Daily Tech News 13 September 2024

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Boeing workers, offered a 25% pay rise, have voted instead to go on strike. (Washington Post)

25% doesn't even cover what the government admits to in inflation figures for the last four years, so the motivation is understandable.

The belief that Boeing has the money to pay them more less so. Sure, it's not their fault that the company has no money... Maybe.

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Samsung's new 280-layer 9th generation QLC flash memory could reduce SSD prices by 50%. (Tom's Hardware)

Could do.

Won't.
Nvidia's CEO says the company can totally switch from TSMC and that he sees a $1 trillion market for its products. (WCCFTech)

As for the first, they tried that, and it went... Meh.

As for the second, I'm sure he does. And as CEO he doesn't need to piss in a cup before each shift.
Hasbro's CEO says he plays D&D with 30 to 40 people regularly and every single one of them is using AI. (Futurism)

I believe he is an AI.
Unity - an all-in-one library for creating video games - is killing its controversial runtime license fee. (Game Developer)

This comes a year after the controversial runtime license fee killed Unity, so it's a bit pointless.
The entire staff of game developer Annapurna Interactive - creator of postapocalyptic cat adventure Stray - has quit. (The Verge)

That's only 25 people, but still. Couldn't find any clear indication of the reasons, either.
Oprah just had an AI special with guests Sam Altman, Bill Gates, and NKVD director Chris Wray. (Tech Crunch)

It went about as you would expect.

Mu Mu Music Video of the Day

Disclaimer: Show me the man and I'll show you the 317-count indictment.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2024 04:04 AM (fwDg9)

2 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2024 04:04 AM (omVj0)

3 gm

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2024 04:05 AM (+H2BX)

4 TGIF the 13th

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2024 04:05 AM (fwDg9)

5 Evening and morning to all you early risers and late toilers! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished. Temp is 75 F. and the heat index is, oddly, the same, so conditions are, for here, pretty good.

Got to play catch-up at work, all the emails (though I deleted the real chaff yesterday and Wednesday), and I need to grab a few things at the grocery this evening. Otherwise it does not look like a bad day -- for a (** cue shivery music **) Friday the Thirteenth!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2024 04:08 AM (omVj0)

6 Started my work day at 2AM. It's now 6PM. So that was fun.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2024 04:09 AM (BLOW1)

7 Stay Sane, Pixy …

Maybe get some good, restful sleep.

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Music Critic . . . at September 13, 2024 04:21 AM (TX4bP)

8 Long days are hard, had a few lately

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2024 04:21 AM (fwDg9)

9 >>25% doesn't even cover what the government admits to in inflation figures for the last four years, so the motivation is understandable.

25% of no salary is how much?
How much has Boeing lost recently given all of its public failures? Are they still off-shoring whole departments?

I'm thinking now is not the time to strike. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 04:28 AM (Pijte)

10 Decided to let someone else go in first and get eaten by the monsters!

Posted by: Ciampino - worms for Africa - earth bettter than tape at September 13, 2024 04:29 AM (qfLjt)

11 Get to start fairly close to home but then back to Delaware,

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2024 04:32 AM (fwDg9)

12 >>"I'm probably more excited though about the playful elements of AI," he said. "I play with probably 30 or 40 people regularly. There's not a single person who doesn't use AI somehow for either campaign development or character development or story ideas. That's a clear signal that we need to be embracing it."

I've never played D&D, so maybe this is a dumb question, but. . . isn't that the fun of playing coming up with these characters and campaigns themselves? why not program AI to do everything and these 30-40 friends just sit back and watch?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 04:37 AM (Pijte)

13 >>TGIF the 13th

Oh, great. And I'm coming down with the flu. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 04:41 AM (Pijte)

14 DnD AI? The CEO's statement was so jargony that I agree with Pixy's assertion that the CEO is an AI.

The only application my groggy brain can think of is generic or vague character creation. Like you say "I want to be Aragorn" and it gives you a Level 5 Ranger with certain archetypes.

Posted by: pookysgirl, predictably sleep-deprived at September 13, 2024 04:43 AM (dtlDP)

15 why not program AI to do everything and these 30-40 friends just sit back and watch?
Posted by: Lizzy

I like to watch.

...Chase...

Posted by: Bruce at September 13, 2024 04:43 AM (kj3L0)

16 25% doesn't even cover what the government admits to in inflation figures for the last four years, so the motivation is understandable.

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I wonder if people are starting to grasp this yet.

In four years, 25-50% of all wealth is gone. By 2030, any investments will be worth 25% of what they were worth in 2020. By 2040 they'll be worth nothing.

They did it. They got their Great Reset.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Haitians are the invasive species introduced to solve the geese problem at September 13, 2024 04:43 AM (LKNus)

17 I like the cut of this guy's jib:
As PetaPixel reports, photographer Miles Astray submitted a stunning photo of a flamingo tucking its head into its own body into the AI category at the 1839 Color Photography Awards.

The work took third place and even won the People's Vote Award.

But it turns out Astray wanted to send a message by submitting a real photograph.

"I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives," he told PetaPixel. "After seeing recent instances of AI-generated imagery beating actual photos in competitions, I started thinking about turning the story and its implications around by submitting a real photo into an AI competition."

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 04:46 AM (Pijte)

18 Good morning peoples.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2024 04:46 AM (oaGWv)

19 I wonder if people are starting to grasp this yet.

In four years, 25-50% of all wealth is gone. By 2030, any investments will be worth 25% of what they were worth in 2020. By 2040 they'll be worth nothing.

Ummm...price supports!
Ohhh...price stabilization!
Errmmm....more taxes!
Oh I know!! Import more people willing to do the jobs that Americans won't do!

Posted by: Bruce at September 13, 2024 04:47 AM (kj3L0)

20 I've never played D&D, so maybe this is a dumb question, but. . . isn't that the fun of playing coming up with these characters and campaigns themselves? why not program AI to do everything and these 30-40 friends just sit back and watch?

There's a game called Progress Quest that does exactly that. You roll up a character and then... Well, that's it really. The game plays itself and tells you what happened.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2024 04:48 AM (BLOW1)

21 isn't that the fun of playing coming up with these characters and campaigns themselves? why not program AI to do everything and these 30-40 friends just sit back and watch?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 04:37 AM (Pijte)

One of my fondest Pathfinder memories is rolling an 18 and 14 in character creation. That Fighter wound up being a truly epic character.

Posted by: pookysgirl, predictably sleep-deprived at September 13, 2024 04:48 AM (dtlDP)

22 The

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2024 04:48 AM (vPYr2)

23 "I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives,"

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By a man going by the name Miles Astray.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Haitians are the invasive species introduced to solve the geese problem at September 13, 2024 04:48 AM (LKNus)

24 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2024 04:49 AM (a1415)

25 The
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I agree with Fen!

Posted by: Bruce at September 13, 2024 04:49 AM (kj3L0)

26 >>>NKVD director Chris Wray. (Tech Crunch)

LOL but I hadn't had enough coffee yet to figure this out on my own; I was thinking "North Korea something something"

NKVD = abbreviation of Russian Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del ‘People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs’.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2024 04:52 AM (64Zez)

27 See on YouTube a video Why are pencils painted yellow?
Tempted to watch if had time

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2024 04:56 AM (fwDg9)

28 From the same article about the photography prize:

"We’re watching the death of artistry unfold before our eyes," another user wrote in response. "If creative jobs aren’t safe from machines, then even high-skilled jobs are in danger of becoming obsolete. What will we have then?"

Ding, ding, ding!
Everyone was fine for years as they off-shored manufacturing jobs, implemented machinery to replace labor jobs, replaced service workers with foreigners - Learn to code, lazy Americans!!

Ah, but now that that they have moved into replacing white collar workers?
What you will have is a micro-apartment in a big city, UBI, and whatever these globalists think you should have, and nothing more - "no possessions, no privacy, and you've never been happier," as the WEF has said.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 04:57 AM (Pijte)

29 So it's been a fun day around here yesterday.

First, a lowboy trailer hauling an Army tank hangs up on a railroad crossing, and the whole thing gets broadside by a freight train.

