It’s Russia, after all. Their entire history has been often summarised as “… and then things got worse”.

Looked like the least worst alternative to reddit (which was the least worst replacement for what the internet used to be before reddit, and facebook, and the like, killed it).

Turns out it’s mostly reddit reposts (often by bots, which is ironic since the originals were also reddit reposts posted by bots) and US politics garbage, and even more susceptible than Reddit to power hungry mods and echo chambers.

I guess I’m just addicted to doomscrolling. Which is almost as depressing as the fact that this inane crumb of utterly useless and purposeless garbage is by far the least worst furuncle in the rotting bot infested corpse of the internet.

No. The fediverse is just more of the same mindless gargling and regurgitation of mainstream media excrement that the internet has become, but federated.

It lacks the creativity, originality, experimentation, wonder, sheer life of the old internet.

It’s just as dead, enshittified, and riddled with misinformation bots as everything else.

Scat singing, is the one you’re referring to, though personally I’d go with Ella Fitzgerald as an example everyone should recognise.

Scat fetish is the one everyone else is thinking about in this context, given Trump’s tendency to always have a copious amount of the required materials on hand or, as it were, diaper.

It’s not only body odour. It’s a whole cacophony of stenches of various origins.

No, no, the other scat.

War. War never changes.

So, Antichamber, then…?

He very obviously did not remember the words and was just naming things he could literally see at the time.

Exactly.

if you ask it again, it again feeds you the wrong information

Well, it’s a LLM, they can’t learn anything without rebuilding the whole model from scratch, which I wouldn’t exactly call learning anyway… all they “know” is what word is most likely to follow a certain sequence of words according to their model.
Any other facts or information are completely inconsequential for their operation and results.

Being against LLMs being sold as AI (or as useful for anything practical) is not being against AI.

LLMs have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with AI, other than being sold as if they did.

Person.
Woman.
Man.
Camera.
TV.

Land of the free*.

*Some exceptions might apply.

gun accidentally went off

Yeah, of course. The gun accidentally leapt out of its holster and into its owner’s hand, accidentally released the safety, accidentally pointed itself at the victim’s face, and accidentally went off.

Completely unavoidable accident, really.

Weird how these extremely common completely unavoidable accidents tend to overwhelmingly concentrate themselves on one particular country in the whole wide world, though. Must be some kind of accidental statistical fluke.

Gah! A bit too much for me, but if you want contrast it’s certainly got it.

I want contrast

Sure, but you can also have contrast with a dark background that isn’t constantly shooting a third of the photons your screen can generate (or more, since in some screens blue pixels are the largest), and the most energetic at that, at your eyes… high contrast themes tend to have a black background (not a gray one like most dark themes) precisely as a way to maximise contrast…

(It was even worse when we sat all day in front of a fucking particle accelerator, of course; frankly, as much as I loved CRTs’ ability to work with multiple resolutions I don’t know how we didn’t all end up going blind…)

Nostalgically atrocious.

I hate when they do this.

They never call in advance, and always show up when I’m about to leave.

And then they want to stay and eat, and I can’t give them what I already had taken out of the freezer because it has gluten, or lactose, or whatever they can’t eat today, so I have to throw it away and rush out to buy something they can eat, and cook it, and whatnot.

It’s not that I don’t like them, mind, but the least they could do is call the day before or earlier so I could organise and get everything ready. 😤

Aside from racism.

No such thing. It’s racism all the way down, no matter what colour they try to paint it.

You might not like it, but Borland yellow on blue was peak IDE design.

Personally, I have downloaded Borland themes for all my IDEs. I don’t use them, of course, because I’m not entirely insane and I value my eyesight too much, but I have downloaded them.