l made this substituting banana and chocolate rums—Ron de Salvadoreño Oleo Red Banana (planned) and Copalli Cacao (unplanned. Koloa Cacao would also be good.) Yummy. Tonight l am using Giffard Banane du Bresil and Trader Vic’s Chocolate Liqueur.
I've been drinking caipirinhas for years. I was introduced to them in DC at Jose Andres's Café Atlántico back in the early 90s. That's muddled lime, sugar and cachaça on ice. I've never heard it called anything else. Is there some difference between a caipirinha and El Draque?
I already broke the internet once by doing something exactly like this. Me not proud of it. I asked my Iphone to create me my Apple password. Fatal error ensued. Hmm, I thought. " Fatal error, " what could that possibly mean ? So's I called my Bruh, who I believe was still attending Sloan MIT. He was silent for a loooong time when I told him. Then LO - in Google news the very next damn day, " Apple Server encounters Fatal problem, " but " We've fixed the problem. Ahhhh, the joys of early AI. Or something Satellite shaped. On the roof. Of my Condo.
Look, I just wanted a tool that means I don't have to think for myself and makes my life better, unlike booze, which does mean I don't have to think for myself, but it makes the next morning worse.
I suppose if you had it only working with source material that you or other consenting nerds provide, it would be ethical. It's when it borrows, begs, and steals from others without their knowledge that AI seems to lean into poor ethics.
My brother uses an AI engine called Perplexity quite a bit to sort, analyze and structure data - but he gathers the data, pumps it into Perplexity with his requests, and then checks and pretties up the results for human consumption. So, he stays in the creative, analytical process, but lets the AI engine do the grunt work part. That seems ok.
Still, I don't know how you'd build a cocktail with AI.
Since you asked, and it’s a bee in my bonnet. GenAI can be a boon for disabled people and those from other marginalized groups.
Writer with Parkinson’s objects to disability being excluded from the discussion. The Bookseller is a leading publication covering the book trade, in print since the mid 19th century.
Sister-in-law is partially sighted and lives alone in a seniors residence in a small town. She has a voice activated system for accessing the internet snd ordering groceries as well as general inquiries and emergencies. It uses some AI queries as well as a reasonably good voice recognition system. I was impressed when we visited her last month as to how she effortlessly used it to pre-order a pick up lunch from a local cafe for us all. She showed us a research paper on disabilities and autism she is working on using AI assistance for data gathering, it was impressive.
Also, AI has been around a long, long time. I was working on an AI-adjacent project back in the late 80's, when there were machines dedicated to the purpose. That was a bust. The landscape has drastically changed ,though.
I just feel like I’m taking crazy pills because it’s very clear to me that the problems people are upset about aren’t due to the tool itself, but the people in charge of it, UNIQUELY specific to the rampant psychosis-for-profit in the USA, and yet… people rather go and attack random creatives — particularly those from marginalized communities — and call for a scorched earth ban on the technology itself, instead of handing it over to *literally anybody else* besides Scam Altman the rapey sister-fucker? Did everyone just forget about the parable of the two wolves?
> Always use the clear stuff; dark crème de cacao is clear cacao with brown food coloring. When you use crème de cacao in moderation, it doesn’t read as “chocolate.” Instead, it provides an earthy sweetness that’s entrancing in all sorts of cocktails.
Hooper, you will be disgusted / amused to hear that I used to take office-vending-machine hot-chocolate and add a splash of DeKuyper creme de cocoa. The result tasted like a melted Tootsie Roll, *and* *I* *loved* *it.*
(Other brands of creme de cacao did not have the same effect. 🤷♂️ And now DeKuyper's website doesn't show any of their cremes, just a bunch of bottled cocktails. 🤷♂️🤷♂️)
* a six-pack of beer in the fridge, which usually lasted a few weeks
* a bottle each of rum, tequila, and whiskey, which usually lasted six months,
* a handful of bottles of things that were used once and then never again -- gin, Drambuie, creme de menthe, etc. Even the aforementioned creme de cocoa lasted the better part of a year, because I was the only one who used it.
What qualifies an editorializer, who was fired from their highest-profile job almost instantly, to run a "university"? Let alone a "law school"?