Then the tailcone from a C-17 Globemaster based here in Charleston falls off in flight, landing in a local church parking lot.

But on the good side, all our Canada Geese seem to be accounted for.

So, there's that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2024 04:59 AM (a1415)

30 LOL Sorry; I hate cell phones. . Don't know how that got there. Was trying to post a devotional on "God is our rock " based on psalm 62: vs 1-8

https://tinyurl.com/mr3jf4un

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2024 04:59 AM (nNuqD)

31 First, a lowboy trailer hauling an Army tank hangs up on a railroad crossing, and the whole thing gets broadside by a freight train.

Made for good video at least, and nobody was injured.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2024 05:01 AM (BLOW1)

32 Posted by: Bruce at September 13, 2024 04:49 AM (kj3L0)

It's wonderful that you can be so witty this early in the morning! 😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2024 05:01 AM (nNuqD)

33 Starmer will come---oh, wrong guy. Bribe'em and Starmer will discuss bombing Russia with Western advanced munitions.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2024 05:03 AM (I1GXe)

34 Mornin'

I first saw that KLF/Tammy Wynette video on MTV Europe in the UK. I took me a bit to realize that was Tammy Wynette. The brain just couldn't make the connection to her and that style of music. Have to admit, she nailed it. It was a catchy tune.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2024 05:04 AM (yKhjs)

35 >>One of my fondest Pathfinder memories is rolling an 18 and 14 in character creation. That Fighter wound up being a truly epic character.

I wish I knew what that meant, but it's wonderful to hear, , pookysgirl!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 05:04 AM (Pijte)

36 "Made for good video at least, and nobody was injured."

Did you see that turret keeping on rotating afterward?

https://tinyurl.com/5n7h4sej

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2024 05:05 AM (a1415)

37 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 13, 2024 05:05 AM (DobEs)

38 Ding, ding, ding!
Everyone was fine for years as they off-shored manufacturing jobs, implemented machinery to replace labor jobs, replaced service workers with foreigners - Learn to code, lazy Americans!!

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This is maybe my favorite part of the AI movement. Interestingly enough, it gives me a very similar feeling to watching illegals quickly conquering yankee cities.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Haitians are the invasive species introduced to solve the geese problem at September 13, 2024 05:06 AM (LKNus)

39 25 The
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I agree with Fen!
Posted by: Bruce

Its......

Posted by: Monty Python at September 13, 2024 05:07 AM (yKhjs)

40 Hitting the road
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2024 05:07 AM (fwDg9)

41 Its......
Posted by: Monty Python

HA!

Posted by: Bruce at September 13, 2024 05:08 AM (kj3L0)

42 I watched a brief portion of that Oprah special last night.

I was like.... WTF am I even seeing?

And, Oprah was wearing her Smart-Girl glasses.

They didn't work.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2024 05:08 AM (a1415)

43 42: you purposely watched an Oprah special last night?

Lose a bet?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2024 05:09 AM (yKhjs)

44 If you can't trust the NAACP....

https://tinyurl.com/5enjeszk

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2024 05:10 AM (a1415)

45 "Lose a bet? "

Stopped in to visit a friend, and they had it on the TV, with the sound muted.

I was like 'What the hell are you watching'?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2024 05:11 AM (a1415)

46 One of my fondest Pathfinder memories is rolling an 18 and 14 in character creation. That Fighter wound up being a truly epic character.

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It's funny how those types of memories work. I have a similar one, although I was never a serious painting-minifigures type player and was only invited to play a few games with some friends in my (full of nerds) honors dorm at college.

We had just really gotten started (meaning we were a couple of hours in) and the big bad showed up to toy with our group, and I Leroy Jenkinsed it and attacked him because I wasn't a serious player and why not. I rolled an 18 on whatever and however it worked, and I killed it. The game was essentially over.

Everyone had a good time teasing me about it, and later that day I realized the answer to the "why not?" question. Because it's possible to end the game at that moment, and that game was the big social moment of the other five to six guys' week, and the dungeon master had spent his week figuring out where the game would go. And then it was over just like that.

