If school house rock was composed by a sociopath.

what if they’re a CEO?

the nature of their labor

WTYP. The most famous CEOs don’t work. They just exploit the work of others.

turning on the big Consent Manufacturing Machine

“You can GET RICH QUICK! with this ONE NEAT TRICK! if you’re willing to coughdo a huge bit of gray market work in a high risk industry for a very long timecough and then YOU’LL BE SET FOR cougha very shortcough LIFE!”

Friendly reminder that Drug Dealers Mostly Live With Their Moms and the average camgirls don’t do much better. This is a high risk, low reward industry operating in an informal economy with no labor protections that needs an enormous marketing budget in order to keep people engaged with it.

going down to the creek to dip my toes in

creek is full of industrial runoff from the giant factory upstream

walk upstream to see the factory

How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer

xAI’s central focus is a tool called Grok. It’s an AI chatbot, similar to ChatGPT, that the company flaunts as “having a sense of humor.” Musk has called it the “most fun AI in the world.” It has fewer rules than other AI chatbots and has been known for creating controversial deepfake images, such as Mickey Mouse as a Nazi and Kamala Harris in lingerie.

The primary purpose of the Memphis supercomputer is to provide compute power for Grok.

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The cancer rate in South Memphis is four times higher than the national average, according to a ProPublica report. And a 2020 University of Memphis study found the life expectancy here is 10 years lower than other parts of the city. South Memphis also has elevated asthma rates, and the American Lung Association gave it a failing grade for air quality. Experts say this is largely due to the neighborhood’s proximity to Memphis’ industrial zone.

“How will we get by without all our financialized monopolies?!”

Idk, bro. Just keep doing what you’re doing, minus the extraordinary rents to your bloated bourgeois landlords, maybe?

Lexcorp was never portrayed as anything but an industrial powerhouse whose existence was ultimately good.

The largest international arms dealing firm that did Captain Planet Villain tier pollution, corruption, and financial scams was “ultimately good”?

Didn’t Lexcorp literally clone an army of Doomsdays?

I don’t remember this at all.

AI has looked like a scam since the Metaverse days when Facebook realized it couldn’t push those shitty headsets on people and decided to pivot.

The entire training set isn’t used in each permutation. Your keywords are building the samples based on metadata tags tied back to the original images.

If you ask for “Iron Man in a cowboy hat”, the toolset will reach for some catalog of Iron Man images and some catalog of cowboy hat images and some catalog of person-in-cowboy-hat images, when looking for a basis of comparison as it renders the image.

These would be the images attributed to the output.

The NAP was always a crock of shit. There is no real rhyme or reason to it. Just a Libertarian’s way of saying “You started it!” every time they get into a physical altercation.

You can go to a good print shop and get yourself an entire stack of Black Lotus proxies for a few bucks. It is the most heavily counterfeited card in the series

A $500k/plate dinner for a guy with $1B feels a bit like a $500/plate dinner for a guy with $1M.

This is why we can’t relent

What are “we” doing? Not uninstalling our ad blockers? Its not as though people are boycotting the site. Just use Piped, ffs. No ads whatsoever. It’s a late-00s YouTube experience.

Harris is married to the brother of an Uber executive. If you were hoping for a trust-buster, you picked the wrong candidate. Those $500k/plate fundraising dinners she hosts are coming entirely out of the Silicon Valley mega-millionaire bracket.

Speaking of which, anyone notice the hellishly annoying full-screen shitty mobile games Netflix keeps front-paging?

Seriously considering just giving up on the service and going entirely to piracy.

Gardevoir

Sleeping with your Gardevoir: Fine, normal, cool.

Sleeping with your Ralts:

Sugar is worse for you!

I’ve heard not uncompelling arguments to this effect. But I’m also not downing a 64oz big gulp every day.

I don’t think there’s a smoker alive who doesn’t know it’s bad for them

I wish this was true. But I live in a country full of people who are more afraid of vaccines than horse roundworm drugs.

There’s still a rump base of Americans convinced climate change, seat belts, dinosaur bones, and warnings on cigarette boxes are an evil trick by the communists in government.

You all simply don’t know the incredible sensation of a ninja poisoning your coffee right after sex.

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You’re the problem. It’s you.