Nationalism is evil. I know this because all the people who use the word, use it to describe bad people. Bad nationalist people. That’s how I know nationalism is bad.

@LuFins-Dad said in Gang Wars: Relating monkeys Link to video

A tricky one at that.

@taiwan_girl said in Good bail for a Jan 6 lawyer: I know. There must be some conspiracy of Bush/Obama/Trump/Biden appointed judges etc that doing this. Indeed, they meet monthly in secret at undisclosed George Soros funded venues to set their respective globalist agendas.

https://mashable.com/article/open-ai-google-youtube-videos No surprise I dont think. Both OpenAI and Google turned to transcribing YouTube videos to further train their AI models, which may violate creators' copyrights, the New York Times reports. The report details how the two tech giants, along with Meta, cut corners to access as much data as possible to train their AI models. According to the report, OpenAI used Whisper, a speech recognition tool, to transcribe more than one million hours of YouTube videos. It then fed the transcripts into GPT-4, the powerful AI system that the latest model of ChatGPT's chatbot runs on. Google, which owns YouTube, also transcribed YouTube videos to train its AI models. The transcription of videos by both companies may infringe on creator's copyrights to their videos. Other uses of creator content to train AI has prompted copyright and licensing lawsuits. OpenAI's use of YouTube videos also may violate Google's rules, which prohibits the use of its videos for "independent" applications and "automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers)" of accessing its videos. and ...the report alleges that people at Google knew about OpenAI's unauthorized use of YouTube videos and neglected to take action because it was doing the same thing.

No, I would think something is wrong, if you had a definitive thought, instead of some byzantine mumbo-jumbo that would be looked at askew by anybody engaged in normal conversation. Alas, I am not disappointed. The same remains so, as it ever is. And that verse from Timothy left a mark. Bwhahahahahahahaha!

Is it just me or is that ship aligned exactly with the path of totality?

https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/30652/grass-roots

https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1775901381422883043 Oh, well. In that case...

"You will sweat in the summer...and eat the bugs." ETA: "And you will welcome your new robot overlords." A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence

Drunk people are usually more limber.

@Mik said in When WH Auden taught school: I loved the classes that challenged me to think, not just ingest and regurgitate. Mostly writing and poli sci. Just about the wildest ride I ever took was with Auden's Age of Anxiety. It's Ulysses but in verse. And it constantly changes to match the message. He doesn't get nearly enough credit for it. In writing it, he wrote a lot of letters to Tolkien to understand alliterative verse better. Those letters are so enlightening about how English works.

Is a personal dictatorship better or worse than an impersonal dictatorship? Asking for a friend…

@Mik said in The universe is five miles long...: @Aqua-Letifer said in The universe is five miles long...: @Mik said in The universe is five miles long...: Sadly not available on Kindle. I didn't know you were a Kindle man. I’m not, but iPad reads them fine. I just got a Boox Poke 5. Basically a fully functioning tablet that uses e-ink. So, I can get the kindle, kobo and B&N apps on it, as well as Substack. And it has audio, so I can put my Audible account on there, too. One Device to Rule Them All.

“Cosplaying a Selma moment”. What a great turn of phrase.

I also think that knowing how to shoot accurately would be a great help for a number of saxophonists I've met.