Nice. It’s from XKCD if you want the source.

Something similar happened to me! It wasn’t quite as threatening since my boss isn’t a dick. Our CEO declared that we were going to work with Palantir. Not to solve any particular problem, but just because they wanted an announcement saying we were working with Palantir.

The Palantir team did a demo showing how amazing their product was. They showed it supposedly being fed a Microsoft Project file, reading all the tasks, and then identifying which tasks were at risk. It spit out an answer saying something like “Task 123 may be at risk due to several factors including vendor reliability and blah blah.” Seemed really impressive - that would have taken a project manager and planner all week to figure out!

I got a hold of what they used for the demo and saw that it wasn’t reading a Project file. It was actually being given the task name as the prompt (“Task 123”) and then the prompt was "what would a project manager say about why this given task might be at risk?”

I told my boss that it was all smoke and mirrors. No complex analytics were being done. It was just basically “here’s a task, tell me why it could theoretically be at risk” - far different than “analyze this project plan, look at related data and identity what tasks are at risk and why”.

His response was “Good to know. Unfortunately the CEO has declared we’re moving forward with Palantir, so it is what it is.”

Somehow this company is worth billions of dollars.

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Kind of, but I hate seeing stuff like this:

And while you’ll be hard-pressed to find many experts who support unassisted births—as in, at home, without the presence of a physician or midwife—the core of Shanley’s philosophy stems from a concept that has existed for millennia but has been diminished in the past century: The majority of births are “normal” and don’t require medical intervention.

I’m glad the author prefaces that saying that experts don’t support unassisted births. Of course people have been having unassisted births for millennia with the majority being normal. But we used to have much higher infant mortality rates compared to what modern people would deem acceptable.

Personally, I’d have a dead baby and probably would be a widower if my wife hadn’t given birth in a hospital.

I love how he tried to gaslight everyone about the image after deleting the post. He claimed he posted a picture of him as a doctor and only the lunatics on the left could interpret it as Jesus.

The headline makes it sound like they banned the whole step porn genre, which seemed super ridiculous to me too.

Buried in the article is says:

…possessing and publishing porn showing incest between family members and sex between step or foster relatives where one person pretends to be under-18 would be a crime

That’s one of the major plot points.

Yeah I was gonna say, I think huge pants were on the outs in 2003.

Kerbal Space Program is such an amazing game that secretly teaches you physics.

From https://artincontext.org/the-cursed-woman-painting-by-tassaert/

The title can possibly refer to prejudices related to women and their open sexuality during the 1800s; in other words, a woman so open and free is “damned” because she is not chaste or coy.

Worth it?

Riley Reid is a rapist?

Training an LLM on League would surely set us down the road to Skynet and eventually Terminators.

From another article about what supposedly justified this:

There was a thread from early January, after news outlets including The Intercept identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Commenting on a Minnesota Star Tribune article, another Reddit user posted that Ross might be welcomed as a hero in Florida or Texas. John Doe responded by sharing that Ross had lived in Chaska, Minnesota; grew up in Indiana; and served in the Indiana National Guard — biographical details that were circulating widely at the time. “Hopefully he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary,” they wrote.

In another post, a Reddit user asked what they should write on an anti-ICE protest sign. John Doe suggested the lyrics to a song: “Urine speaks louder than words.” In a third instance, Doe wrote, “TSA sucks and we all know it.” According to the Reddit user’s attorneys, these were the most aggressive posts they could find.

There was a thread from early January, after news outlets including The Intercept identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Commenting on a Minnesota Star Tribune article, another Reddit user posted that Ross might be welcomed as a hero in Florida or Texas. John Doe responded by sharing that Ross had lived in Chaska, Minnesota; grew up in Indiana; and served in the Indiana National Guard — biographical details that were circulating widely at the time. “Hopefully he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary,” they wrote.

In another post, a Reddit user asked what they should write on an anti-ICE protest sign. John Doe suggested the lyrics to a song: “Urine speaks louder than words.” In a third instance, Doe wrote, “TSA sucks and we all know it.” According to the Reddit user’s attorneys, these were the most aggressive posts they could find.

Pretty tame honestly.

Dude literally ran for president because Obama hurt his feelings at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

And as a hole

I’ve got an older mouse too that you could add weights to like that. Was nice feeling like your mouse was substantial. Now most mice are made with as little material as possible and they sell that as a bonus of being ultra light weight. I hate how they feel!

Thanks! Yeah I have a Logitech G500s and a Razer Basilisk V3 X Hyper speed right now. After using my computer for a while, my wrist gets uncomfortable. I’m thinking of moving to a vertical mouse. Maybe a Keychron M5 or a Logitech MX Vertical.

Thanks!