"Meta has decided not to release a new multimodal AI model and related products in the EU.

The move follows a similar decision last month by Apple to withhold its new Apple Intelligence features from Europe."

Oh no. Wait. Come back.

From this and other polls it really does seem that most countries would be immeasurably improved if a good third of the population were to spontaneously combust.

AWD is useful but if you’re driving a lot in cold snowy conditions having a set of dedicated winter tires is better.

I wonder what the real motivation is because I don’t believe this for one second.

These days he’d be called a RINO and thrown out of the party.

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”

—Barry Goldwater, Conservative Republican, 1981

It’s entirely possible that one day someone on the internet might say something like, “oops, I got that wrong, my bad” but today is not that day.

Better to just act like a brat.

No, I hate the term as it’s usually used as a pejorative and is so reductive as to be essentially meaningless. I’m a democratic socialist.

I guess I still go by the original definition. There are other words that offer more detail anyway - kakistocracy, gerontocracy, corporatocracy, kleptocracy, etc.

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A head that size is a sniper’s wet dream.

Who is going to risk their immigration status so they can vote?

That’s the problem, isn’t it? Show me your idea of a real candidate and I’ll find you a bunch of Dems who would rather have Harris or stick with Biden.

“Why is this Nazi bar full of Nazis?”

Find yourself a better bar.

“It’s been a week since our last attempt to fuck over our users, we must continue to innovate. Any ideas?”

Yes, the MAGA army is ready, at least until nap time.

It’s hard to vote for Joe Biden but it’s really fucking easy to vote against Donald Trump.

With my NAS, plex and Usenet I reinvented streaming. It’s awesome.

As bad as Biden was, CNN were worse. Fuck that shitty network for allowing Trump to lie pretty much nonstop for 90 minutes unchallenged.

This helped me start to understand:

“HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on trying to model the complex “real world” and instead established a simplified “fake world” for the benefit of corporations and kept stable by neoliberal governments around the world. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation