Good Morning,

ahaha you sly dog! you bastard! [getting a little too comfortable] you wretched fucking animal

Needed to get some ninths out of my system

loons

no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

Love to see me reaching for re-reads for comfort and not being able to focus on reading a physical version... o.o On re-read, I want to rate both Harrow the Ninth and Nona the Ninth as 5 star reads because I got so much out of this read. Plus Moira Quirk is FANTASTIC narrator. Her performance added so much depth to the books.

I get real "I'm at soup" vibes from some media crit

i can't do this anymore! i mean i can, and i will, obviously. but i can't fucking do this anymore!

Current read! The closest I'll get to being a ballerina.

ed zitron, a tech beat reporter, wrote an article about a recent paper that came out from goldman-sachs calling AI, in nicer terms, a grift. it is a really interesting article; hearing criticism from people who are not ignorant of the tech and have no reason to mince words is refreshing. it also brings up points and asks the right questions:

if AI is going to be a trillion dollar investment, what trillion dollar problem is it solving?

what does it mean when people say that AI will "get better"? what does that look like and how would it even be achieved? the article makes a point to debunk talking points about how all tech is misunderstood at first by pointing out that the tech it gets compared to the most, the internet and smartphones, were both created over the course of decades with roadmaps and clear goals. AI does not have this.

the american power grid straight up cannot handle the load required to run AI because it has not been meaningfully developed in decades. how are they going to overcome this hurdle (they aren't)?

people who are losing their jobs to this tech aren't being "replaced". they're just getting a taste of how little their managers care about their craft and how little they think of their consumer base. ai is not capable of replacing humans and there's no indication they ever will because...

all of these models use the same training data so now they're all giving the same wrong answers in the same voice. without massive and i mean EXPONENTIALLY MASSIVE troves of data to work with, they are pretty much as a standstill for any innovation they're imagining in their heads