Michael Brave

@archpng the white house is supposed to be the home of a powerful civil servant not a ruler.

A new design debate is unfolding at the White House. A Trump ally has proposed replacing its historic Ionic columns with more ornate Corinthian ones, arguing they would better reflect the grandeur of America’s other branches of government. Critics say the change would undermine the White House’s original character, while officials say there are currently no plans to move forward.

@sciencegirl I would have built a pool, like a fountain pool to catch the water coming out, add some benches, make it a destination

There is an old tree approximately 150years old in the village of Dinosa in Montenegro. This tree has been gushing water since the 1990's It sits on underground streams, its hollows release water when pressure builds after heavy rain.

@mreflow I was already neurodivergent, llms talk like me (but I use parens instead of em dashes)

Anyone else find that they're starting to talk more and more like an LLM? I feel like I've spent so much time working with them that I take on more and more of the vocabulary that's been output by them. I'll write X posts and think "people will think I had ChatGPT write this." I'll say things like "That's directionally correct but misses some key points," and then think, "holy shit, that's how ChatGPT would have worded it."

@Rarecandypod1 my favorite one was the one with the flying saucer crashed into the front, in the late 90's early 2000's fry's was magic

I am once again thinking about Fry’s Electronics

@Microinteracti1 In a way I can see a pivot where there should be 3D interactive websites to visit etc, but I don't see a way for it to be a walled garden, more of a protocol than a business, and the way to profit off it is to make the tools to do it, like a game engine, or selling the domains.

Eighty billion dollars. Gone. To build a digital ghost town where legless cartoons stood around doing nothing, because Mark Zuckerberg looked at Facebook – a website people use to congratulate their guinea pig on its birthday – and thought: what this needs is a worse version of reality. He was wrong. Historically, catastrophically, trouserlessly wrong.

@TheRealZophar Just pass along my heartfelt thanks

Long ago in the 90s, guy known as “Y0SHi/koitsu” reverse engineered the NES and SNES and created technical documents that paved the way for so many of the retro emulators we have today. If you could ask him anything, what would you ask? Asking for a friend. ;)

@aphotomama no, only benefit is she feels good about it and shows it off to other women, anything else is mostly a negative, it's expensive, gets in the way etc. I mostly find nails done annoying, not attractive.

Question for the hetero men out there: how do you feel about women getting their nails done? Is it important to you for attraction?

@HarmlessYardDog it's a sequence of events starting with Keynesian economics, then quarterly reports, then a culture of 'purpose of a company is to make profits for shareholders', then globalization, and here we are.

Which one of you bozos thought it was a good idea to build the entire world economy off just in time supply chains from the most unstable regions on the planet?

@RazorwireRPG I've heard the best way to play starfield is to mod the hell out of it into star wars.

No single image of Starfield better illustrates how toothless, gutless, lacking in grit and texture than this one does. I made the mistake of visiting Neon late in my playthrough, excited about the idea of visiting a sleazy Cyberpunk planet. What I found was a clown show. There is something hollow and sad about the entirety of Starfield's worldbuilding and lore, that I can't even bring myself to be mad about - I'm just disappointed. This doesn't feel like a universe comprised of competing factions and people, it feels like a bunch of empty mannequins shooting at each other over nothing. Everything feels so dumbed down and family friendly. All the edges filed off to make everything palatable and bland. It's sad.

@theojaffee Oceania's stance is interesting.

Negative sentiment toward AI is a luxury belief

@jonbrooks fix the money part first, then persuade against the inconvenience. We know how to have a great society, but are unwilling to spread the wealth to do so.

My friends in their 30s are deciding not to have kids They’re saying two things: They don’t have the money It’s inconvenient to their lifestyle This is not good. What do we do?

@Charlygotyou that's your garden variety executive dysfunction package, it's often packaged with 'can't take out the trash' and 'spend hours talking yourself up to make that phonecall'

Does anyone else have the kind of ADHD where you just kinda refuse to open mail?

@Austen the models are great but their business is a mess, not just their marketing. They change the token usage on a whim, for a year their AIstudio and gemini were separated and the teams didn't coordinate. I prefer the gemini models, but I can't rely on google.

Honestly Google sucks at marketing its AI products. Gemini and family are dramatically underhyped for how good the models are. Partially because they don’t have a charismatic leader, partially because they’re buried in 18 layers of confusingly named Google enterprise bloatware.

@tomfgoodwin there are still memory constraints, skills get skipped if too many etc, specialization makes it easier to perform well and fits with human intuition too. Even if we use the same model the model has to have a prompted point of view that specializes for quality output.

I’m surely being stupid. But if AI is rather unconstrained by expertise or capacity or to some extent speed Why do we need to divide tasks or departments to 9 agents ( the marketing agent, the optimization agent etc ) to each do one thing. And then another agent to manage the swarm. Cant one agent just be doing it all you know. It seems very skeuomorphic. Will we have HR agents to make sure the agent agents are being looked after ? A office canteen manager agent to feed the agents ? Seems daft

@Sparkpoodle1 these are anti-vaxxer types, they want to feel smarter than the system, so they find the things that have low chance of happening and are like 'we didn't need those safety things afterall' which most of the time is true, until the once in a while when it wasn't

I can not understand what the big deal is with pasteurization? It's literally just heating milk for a set time then rapidly cooling it No chemicals, no high tech equipment, it's just heated milk

@Sebbywebz it's very good, but I think the music is like 70% of what makes it good

Chrono Cross (2000) has one of the most magical openings in video game history No matter how many times you watch it, it always feels special

@LisaBritton I used to substitute, and thought about doing it full time, but most male teachers were treated with a bit of suspicion, pay isn't great, and the cost/time of getting a masters was more than I wanted. Especially for such an exhausting job with difficult parents/admin/etc

I believe more male teachers could help fix so many problems… We need more male teachers! How can we do this?

@tbpn @mcuban I don't disagree with @mcuban, but in some ways that feels similar to old plantation style homes that had separate entrances for 'the help'

.@mcuban says humanoid robots won't last more than 5-10 years. Instead, we'll "design the house to fit the robot, and design the robot to fit the house." "You could create a house where the pantry, the refrigerator, and the washing machines were hidden behind the garage, if you even have a garage. That way you could redesign the house so that all the living space was for people."

@billsXchills @Nithya_Shrii that's not just AI, it's AI and Robotics, if we think that way likely nothing is safe, things are only 'safe while the margins look good' for hiring people.

@Nithya_Shrii Did you say farming?

10 jobs that are 100% safe from AI: 1. Dentist 2. Construction worker 3. Plumbing 4. Farming 5. Gardening 6. Carpentry 7. Cooking 8. Gardening 9. Welder 10. Electrician Did I miss any?!

@memeslich time well spent

My Dungeons & Dragons players spent an hour arguing with a sentient door.