A Republic, while we kept it

@arensb
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He is intensely, extremely, terribly uncomfortable.

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@divVerent @tante How appropriate: you fight like a cow.

... Too obscure?

@robparsons @dramypsyd From what I've seen, it seems pretty good at summarizing long texts.

I'd also love to see the AI learning phase followed by an optimization phase, where a trained model is cleaned up and made more efficient, so that it takes fewer resources to run it. Especially for any model that will be used by many people.

@Bassfisch @kplx
Zeit fliegt wie ein Pfeil.
Zeitfliegen haben Bananen gern.

@robparsons @dramypsyd It won't, any more than the Internet went away when the Internet bubble burst.

Generative AI will spend some time as a punchline, and then it'll come back, somewhat tamed by the bubble, so people will be more likely to use it where it makes sense, and not try to shove it into everything.

Life as a kid / as an adult #CatsOfMastodon
@mister_shade02X2 @kirakira I like to say that people treat elections like a football game, rather than like a job interview.
White House IT Guy Sends Out Reminder Memo About Child Porn 

WASHINGTON—Warning administration members that the unauthorized websites were not supposed to be accessed by work computers, White House IT guy Jason Kellerman reportedly sent out a memo Wednesday reminding staff about child porn. “Keep in mind that every website you go to while on the White House network, even while using incognito mode, is cached […]

The Onion
From Stephen King:
What I'm listening to this morning:
Blinky Blinky Computerband, "Fascist Feelings":
https://soundcloud.com/blinkyblinkycomputerband/fascist-feelings
#music #Electronic #antifascism
Fascist Feelings

This is Blinky Blinky Computerband, the inventor of "Strange Electro Pop"! ;-)

SoundCloud
Greta Christina, "Dear Republicans":
https://the-orbit.net/greta/2026/01/28/dear-republicans/
Advice to Republicans who are having second thoughts on how to be admitted back into polite society.
Dear Republicans - Greta Christina's Blog

Do I want you to step away from Trump and the Republican Party, to rethink the path you've been on and walk it back? Yes. But as you walk back this path, you need to realize that it's not going to be covered with rose petals.

Greta Christina's Blog