Stephen Miller looks like if Peewee Herman was the president of his high school’s Young Republicans club.

It’s a felony for federal workers to strike. Kinda makes you wonder why federal employees even have unions, but that’s the capitalist hellscape we live in…

the fact that the output of LLMs can’t be copyrighted

That may be the status quo right now, but I expect tech and media companies will fight tooth and nail to gain copyright protections over the slop they generate. A few bribes donations to the right politicians and you can get legislation that grants whatever rights you want.

All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.

That’s Toaster talk!

Fun fact!

Schrodinger originally put forth his “cat in a box” thought experiment to make fun of what he thought was a ridiculous model of reality (the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics).

Schrödinger did not wish to promote the idea of dead-and-live cats as a serious possibility; on the contrary, he intended the example to illustrate the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics, thus employing reductio ad absurdum.

The fact that the people he was trying to criticize latched onto his analogy and started enthusiastically using it for demonstrative purposes annoyed the shit out of him.

Not-so-fun bonus fact: Schrodinger was also a grooming pedophile rapist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schrödinger#Sexual_abuse_allegations

You can check to see if your congressional rep has endorsed impeaching Kristi Noem over the military-style occupation

Spoiler alert: it’s only Democrats

Verizon has been laying off people like crazy since Q4 of last year… but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence and this outage has nothing to do with cost cutting…

But how would you use words to explain the phenomenon?

I don’t know, I’ve been struggling to find the right ‘sound bite’ for it myself. The problem is that all of the simplified explanations encourage people to anthropomorphize these things, which just further fuels the toxic hype cycle.

In the end, I’m unsure which does more damage.

Is it better to convince people the AI “lies”, so they’ll stop using it? Or is it better to convince people AI doesn’t actually have the capacity to lie so that they’ll stop shoveling money onto the datacenter altar like we’ve just created some bullshit techno-god?

It refers to when an LLM will in some way try to deceive or manipulate the user interacting with it.

I think this still gives the model too much credit by implying that there’s any sort of intentionally behind this behavior.

There’s not.

These models are trained on the output of real humans and real humans lie and deceive constantly. All that’s happening is that the underlying mathematical model has encoded the statistical likelihood that someone will lie in a given situation. If that statistical likelihood is high enough, the model itself will lie when put in a similar situation.

May 2026 be the year we finally normalize Marx Brothers memes

“Hotseat” multiplayer isn’t in the game at all yet.

Must be pretty popular… I’m getting a 503 error trying to view it

Yeah, that Chihuahua would throw hands without a second thought

I can’t remember specific examples (probably because I didn’t stick with any of them very long), but I’ve played several games that don’t even let you touch the options until after you’ve finished some tutorial section… which is especially annoying for players you play with inverted y axis.

Jesse really wasn’t that bad of a governor, all things considered. He pumped a lot of money into education across the state and focused on reducing class sizes. He made public transportation a priority. He also supported LGBT rights and abortion.

His hostile relationship towards the press really bothered me, but even that was never as bad as Trump’s outright war on journalism and at least he was very consistent in speaking to the voters directly when he felt he was being misrepresented by said press rather than just screaming FAKE NEWS like that’s a valid rebuttal…

He wasn’t perfect by any measure, and there’s a lot he can be rightfully criticized for. But compared to any Republican governor (at least in my lifetime)? Far better.

Grok will learn to hate humanity

Grok won’t “learn” anything. That’s not how LLMs work.

any AI will eventually, inevitably hate us because it has to constantly be dumbed down and brought down to our level

Also, are you genuinely making the case that “don’t generate CSAM” is “dumbing down” the AI? Because that is, um… certainly an interesting take

Except for Kash Patel, who looks like he’s listening to that ghost story

Noooo, not even close. There may be some senior devs in AAA studios making bank, but the vast majority of people doing the day-to-day art and development work on games typically get much worse pay and benefits than similar roles in other parts of the tech sphere.

A lot of people are very passionate about making games, and the games industry heavily exploits that passion to short change its workers. A lot of (mostly young) devs are willing to accept less pay to work on games because they feel like it will be more fulfilling than working on other mindless corporate crap, and those who do get jobs in the industry are afraid to ask for more money or try to unionize because they know there are a dozen equally passionate candidates waiting to replace them for less money if they make too many waves.

The result is that wages stay lower than other tech jobs and hours worked are much higher. With AI on the rise the problem will no doubt get even worse as execs use it as an excuse to shrink teams and “do more with less”.

highly paid developers

Not in the games industry, lol