...okay in retrospect "AI is gambling" does explain a lot about why people are going completely fucking bonkers for autoplag
Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI.
This is completely unrelated, but I once saw a dude snort a line of cocaine straight off a Nintendo Switch. Its kinda funny to think about.
New piece which caught my attention: Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
Why do they think people buy newspapers in 2025?
To be fair to WaPo, The Onion returned to print in 2024 and reportedly did pretty well from the move.
Granted, this is a bit of an apples-and-oranges situation - for one thing, the Onion is a serious journalistic outlet, whilst WaPo is not.
ETA: If you've had your interest piqued, you can grab the print versions through their membership program - minimum cost is a pretty hefty $99 a year, though.
Democracy dies in darkness, and WaPo's jumping headfirst into it.
Edit: But also - why do AI scrapers request pages that show differences between versions of wiki pages (or perform other similarly complex requests)? What’s the point of that anyway?
Gonna take a shot in the dark here and guess that the people behind these AI scrapers are incredibly stupid, and think Scrape More = More Data = More Growth = More Good^TM^. Given this bubble's already given us the goddamn scourge that is "vibe coding", and is headed by growth-obsessed fuckwits and True Believers^TM^, chances are I'm completely correct on this.
Remember Stephen Elop of Nokia’s “burning platform” memo in 2011?
I was entering high school in 2011, so no.
Nokia adopted Windows Mobile as their phone operating system — which failed in the market. Nokia used to own the phone market.
The only real experience I have with Nokia is my dad's Nokia 3310 (which he exclusively uses as an alarm clock these days) and nonstop memes about the 3310's supposed indestructibility. Kinda wild to me that Nokia once ruled the entire goddamn phone market.
Nadella going AI is going to be Facebook going Metaverse at the best.
And at worst...well, by my guess, its gonna be "Microsoft accidentally brings forth the Year of the Linux Desktop"
Got two major pieces to show which caught my attention:
The only LLM-Based Experience^tm^ I've had so far (and probably ever) was a brief session of Death by AI I had with friends, and that game boils down to "give the chatbot a prompt and your response, and maybe try to not die horribly".
Pretty much all the fun of that game comes from giving the chatbot manmade horrors beyond its comprehension and seeing it struggle to keep up.
Novelty value is basically the only thing LLMs have going for them, and that isn't changing any time soon.
What, I’m going to play TLoU 2 without playing 1 or GoW 4 without playing 1-3?
Part I and Part II are both on Steam, so you can get the full Last of Us experience without a console, and GoW 2018 is a soft reboot, so playing the original trilogy isn't strictly necessary.
As for GOW 1-3...there's no PC port, so you've got two options: sail the high seas and emulate them via PCSX2 and/or RPCS3, or get the games and a used PS3 off of eBay.
And, given I've already mentioned emulation:
My entire experience with Sony is that I loved Patapon on the PSP (I would sell my fucking soul to get it to play on a smartphone god)
If you're looking for Patapon on your phone, the only course I know of is to grab PSP emulator PPSSPP and find the ISOs online. If you're fine playing them on your PC, a remaster of the first two games is coming to Steam on June 10th.
(I am deep in the weeds on this shit, I'll admit)
Rare TERF Island W