That reminds me I get to go cast a vote for him today!

That’s been the modern world for the last 40 years. Durability is nothing compared to next-quarter profits, because if something starts to shit the bed you just move your money to something that hasn’t been ruined yet, and then make even more money ruining it.

My wife took me to see Spiderman for date night. Time well spent for multiple reasons. It reminded me that Disney/Marvel are still capable of making good movies.

AI is unintentionally hilarious. The biggest problem is that the humor rarely translates to others, so it’s sort of just a joke for you to enjoy and then throw away.

“Someone shit my pants, but I’m not sure if it was young me or old me. Or James Gunn me.”

When I opened this, I thought they were upset about him filming their illegal actions. But no, they must reluctantly investigate this poor white guy who is just trying to advocate for the “white race,” whatever the fuck that is. I expect the world to be bad, but the reality is always somehow worse than I expect.

Reality is a dark, deadpan comedy. We simply lack the outside perspective to see it as such.

I’m a pragmatic idealist. I want things to be better, and I fight for them to be better, but also I live in the real world, not the world I want to see built.

I like Costco overall, but I note they purchase supplies from Uline, which is a company that can get absolutely fucked, and no one giving Uline money can claim moral principles.

I think conservatives think about transgender folks more than transgender folks do.

Trump has done so much bad shit, each more unbelievable and outrageous than the last. Journalism has failed us because half of the country doesn’t watch the news to be informed — they watch it for permission and validation.

I’m glad it’s reported, and I’m kinda glad to know the scope of Trump’s banal evil to the degree we do, but this will change nothing. Half the country hears cops covered up a murder and imagines Punisher taking out the baddies who hide behind corruption and legal technicalities — oh the fucking irony!

Also, MAGA is just all in on Trump. They have followed him so far that they need Fox to give them reasons not to examine their own choices. Fuck them. At least based on the average age of Fox viewership, most is them are already on death’s door. The end of that generation can’t come soon enough.

… of course once the boomers are gone I suppose I’m on the chopping block next. Already heard some zoomers lumping Gen X with boomers. I hope they are wrong. Yes, “woke” stole all our favorite homophobic slurs, but I think we’re better for it and have no desire to go back.

/old man yells at cloud

The webslinging was amazing. The camera work, to the way he pumps his arm at the end of a swing for more height.

And I loved seeing Yelena show up. And the relationship of Frank and Peter. And the way MJ convinced Frank to help Peter. And the way they used May.

Honestly, the character writing for this was just outstanding. The people and relationships all felt very real, and you could see the impact of what they’ve been through.

I use my slop apps every day at work. My boss was pretty impressed when I was sharing my screen and I told AI to invoke a bunch of utilities I had built and pull together a report based on the output and set that to work while we did other things. It does a pretty good job for slop. It keeps trying to infer things and provide bad analysis based on bad inferences, but the data it pulls and the spreadsheets it builds are pretty solid.

Viva la slop.

Microsoft: “Why is our AI so inferior? We trained it on the entire private code base for Windows and Teams!”

There is no amount of suffering that could make up for what he has done. That said, I’d like to see that theory tested. I would love to be proven wrong.

Oh, there will be memes. We’re gonna meme so much, you may even get tired of memeing. And you’ll say, please, please, it’s too much memeing. We can’t take it anymore. Mr. President, it’s too much, and I will say no it isn’t, we have to keep memeing, we have to meme more, we’re gonna meme more.

remember when we were blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean

It’s a stretch given how work has been going, but yeah, I can remember 5 weeks ago.

Fuck “alignment.” If I want to make an AI dungeon master, it’s almost impossible to do so (at least the way I enjoy tabletop RPGs) because the model can’t promote violence or other sorts of evil.

I get it, if you’re making a chatbot, you don’t want it suggesting wanton murder to fifth graders and grandmothers. But not every valid use of AI falls into the cleanly filtered worldview of Anthropic or OpenAI.

Or maybe I have it backwards. Maybe in the future everyone will flock to porn and ultraviolence because it’s the only way to find genuine humanity in an AI-sanitized world.

So reading past all the brain-smegma, he’s admitting vaccination would’ve prevented the outbreak.

I suspect except if we go in our sleep, we all die alone. I watched my grandma drown in her own lungs for hours as her family all stood around telling her she’d done a good job and she could let go.

I don’t know if it gave her any comfort in the end, but to me it felt like everyone telling her to hurry up and die. Then everyone went home and she died in the middle of the night. Maybe my uncle was there.

Sorry, my mistake. I know they are running against Mike Rogers and I just assumed he was running as incumbent, but it looks like he’s been fucking off for the last decade and failed his comeback against Slotkin last election.