Grim Flandango
Writer of stuff, mostly weird, sometimes dirty. Chronic oversharer. He/him, 40+ Find my writing on Medium medium.com/@flannigan479 or Patreon patreon.com/GrimFlandango
- I have yet to see an expert in the wild express anything positive about the idea of using an LLM for advice. AI grifters who stand to make billions of this whole thing do not count as experts. They’re just shills.
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View full threadWell, that’s a lot of controls and conditions you’re putting on the use of the tech. Which is absolutely the right answer, but also not what these guys are advertising nor how it will be used. It will be used as the magic cure-all while distracting yet again from the fact that what we actually
- Need is robust social assistance and support programs if we’re really interested in helping people.
- It’s important to me that I never feel any pressing need to join linked in
- Jesus Christ
- The funny thing is there’s no way we don’t actually spot the AI, meaning not only will we be mad at the ad, we’ll be pissed about the AI.
- Virtually every social program that provides care and assistance of any kind for people in need ends up yielding far greater benefits, socially and economically, than they cost. It is the rigid need to punish the vulnerable that stands between us and a better world.
- What did we think would happen? And I’m a week Trump could suddenly decide any tariff on anything was pure evil and these price increases would remain because “I dunno, you never know.”
- Walmart says it may start collecting the Trump Tax from consumers by the end of the month. finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart...
- Had to drop my car off and walk home so naturally the storm gods have gone batshit here today. Then I got mildly hit by a car. Seems to bode well for my day.
- Why are there so many unbelievably skilled artists here always verging on homelessness? This represents a profound cultural failure.
- Flock “is building a product that will use people lookup tools, data brokers, and data breaches to ‘jump from LPR [license plate reader] to person,’ allowing police to much more easily identify and track the movements of specific people around the country without a warrant or court order…”
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- W-wait, is he bragging about using an illegal data breach to collect his unconstitutional information…?
- this is so so embarrassing I can't believe they showed this in public as if it's a good example of what generative AI can do www.404media.co/star-wars-sh...
- It’s always confusing when people show off their demos of what wonders AI can accomplish, because they inevitably suck and yet a bunch of chodes come out of the woodwork filled with wonder and awe.
- Failure means you tried, you dared to dream and that’s a success.
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- Yeah, I was just being a fool. But, actually, you are often right. I still regret a lot of things I wouldn’t fully commit to for fear of failure or of being judged.
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- Imagine paying taxes that actually went to the general welfare? That would be lovely.
- But…I fail at things I half-ass all the time…
- This really shouldn’t matter to why it’s the right thing, but also-
- Tell me the ways in which it is significantly easier to parent an 8 yr old and then we can have anything resembling a discussion about this that doesn’t begin and end with me calling you pure evil.
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- That’s not a common program, but it’s common enough that you can show quality data regarding how much good it does. It’s a shame the system is always desperate for new, more efficient ways to dehumanize prisoners, instead of trying to help people live better, fuller lives.
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- You know who absolutely loves the concept of artists doing it for the art, not the money? The people who make money off of artists’ work.
- 1) None of these policies are mere distraction or “bait.” They’re doing policies they want to do, and they’re not that calculating or strategically disciplined. 2) What evidence indicates that voters are so pro-white South Africans that criticizing it is not just pointless, but counterproductive?
- But if everything is bait and the answer is never to rise to it then you are a hero for doing nothing while the world burns.
- I guess I just keep coming back to this idea we should all care about our fellow humans and do our best to alleviate suffering where we can.
- One of my cats has become super aggressive toward another to the point I mostly have to keep him locked in a room so they’re separated while we try to figure out a solution and it is legitimately breaking me inside to know he’s in there all alone.
- I legitimately worry he thinks I don’t love him anymore, because that’s how I roll…
- Yes, I’m a middle-aged man, what if it?
- it’s wild how the democratic party is not going to change and will continue embracing the tired centrists after a decade of losing power on all levels
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- Ah yes, the strategy of dipshits and cowards, well-played Dems.
- Great…can’t wait for the update that makes access to the language centers of your brain subscription based. For $9/more a month you’ll be allowed to remember your children’s names.
- Lot of people are gonna have a lot to say about this and they should all absolutely shut the fuck up.
- Finally, a politician with a real job newjerseyglobe.com/legislature/...
- I would very much like to read this because there is every indication it is awesome.
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a masterwork & a reinvention of the vampire lore. SGJ crafts a wonderful revenge tale that'll live in your blood come the closing pages 🐃 Check out my review below! 🔽 @sgj.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social fanfiaddict.com/review-the-b...
- Strains the bounds the way I would strain the bounds of a pair of pants from high school…
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- I have no idea about that situation and yet, let’s be clear, using puppets to portray a trial is the greatest feat of journalistic excellence I have ever heard of.
- I notice he took off that stupid fucking hat for this one.
- I always loved drive-thru AI because requesting no pickles presented the kind of impossible logic problem Kirk would use to short-circuit advanced super intelligent computers.
- I’m really glad that those with the least institutional power apparently pose the greatest threat to society because that means we can focus on solutions that don’t require fundamental systemic changes.
- I operated at a fundamentally higher level when I was able to purchase Jolt Cola by the six pack from the cooler at my local corner store and the world hasn’t been right since that went away.
- Sounds accurate
- the trump admin just going all in on “we only want the whites” is still a shock to actually witness in real time
- What happened to subtlety and denial?!? It’s like no one wants to take the time for a good, old fashioned dog whistle!
- Sorry, but we need to be encouraging this guy to swim in as much filthy, diseased water as humanly possible. C’mon Bobby, take a big drink, show us all how strong you are!!
- In the one hand, having an AI make the decisions in a “high-stakes situation” is just a long way of saying suicide. On the other hand, the turnips featured in this photo (Zelenskyy excluded) make me think maybe it really is the most reasonable option.
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- Fuck magneto is what I’m saying!
- Not gonna lie, I desperately wish I could attend this. I really need to know… (Also, how do you get the call to be a featured speaker for this and not immediately blow your brains out?)
- Gotta admire the exhaustive vetting process of say, “Hey, who do we know with nothing going on?”
- Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...
- in addition to him repeating insane racist conspiracy theories, it occurs to me that the reason he has time to hold long press conferences everyday is that he doesn’t actually do anything
- I think about that sometimes and then I think, Jesus, do we really want him to actually try to do something? Aren’t things fucked enough?
- I feel like “a foreign power furnishes the president with a new Air Force One,” is the first line of an absolutely unhinged Jason Statham movie that couldn’t get greenlit because of the very obviously idiotic premise.
- I don’t like resorting to commenting on people’s looks but the guy is what happens when they gene splice 3 parts Mo Rocca to one part Flattop from Dick Tracy.
- “yea honestly transit is gonna keep being fucked up” is just what you want to hear from the guy in charge of fixing it
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- Strangely, I didn’t think I would until exactly this moment.
- In this scenario, btw, a centrist is someone who’ll happily vote for a fascist out of fear that the brown lady will give the black child free healthcare.
- What if, and this is super important, a group of Nazi scientists fled Germany at the end of the war and hid out in Newark, NJ where they created a race of Hitler clones they raised to for a VC firm that ended up investing heavily in the tech sector in the late 80s early 90s?
- W-what the fuck did the internet just make me watch?!?
- You all. Seriously. The werewolves out there eating innocent people in their thirst for human flesh won’t see the mean things you say about them. But your werewolf friends and family will. Think before you use werewolf slurs.
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- Sir! No!
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- Wait…they stopped making the Choco Taco?!? When?!? Am I that disconnected from the world that I completely missed the moment evil delivered its coup de grace?!?
