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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Okay, so imagine that we actually manage to have elections in 2026, and again in 2028. Also imagine that by then, Trump’s health has gotten so bad he’s no longer president, or has even died.

    In that scenario, I would 100% support the use of taxpayer funds to demolish Trump’s disgusting ballroom, and restore the East Wing as it was the day Biden left office, as closely as possible.

    Furthermore, I would support a long-term effort to utterly and systematically obliterate any trace of Trump, Trumpism, and Trump’s “legacy” in the government. Wipe him from history completely, except as a cautionary tale. Let nothing be named after him, or bear any of his fingerprints.

    Finally, I would obviously support the absolute demolition of any and all of his businesses, to claw back everything he stole from us. Even if it costs more than we’d be able to recoup, just to ensure no one EVER fucking does this shit again. Leave no trace of his businesses standing. Let “Trump Tower” become a homeless shelter.






  • Venture capital drying up.

    Here’s the thing… No LLM provider’s business is making a profit. None of them. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not even Google (they’re profitable in other areas, obviously). OpenAI optimistically believes it might start being profitable in 2029.

    What’s keeping them afloat? Venture capital. And what happens when those investors decide to stop throwing good money after bad?

    BOOM.




  • There are tricks to getting better output from it, especially if you’re using Copilot in VS Code and your employer is paying for access to models, but it’s still asking for trouble if you’re not extremely careful, extremely detailed, and extremely precise with your prompts.

    And even then it absolutely will fuck up. If it actually succeeds at building something that technically works, you’ll spend considerable time afterwards going through its output and removing unnecessary crap it added, fixing duplications, securing insecure garbage, removing mocks (God… So many fucking mocks), and so on.

    I think about what my employer is spending on it a lot. It can’t possibly be worth it.







  • Hey, Disney shareholders! Wanna know what’ll get us to start watching Marvel movies or Star Wars or Pixar again? I’ll bet you do! And it’ll be easy.

    Just demand the resignations of any person who decided to bow to fascism. Give them all the boot. Show them the door. Then bring in folks who actually give a shit about whether or not this country remains viable as a place to do business beyond this fucking quarter. Oh, and while you’re at it, get some diversity, equity, and inclusion going on.

    Who are you worried about losing by doing that? Right-wing conservatives? They already hate you, and watch Veggie Tales instead! Stop trying to cater to people who think your whole business model - depicting strong princesses for kids - is evil incarnate because they’re not barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.

    Ball’s in your court, Disney!


  • That’s the thing that actively pisses me off the most. The right has been fucking monsters when it comes to their reactions to violence like that. Absolute, psychopathic, proudly hypocritical monsters, willing to joke about an elderly man being assaulted in his home because he happened to be the husband of a Democrat. And silence when asked about whether urging their sick followers to commit violence might be leading their sick followers to commit violence.

    And the murders that took place in Minnesota a few months ago? Jokes and silence there, too.

    But a late-night comedian says something that isn’t even disrespectful or in any way condones violence, just acknowledges the kind of person Kirk was… and they lose their fucking minds.

    Always remember this, folks: It’s all performative. They don’t actually care. They know Kimmel didn’t say a goddamn thing that could be interpreted as support for violence. They know.