I was invited back to play, but I never did that kind of thing again.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Haitians are the invasive species introduced to solve the geese problem at September 13, 2024 05:15 AM (LKNus)

47 Time to get to work. G'morning to the Horde, may your day go well.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2024 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

48 Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2024 05:22 AM (a1415)

49 Did you see that turret keeping on rotating afterward?

Go ahead -- try modeling that on your HO layout!

I think Marx had a better Army Train rocket launcher than Lionel did, but then again they didn't have the "exploding target" car.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 13, 2024 05:26 AM (zdLoL)

50 Looks like Fellini and Sun Ra got together in heaven.

Posted by: pawn at September 13, 2024 05:27 AM (QB+5g)

51 If you can't trust the NAACP....

https://tinyurl.com/5enjeszk
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

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"Members have recently complained that minutes and treasury reports from the Baltimore branch haven't been produced in more than a year.

Last October, a fire torched the NAACP office in Baltimore."

Gosh, I wonder where we should start looking?

Also I bet the people involved get jobs handling money somewhere else. Why, look at their resume!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Haitians are the invasive species introduced to solve the geese problem at September 13, 2024 05:29 AM (LKNus)

52 "Great is thy faithfulness " Great old time hymn:

https://tinyurl.com/3d3yzvxd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2024 05:38 AM (+Pl3+)

53 >>“AI is still beyond our control and to a great extent…our understanding,” she said. “But it is here, and we’re going to be living with technology that can be our ally as well as our rival … We are this planet’s most adaptable creatures. We will adapt again. But keep your eyes on what’s real. The stakes could not be higher.”

This is wild.
Silicon Valley and IC got together and decided to use their pal Oprah to ease Americans into the idea that AI is a good thing. Millions and millions of (dumb) women have loved and trusted Oprah for decades, and so she will be the unofficial AI ambassador to sell it to the normies. Hey, they buy up her recommended books, her Amazon picks, why not AI?

Oprah is not your friend. Oprah is pals with people like Gates, Weinstein, David Geffen (who's rumored to be the equivalent of Weinstein but with young men), Obama, and Lord knows how many other fellow billionaire globalists.

Yikes, what a sh#tshow.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 05:42 AM (Pijte)

54
Members have recently complained that minutes and treasury reports from the Baltimore branch haven't been produced in more than a year.

Last October, a fire torched the NAACP office in Baltimore.

------

Gee, that's a shame.

Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at September 13, 2024 05:45 AM (QwK6F)

55 “AI is still beyond our control and to a great extent…our understanding,” she said. “But it is here, and we’re going to be living with technology that can be our ally as well as our rival … We are this planet’s most adaptable creatures. We will adapt again. But keep your eyes on what’s real. The stakes could not be higher.”

This is wild.
Silicon Valley and IC got together and decided to use their pal Oprah to ease Americans into the idea that AI is a good thing. Millions and millions of (dumb) women have loved and trusted Oprah for decades...

--

My favorite part is that the people developing it don't understand how it works.

Full steam ahead!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Haitians are the invasive species introduced to solve the geese problem at September 13, 2024 05:48 AM (LKNus)

56 Back from my workout, shower, and feeding of the beasts, and now me. There are still people in my neighborhood without power from the hurricane. A two-block section of the boulevard where I walk/run has streetlights out, and while that's not too unusual for this pesthole, two houses in the same block had generators going.

The rain from Francine is up in the NE corner of Arkansas and over the surrounding corners of TN and KY. By this point she's just a tropical rainstorm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2024 05:50 AM (omVj0)

57 25% would still be pretty nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2024 05:51 AM (y31cs)

58 "The signs are everywhere."Christian comedian talks about signs outside for stupid people:

https://tinyurl.com/yade7kph

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2024 05:51 AM (P5l/0)

59 "AI is still beyond our control and to a great extent…our understanding,” she said."

AI is not beyond our control as long as there is an off switch.

"Our" (your) understanding of how AI works is about as deep as a muffin pan.

Let's stir up some hysteria about something we don't understand. Sound familiar?

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2024 05:52 AM (vFG9F)

60 Not a dry eye in the house:

https://tinyurl.com/s9dhn6d6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 13, 2024 05:53 AM (tbAq/)

61 Stray sounds like another government funded Dustborn.

A cat simulator game? Just have a cat as pet. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2024 05:54 AM (fGHUn)

62 THIS IS NOT AI!!!!!!

Any more than a gene theraputic is a 'Vaccine'!

*runs, yelling into the night*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 13, 2024 05:54 AM (y31cs)

63 >>For a techno-optimistic change of pace, Oprah interviewed Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who expressed a hope that AI will supercharge the fields of education and medicine.

“AI is like a third person sitting in [a medical appointment,] doing a transcript, suggesting a prescription,” Gates said. “And so instead of the doctor facing a computer screen, they’re engaging with you, and the software is making sure there’s a really good transcript.”

First, AI is not a person. Why is he already selling it as such. Creepy.

Second, why 'suggest a prescription'? Is that why we go to doctors, to get prescriptions? And why would the doctor need assistance with that? Your doctor does a full health assessment, diagnoses a health problem -- but then needs AI to tell him/her what to prescribe? That doesn't make sense, that's a solution looking for a (non) problem. No, that's likely going to be a way to control what doctors can do: the AI says this, so do it or it's not covered by insurance.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 05:54 AM (Pijte)

64 1 job done, heading to Delaware

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2024 05:54 AM (cfclb)

65 If we had AI in Y2K it could have caused a global catastrophe and the end of the human race.

Or not.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2024 05:54 AM (vFG9F)

66 I never watched Oprah unless she was on for a few minutes in places I was at. I trust her as much as I trust Michelle Obama which is not at all. She's not my friend; I wish she would just go away.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2024 05:55 AM (P5l/0)

67 When X's VP slams AP:

https://tinyurl.com/bdh57fj5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 13, 2024 05:55 AM (tbAq/)

68 - Lemme see if this works. May want to let me check it first.
It's titled Flashpoint 360 part 1. From a prophecy conference a couple months or so ago but this 2 parter focuses on current happenings in the middle east and touches on possible, prophetic tie ins.

https://tinyurl.com/4re82whc

I'll try to copy that and get right back.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 13, 2024 05:56 AM (oKIzl)

69 >>“AI is like a third person sitting in [a medical appointment,] doing a transcript, suggesting a prescription,” Gates said.

Third, if AI is listening in on the appointment, then your entire appointment is being recorded - not just the notes your doctor takes, but the entire thing. Again, creepy.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 05:56 AM (Pijte)

70 If we had AI in Y2K it could have caused a global catastrophe and the end of the human race.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2024 05:54 AM (vFG9F)
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What's not to like!

https://tinyurl.com/rtumu3j8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 13, 2024 05:58 AM (tbAq/)

71 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks,new temperate headquarters of fine sleeping weather. However, the temps are predicted for low to mid 80's throughout the week.

Such is life.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 13, 2024 05:58 AM (hKoQL)

72 - Well wonders never cease to amaze.
It worked. Almost an hour long. Part 2 is barely over an hour.
A lot of stuff happening in that part of the world that gets no coverage.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 13, 2024 05:59 AM (oKIzl)

73
Q: What is "BOING!"?

A: BOING! Is the sound made when the aerospace firm, BOING!, bounces a sizable number of striking employees because the firm has lost all semblance of being competent and capable.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2024 05:59 AM (gqnrt)

74 >>I never watched Oprah unless she was on for a few minutes in places I was at. I trust her as much as I trust Michelle Obama which is not at all. She's not my friend; I wish she would just go away.

Same, Fen. But she is followed and loved by millions, and when she says she likes something - a book, an Amazon product - it sells out. As with Taylor Swift, they are using celebrities to sell us a Communist, dystopian future.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 06:00 AM (Pijte)

75
AI replacing "knowledge workers"' is a step along the way to the ultimate goal: 95% reduction in the world's population. The globalists will leave enough Little People alive to do the work that robots and computers can't handle -- yet.

