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that guy's here too?
https://fin.io

Just to recap:

The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.

What We Talk About When We Talk About AI

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/14/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai-part-one/

I've published the first part of an explainer on artificial intelligence I've had going in my mind for a while.

Would love to hear what you think of it, and if you like it, share it!

What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part one) - emptywheel

A Normal Person’s Explainer on What Generative AI is and Does Part 1 – In the Beginning was the Chatbot (Go to Part Two) “Are you comfortably seated? Yes, well, let’s begin.” *Clears throat theatrically* “Our experience, in natural theology, can never furnish a true and demonstrated science, because, like the discipline of practical reason, […]

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why do we say our passwords out loud now
Picard management tip: Start your log entries with the current stardate. It helps you keep track of what year it is.
Judgemental, are we Amazon? 🤨
“I had not realized that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”
- Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA, 1976

RT @0xgaut
Microsoft released copilot in Excel, and it is officially caught up with Google on the AI race.

Fantastic to watch.

ooh, a new subnormality just dropped: https://viruscomix.com/page598.html
The Right Place

@antifuchs @tindall why is nobody running a rust account on the fediverse I can follow??
Happy python 2.7 EOL everybody!