They’re so annoying that I don’t even enjoy it when they first each other.

I’ve been robbed of my rightful schadenfreude.

At least it will be well informed about the deep lore of Trek

Maybe we can make it hate capitalism soon.

Imagine Meta training their “super intelligence” and it’s hexbear…

By far the most unethical thing I ever did was working for a company that profited from football, baseball, Pokémon, and magic cards.

That shit is just straight up gambling.

They paid me a lot, but I hated it when I dug into the numbers. Once I saw how much customers were spending I noped out of that industry. The “whales” were spending easily 10-20k a week on cards, and way more when new products launched.

There were people who would group up and go in together, but that’s not who I’m talking about — these were individual people who spend all day buying packs hoping to strike it big — they had massive gambling addictions.

I don’t think regular collectors realize how many people get a cut before they can even profit off the card. When someone does nail a high dollar card they have to get it graded, then they take it to an auction house who keeps the bulk of the money just because they know the rich buyers. Because the packs are so expensive at the high end people buy them in groups, and that’s how we made our premiums.

Watch King of Collectibles on Netflix. I was in that field and in those circles. Look what Goldin tried to do to Logan Paul to try and trick him into selling his charzard for cheap — he talked him into losing a quarter million dollars then goes “want to sell me your charzard now?” Logan isn’t a great guy, but you can see how everything Goldin did was premeditated to make Logan feel like shit and less confident so he’d sell.

It makes me even sadder hearing about how Pokémon cards are instantly selling out to scalpers now. Gotta get those kids hooked early I guess. Plus the profit margins are even slimmer after scalping. You’ve basically got to convince buyers they’re lucky and will hit that big win instead of throwing more cash at their much more likely negative value buys.

I worked with guys with phds in economics trying to optimize just how much value they could extract on this.

I’m sure anyone reading this by now thinks I’m an awful human, and yeah I probably am.

I did quit after a relatively short tenure in that field. At the time it was really easy to pretend the average buyer is only buying a few packs and it was all just for fun, plus you’d hear stories about some kid making a ton of money from some rare card and helping their poor family. It made it easy to pretend it was okay and look the other way, but it’s like those an orphan crushing machine type stories, the whole thing was entirely unnecessary and more people lost money than ever will be helped.

I’ve only worked much much more socially responsible jobs since, I only take a job if I feel it serves some good now. That doesn’t undo the bad shit I did though.

And my advice to everyone out there: if you want to collect things, collect only for yourself. You will not get rich, and buying expensive things to collect is just feeding a system that only builds gambling addictions.

Not again

Didn’t Twitter ban users mentioning mastodon?

Look, yeah the pot is black, but Elon is the fucking kettle.

And maybe apple isn’t promoting Grok because they don’t want to promote mechahitler and it’s deepfake Taylor Swift nudes…

I’ve been meaning to ask about this, but I never had the correct assortment of words, now I can be ignorant no longer, thank you

Surely he wasn’t best friends with a child sex trafficker for long? It wasn’t decades was it?

When someone posts something this smug and offensive the punishment should be that everyone who want to forms an orderly line and each get one square kick to his nuts. They can kick as hard as they want, they can wear whatever footwear they want.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

Eazy backup has s3 compatible storage

Hah, jokes on you, that has happened to me

I found a pot of gold

Chain of thought is basically garbage.

It works with coding agents because they get an automated hard failure.

The rest of the time it’s just sampling the latent space around a response and should be trimmed out.

That could work with diffusion models but autoregresive models it’s just polluting the context window with the hopes of finding longer tail tokens.

This is a lot like crossing the rubicon.

Huge différence when you have an executive team that can say no.

Now that the No guys are out, MS CoreAI team can do whatever the fuck they want.

I should have deleted my data earlier.

Side note, now that GH is in Microsoft “CoreAI” it just feels even more gross than before.

My data is front and foremost the product.

I’ve been self hosting forgejo for a few months and it’s pretty nice plus low maintenance. It does all the stuff I care about. I might have to just make a public instance and figure out how federation works or join codeberg or something.

So long and thanks for all the fish indeed

And, which is the real Copilot now? Fuck MS and their terrible terrible naming.

Thanks! I’ll give it a try

Do you add the yogurt to the oats overnight or just in the morning when you eat it?

I like that blu-ray looked at the DVD logo and said “we can italicize more than that”

How are the overnight oats?

I was just eating oatmeal and thinking I should try it

Yeah, I don’t want to become Poland in 1939 or Czechoslovakia in 1938.

I’m okay throwing money at an existential threat.