to middle-man some large model can’t keep up with how quickly they adapt to keep their wrapper in place, and vibecoding something you don’t understand leads to bad products. All LLM output needs a human to validate it. The best it can ever be, is something it learned from humans.

And so what? Well the attention economy, fortunately, was bloated and carcinogenic already and the AI slop is going to inflate it until it dies under its own weight. The trend of authenticity as value will be huge for anyone that can afford it. Humans talking about the things they make were already all over, get ready for that to go up 20 fold.

Then you’ll get a bifuraction of the attention economy. Bespoke, human-only Patreon-style online spaces where it’s all about how you do things all rustic and old timey. Then everyone else that can’t or doesn’t care to tell what’s slop and what’s not, flooded by slop 24/7.

Makes me wish I had the money to go buy some summer camp and have adults go there and be one of those Digital Detox places where humans hang out and make memories. Make me a wallet! Go jump in the lake! Eat this french bread pizza! That’ll be $22,000, please!

Lol. So the military got tired of seeing police getting bribes for every little tiny thing and want their turn to get a cut?

Translation: “All y’all gonna get sued so hard one day. I’m out, I got paid $74 million last year.”

Who, Massie?

Yup, Massie. Look, Tom Massie is occasionally extremely based AF, like here. His whole thing is to be a Republican that dislikes MAGA. Trump tried to have someone primary him a couple times IIRC.

But you watch his policy choices, and yup, he’s a Republican all right.

That should be a provision - if an immigrant can best a citizen at a series of genuinely objective tests (German/French, intelligence, logic, etc.) then the citizen’s whole family has to trade places with the immigrant’s family.

Watch how fast these people would drop this if they had to demonstrate they were “better” and not just sig heil about it.

Thanks. And people who can find a bubble and leverage income inequality will do a whole lot to stay somewhere where the weather’s nice. Considering how many people are desperate to get into the EU, I expect that’s a more personal decision.

Most importantly, there is NO reliable attribution of this quote to her. No video. No audio. No text.

This is 100% “spin up the Libs” misinformation.

I fell for it for an hour and looked for a source to tell other people…nope. Does not exist.

BE CAREFUL, Y’ALL! This is how they get you.

It’s just one version you pay to access all the time, one version you pay to access once.

Thanks for the realistic POV and cross-posting to the ZA comm. I didn’t even realize we had that many geography-based comms.

What you and the person there said, that’s what I kind of figured, but there’s so much “Ahhh!! Crime!!” stuff online that seems overblown. Crumbling infrastructure and zero ability of resources to fix anything seems to be a nearly global problem. I expect it’s not going to get better anywhere in the next little while, short of China where they just do whatever.

I just searched for SunEden - lol, I expect that won’t go over well with the spouse, but you never know.

Looking forward to some good braai again. The beef there is better than most places, I’m tired of making my own biltong, and kudu is delicious.

I’ll agree that it comes down to the personal vs. group nature of the vehicle. Maybe also who is controlling the vehicle (professional vs. amateur)

You don’t board a motorcycle or a horse. You don’t board a unicycle or bicycle. You don’t board a kayak or conoe or a jetski or a dingy.

You DO board a stagecoach, pulled by horses. You do board a trawler or a fishing vessel.

I don’t board my own van. I do board the intercity bush taxi (the same van with staff and better paint).

Likely all related to use of “board” for ships and devolved from there.

Lol. I usually write RSA because so many people not from there would get confused by ZA other than people who have heard so many ads ending in “visit us at (website) dot Co dot zed-a” on the TV and radio. Maybe I overthought it.

And not to worry, I already know my 12 obligatory words in Afrikaans. It’s all lekker, Bru.

I could have sworn I saw someone saying they’re in SA a while ago. So maybe there’s just 1 and they haven’t seen this yet.

Thanks for this. I recall the days of having to take cash to a sketchy guy or getting screwed at the airport so you can get out of the airport. It wasn’t cool, and being able to pay with a credit card in some far-flung places now is pretty amazing.

When I worked in a real IRL office, I ironed stuff all the time. Now, rarely.

“but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment.”

Uh… Yeah. No kidding. Not exactly cryptic, Captain Obvious.

I mean… HE didn’t think it could happen. I’ve been waiting for this for a year.

Companies: Subpoenas? We just sell it to them. They already have it.