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There •is• definitely debate about LLMs among folks who have both tech expertise and a level head, and that debate is mostly between:
(1) “If only we could have reasonable conversations about what if anything this tech is actually good for! It could be useful! Curse this hype! Curse this bubble!”
and
(2) “This technology is so toxic we shouldn’t even be considering •any• uses for it”
That’s a •continuum•, and folks (including me) fall in all kinds of complicated places along it. Just note the continuum’s endpoints.
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Giants rookie first-round QB Jaxson Dart impresses in preseason debut, tosses TD, leads team in rushing https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-rookie-first-round-qb-jaxson-dart-impresses-in-preseason-debut-tosses-td-leads-team…

A look at CoreWeave, whose financing strategy involves using GPUs as collateral for large loans, which enabled rapid expansion but resulted in $11.2B in debt (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires
Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on billions in debt to supply advanced chips to major AI players puts him in a powerful position.

'Man has a little fight with the wife': Trump downplays domestic violence at Bible event (David Edwards/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-domestic-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p136#a250908p136

Ravens snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with a series of big mistakes in big spots against Bills

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-

"But articulating a left alternative is just the start. Success means winning mass working-class support for socialist politics, possible only through readiness to learn from past mistakes, free and open debate — a call-out culture based on denouncing heretical views breeds a bubble mentality — and an outward, alliance-building approach to local labour movements and grassroots campaigns."
To defeat the far right, build a class-conscious left | MS

If you think there might be an AI bubble, but don't worry, even if it pops, how bad can it be?
Here's one number: seven tech companies (NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta, Tesla, Amazon) are worth ~20 trillion, ⇓ of total US stock market
For context: total subprime mortgages in 2008 were 1.3 trillion, total US mortgage debt 10 trillion
You have a 401k or index fonds? Your money is likely tied with the AI market. If you want that, that's fine. If you're …

Psalm 58 is about the maga-klan... Here it is (slightly shorted to meet my Mastodon site's posting length limits.)
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Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
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Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;
Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions!
Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall s…

Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 58 - New International Version
Psalm 58 - For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity? No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth. Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies. Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchante…

David Barton isn’t just a primary pitchman for the Ten Commandments law in Texas
His fingerprints appear on 28 bills that have cropped up before the legislatures in 18 states this year.
A data analysis of the bills exposes how their language, structure and requirements are inherently identical.
In dozens of instances, they match model legislation pitched by Barton verbatim.
At the Texas hearing, Barton’s eyes fixated on the cover of the rare 1782 Aitken Bible.
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28 Bills, Ten Commandments and 1 Source: A Christian Right ‘Bill Mill’
More than a dozen state bills — and three new laws mandating the Ten Commandments in public schools — are virtually identical to model legislation.

Here's my latest Prairie Voice post about the world of influencers:
https://open.substack.com/pub/boles/p/end-of-the-influencer-era?r=17i29e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelc…