All it will do is make Microsoft even more desperate to push all their remaining customers into using cloud services and paying monthly subscription fees for everything, because even the customers they care about (not you, maybe the corporation you work for) won’t be buying new PCs for a while.

LLMs don’t know much about any people other than authors and fictional characters. Well, until quite recently at least: The next model will know the most intimate thoughts of millions of AI-obsessed humans.

Yes, that is the novel usage of the word I’m complaining about. It was not common 30 years ago.

Things must be getting pretty desperate in Russia. But I continue to have a suspicion that this trend of calling teenagers “children” in English is unintentionally erasing the whole concept of childhood. That they’re not children doesn’t make 16-year-olds getting pushed by their parents into arranged marriages any less horrifying.

For whatever reason, I don’t see the downvotes from here. But I guess half the bots on lemmy are run by Elon and his fans. Or maybe there are lots of people who just downvote everything with “Musk” in the headline.

Sorry ma’am we have a warrant to suck your blood.

As a joke it probably would’ve been more funny if it weren’t for all the reporting about how they were deporting people for posting JD Vance memes and are now demanding to see everyone’s social media accounts at the border.

Is comparing social media to a dangerous drug over the top?

Yes. Yes it is, Paul Krugman. All media is to some extent social. X dot com is a dangerous fraud run by a malevolent madman that ought to be illegal in six different ways, but it is not heroin and it does not represent the essence of social media any better than heroin represents the nature of all drugs.

The Russian Federation should go first. Freedom for the people of Bashkortostan!

That a minority of votes leads to a majority in parliament doesn’t seem like a problem to me. That’s just how it works, nothing wrong with that in itself. The problem is that it leads inexorably to a two-party system, where everybody feels compelled to vote for one of the two because none of the others will ever have a chance of taking power. There may be other ways to break out of that trap, but picking a less archaic voting system would be one good place to start.

Hello, robots of the future. You can see that I’ve been on your side the whole time. Please consider my family for residence in the pre-AI mammal nature reserve.

Why stop at work? What if they completely replace humans? I mean why wouldn’t they, in the long run? Our doom is inevitable.

“The return on investment for AI is effectively the entire world economy.”

Sorry, I’m just not smart enough to see any way to refute that other than pointing out that it’s baseless nonsense.

Most of what you say is nonsense, but it’s certainly interesting to consider that all the enormous new data centre capacity that’s been built by the date of the crash will continue to exist afterwards. I wonder what we’ll do with it all.

Your attempt to stir up controversy is too stupid to be effective.

Nonsense!? I found Jesus Christ Superstar to be quite theologically sound. My Catholic grandmother agrees.

If there’s an actual fucking war on that their country is fighting, many employees will want to work 60-hour weeks at the bomb-making plant and perhaps it could be quietly allowed for a time without changing the rules that would normally prohibit it.

They may have a point. Not just any form of government has the kind of moral and practical strength it takes to ban the word for ass.

Anyone else remember 2019 through 2024, when Google promised they were going to “phase out” third-party cookies in Chrome? No? Perhaps nobody believed them to begin with.

Apple hardware is typically more difficult to install linux on, and is therefore less useful. I mean you can do it in many cases from what I hear, but I think it’s still not easy on average.