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"It is a recognition that neoliberalism failed to deliver."

As a counterpoint he hangs out with Ross Douthat, who is worse and dumber.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:51 AM on May 20, 2024

There’s this duck that likes milkshakes.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:00 PM on May 20, 2024

Taking the Pride flag off of the B-52.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:24 PM on May 20, 2024

This is voters, not legislators

We don’t get lucky enough to get representation.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:44 PM on May 20, 2024

Meanwhile, the centrist candidate: Trump’s social media account shares a campaign video with a headline about a ‘unified Reich’
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:59 PM on May 20, 2024

An actual good essay NY Times managed to run on authoritarianism, presumably by accident. ‘The Seeds Had Been Planted. Trump Didn’t Do It Himself.’
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:38 PM on May 20, 2024

Everyone has been screaming about KOSA being a transparent attempt to drive trans people off the internet for over a year now and all you’ll ever get out of any Dem leadership is that it’s bipartisan and “protects children” (it will not protect any children).
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:41 AM on May 21, 2024

Kansas governor passes law requiring ID to view acts of 'homosexuality' online, vetoes anti-LGBTQ+ bill

Pretty good encapsulation of what Dems will oppose, for now, and what they’ll let slip by if you dress it up in appropriate language.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:35 AM on May 22, 2024

Fascism gets called the fools socialism for a reason but the “fool” bit is important.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:14 AM on May 25, 2024

“The Mist” is a novella

haven't read any of these newer story collections, a problem I must rectify!

Not represented here, possibly because it’s all novellas, but Full Dark No Stars is really good. Really dark too though, earning the title.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:13 PM on May 24, 2024

Apple Records

Some of these are okay.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:20 AM on May 24, 2024

Statistically this meets some criteria.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:36 AM on May 24, 2024

Class and affiliation group markers in digital music store selection, a study.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:41 AM on May 24, 2024

Lawyers will be in contact about the post title.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:08 PM on May 24, 2024

Ten Blue Links

A service to humankind.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:24 PM on May 22, 2024

Previously
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:29 PM on May 22, 2024

Yeah, I used to be actually pretty good at coming up with queries that gave results, mostly by focusing on key prices of exact phrasing, and most of that doesn’t work anymore.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 4:37 PM on May 22, 2024

I do wonder if Bing being down is at all traffic spike related. .
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:40 AM on May 23, 2024

That’s not exactly not hallucination. You can quibble on terms but it’s all an artifact of this thing not actually knowing anything, just being a statistical model, and of weird artifacts get introduced into that model it will spit out those artifacts.

People treating these things as a source of truth and not a highly fallible aggregate of all the text they’ve scraped is horrifying.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:56 AM on May 23, 2024

The hype is this thing gives correct answers, not incorrect answers that are summaries of lies. People believe the hype and therefore believe the lies. That is a problem.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:14 AM on May 23, 2024

It’ll also tell you “Barack Hussein Obama” if you ask it if America has ever had a Muslim president. It is dangerously ill considered irresponsible garbage.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:36 PM on May 23, 2024

Yeah, that’s happening a lot.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:41 PM on May 23, 2024

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

Vaguely related: Why do scholars get ARGs so wrong?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:53 AM on May 21, 2024

Also you’re probably calling out a bunch of ten year olds for siding with the Nazis, which is fair enough because they did, but I can see problems with that (mostly extensions of giving that option in the first place).
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:21 AM on May 23, 2024

Why is there an AI Hype?

NFTs failed and blockchain failed to be useful and they had all this hardware left over. Also OprnAI is a simple API to hit up and get a superficially useful tech demo.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:12 PM on May 22, 2024

And theft. Theft is a critical element.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:30 PM on May 22, 2024

Google employee: my Markov chain generator is talking to me! It must be conscious! AGI is real!
Google: Glue is a pizza ingredient
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:01 AM on May 23, 2024

This is all AI proponents in every company.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:30 AM on May 23, 2024

With personality and freedom, we stick out!

