I was looking at new phones and basically every one was advertising their AI assistant. Are any of them better than the digital assistants from 2016?

You can say ass here

You give me a word, any word, and I show you how the root of that word is Greek.

I don’t understand what part of their statement you read as pro-LLM

I think I would have liked it better if they had cut another 60-80 minutes from it.

Is this video enormous for anyone else?

It’s not Northern Europe either.

I think your point about moderation tooling is worth a bullet point on its own. I think more tools for users to stay safe and for moderators to keep their instance safe would go a long way, and that there are people who would be willing and able to donate their time implementing them.

Also, the current draft is still pretty focused on Mastodon. I think it’s worth talking more about how the problems (and solutions) are different on different platforms, or if not then talk about working on the problem for Mastodon/microblogging as opposed to “the fediverse.”

For many, Threads understandably felt like a breath of fresh air following the chaos that engulfed Twitter. Unlike the latter, Threads is not run by someone that I and many others find to be an exceptionally despicable human.

This is… telling.

I’ve met some phi males in my time.

It originally comes from false positives in computer vision afaik, where it makes some sense as the model is “seeing” things that aren’t in the image.

That’s actually a very common feature of cults, including a lot of the ones considered less extreme.

They said the same thing about stuffed crust pizza, and look where we are now.

I trusted you, and yet

Someone (maybe on Sneerclub?) once made the point that Hitler also produced the occasional bad art piece and extreme quantities of bullshit.

Flexo, shoot Flexo!

I didn’t know it wasn’t ironic until this comment

I’ve been wondering whether “a functional web search” is something that will increasingly become impossible as the death of the web progresses.

Basically the only reason I ever shop Amazon is to avoid walking into a Best Buy.

That would show a level of foresight we’ve never really seen from him, but ultimately no one knows.