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That depends on if you consider the "inferior" to be human, if they're even still alive after the eugenics part.

In retrospect the word quarterlies is what I should have chosen for accuracy, but I'm glad I didn't purely because I wouldn't have then had your vivid hog simile.

Amazon's latest round of 16k layoffs for AWS was called "Project Dawn" internally, and the public line is that the layoffs are because of increased AI use. AI has become useful, but as a way to conceal business failure. They're not cutting jobs because their financials are in the shitter, oh no, it's because they're just too amazing at being efficient. So efficient they sent the corporate fake condolences email before informing the people they're firing, referencing a blog post they hadn't yet published.

It's Schrodinger's Success. You can neither prove nor disprove the effects of AI on the decision, or if the layoffs are an indication of good management or fundamental mismanagement. And the media buys into it with headlines like "Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency" that are distinctly ambivalent on how 16k people could possibly have been redundant in a tech company that's supposed to be a beacon of automation.

Now I'm curious what replacing the word "girl" with "boy" in the same prompt would return. Would they also be hypersexualized from the inclusion of "stockings" and "braids" which can just as easily be fetish categories as innocuous physical descriptions, or is it mostly the female dataset that puts it into the porn realm?

Terrorism seems cheap when you put it that way

I love how they include a "blast radius" summary for each. What a great little website!

Careful of your eyes! I'm pretty sure you need a special filter or telescope for the sun

What? He was convinced by an auto complete function? The same thing that has existed for many years in any dedicated IDE? Nadella has clearly been off the tools a very long time.

It's pretty horrifying that someone could be regarded as an authority on the future of tech when they aren't even aware of the present and recent past, but I guess Davos has never existed for realistic evaluations and accurate public information.

Brb, I'm going to show him my amazing new invention, the wheel.

While the conclusion of it being replaced with an LED is obviously not what happened, I think it's very possible that the sun was often orange for him when he was growing up, because of air pollution.

30 years ago, depending on where you lived, there were more cars on the road with less efficient fuel consumption, more people using fireplaces, more people burning trash, less regulation of various industries etc. Searching for images with the phrase "smoke pollution sun" will give you a lot of photos of orange suns, and they're definitely not all altered for effect. I've seen red suns in real life too when wildfires are really bad near my area even though that's thankfully rare.

We know not the sun itself that is orange, but in a polluted environment it certainly looks like it is - and if you don't get a great education, I can see how you might think that's the actual color of the sun.

Lots of snuggles.

It seems like you already have a good handle on the rest already, even if 3 URTIs in 5 months is no fun for anyone.

It might be worth giving your house a thorough clean to see if that helps. Maybe there's a source of irritants (molds, pollens, that kind of thing) that is only really problematic for someone with a weakened immune system, and therefore more prone to secondary infections.

Nah, it's 24.04 LTS

Super interesting. Maybe your immune system wasn't so much suppressed, but just too occupied with everything else being on fire to focus on only your skin... But then why would it get worse for other people instead? Both COVID and bodies are really annoyingly complicated.