Wow, I think their live act actually outdoes the (amazing) music video.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:11 PM on May 22, 2024

It can’t be more than 20% of them, tops. Most of them can’t probably can’t even henshin to tower block size.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:20 PM on May 22, 2024

It Is Known

Anything that doesn’t end with a generation ship reveal would be a disappointment to me.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:27 PM on May 20, 2024

“I guess leaving them in there with the rogue omnipowerful super computer that goes into ‘Magic is real’ mode every few decades was a bad idea.”
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:53 PM on May 20, 2024

To echo Stephen King's thoughts, adaptations come and adaptations go, but the original is untouched by them and sits on your bookshelf.

I thought this was Raymond Chandler, Google says it was James M Cain. Writers say it a LOT.

Ironically his reaction to the Kubrick Shining makes King one of the least chill people about this ever. On the other hand he has his dollar babies which he’s not precious about.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:49 PM on May 21, 2024

"No nice metaphorical way to deal with the rising wave of fascism"

It looks like one of those conservative paintings of Trump where he doesn’t look like shit.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:45 AM on May 21, 2024

In that case him being disappointed in his investment is VERY funny.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:03 AM on May 21, 2024

We can expect strongly held sight unseen opinions, just like any other right wing rate grifter talking about a movie.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:29 AM on May 21, 2024

Ok but seriously, I'm starting to give Sebastian Stan the side-eye for playing so many utter sleazebags in biopics.

His Tommy Lee is very good.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:56 PM on May 21, 2024

Suggest we wrap the derail up as last time it went on for 1000+ comments, was highly contentious and was fucking boring.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:26 PM on May 21, 2024

AI-detic Memory

This sounds like awful intrusive shit, a privacy nightmare and bad for pretty much everyone. Who the fuck wants this crap?
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:39 PM on May 20, 2024

One of my biggest beefs with AI is that companies really want to push it on everyone. You like it and want to use it? Go for it! Have fun! I don't want it, I hate it, and I don't want to have to be forced to opt out of it on everything. Just fuck off with foisting that crap on me.

It’s how you know it’s a scam.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:00 AM on May 21, 2024

I suspect much of this could be achieved with fairly conventional approaches, perhaps even leveraging some ML, without dedicating a quarter of your hard drive to highly invasive spyware.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:18 AM on May 21, 2024

That OR just says “it’s a scam” to me, but sure.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:16 AM on May 21, 2024

Great. Now someone has put AI garbage in fucking iTerm. WTF, I trusted you.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:27 PM on May 21, 2024

How the internet revived the world's first work of interactive fiction

Oh that’s really nice. Actually pretty sophisticated with the multiple narratives.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:39 AM on May 21, 2024

Protesting for Gaza on US universities

Charged were a 59-year-old male, who also faces an additional count of attempted taking of a weapon from an officer; a 22-year-old male who is alleged to have pushed one officer using his full body weight and thrown an elbow at another officer once inside the building; a 22-year-old male who is alleged to have repeatedly pushed officers in a doorway, and fought with them for several minutes, and a 25-year-old male who is alleged to have repeatedly pushed officers, and charged at an… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:17 PM on May 20, 2024

Just gonna leave the traditional Frakes video here.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 8:02 PM on May 20, 2024

Individual games weren’t as important as the larger game that emerged

It wasn't the buttcracks?

The mind goblins.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 1:26 PM on May 20, 2024

I don’t feel bled dry as I don’t really spend money on it other than the odd batch of “gems” to do the mastery track thing, but it does feel relentless. Some of the recent sets have been really good and fun and it almost feels like they are squandering them by rushing through them so fast.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:41 PM on May 20, 2024

Tis no man tis a remorseless eating machine

My assumption here is that the investigation won’t find much, everyone was operating in good faith and doing the best job they could to save a struggling company

Boy would I not assume that. I would assume the company was fatally holed beneath the waterline in a dozen different ways and actually the vertical integration to extract the last drops of money makes perfect sense.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:49 AM on May 20, 2024

Oh lol.

Company that fried Red Lobster put shrimp on the blockchain
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 12:03 PM on May 20, 2024