What about Mistral (France)? Their new model is getting pretty close to US frontier models.

To be fair, I’ve never used Photoshop. I’ve started using GIMP as an edgy teenager in 2010 to create the 4chan memes your parents laughed at back then. I’d probably think different about GIMP if I ever had the sweet taste of Adobe, but since I didn’t, I don’t know what I’m missing.

I’ve been using GIMP for 15 years and it’s a great tool for image editing. It doesn’t have the cool AI functions that Photoshop had even before generative AI became a thing, but for most common and advanced image editing needs, it’s a perfectly suitable tool.

It was an impressive tech demo. You know that every idiot who saw this thinks to himself how awesome he would look, jumping over the car in front of him. The ultimate road rage power fantasy.

Love the meme.

I guess this is how speedrunning was born

That’s cool and all, but an LLM just built me a dashboard for visualizing data, following my instructions and asking clarifying questions when it needed my input. I don’t care what you call it, it’s the most impressive new technology and the most powerful software tool I have seen in years.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said

We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.

I don’t see how anybody could see this and think it’s democratizing something. It gives the rich a way to reduce their dependency on the skilled worker, shifting power away from the people with skill to the people with money.

There used to be a promise that if you worked hard and studied diligently, you yourself might be able to capture some of that wealth. Now this option is slowly disappearing.

I like to imagine that at least some of them are proud that their work has endured. They showed of their bodies and what they can do with them at the peak of their attractiveness. I hope they look back at this and think “Damn I was hot!”

If AI, specifically LLMs, are so great, how come it’s been 5 years and they haven’t meaningfully contributed to a cure for anything?

Reminds me a little of cryptocurrencies. They were supposed to change everything, but all they did was enable unprecedented levels of scams and grifts and enable criminals to move money across the globe without any sensible control mechanisms.

Yeah, screw this. Haven’t been subscribed to Disney+ for a year now and I certainly won’t return. If you have children, I guess you’re fucked though.

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These stupid labels are a scam. The rich want you to fight each other over meaningless differences so you don’t realize they’re the ones fucking you over.

You don’t understand.

80% of people will think you’re an idiot if you advocate for communism.

60% of people will think you’re an idiot if you advocate for capitalism.

90% of people will agree with you if you tell them the growing power of elites and the gap between the rich and the poor is a problem.

If you’re trying to convince people that communism is a great idea, you’re fighting a lost cause. If you use either the word communism or capitalism, you have already lost the argument and people’s attention. On the other hand, if you address actual problems, people will support you. Language matters!

(Btw, I pulled these numbers out of my ass. But you get the idea.)

I don’t like communism. I don’t like capitalism. I don’t give a fuck about your petty squabbles and philisophical debates.

But I do find the imbalance of wealth power concerning and I’m supporting whoever will do something against it.

There’s no reason to dress like a teenager in your 30s. I mean, feel free to do so if you like the style, but don’t be scared to go for a more sophisticated or professional look.

Tuta is a great company and their social media game is fire! I’m using their email and calendar app as a replacement for Gmail and Google Calendar.

Strange. In movies, we cheer when the school bully who has been terrorizing smaller children without consequences for years finally gets kicked in the balls.

The US has been (an keeps) bringing war to countries all across the world. They should not be surprised when someone hits back, even if it’s a low blow, which 9/11 definitely was.

My deepest condolences for the innocent victims outside the US and also for those of 9/11. They got dragged into this because the US government fucked around for decades and eventually found out.

Btw, this is why I downvote every post about Trump. It’s not much, but it’s honest work.

I’m starting to think he just wants the attention and reacting to every one of his bullshit posts is playing right into his cards. The biggest punishment for him would be to be ignored and disappear into irrelevance.

This is what we should go for. Talk about OUR agenda and what WE want to achieve - solving actual problems of actual people - and ignore all of his stupid shenanigans. Stop letting him set the fucking agenda.

That’s a good reason for being on Musk’s or Zuckerberg’s platforms. That’s not a good reason for NOT being in the Fediverse.