(The same as qualifies them to run one of the most storied news-rooms in history (into the ground): nothing. And yet, here we are... 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️)
God you make me want a little stocked bar, and a drink that tastes like bananas foster is the best idea I've ever heard. For someone who doesn't really drink, but would enjoy a little something sweet and not too strong now and then, what half dozen bottles of stuff would you recommend? And will they all last years on the shelf, or that's sherry in particular?
> For someone who doesn't really drink, but would enjoy a little something sweet and not too strong now and then, what half dozen bottles of stuff would you recommend?
Streets of Rogue is a videogame that has the running refrigerator joke played straight. You're a cool hacker dude (well, can be, depends on which character you play with) that can hack refrigerators among many other things, and when you hack a refrigerator it will cool aid man run his way through all walls in a straight line.
We got into a stupid argument once and one of the girls called 411 to ask the question; when the operator responded they didn’t know, she very (well as indignantly as she could because stoned) said “Well, you’re information aren’t you?”.
Boebert just can't stop juicing that beetle. Now it turns out that she had affairs with three staffers, two of them ladies. Weird how it's always the biggest bigots, isn't it?
Way back in the 70s I used to frequent a bar (as a teen, mind you) in Rio where "the girl from Ipanema" was written, allegedly. Anyway, I would often have a "caipirinha" which my internet tells me is pretty much the same ingredients as "El Draque" you cite. Fortunately my liver survived these childhood traumas...
I finally received the door mat I ordered. And I already know where it its' going to go. Thus when anyone comes to our front door they shall be met with a riddle to confabulate, "What is your name? What is your quest? What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?".
Oh, the jackassery (mind you, this is *supposed* to be a show about college football).
Pat McAfee: "We certainly appreciate the hell out of the American military. And if you're not the United States of America and you hear that sound, your ass better run."
Rece Davis: "That's the one thing the two sides here can agree on, for sure."
McAfee's an asshole, and always has been. That he still has a job tells you everything about who the executives care about, and who they think sports fans are.
It drives me crazy that they've stuffed him into everything (at the expense of *actual* sports journalists). It's why I only tune in right before kickoff.
Photos: Miami’s immigration court now has lines around the block
The lines begin forming in the remains of the previous night, around 5 a.m., outside a nondescript building in Brickell. By 7 a.m., they can stretch around the block, with hundreds of people spilling onto the sidewalk and, at times, into the street. They are not waiting for a concert or a new restaurant opening. They are waiting to enter Miami’s immigration court for their scheduled hearings.
The crowds are the visible consequence of a new approach to immigration court proceedings: so-called “mega master” calendar hearings, in which judges handle more than 100 cases on a single docket.
The Trump administration says the accelerated hearings are necessary to address the enormous immigration court backlog. Immigration attorneys and advocates, however, say the compressed proceedings can create confusion, make it harder for people to find lawyers, and increase the likelihood that immigrants will miss their hearings.
Confusion and creating "violations" is the point. They're trying to apply the thinnest of patinas to the idea of "See, they can't follow the rules so we have to deport 'em".
This sounds delicious 😋 😍 and I'm not even wild about sherry. Would try. Probably should NOT make it with Hiatien Clairin, however. Isn't it amazing how if something tastes wonderful, you always remember it ? Hooper remembered being served this drink a while ago, right ? The mind. The art starts in the mind, our most precious resource.
On Republicans panicking over the Child-Rapist-in-Chief's cratering poll numbers dragging them down, 46 days before the midterms...
"Donny’s polling on inflation is worse than Jimmy Carter’s. I’ll bet Donny shit himself raw when he heard that.
Let’s get real: a minus 61 point approval number on inflation is abysmal. It’s a number like few thought possible. Possibly the worst number of all time.
It’s a big, strong number, with tears in its eyes.
Everything Donny touches dies — including his own popularity."
Just a thought about AI. Hannah Arendt, the acknowledged expert on 20th century authoritarianism, posited that the authoritarianism that arose in the 20's and 30's would not have been possible without the rise of the access of the average person to the influences of mass media. Radio, film and the increase in literacy rates meant that if the government could control what people heard, saw, and read that they could control thought and action. Propaganda was honed to a fine edge. It worked. AI is, it seems to me, the product of forces who feel that it can do what the old media did on steroids.
