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New comment by dfansteel in "Patrick Stewart has died"

dfansteel — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:10:42 +0000

Read. The. Room.

New comment by dfansteel in "Meta's self-inflicted resignation-wave"

dfansteel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:03:55 +0000

It surely doesn’t help that Meta’s corporate behavior has them being flagged by Amnesty International.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/meta-new-poli...

New comment by dfansteel in "Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)"

dfansteel — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:51 +0000

The original was published as a one page story. It was later reprinted in a longer format.

New comment by dfansteel in "Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Companies During Tests"

dfansteel — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:25:06 +0000

For the lawyers: If an AI hacks a company, who should be charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

New comment by dfansteel in "Fable is now included on Max plans (up to 50% of weekly limit)"

dfansteel — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:56:28 +0000

The effort frontier model providers are going through to generate a permanent client base would make Philip Morris blush.

New comment by dfansteel in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

dfansteel — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:45:57 +0000

> Taylor Sheridan can do a new series where a Ranch owned by a family for many generations is targeted by a Datacentre company.

It’s all fun and games until the cost of beef and oil skyrockets.

New comment by dfansteel in "Apple's "Thermonuclear" Response to OpenAI's Threat"

dfansteel — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:12:58 +0000

Look at the host name and learn to temper your expectations.

New comment by dfansteel in "The first trillionaire is a killer"

dfansteel — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:26 +0000

That’s a pretty uninformed argument.

For most of the global south USAID was the arm of America they were most likely to interact with. It was food and schools and medicine and disaster relief. It was soft power and goodwill.

Not only has the longest charm campaign in history ended, but a door to China and others been opened.

New comment by dfansteel in "The Cypherpunk Library"

dfansteel — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:13:18 +0000

Both are valuable and present in a well rounded life. The Diary of Anne Frank and Those Who Leave Omelas cause you to question life in different ways.

New comment by dfansteel in "Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)"

dfansteel — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:30:14 +0000

It still has a monopoly on my heart.

New comment by dfansteel in "Iowa to mandate students take Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment"

dfansteel — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:45:25 +0000

The University of Iowa has a Social Sciences department that has professors in for Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy, and other fields. It’s an accredited institution.

New comment by dfansteel in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

dfansteel — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:53:49 +0000

Oh, how about that! I stopped checking because I maxed out long ago.

BTW - They’re still censoring human rights violations.

New comment by dfansteel in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

dfansteel — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:20:39 +0000

My computer lacks the ram.

New comment by dfansteel in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

dfansteel — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:58:53 +0000

Can anyone check its knowledge base for me? I’m honestly not able to run it and the Qwen models I can run censor information critical towards the Chinese government.

Tiananmen Square is the first place to start.

New comment by dfansteel in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

dfansteel — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:47:49 +0000

If Zuckerberg is trying to make you feel guilty, take it as supporting evidence that you’re doing the right thing.

New comment by dfansteel in "Movies Are Too Long"

dfansteel — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:45:46 +0000

I think people underestimate the loss of physical media in general and video stores in particular.

Physical media use to account for half of a films eventual gross. Some films even did better. See every cult classic (Office Space comes to mind easily).

When you’re making films that have to be produced for second run distribution on physical media they had to fit on VHS cassette.

Studio VHS production ended in 2006. Netflix VOD began in 2007. At that point the length of your film stopped mattering. It took a few more years for studios and directors to realize it, but that was the actual end of economic constraints.

New comment by dfansteel in "xAI will be dissolved as a separate company"

dfansteel — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:49:29 +0000

SpaceX is profitable. Merging with xAI hides the absolute dumpster fire P&L xAI is bringing to the table. He can continue to fund his ego projects to the detriment of both orgs.

New comment by dfansteel in "Alarms Sound over 'Technofascist' Palantir Manifesto"

dfansteel — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:59:07 +0000

The actual most common crime is wage theft.

https://niwr.org/state-policy-clearinghouse/spc-wage-theft/

New comment by dfansteel in "I'm a 30-year veteran SWE, and my industry is currently overrun with addicts"

dfansteel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:28:39 +0000

Frequently I’m told “A.I. will solve global warming.” Without remembering that we know how to solve global warming, we just choose not to.

There are so many more concerns around LLM use that for a lot of people the goals haven’t moved at all and that it remains there is no ethical use of A.I. not the least of which are:

There is no argument for A.I. that doesn’t amount to providing capital access to labor without providing labor a reciprocal access to capital.

The source material was ingested without permission or license of the copyright holder. No residuals are being paid. If your industry relies on crimes to exist it probably shouldn’t.

Hyperscalers are adding data centers to under developed and rural communities dramatically raising the cost of electricity while consuming water and providing few jobs.

A tragedy of the commons as the internet balkanizes into more and more walled gardens specifically to prevent the ingestion of intellectual property.

New comment by dfansteel in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

dfansteel — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:10:40 +0000

There are problems with YouTube and the library is free.

https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01dz010t34x