James R Kirk
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James R Kirk@startrek.websitetomicromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.world•I Finally Found an Ebike That Doesn’t Look DorkyEnglish
3·1 day agoLOL this was my exact thought. I actually kinda like the way it looks, but it has the same energy as an engineering student inventing his own ebike in the 1980s.
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Quark's@startrek.website•Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million yearsEnglish
1·1 day agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean
Never worry about paywalls again…
I swear the people who deface subway ads in New York are some of the cleverest funniest sonsofbitches around.
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Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Democrats campaigning on "affordability" are cutting back on their anti-oil rhetoric but they should be focusing on removing the red tape surrounding solar, which could be much cheaper!English
5·2 days agoI don’t disagree with anything you said but the future may be here sooner than we think, solar has become quite popular for renters in Germany and New York recently passed a law allowing it too.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.English
16·2 days ago“The guy”? What?
I was just recently reading that the NYC subway is awash in vague weird B2B AI ads directed at nobody and they’re calling it “subway slop”.
The social ecosystem around FOSS is so horribly toxic. There’s an “upper middle class” of power user that aren’t quite developers, that insult everyone with less experience, and openly harass the developers themselves. I honestly don’t know how FOSS can expand adoption as long as these people exist. They are a dual-edged sword that disincentivizes both new adoptees and long term app support.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Solar Surpasses Coal in Historic Shift For US Electricity MixEnglish20·3 days agoThis is really telling. Coal industry receives large government subsidies, and solar is getting put behind a lot of red tape and permitting, etc. And despite these efforts it is still catching on.
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Risa@startrek.website•How it feels when nobody takes my fanfic about a 100% furry operated starship seriouslyEnglish
2·4 days agoum literally
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Risa@startrek.website•How it feels when nobody takes my fanfic about a 100% furry operated starship seriouslyEnglish
6·4 days agoHonestly this one is much better
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Ed Zitron announced an insider story that might blow up the AI griftEnglish
5·5 days agoIsn’t that what this is? Taxpayer bailout at the tippy top valuation?
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Ed Zitron announced an insider story that might blow up the AI griftEnglish
9·5 days agoYes! My feelings exactly.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Ed Zitron announced an insider story that might blow up the AI griftEnglish
18·5 days agoHe’s pretty thoroughly covered how using just the available public information explains the insider deals and how demand for LLMs is not enough to justify the cost of developing at the scale that it is. It’s honestly hard to imagine what inside information could possibly worse.
Unless it’s something way out of left field like Nvidia chips are made of freeze-dried orphans or that Jeffrey Epstein invented LLMs.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Ed Zitron announced an insider story that might blow up the AI griftEnglish
391·5 days agoI really like Ed but I’m not a fan of his style of anything lol
Oh they’ve watched DS9, it’s just that in that time since they’ve been brainwashed by some YouTuber selling anger about a perceived past that never existed to make a profit.
MRW I hear someone claim Star Trek was never dark and serious:

No, phone trees are deterministic, an LLM is non-deteministic. Voice-navigable phone trees have been around a quarter-century now. Even natural language processing apps like Siri are far more advanced than a voice-navigable phone tree and that is 15 years old.
That’s still deterministic, what you are describing has been around far, far longer than llm technology.


















Tesseract is my favorite: https://tesseractui.org/post/startrek.website/40236571