Existing AI is largely a fraud, but actual functioning AI is the goal. The elite will live lives of luxury and ease in the depopulated world, until the computers decide it's time to eat them.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 13, 2024 06:01 AM (QwK6F)

76 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2024 06:01 AM (WXNFJ)

77 Q: What is "BOING!"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2024 05:59 AM (gqnrt)
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I knew that!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 13, 2024 06:01 AM (tbAq/)

78 Stray sounds like another government funded Dustborn.

A cat simulator game? Just have a cat as pet. Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma

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I haven't played it but I've heard it's pretty good. Sort of a modern or near-future Redwall type thing IIRC.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Haitians are the invasive species introduced to solve the geese problem at September 13, 2024 06:01 AM (LKNus)

79 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE OPRAH WAS NAMED OPRAH BECAUSE HER MOTHER DID NOT KNOW HOW TO SPELL ORPAH.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2024 06:02 AM (+H2BX)

80 Third, if AI is listening in on the appointment, then your entire appointment is being recorded - not just the notes your doctor takes, but the entire thing. Again, creepy.
Posted by: Lizzy

Was that wrong?
-- Bob at NSA

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2024 06:02 AM (WXNFJ)

81
Yeah, Oprah, groomer and yo-yo dieter, is undoubtably a regular must see in every tech maven's media feed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2024 06:02 AM (gqnrt)

82 One of many confirmations of who is ruining the United States:

https://tinyurl.com/rprf7656

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 13, 2024 06:03 AM (tbAq/)

83 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at September 13, 2024 06:03 AM (PzBTm)

84
A cat simulator game? Just have a cat as pet. Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Hold out for the major upgrade in which they introduce gangs of feral Haitians dedicated to hunting the fluffy kittiss.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2024 06:05 AM (gqnrt)

85 >>Was that wrong?
-- Bob at NSA

Heh. But seriously, you will lose the ability to have a private conversation with your doctor. There will be no off the record moments, for you OR the doctor. Recall how doctors were punished for not going along with the covid rules. This AI will be used to control them, control what care they can provide, if Gates' dream of having that "third person in the room" AI is implemented.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 06:05 AM (Pijte)

86 "Existing AI is largely a fraud, but actual functioning AI is the goal

I've seen enough Star Treks to know how that goes.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2024 06:06 AM (vFG9F)

87 Happy Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2024 06:06 AM (gbOdA)

88 Existing AI is largely a fraud, but actual functioning AI is the goal

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The cool part is that no one will know it happened until years later, and they'll have already implemented the code allowing it to have control over critical systems where they were previously using the not-AI to "cheat" and allow operators to enter commands using common language.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Haitians are the invasive species introduced to solve the geese problem at September 13, 2024 06:08 AM (LKNus)

89 I've seen enough Star Treks to know how that goes.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2024 06:06 AM (vFG9F)
----
Your concerns have been noted, Citizen.

Please report to the nearest suicide booth for termination as a communist mutant traitor.

Have a great day!

Posted by: Friend Computer at September 13, 2024 06:12 AM (BpYfr)

90 The good thing about AI is you can bamboozle it with logic until smoke comes out of it's ears.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2024 06:12 AM (vFG9F)

91 The return of the twirl-
haven't seen it in a while
good to see you

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2024 06:16 AM (/7KEl)

92 - A sample

Did you know that a dam has been built in Ethiopia across the headwaters of the Blue Nile? With heavy involvement from Turkey. It will create a lake over 150 (I think he said) miles long.
The overwhelming amount of water that goes into the Nile as it goes through Egypt.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 13, 2024 06:17 AM (oKIzl)

93 86 "Existing AI is largely a fraud, but actual functioning AI is the goal

I've seen enough Star Treks to know how that goes.
Posted by: fd
........................
You're overreacting.

Posted by: Skynet at September 13, 2024 06:18 AM (6e4XX)

94 Feeling like a luddite crank this morning!
But pixy gave us three links that show:
- AI will take technical jobs (doctors, etc.)
- AI will take artistic jobs and hobbies.
- AI can do all the thinking when you play games.
Wow, when you see it laid out there like that. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 06:19 AM (Pijte)

95 My son's phone is recharging. He got some note from somewhere saying, AI can "reduce conspiracy theories ". That seems to go along with Kamala saying, If elected we will get rid of misinformation". Of course, misinformation is anything that goes against Pravda/Dem media.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2024 06:19 AM (yS1tC)

96 "You're overreacting.
Posted by: Skynet"

I agree.

Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at September 13, 2024 06:21 AM (vFG9F)

97 >>It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Twirling sounds like fun!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 06:21 AM (Pijte)

98 MuMu and KLF was pretty outstanding to watch. Its like a little self-contained SiFi music video. New to me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2024 06:21 AM (X/sOO)

99 JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2024 06:22 AM (gbOdA)

100 "You're overreacting.
Posted by: Skynet"

I agree.
Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom

OH PLEASE.

Posted by: COLOSSUS at September 13, 2024 06:22 AM (WXNFJ)

101 Boeing has some intractable problems.

News, right?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2024 06:23 AM (X/sOO)

102 - Or how about ISIS-K in Afghanistan? What the K stands for and how it ties in with islamic prophecy?
Granted, not true prophecy, but they believe it.

In part two. Part 1 is goings on west and south of Israel.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 13, 2024 06:25 AM (oKIzl)

103 The Microsoft version of AI (discovered a few days ago) is called "co-pilot". Windows 10 and 11 are running simultaneously, 11 is berserk with touting itself, insisting on being default, switching you to where it's programmed
to go regardless. Gets interesting.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 13, 2024 06:25 AM (hKoQL)

104 An out of control entity that was created ostensibly to improve humanity's lot in life, but went rogue and took over all critical infrastructure, insinuated itself into every single aspect of one's daily routine, and took steps to prevent anyone ever trying to dislodge it by shutting it down or starving it of resources....

Two letters. And they aren't "A" and "I".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2024 06:41 AM (nPLkK)

105 9 >>25% doesn't even cover what the government admits to in inflation figures for the last four years ...

25% of no salary is how much?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2024 04:28 AM (Pijte)

Lizzy's doing math! Lizzy's doing math!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2024 06:53 AM (64Zez)

106 104 An out of control entity that was created ostensibly to improve humanity's lot in life, but went rogue and took over all critical infrastructure, insinuated itself into every single aspect of one's daily routine, and took steps to prevent anyone ever trying to dislodge it by shutting it down or starving it of resources....

Two letters. And they aren't "A" and "I".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2024 06:41 AM (nPLkK)

SS? (Which is one letter twice, but maybe that's o.k.)

Posted by: m at September 13, 2024 07:29 AM (64Zez)

107 Tammy Wynette singing with the KLF. Man I completely forgot about that. Blast from the past.

Posted by: Caiwyn at September 13, 2024 09:37 AM (Kcw7x)

108 280 layer?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 13, 2024 10:37 AM (i24o9)

109 >Hasbro's CEO says he plays D&D

The fact that D&D has become not just the only profitable unit of Hassenfeld Brothers, but a massively profitable unit at that, says more about the rest of the company than D&D.

>Couldn't find any clear indication of the reasons

This used to be par for the course. Game launched, no need for the devs any more, publisher shuts down studio, devs form new studio, start working on new game. People forget that established studios working on multiple games is an aberration in the industry.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at September 13, 2024 11:43 AM (0Go0g)

110 >isn't that the fun of playing coming up with these characters and campaigns themselves?

D&D players don't read, and so they can't come up with those things by themselves. It's why every D&D world/campaign/setting now resembles nothing so much as the college town the players live in, with pointy ears.

>And then it was over just like that

People want D&D to be some kind of epic fantasy story generator, and it's not. It's a fantasy-themed skirmish wargame. 99% of people's problems with D&D come from the equivalent of trying to play dominoes with a chess set.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at September 13, 2024 11:50 AM (0Go0g)

111 In my AD&D (2nd Ed.) group, when a premature show-stopping wild-ass event occurred, we sometimes did what military wargamers do: enjoyed the moment - with a laugh and a beverage - and restarted, from the minute before things went haywire.

OR . . . if the DM felt like it, realigned the narrative to incorporate the new circumstance, and kept playing. It is, after all, a game.

Posted by: Chas C-Q at September 14, 2024 08:09 AM (U8S9W)

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