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  • The AI bubble could burst — and take the economy with it - The Boston Globe

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  • See entry level people believe it's fundamentals. Smarter people understand that it's reading people and knowing when they're dumb enough to invest and knowing when to bail before they wise up. So if you think about it in those respects, it is indeed an honest to goodness "real" thing. People are really being ripped off by con-artist.

    But yeah, the days of the 1890s to 1930s of structured investment, measured risk, and mitigation of the unforeseen, those days are dead. There aren't market fundamentals outside of being able to identify rubes.

  • The AI bubble could burst — and take the economy with it - The Boston Globe

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  • and take the economy with it...

    Yeah like the last umpteen times this has happened in my lifetime. We live in a society of greed, who knew it would be so unstable?

  • DeSantis-Backed Ban on ‘Woke’ College Lessons Defeated on Appeal

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  • Futurama meme coming soon.

  • Jack Smith Breaks His Silence, Warns of Unprecedented Attacks on Rule of Law by Trump Administration

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  • Mitch McConnell's Health Questions Raise Kentucky Senate Succession Issues

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  • Senators aren't impeached. They are expelled. Expulsion requires two-thirds vote in the Senate.

  • Ad-free streaming is a luxury now

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  • Thom Yorke has literally tried everything for selling music. Though it all he's seen the music industry eventually consume it.

    You can't invent something new without it eventually turning into what was the old. We can always keep moving the tech, we can always keep inventing some new platform, but we never get to keep to ourselves forever.

    The reason why this keeps happening is because people keep trying to apply a solution that doesn't apply to the problem. We don't need some NEW method of delivery. We just need to get rid of the OLD system of industry.

  • Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads, and more by hundreds of dollars

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  • It's rich people. AI is the current excuse. I hate this notion that if we got rid of AI we solve the issue. No, the rich people are still there and they'll find a new thing to suck everyone's lives with.

  • Trump’s $14M reflecting pool project couldn’t stop algae from blooming in the DC heat

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  • Oh no. Man I had no idea what you were trying to say on first read. No. It's just this shit happens all the time in Tennessee. Our State Government gets told what the fundamental issue is, they create some cheap stop-gap solution, it fails two or three years down the road.

    Like if you ever drive on Interstate 24 in Tennessee this kind of thing is in your face like all the time. Also the State prison healthcare going on here is just chef kiss perfect example of failing to understand root cause.

    "Prisoners keep dying in prison because of sickness, I know! Let's just privatize it." Prisoners keep dying. "I don't know where we went wrong?!" It's hard to feel like justice is served if everything that lands someone in prison exposes them to a incredibly high rate of death by disease.

  • Trump’s $14M reflecting pool project couldn’t stop algae from blooming in the DC heat

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  • Yeah, the entire underlying problem are the pipes that lead to the pool as many have tried to tell him. The pipes leading to and from the treatment machine need to be fully replaced. When the pool was renovated in 2012, the pipes installed were for the wrong application. The land the pool sits on is formerly wetlands. So special attention is required for putting in pipes in that area. This wasn't done and so the soil is literally crushing the pipes allowing water treatment to leak into the surrounding soil.

    This is why they've had to have people physically go out there and manually treat the pool. The problem is that the treatment is never making to the pool in a large enough volume to make a difference. But the manual treatment requires people in large "unsightly" protective gear to wade through the pool and treat the water. Then they have to rope off the section that was treated to ensure no one tried to enter the pool until the treatment has diluted enough.

    Trump keeps doing the thing Trump is known for, cutting corners that ultimately mean more money is spent long term. The problem is the pipes. They need to be replaced. But then the pool has to be closed for large construction and the short term cost goes up. So Trump keeps just putting a band-aid on it over and over and over again like the idiot he is.

    He's been told what the issue is and what the fix is. He just wants a short-term "fix" so he looks good. He's not actually interested in fixing the pool. The pipes have to be ripped out and new ones installed. That is the only true fix.

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    CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’

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  • Wow who could have guessed?

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    The Republican Party's moral collapse under Trump is complete

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  • The Party of Lincoln is dead

    Yes, when the two parties fought tooth and nail to prevent any third voice from rising up, the people from the disassociated group decided to usurp one of the main parties, rather than try to make their own.

    Literally the Republican party did this to themselves because they just couldn't bear the thought that Trump might carve out a third party and challenge the status quo.

    But the Republican party isn't the only one this is happening too. We already see socialist entering the Democratic party. The reality should be that we have enough room to have both Democratic and Socialist party in the US. Just like we should have enough room for a Republican and Populist party.

    But no, the Democrats and Republicans decided to hold onto the duopoly to the bitter end. Good riddance to both of them. It's clear that the thing that's eaten away the classic Republican has made the political group worse. Perhaps that which supplants the Democrats will be better than what we've dealt with.

  • All Hail Gamblor [PizzaCake]

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  • Things to note.

    • Gambling is a revenue stream for States.
    • States up to this point have been terrible at managing revenue, gambling now gives them this glut of cash.
    • Gambling has been promoted as a social activity. Know a gambling platform? Likely there's a whole social media presence for it. And for some digital platforms that include gambling, they may even have whole social network.
    • Aggressive advertising and hidden psychological factors have played a role in how people view it. "Risk-free" sign up, give the impression of harmless entertainment and some platforms deeply hide the gambling aspect.
    • Low barrier to entry. Gambling usually has very little friction to get people into the platform, some even allow very low wagers, allowing "everyone" to get in.
    • The escape illusion is real for the most hardcore. During periods of high inflation, stagnant wages, and high living costs, individuals look for alternative income sources, looking to escape their current situation.
    • And finally, the gig market mindset where everyone feels a need to have a side hustle. Digital income streams with low entry have become popular for fulfilling this mindset.

  • Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

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  • Human beings are terrible at balancing short-term gains for long-term consequences. It's mixed into our DNA. Our ancient ancestors, securing immediate calories or escaping a threat was a matter of life and death. Long-term planning wasn't as critical as immediate survival. Now do note, that's not an excuse for the people who foolish went head long into this.

    This is why this struggle with the rich and powerful is eternal. It fundamentally taps on an ingrained flaw we collective fall for every single time. There is no one solution, there can never be one solution. People must forever fight themselves and the powerful from the exploitation of this fundamental flaw of humanity.

  • Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations

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  • I distinctly remember the conversations about Office's phone home system and people specifically saying "this seems problematic" and Microsoft hand waving those concerns away.

  • Flathub Now Rejects AI-Assisted Apps and Submissions

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  • The issue is, I don't think the generative is here to stay. But it's clear the industrial stuff has solidified. Wifi 7 has AI on an NPU as part of the spec. Because when it can learn the radio signals in the air and the interference it needs to avoid, you get vastly better wifi. BGP is a great protocol for routes between ASes, but it's dumb protocol, it relies on static rules and metrics. AI overlays are making better routing choices based on learned patterns of traffic, ISPs have seen gains by better optimization.

    The industrial grade AI has an objectively proven track record. People can downvote me all they want, none of that matters in the light of fact. AI is in a lot of programming. The stuff that's proven is the boilerplate. The industrial AI. The generative AI where you ask a few words and get a wbesite, yeah that's smoke and mirrors. Bridges aren't useful while they're being built, they're only useful after they're built.

    Just like we saw wizards to churn code out back in the day, we're going to see that with AI in coding. Is the AI going to code at least 50% of the program? Not likely. But having a ban on even 1% AI in code is just unrealistic. One, it denies the reality that we're already using some AI in tech and coding. Two, you better believe that bad actors are going to be using AI to punch holes in software. And three, it's completely unenforceable. Flathub lacks the staff to actually police that policy and so it's going to devolve into Flathub chancing rumors and "hints" on which program has AI in it or not.

    And it's silly because when we have tools and use them correctly, they make our lives easier. Is the 100% generative AI garbage at coding, absolutely. But things like technical documentation, generating API docs, commenting DDL, and so on. Things that we programmers aren't paid enough for. We talk about commenting our code, who here has time to do that properly? We keep trying to invent all kinds of new ways to "auto-doc". But now we have a generic documentation generator.

  • Flathub Now Rejects AI-Assisted Apps and Submissions

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  • That is an absolutely terrible standard. In fact, that's technically not even a standard. The "I know it when I see it" measure is literally the logic used in censorship. It allows cognitive biases to seep in with no check. A lack of hard metrics means that there' zero ways there can be any objective consistency. And finally, this kind of rationale makes the biggest sin that I can think of, "non-falsifiability".

    Whatever people's opinion on AI are or are not. This logic should wholly be rejected in every instance it is brought forth. It is literally the antithesis of rational thought.

  • The Democrats Are Determined Not to Learn From Their Failure

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  • It's this anticipatory self‑sabotage that always makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. The reality is that the DNC has changed. While it's not perfect, it's far from where it was at. Hell the run in TN-7 shows that. Republicans designed the district to be R+22 and came up in that election as R+9. Democrats were able to get a ground game going under the nose of the Republicans.

    What happens is that people don't see ENOUGH change and just go full tilt doomer. Nothing changes overnight. People need to get over themselves. If Democrats do what they did for the special election in Tennessee for at least ten years straight, then Republicans are doomed. But there's this propensity that if it doesn't happen in the next twenty-four hours then it'll never happen.

    I really strongly encourage Democrats to give up on the doomer act here. Change is difficult, actual change takes time.

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    Congressman Dan Goldman: Trump’s nearly $2 billion fund for MAGA allies is an ‘impeachable offense’ CNN Politics

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  • And?

    They are never going to remove him from office. Full stop.

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    The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing

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  • Ish.

    The issue is that it isn't a straight shot as a lot of people paint. Call Centers work off of User Interfaces, AI can't see or use those, so those UIs suddenly have to be retooled in a way that the AI understands, which that's not easy. Additionally there's business logic that is complex and there's a lot of siloed knowledge, all of that is hard to extract and put into a model that's usable.

    The thing is that these LLM and AI companies were thinking the rest of the world is as structured as the data models they trained their AIs on and that's just not the case. The LLMs can absolutely do the task if given the task correctly, it just that it's near impossible to give the task they need to perform correctly in 100% of the situations. Hell, even humans fail this, people get written up at call centers all the time.

    To put it simple, you ever hear the joke, "we don't have to worry about AI taking the programmers jobs because then the CEO would have to accurately explain the problem they're trying to solve/sell"? It's IRL that, that's holding up a ton of the LLMs in call centers. Like there's two VERY narrow processes that the company I work for has implemented AI for, and those are really basic situations where explaining the full scope is pretty easy.

    But take what I have to say with a grain of salt. I can't say the company I work for has ever really been that gung-ho about AI to begin with. But I can tell you that it's WAY, WAY, WAY more work to deploy AI than the tech bros like to paint it. Like you can just hit the button and "go", but it's going to crash and burn. Like to get it right is way more work than the AI industry let's on.

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