The goal of the tech bros, whether they even fully realize it themselves, is control.
It's inherent to the growth ideology that some grow harder than others and by doing so reduce the wellbeing of the others. You cannot have infinite growth and not end up with a boot stamping on all but one human face, forever. If you believe that's not true, then you don't know how iteration works. So let me explain. Iteration is when after you do a thing, you do that thing again. And again. And again.
FFS this is not a hard concept to grasp, anyone who has ever entered any number in a calculator, hit multiply (or any other operation) and then keep hitting enter has seen this.
It has been proven to work with social media, but less so with chatbots and the like. I would say that many users of these technologies have caught on to what is happening.
It's early yet. I was never convinced that Big Brother in "1984", written the year that I was born, was much more than a kind of AI construct taught to bring about control over the general population.
Busy questions go.
l made this substituting banana and chocolate rums—Ron de Salvadoreño Oleo Red Banana (planned) and Copalli Cacao (unplanned. Koloa Cacao would also be good.) Yummy. Tonight l am using Giffard Banane du Bresil and Trader Vic’s Chocolate Liqueur.
Matt, I think we need a “what to have in your tiny little at home bar” article. See my note below if you missed it!
I've been drinking caipirinhas for years. I was introduced to them in DC at Jose Andres's Café Atlántico back in the early 90s. That's muddled lime, sugar and cachaça on ice. I've never heard it called anything else. Is there some difference between a caipirinha and El Draque?
There’s a local Portuguese market that sells cachaça and other weird Brazilian stuff, I should try some.
Its basically cheap white rum.
Makes a tasty Caipirinha.
“El Draque” made me forget that I was even there a couple of nights way back in the day. Very delicious, and very dangerous, that cachaça.
Are there any ways to use generative AI that are ethical?
Yes, "Claude, have the server you are running on execute its HCF instruction"
Is there a way to bomb an orphanage that leaves your hands clean?
Is the orphanage being run by a civil government or by nuns?
Sadly, Fukui never shared that one before he shuffled off
Fucker. Still pissed at him.
Hrrrm.
You can wear gloves?
*sense of humour failure. Please contact Intex Systems Customer Services*
Alexa, tell me how to disable Alexa
<repeat for each one you run into>
I already broke the internet once by doing something exactly like this. Me not proud of it. I asked my Iphone to create me my Apple password. Fatal error ensued. Hmm, I thought. " Fatal error, " what could that possibly mean ? So's I called my Bruh, who I believe was still attending Sloan MIT. He was silent for a loooong time when I told him. Then LO - in Google news the very next damn day, " Apple Server encounters Fatal problem, " but " We've fixed the problem. Ahhhh, the joys of early AI. Or something Satellite shaped. On the roof. Of my Condo.
You can train your own model with ethically sourced material.
Yes, if you carefully curate the source material that the AI is reading from, give it careful instructions, and read its results critically.
Look, I just wanted a tool that means I don't have to think for myself and makes my life better, unlike booze, which does mean I don't have to think for myself, but it makes the next morning worse.
Or just don't use it at all.
So, just do all the work yourself, then? Sounds like a plan.
I suppose if you had it only working with source material that you or other consenting nerds provide, it would be ethical. It's when it borrows, begs, and steals from others without their knowledge that AI seems to lean into poor ethics.
My brother uses an AI engine called Perplexity quite a bit to sort, analyze and structure data - but he gathers the data, pumps it into Perplexity with his requests, and then checks and pretties up the results for human consumption. So, he stays in the creative, analytical process, but lets the AI engine do the grunt work part. That seems ok.
Still, I don't know how you'd build a cocktail with AI.
I use AI primarily for four things:
1) generating tedious boilerplate code
2) assess photo image quality and guiding me through editing images
3) generating text based on my original concepts
4) satirical image generation
To me, AI is secondary to conceptualization. That's the way it is now; the future may be different.
Prose is a lost art, apparently.
Since you asked, and it’s a bee in my bonnet. GenAI can be a boon for disabled people and those from other marginalized groups.
Writer with Parkinson’s objects to disability being excluded from the discussion. The Bookseller is a leading publication covering the book trade, in print since the mid 19th century.
