I can’t wait for the CIA funded war films where we get to feel sorry for the PTSD-ridden us troops that just HAD to slaughter innocent iranian civilians. ya know, for freedom.

As mentioned in other comments - the tax deduction thing is not true. It is true, however, that they can '‘donate’ the funds to a charitable foundation that is run by the same people as the company (i.e. they are on the board of the charity as well as being C-suite execs of the company) thereby creating a slush fund disguised as charity that may only need to actually use 5% for charitable activities.

I modded it with the ‘no purchasable resources’ and it became a totally different game; It was all spreadsheet/logistics and organizing galaxy wide shipping to central hubs where I had to fabricate all my own materials to be able to upgrade equipment. I found that far more enjoyable, but the game is still meh. Not worth the replays like skyrim was.

seriously - how fuckin lazy it was to just copy/paste the same enemy outpost 500 times.

After running through the main story once, I modded it to where you cannot buy any natural resources - they must be harvested in person and/or setup a base and and ship all natural resources to a central storage planet. This essentially turned it into a spreadsheet-logistics game which gave me a a second, much more enjoyable playthrough. But I agree - absolutely medium-tier game.

I hate google enough to pay 5$/mo for Kagi - it puts a smile on my face everytime I go to search and know that I’m not supporting google

one must repeat the search query >= 10,000 repetitions and then check for convergence

I deleted my FB account (originally opened in 2006) the day I saw zuck on the inauguration stage with the fascists, and honestly that was way too late too haha

There was a court case called the ‘Citizens United v FEC’ that ended up ruling in favor of corporations; It said corporations and organizations and unions can ‘donate’ as much money as they want to political candidates i.e. legalized bribery.

I was just daydreaming about how the future of ‘AI assisted web search’ might quickly destroy our grip on reality. For instance if my MAGA mother-in-law says covid vaccines contain magnetizing microchips, and I say no they dont, then she googles ‘covid vaccine magnetizing microchip’, then the ‘AI assist’ automatically generates a video/article for ‘covid vaccine magnetizing microchip’ 🤷 . I realize this is basically happening already, but this is terrifying and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how we can collectively hold on to reality beyond what we can confirm with our own five (or however many) senses.

I use LLM’s to help with math/science/coding, and the thing it screws up the most seems to be simple math (typically units/conversion issues) so I would be weary about gleaning financial advice from a chatbot.

ISMRM? edit : read your username and immediately knew the answer haha

i heard there’'s this just *horrible * site called sci hub that allows you to put in links from paywalled scientific articles and gives you access to read them and it works for pretty much every scientific paper out there…

wait are insects not considered ‘sentient’ ?

I hate the idea of considering college/uni as just job training. Seriously, why can’t our society just encourage people to go learn just to LEARN. Oh yea because wage slavery.

or Poland and Austria

it does look like spam - but it is interesting! Especially the linked article under the ‘native ai-memory’ tab (https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18312). This concept of short-term and long-term USEFUL memory for LLMs is super interesting. I’d definitely be apprehensive about using a third party to do something like this though. This is something where you want to self host every aspect of the tool.

most people have absolutely no idea how to ‘run it through an ai voice program’ … yet

your local public library (if in US) should offer free language courses online - all you need is a library card

so yea, they should unionize.