Well it would be great if more of their models were ‘freeware’ too

Yeah, I feel like people are freaking out and ignoring that Biden (and Trump) are largely the people they surround themselves with, and the policies they push.

They’ve both been president for years.

Yeah, I mean we’re like lobsters being slow boiled.

This whole situation is mad, but it feels plausible because it’s been ratcheted up so gradually.

Can you imagine the country’s reaction if they say this 2 decades ago?

No, plenty of nonpartisan and even liberal people were yelling this too. I had no illusions of Biden’s age.

America is not just two internet echo chambers… even if it feels like it right now.

Webp works fine for me now.

The problem is AVIF. I mean I love AVIF (almost as much as JPEG-XL), but it doesn’t work with anything except browser web pages, even after all this time.

Because the election is a popularity contest, and name recognition is everything.

And he’s the incumbent. He is president right now.

I then joked that I half expected a woman in a red, white, and blue bikini holding up the round number between each question.

That’s the next debate.

Trump’s idea, until he backtracks on stage. And Biden’s team goes along with it, thinking it will be a distraction.

Oh, they will play this debate in clips forever.

We live in an age of YouTube and tiktok shorts.

We live in a world where Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho is more electable than the candidates we have.

I figured Idiocracy was prescient, but it’s coming true awfully fast.

It’s like a cherry on top.

Or anyone period.

It’s not a hyper personalized model of users running on GPUs.

The irony here is most AI is “mundane” and not diffusion or LLM AI.

For instance… the “AI” X is using to produce feeds ingest posts, serve ads and such.

X, Facebook and so on are the real villains here, and Mastadon, Lemmy, and (I guess?) Bluesky are the heroes, skipping all that attention optimization nonsense.

What’s the warhead on those? Is it a cluster bomb, or the other variant which looks like a bunker buster?

Is this actually a thing in russia?

I used to talk to Russians in Discord, and even before that they were super uncomfortable with… all this. The coup must have been something as it was happening.

Cross compatible social media?

We really are in the future.

I would note that Rimworld and Stellaris (for me) run much slower in linux than they do on windows, and they are kind of perforamnce sensitive games.

What is the bot using? ChatGPT?

I think this is a case where it’s trying to sugarcoat the summary because the rhetoric is too violent.

Which is really fascinating… Here we have a possible next president of the united states, using rhetoric so extreme it’s literally triggering llm guardrails. That’s so messed up.

thanks to the whole reincarnation thing it’d presumably be difficult for the avatar to suddenly become evil since every previous avatar would screech at them and for all we know they could just force the avatar state to send the body to its death and exiting the avatar state just before death.

There’s an ATLA comic that kind of refutes this, where Aang just straight up shuts out Roku. It’s… not the best comic.

Anyway, I think the idea is that the Avatar is fundamentally the same soul reincarnating, the same empathetic petty thief that stood up for anyone that was oppressed. That’s just part of their nature, sometimes to a fault. Even Avatars with a screwed up childhood like Kyoshi and Korra turn out that way.

The mitigation is often the plot, where their power isn’t particularly useful to solve their problems. A poignant example is when Korra just turns herself into Zaheer to save the Air Nomads, fully expecting to die (though the gravity is not very explicit since it’s a kids show, as is true across both TV shows).

, and ONE person is effectively just a god,

Another thing I find amusing is that “common” people just treat the Avatar as some random joe, with lines like “Avatar, huh? We still have one of those?” or Bolin’s grandma who clearly holds more reverence for the Earth Queen than the Avatar.

As far as fantasy series go, I think it does a good job of making all the Beautiful Special People feel mundane.

Heh, Korra is literally this, but being royal was a total coincidence. And I guess you could say she “reset” the reincarnation bloodline.

And Ozai played with this too, deliberately marrying the descendent (Ursa) of a super special Poo Person (Avatar Roku) in hopes of producing superior children. And it kind of worked.