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/publishing-is-unfairly-excluding-disabled-authors-who-use-ai
Slate article on ChatGPT text and image generators helping gender diverse people explore identity in a safe environment.
https://slate.com/life/2026/09/chatgpt-faceapp-gender-identity-prompt.html
Young Palestinians using GenAI video to tell stories of resistance. Report from Al Jazeera.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3mIbaJsH-w4
Sister-in-law is partially sighted and lives alone in a seniors residence in a small town. She has a voice activated system for accessing the internet snd ordering groceries as well as general inquiries and emergencies. It uses some AI queries as well as a reasonably good voice recognition system. I was impressed when we visited her last month as to how she effortlessly used it to pre-order a pick up lunch from a local cafe for us all. She showed us a research paper on disabilities and autism she is working on using AI assistance for data gathering, it was impressive.
Also, AI has been around a long, long time. I was working on an AI-adjacent project back in the late 80's, when there were machines dedicated to the purpose. That was a bust. The landscape has drastically changed ,though.
That's because they keep changing what they mean when they call something AI.
It was machine learning then as it is now. All they did is put a shinier coat of paint on it and make it addictive.
I just feel like I’m taking crazy pills because it’s very clear to me that the problems people are upset about aren’t due to the tool itself, but the people in charge of it, UNIQUELY specific to the rampant psychosis-for-profit in the USA, and yet… people rather go and attack random creatives — particularly those from marginalized communities — and call for a scorched earth ban on the technology itself, instead of handing it over to *literally anybody else* besides Scam Altman the rapey sister-fucker? Did everyone just forget about the parable of the two wolves?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Wolves
As a doorstop?
You know you now must make a drink called The Goatfucker!
Guest post by Kash Patel?
Also, the Men Who Stare at Goatfuckers
That’s the “Future Fed”
When we get to Couch Cocktails I'm out.
Hold the door. I'm right behind you.
> Always use the clear stuff; dark crème de cacao is clear cacao with brown food coloring. When you use crème de cacao in moderation, it doesn’t read as “chocolate.” Instead, it provides an earthy sweetness that’s entrancing in all sorts of cocktails.
Hooper, you will be disgusted / amused to hear that I used to take office-vending-machine hot-chocolate and add a splash of DeKuyper creme de cocoa. The result tasted like a melted Tootsie Roll, *and* *I* *loved* *it.*
(Other brands of creme de cacao did not have the same effect. 🤷♂️ And now DeKuyper's website doesn't show any of their cremes, just a bunch of bottled cocktails. 🤷♂️🤷♂️)
I'm impressed with your office bar set-up! I used to stick with Glenlivet in a drawer, but then I was working with lawyers...
> I'm impressed with your office bar set-up!
LOL! Don't be; it was usually along the lines of:
* a six-pack of beer in the fridge, which usually lasted a few weeks
* a bottle each of rum, tequila, and whiskey, which usually lasted six months,
* a handful of bottles of things that were used once and then never again -- gin, Drambuie, creme de menthe, etc. Even the aforementioned creme de cocoa lasted the better part of a year, because I was the only one who used it.
Not to drive you back to.the contents of the drawer, but let me give you one of these for your colleagues
https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3mvqtspnpa22t
FFS!
What qualifies an editorializer, who was fired from their highest-profile job almost instantly, to run a "university"? Let alone a "law school"?
(The same as qualifies them to run one of the most storied news-rooms in history (into the ground): nothing. And yet, here we are... 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️)
God you make me want a little stocked bar, and a drink that tastes like bananas foster is the best idea I've ever heard. For someone who doesn't really drink, but would enjoy a little something sweet and not too strong now and then, what half dozen bottles of stuff would you recommend? And will they all last years on the shelf, or that's sherry in particular?
> For someone who doesn't really drink, but would enjoy a little something sweet and not too strong now and then, what half dozen bottles of stuff would you recommend?
SECONDED! 🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️
What bottles, and what recipes?
I feel this recipe is on the list, but I wonder if I can use bourbon or a Joe blow rum
Evan Williams and Canada Dry (or generic) ginger ale works for me.
Is my mail here yet? I don't wanna walk all the way if it's not.
I know that feeling
Have you called the mailbox?
😊
Is your mailbox running?
Oh, wait. The joke doesn't work this way.
Nevermind.
