Gosh, wherever could Trump be getting his Ukraine strategy from?

Maybe we’ll avert WW3, since every country is just going full Axis. World harmony achieved, I guess?

Your setup is closer to “statistic” than “anecdote,” so curious how many drive failures you’ve had?

What is the primary OS you run to manage all of the components?

I have now!

I think for me, the challenge is finding something that breaks down trends and ideas without resorting to discourse that’s been overworked. Vocabulary that already has been politicized by society won’t change any minds because exposure immunizes people against ideas, even good ones. The revolutionary idea becomes mundane given exposure plus time.

That’s what I think is unique about Adam Curtis, is he studiously avoids any framing that feels like a rote “capitalism” critique, but instead speaks to something more fundamental to human nature.

Yep, same. I really enjoyed All Watched Over, which I feel presciently explains some of the techno-fascism trends that have taken over the last six months, and of course Hypernormalization which is the corollary politically.

I feel like we’re in an era of anterograde amnesia where national memories reset every two weeks, and his work makes me feel slightly less insane, both remembering and filling in the gaps of how we got here.

I’m not aware of any similar. But since it’s so rare I come across people who actually know who this is, I’ll ask: what’s the best one, in your opinion?

Did you mean to post this comment in response to the post about Russian oligarch asset seizure?

I get that it’s usually just a dunk on AI, but it is also still a valid demonstration that AI has pretty severe and unpredictable gaps in functionality, in addition to failing to properly indicate confidence (or lack thereof).

People who understand that it’s a glorified autocomplete will know how to disregard or prompt around some of these gaps, but this remains a litmus test because it succinctly shows you cannot trust an LLM response even in many “easy” cases.

Seven figures? Try nine. Musk spent an absolutely staggering amount getting Trump elected.

Yeah, in posting my comment, I was thinking about this as well. It’s certainly their tactic and it’s how fascists win.

The problem: I don’t know how to effectively counteract it. “Stay hopeful,” “don’t get discouraged” is all well and good, and I’m going to continue to watch the bloody corpse of America get hacked to bits out of some semblance of duty, even if I’d like to look away.

The only response that would actually help is collective action and direct resistance - and I’ll certainly join a protest, or something with an actual end-game plan that isn’t just “raise awareness we don’t like this.” But none of the leaders we elected are giving any actual leadership. Even if they were, the media isn’t reporting on it so we can’t efficiently align. Lawsuits aren’t even being filed fast enough to keep up with the onslaught, even if the Supreme Court is potentially captured. The Overton window is moving so fast, they’re actually pulling off the coup.

I’m starting to adjust to the Trump term and learn how not to be disappointed with these news stories - here’s my one simple trick:

Expect news tomorrow to be worse than today, in ways you can’t even imagine. Each day repeat this process, with new baseline lowered expectations from the day before. It’s that easy!

Weird, opening the image in a new tab is still the low-res version.

Hmmm, interesting. I’m just using the default Lemmy interface (lemmynsfw.com instance) and Firefox on a Windows 10 PC, at the moment. Definitely no larger version appears when expanding or clicking.

Edit: It loads on Connect on Android, but is a two-stage load with the higher quality version loading after the lower quality version. For some reason that isn’t happening on the PC web client, must be a bug.

What is this, a meme for ants? (image size is very small and no larger version available)

The tariffs, set to take effect Tuesday, are aimed at pressuring cooperation on immigration and drug control.

Canada would have cooperated already, that’s what having allies means. This is going to your neighbor and holding their dog hostage to borrow a cup of sugar - they would have done it anyway, but now you’re making an enemy for nothing.

And, since Trump announced that nothing Canada could do would stop the tariffs, the only explanation is that making an enemy is the point.

Unrelatedly, do we even have a way to track when Trump is talking with Putin at this point? He resisted having third parties present during the first term, but we still had notice of the conversations. The yes-men and lawlessness already means we probably will never know if and when they’re talking.

His logic is actually flawless. Let me explain with a metaphor:

Trump has an imagined pain in his foot, so to cure it, he’s going to open the hood of the family car and kick the engine as hard as he can. So you see, this will break his other foot and severely damage the car.

Hopefully that helps.

Thanks, I didn’t know that!

Well, Nvidia seemingly forgot to price gouge on RAM for the 3060 and they had a 12 GB standard version for a while. That should have been the low range standard, with 24 for mid and 32 for high, but they’ve adjusted.

Possible I suppose, but if that worked, not sure why they couldn’t just provide a diff patch that worked on the user’s existing binary…

What is the DMCA argument here? Does anyone know what was alleged by Sony?

It would need to be either using copyrighted code or circumventing copy protection. Neither seems likely for a frame rate mod.