Apparently there’s some bullshit narrative being pushed by Fox that Tim Walz is somehow responsible.

jesus tapdancing christ.

I went to a private Christian high school.

Attached to a church.

In the Bible belt.

They still taught separation of church and state in history and social studies classes.

It’s not that fucking difficult.

Get your shit together Arkansas.

Hey hey now, that was the limeys and the frogs:

Levant Crisis

Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

The yanks didn’t get involved in all that until 1973:

Arab-Israeli conflict

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.
When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town.
I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.

Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family.
My family and I could have made an impact on our town.
Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

Rabbi Yisrael Salanter

There are two lessons here:

1. Start local. This will have a greater impact on your life anyway. The desire to have a large, world-affecting impact is more likely motivated by a desire for attention and recognition than it is by a desire to help other people.
2. You cannot force other people to change, and in fact you have no moral ground on which to expect that other people will or should behave the way that you personally think they ought to.

Tactical Timmy likes to play dress-up.

The chronicle continues…

So long and thanks…

Time to lay some pipe.

The works used for machine learning were not stolen. AI models do not contain any stolen works. Those works were not copied, and do not exist in the AI model.

*Ahem*

Simple Attack Allowed Extraction of ChatGPT Training Data

AIs Regurgitate Training Data

Image-generating AI can copy and paste from training data, raising IP concerns

Actual research disagrees with your opinion.

If you’re just doing a quick config edit, nano is significantly easier to use and is also present in most distros.

Vi/Vim is useful as a customizable dev environment, but in the present there are better, more feature-rich development tools - unless you are specifically doing a lot of development in a GUI-free system, for some reason.

Hmm…

Hummingbirds live 3-10 years depending on the species, cockatiels ~15 but possibly as long as 25 with good care, white storks 35+ in captivity and even longer in the wild…

So what happens when one of you/part of you dies? If you’re sharing the mental state, do all of you experience death collectively? and then the surviving parts have to continue living with that?

Captain Planet to the rescue!

gestures at all of observed reality

Two different people. Both headlines are accurate.

Hmm, “millions of years” is technically correct but “paradise” is very much in the eye of the beholder, and “stable” is really only valid if you’re considering very short and selective time windows…

https://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2007/11/how-the-air-we-breathe-became-breathable/

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Evolution-of-the-composition-of-the-Earths-atmosphere-through-geological-time-Catling_fig3_368716310

Or rather, the longest stable period we’re aware of is when the atmosphere was full of methane.

And there it is… ChatGPT is a mechanical Turk.

In the past things like rubber bullets and tasers were termed “non-lethal” weapons, but of course people still die from those. The change in terminology is intended to reflect reality.

Um, the core feature is privacy invasion. It does what it says on the tin.

It’s fine if some people want that functionality, as long as it’s not enabled by default.

The Tragedy of systemd