Streets of Rogue is a videogame that has the running refrigerator joke played straight. You're a cool hacker dude (well, can be, depends on which character you play with) that can hack refrigerators among many other things, and when you hack a refrigerator it will cool aid man run his way through all walls in a straight line.
Lusty Bonobo is among the more redundant drink names i've heard.
Who would win a race between a kangaroo, an emu and a koala riding a dingo?
Never bet against an emu. They will fu8ckyou up.
The dingo ate the baby.
Are there drop bears? Do the koalas have chlamydia?
There's one on the dingo. Also, koalas always have chlamydia.
Did you redo?
Is the Koala riding bareback?
Western saddle or English saddle?
These are the details that matter.
Won't the cassowary be upset about not being in this race? I wouldn't want to see an upset cassowary.
https://substack.com/@leftcoasttom/note/c-164418350?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lgfqe
Yeah, they're fun to look at in pics, but I don't think I'd ever wanna come by one in real life.
This sounds like a conversation I'd be having in the dorm around 2am Saturday, sometime in the late 1970s.
We got into a stupid argument once and one of the girls called 411 to ask the question; when the operator responded they didn’t know, she very (well as indignantly as she could because stoned) said “Well, you’re information aren’t you?”.
Gary Busey on a Harley until the crash.
Literal, actual LOL.
If the dingo is taken by surprise, I'd bet on the dingo.
That's the only way Kash can take one as he's not the quickest cannibal on the Congo.
I think it depends on the distance.
Boebert just can't stop juicing that beetle. Now it turns out that she had affairs with three staffers, two of them ladies. Weird how it's always the biggest bigots, isn't it?
Way back in the 70s I used to frequent a bar (as a teen, mind you) in Rio where "the girl from Ipanema" was written, allegedly. Anyway, I would often have a "caipirinha" which my internet tells me is pretty much the same ingredients as "El Draque" you cite. Fortunately my liver survived these childhood traumas...
TIL there is purple broccoli.
https://substack.com/profile/155705581-the-estivating-hibernian/note/c-340839415
This spring, officials pulled at least $67 million from the fees visitors pay at park entrances and put it toward projects Trump favors in Washington.
He's gutting our national parks to put his face on it's passes and tacky gold all over D.C. Who asked for this? No one.
I finally received the door mat I ordered. And I already know where it its' going to go. Thus when anyone comes to our front door they shall be met with a riddle to confabulate, "What is your name? What is your quest? What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?".
African or European?
To my chagrin it does not specify the species of these boids.
i wanted a "beware of the leopard" sign (from HItchhiker's) for my back gate but i couldn't find one with the "the".
Send us thine asteroid, O Lord.
https://youtu.be/hkTgYiMDRHY
"Just like you did the dinosaurs." He found a rhyme for "asteroids." Fucking fantastic.
Oh, just brilliant.
Recent vacay requests of my boss:
“I’m going to Connecticut next weekend.”
“Fun!”
“To attend a memorial service.”
“Oh.”
——-
“I’m going to LA in a few weeks for a long weekend.”
“Nice!”
“To visit my mom with dementia and help the family with a care plan and estate management.”
“Oh.”
But I do get to visit Nashville next month!
For work.
_________
"I need to go to KC this coming November"
"....."
"Oh, it's because I won the KS Megaball; I gotta go sign for my winnings."
"Hey, that's grea..."
Yeah, it should just about cover the cancer treatments."
"GET THE F.."
Oh, the jackassery (mind you, this is *supposed* to be a show about college football).
Pat McAfee: "We certainly appreciate the hell out of the American military. And if you're not the United States of America and you hear that sound, your ass better run."
Rece Davis: "That's the one thing the two sides here can agree on, for sure."
https://bsky.app/profile/awfulannouncing.bsky.social/post/3mvurjqbakl2h
McAfee is an ass vent.
McAfee's an asshole, and always has been. That he still has a job tells you everything about who the executives care about, and who they think sports fans are.
You would never know there are GHEY players and GHEY fans (because there are!)
It drives me crazy that they've stuffed him into everything (at the expense of *actual* sports journalists). It's why I only tune in right before kickoff.
Photos: Miami’s immigration court now has lines around the block
The lines begin forming in the remains of the previous night, around 5 a.m., outside a nondescript building in Brickell. By 7 a.m., they can stretch around the block, with hundreds of people spilling onto the sidewalk and, at times, into the street. They are not waiting for a concert or a new restaurant opening. They are waiting to enter Miami’s immigration court for their scheduled hearings.
The crowds are the visible consequence of a new approach to immigration court proceedings: so-called “mega master” calendar hearings, in which judges handle more than 100 cases on a single docket.
The Trump administration says the accelerated hearings are necessary to address the enormous immigration court backlog. Immigration attorneys and advocates, however, say the compressed proceedings can create confusion, make it harder for people to find lawyers, and increase the likelihood that immigrants will miss their hearings.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/photos-miamis-immigration-court-now-has-lines-around-the-block-40585619/
Assembly-line "justice".
There are reasons some us have been saying we need to hire more judges. Real judges, not the ones who work directly for ICE.
And aaaaaall those Cubans in Miami reliably vote republican every damn election.
Confusion and creating "violations" is the point. They're trying to apply the thinnest of patinas to the idea of "See, they can't follow the rules so we have to deport 'em".
This sounds delicious 😋 😍 and I'm not even wild about sherry. Would try. Probably should NOT make it with Hiatien Clairin, however. Isn't it amazing how if something tastes wonderful, you always remember it ? Hooper remembered being served this drink a while ago, right ? The mind. The art starts in the mind, our most precious resource.
𝗡𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿
𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-216201680
Hope springs eternal.
On Republicans panicking over the Child-Rapist-in-Chief's cratering poll numbers dragging them down, 46 days before the midterms...
"Donny’s polling on inflation is worse than Jimmy Carter’s. I’ll bet Donny shit himself raw when he heard that.
Let’s get real: a minus 61 point approval number on inflation is abysmal. It’s a number like few thought possible. Possibly the worst number of all time.
It’s a big, strong number, with tears in its eyes.
Everything Donny touches dies — including his own popularity."
"I before E,
except when your foreign neighbor Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty, caffeinated weightlifters. Weird."
I deign to feign a veil of conceit.
Let's not get started on "yore", "you're" "your" or "their", "they're, and "there."
it's and its have entered the chat.
English is a pile of hams in a trenchcoat pretending to be a real language with actual rules.
Neither foreigners nor financiers either forfeit or seize their weird heights leisurely.
a E I o u, sometimes y
#Caturday They're helping. https://bsky.app/profile/philoof.bsky.social/post/3mvgccvoomk2h
Just a thought about AI. Hannah Arendt, the acknowledged expert on 20th century authoritarianism, posited that the authoritarianism that arose in the 20's and 30's would not have been possible without the rise of the access of the average person to the influences of mass media. Radio, film and the increase in literacy rates meant that if the government could control what people heard, saw, and read that they could control thought and action. Propaganda was honed to a fine edge. It worked. AI is, it seems to me, the product of forces who feel that it can do what the old media did on steroids.
The goal of the tech bros, whether they even fully realize it themselves, is control.
Look out! There's a monster hiding in the wings.
It's inherent to the growth ideology that some grow harder than others and by doing so reduce the wellbeing of the others. You cannot have infinite growth and not end up with a boot stamping on all but one human face, forever. If you believe that's not true, then you don't know how iteration works. So let me explain. Iteration is when after you do a thing, you do that thing again. And again. And again.
FFS this is not a hard concept to grasp, anyone who has ever entered any number in a calculator, hit multiply (or any other operation) and then keep hitting enter has seen this.
It has been proven to work with social media, but less so with chatbots and the like. I would say that many users of these technologies have caught on to what is happening.
It's early yet. I was never convinced that Big Brother in "1984", written the year that I was born, was much more than a kind of AI construct taught to bring about control over the general population.
Nineteen Eighty-Four's Big Brother was a government department, not a technological thing at all. They just used technology.
The real danger of AI isn't the tech itself, it's the people pushing it - and the environmental damage they're doing.
Exactly.
@acnewsitics
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MAGA has officially gone from “Are you better off?” to “Have you considered becoming vegetarian?”
____________________
I also like that some GOP officials are now pretty much saying, "Fuck you and your complaining about inflation."
ProteinMaxxing with beans!
Like we can trust the vegetables.
Some of them are pretty shady.