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• Post #2127844

  TIL that annual AI spending in the US is exceeding US annual spending for World War II when adjusted for inflation. US AI spending in 2025: $1.5 trillion US cost of World War II over 4 years (Dec 1941 - Aug 1945), adjusted for inflation: $4.1 trillion The Apollo program, by contrast, was a steal at a mere $300 billion, adjusted. #AI #Tech #TIL

• Post #1861081

  The other day I was trying to remember what English Lit I read in high school in the US, and something occurred to me for the first time: ALL of it was American. Well, okay, I admit we read one Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and one Dickens, Great Expectations. But everything else. We read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Scarlet Letter, The Bluest Eye, Huckleberry Finn, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Great Gatsby, The Old Man and the Sea, Invisible Man, Catch-22, Walden,...

• Post #1861079

  Ce vendredi je lis une petite biographie de Proust écrite par Edmund White. C'est un petit tome mignon d'à peu près 150 pages, probablement je le terminerai ce soir. #VendrediLecture

• Post #1483821

  There's a character in Galápagos, the 1985 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, who has created a computer called the Mandarax that can understand natural language, translate languages, and answer questions on many topics -- it's basically an LLM. His wife does ikebana (Japanese flower arrangements) and she discovers that his machine can do it as well as her because he's tape recorded her classes and fed the data into the computer. She says to him, "You, Doctor Hiroguchi, th...

• Post #1176339

  @devans143 I might have to try this.

• Post #1176337

  @Lizette603_23 @pluralistic My pleasure.

• Post #1176336

  Another day, another disgusting development involving AI. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/is-spotify-enabling-massive-impersonation #Music #Jazz #Tech #AI

• Post #1176335

  You *know* AI doomerism is just a marketing strategy, but knowing it and seeing them get caught red-handed are two different things... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9o0eFvqOOU #AI #Tech

• Post #1176334

  Anisha Mir was really a Sarah Manning last week, but she's more of an Allison Hendrix this week. #StarTrek #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy

• Post #1176333

  Fellow Californians, don't sign the sneaky billionaire petition! https://goldenstatereport.substack.com/p/welcome-to-election-deception-season #USPol

• Post #1176332

  Amen to this! I loved #Firefly but it's over. Let the Lost Cause die. https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/let-firefly-stay-dead/

• Post #1176331

  RIP Nicholas Brendon. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nicholas-brendon-dead-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-1236543090/

• Post #1176330

  @NickGates First you will get overwhelmed because a bunch of weirdos are tripping over themselves to give you advice. Fight the panic! You should use Ubuntu, Mint or Fedora, and whichever choice you make it will be the right one, because it doesn't matter. Next you will download an ISO file from the distro's website. It's a disk image of the operating system. You will flash that ISO onto a USB stick. You can google how to do this. You can boot your computer from the U...

• Post #1176329

  Je lis La Princesse de Clèves, par Madame de la Fayette. Intrigue romantique à la cour d'Henri II! Les rôles des mean girls seront joués par Catherine de Médicis et Mary Queen of Scots. #VendrediLecture

• Post #1176328

  Tiger Woods' short game is amazing, but he needs to work on his driving. #TigerWoods

• Post #819132

  My hope is that Star Trek will be stuck in development hell for the next few years, during which time the AI bubble will pop, Oracle will go bankrupt, and Paramount will get a new owner. That's the best case scenario. #StarTrek #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy

• Post #595952

  Any comment on this six-fingered hand in SFA comic book, @virtualbri ? I know it's not your department but the rumor mill's really spinning. It'd be nice to get a denial and the name of the human artist soon.... #StarTrek #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy

• Post #595951

  TLDR: The SFA comic book is not AI, a human artist drew it. https://trekmovie.com/2026/02/17/confirmed-comic-book-from-star-trek-starfleet-academy-ep-6-was-not-created-with-ai/ #StarTrek #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy

• Post #595950

  Bluesky: Tax the rich! #Mastodon: Keep the guillotine a little dull so it hurts more.

• Post #595949

  It's been a while since I've read an original criticism of AI, but LLMs as Stepford Wives is a pretty amazing one. I'm never going to be able to unsee it. https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called #AI

• Post #595948

  I see the #Firefox "block AI" setting has arrived. It's clearly labeled and easy to find in Settings. It would be even better if #AI were deactivated by default, but I give #Mozilla credit for listening to the criticism. It's still a million percent better than Google Chrome.

• Post #595947

  I'm watching Star Trek: First Contact and it's really jumping out at me that they forgot to do make-up on the hands of this Borg extra. #NitpickersGuide #StarTrek

• Post #595946

  My company's HR routinely sends us e-mails with links we're supposed to click to take surveys, do performance reviews, sign up for benefits, etc. Then my company's #InfoSec team sends sting e-mails to see if we can pick up the subtle difference between HR e-mails and phishing e-mails pretending to be HR e-mails. I guess some of us can't tell the difference, because they keep testing us. Here's my question: Why doesn't Security just tell HR they ar...