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Yesterday I explained my mixed feelings regarding LLMs to a friend by comparing them to cars ("I don't like cars, they destroy a lot, but they are also so very convenient"). Today I read the same argument here: https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future

General query: are you anticipating the return of 1974 gas lines and perhaps even/odd gasoline filling days?
(I am.)
By-the-way, when that was happening I would go fill my car at midnight - a time when it was ambiguous whether the day was an even one or an odd one.

I know mastodon is filling up with linux tinkerers , but I'm joining the 'I love Linux quire'. Bought a macbook air from 2015 just to play with. Put Pop_OS! on it and tinkered a bit to get wifi working. Now it starts faster than my new work computer (filled up with #microslop). So the old Apple guy run laps around the HP from 2025. Cosmic is great on a low specs laptop.

I would love it if we all took note of (and remembered) the following: the guy everyone knows is a sociopathic, purely self-interested, unrepentantly gleeful liar who is also visibly going through serious mental decline makes a long and incoherent speech without any indication that much of what he said is true in even the most cursory sense and traders say "yeah, good enough." Entrusting society's material future to the stock market is rational, ennit?

Energies and lifetimes of the 9p and 10p excited states in atomic francium
P. Lass\`egues, A. Ajayakumar, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, O. Ahmad, M. Au, J. Berbalk, D. Bettaney, B. van den Borne, A. Chakraborty, T. E. Cocolios, M. Duggan, C. Fajardo, K. T. Flanagan, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, R. de Groote, D. Gonzalez-Acevedo, A. Kastberg, A. Koszor\'us, L. Lalanne, K. M. Lynch, D. T. McLeroy, A. McGlone, G. Neyens, L. Nies, L. Quanjel, A. Raggio, J. Reilly, B. K. Sahoo, J. Snikeris, J. War…

Daughter dropped the grand-dog off for his 8 day stay while she's away. But now I'm feeling a touch guilty because we're getting ready to go out to lunch - without him!
#Dogs

Amazon's Melania documentary fell 67% in its second week box office with $2.4M; Amazon MGM Studios says it is sparking "interest" among Prime Video subscribers (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m…

Amazon MGM Goes on Offense as ‘Melania’ Risks Getting Sacked at Super Bowl Box Office
The first lady's documentary is falling off steeply in its second weekend, prompting Amazon MGM to go on the offensive and stress that the film is in it for the long game, whether theatrically or streaming.

velvet underground researchers have apparently confirmed that this audio from a random youtube user is genuinely the band's long-lost july 8th, 1967 performance from upbeat, a cleveland teen tv show, doing the unreleased "guess i'm falling in love" complete with screaming girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2UNyDoN_M…

A reporter writes about a visit from the FBI in 2020, following his story about a hack, and the long-term personal impact, along with eroding press freedoms (Zack Whittaker/~this week in security~)
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/fbi-ag

FBI agents visited my home about an article I wrote, and now I can't go to Mexico
Mexico formally requested the FBI's help in seeking answers about one of my stories. Having federal agents on my doorstep sparked my own years-long effort to pry information out of the FBI to explain why it came to my house to begin with.

Fubo CEO David Gandler announces long-term financial targets following the company's merger with Hulu Live TV, aiming for $300M in adjusted EBITDA by FY 2028 (David Satin/The Streamable)
https://thestreamable.com/fubo-david-gandler-path-to-profitability

Fubo CEO maps out path to profitability for streaming service as financials continue to improve
The streamer has a solid roadmap to achieve its financial goals, according to CEO David Gandler.