When have war crimes ever come back to bite a US President? Getting away with it is a long tradition.

These people suffer from a severe lack of imagination. Raised to pursue success along a solitary economic metric, they ignore all arts and sciences extraneous to that pursuit. They treat the world outside their interests like a children’s game they’re not really into. Their wealth insulates them from friction so effectively there’s no incentive or pressure for them to develop an imagination, or diversify their knowledge to the point where an imagination might emerge on its own.

That’s the startling thing about these tech guys: they are utterly oblivious to life outside of their extremely narrow little domain, and they occupy that domain largely because they never had the imagination or curiosity to look past it. The Silicon Valley milieu they grew up in told them that success consisted in this one thing, and they just swallowed the story and dedicated their lives to it without ever pausing to question, investigate or think for themselves. They buy into ideologies without ever exploring alternatives. They condemn the humanities with no understanding of them, and no interest in learning. They constantly attempt to solve philosophical, existential or cultural problems with technology, because they don’t even notice that they’re not engineering problems. These are dull people, the sort who’d stockpile art as an investment and status symbol without ever looking at it for more than a few seconds. They’re rich financially but in other ways everyone can see how impoverished they are except them.

All the tech CEOs are playing this game, even in the established companies. When was the last time Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai spoke non-bullshit?

US culture conflates money with all kinds of things: intelligence, importance, respectability, work ethic, maturity, creativity, “good genes”, even godliness. Many people just can’t see the very clear truth that to be super-rich you usually just need to be a lucky asshole.

It’s shocking how the media just repeat the statements of this government without any questions asked. They’re really functioning as propaganda distributors rather than journalists these days. We’re seeing it also with them repeating uncritically the FBI’s claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect.

And protests against Israel’s genocide?

Still way too many fascists for comfort.

Please don’t tell Keir Starmer.

It was a fascist march. 110,000 fascists vs 5,000 anti-fascists - what a sad day for the country.

The retired general told a community meeting in southern Israel earlier this week that more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is notable as it is close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda, though the ministry figures have been deemed reliable by international humanitarian agencies.

Looks like the IDF have been lying about the extent of their genocide all along. What a surprise.

“I’m terrified our product will be just too powerful.”

A well aimed laser should be able to fuck the camera up.

So Microsoft’s is casting about for something new because AI is not worth the money they spent on it, and management are all out of ideas? Better get the grunts back in their cubicles. Perhaps that will magically fix it. A managerial cargo cult move.

Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.

The key differentiator is almost always the people, though that’s not as sexy as cutting edge technology.

Evidently you haven’t worked with me. I’m actually quite sexy.

grammar

Mind your capitalization, fellow pedant.

It depends how you’re using it. I use it for boilerplate code, for stubbing out classes and functions where I can tell it clearly what I want, for finding inconsistencies I might have missed, to advise me on possible tools and approaches for small things, and as a supplement to the documentation when I can’t find what I’m looking for. I don’t use it for architecting new things, writing complex and specialized code, or as a replacement for documentation. I feel like I have it fairly well contained to what it does well, so I don’t waste my time on what it does badly, and it isn’t really eating away at my coding brain because I still do the tricky bits myself.

Are they saying it might make them start treating Palestinians badly, killing them and stealing their land? What is this threat of “unilateral decisions” supposed to be that Israel hasn’t done or doesn’t plan to do anyway?

Seems like an after-the-fact “look who you made me genocide!”

He needs to be deported to Punchedinthefaceland.

The ethics of sabotaging AI are even less murky than the ethics of what Luigi did. We need tech Luigis.