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New comment by blurbleblurble in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

blurbleblurble — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:16:33 +0000

I don't believe in racial essentialism myself but I know someone who does

*ducks to dodge downvotes for not only making a bad dad joke but a political one*

New comment by blurbleblurble in "The AI water issue is fake"

blurbleblurble — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:46:56 +0000

Listen, I really like LLMs and diffusion models and machine learning and all this stuff, and I want to see it happen in a just and sustainable way. "AI" doesn't necessitate extreme waste. If anything, reasonable policy constraints would push "AI" to be even better.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency"

blurbleblurble — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:10:42 +0000

The cynic in me sees this kind of outbreak as exactly the intention of the current US administration in gutting CDC funding and leaving the WHO.

It's misanthropic behavior, fueled by their big bunch of various essentialist inferiority/superiority complexes.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time"

blurbleblurble — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:00:19 +0000

I'm in the US and have made a living writing open source for almost 10 years now, through ups and downs, but it's worked out.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time"

blurbleblurble — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:00:41 +0000

It's also just good business sense. Companies that promote collaboration via open source are promoting the ecosystem that feeds their business.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time"

blurbleblurble — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:46:31 +0000

I wouldn't take a job where the employer wasnt publishing permissively licensed code for all but the production bits. It's demoralizing for me and would stress my soul to the brink. I'd rather be broke.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love"

blurbleblurble — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:25:07 +0000

People are afraid and taking it out on others

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

blurbleblurble — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:51:06 +0000

"AI" is a made up hype thing. It's just computers and computer programs. For real!

New comment by blurbleblurble in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

blurbleblurble — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:39:37 +0000

Maybe the reason this is so controversial is that people have stopped thinking about "AI" as a bunch of software, just like any other software. If that's you, stop while you still can, you've swallowed a nasty hook and your agency is on the line.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

blurbleblurble — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:40:33 +0000

This is total flamebait

New comment by blurbleblurble in "White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released"

blurbleblurble — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:56:11 +0000

For those among us who voted for this administration: what's the plan? More doubling down?

New comment by blurbleblurble in "White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released"

blurbleblurble — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:54:25 +0000

Why not all that and more?

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets"

blurbleblurble — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:53:05 +0000

I don't see how regulating authorities could truly decipher the distinction between incompetence and pyramid hype fraud / shell company money laundering schemes at scale.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets"

blurbleblurble — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:49:31 +0000

The twisted thing about it is that the surface logic of putting a hit on someone via prediction market involves betting that they'll stay alive. How innocuous looking.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets"

blurbleblurble — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:51:26 +0000

What's the difference between penny stocks and prediction markets?

New comment by blurbleblurble in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

blurbleblurble — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:52:13 +0000

They're sustainable but require major cultural revolution to keep up.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

blurbleblurble — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:45:51 +0000

Codex cli is open source

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

blurbleblurble — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:43:51 +0000

I agree but would add that gemma 4 is really nice at vibing though in ways qwen 3.6 could never.

Maybe it could be fun to hook them up via a2a protocol as left and right brain agents operating in tandem.

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Claude.ai and API Unavailable"

blurbleblurble — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:37:58 +0000

More fuel to get 27b running

New comment by blurbleblurble in "Claude for Creative Work"

blurbleblurble — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:44:25 +0000

People are guzzling the amygdala control juice these days