Debian and Mandrake in the late 1990s. And I was already almost three times as old as you were when you started. These days I’m happy with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for daily use. I tried NixOS but it threatened to break my old brain.

It’s part of their whole Nazi theme.

Yay freedom!

Keep an eye on RFK Jr. though. He seems like the death-panel eugenicist type.

The LLM isn’t trained to be reliable, it’s trained to be confident.

And it’s promoted by business people with the exact same skill set who have been rewarded for it. I would argue though that there’s nothing wrong with what LLMs are doing: they’re doing what they were trained to do. The con is in how the confidently unreliable techbros sell it to us as a source of knowledge and understanding akin to a search engine, when it’s nothing of the sort.

Donald Trump became president on January 20 this year. Ten days later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement—ICE—was making a big show of enforcing Trump’s promise of mass deportations in the northeast, ostensibly paying tribute to a slain border patrol agent, which brought them and Kristi Noem to my little library.

Noem, head of the agency responsible for border security as well as immigration and customs (including ICE), stood on the American side of the black tape that runs through the heart of the Haskell Free Library. “USA, number one,” she proclaimed.

She stepped over the line on the floor, into Canada. “Fifty-first state,” she said. I picture her hopping across the border the same way I did when I was eight. I imagine her glee as something similarly childlike. A bully’s glee, delighting in provocation. Then she did it again. A performance.

Kristi Noem is one of the most repellent and malign politicians in the USA. Her performances are disgusting. “A bully’s glee” is exactly it.

In the photo she’s certainly going for that look.

https://archive.is/7UQne

The song and the post are funny, but the thread full of redditors taking it seriously is a bit depressing.

Same reason they are building lists of immigrants, trans people, and people on food stamps; same reason any fascist government makes lists. Not for anything good.

The Trump library will be a shelf with one slightly sticky book of Hitler’s speeches and a 747 parked out back.

Stadia was actually a good product

That’s how Google decides which ones to kill off.

And the only emergency is the need to stop burning oil and gas because it is making the planet uninhabitable.

Columbia University is really showing its true colors these days, and it’s on the wrong side of history.

When every single pope looks like a left-wing extremist to you, you may have strayed too far to the right.

I wouldn’t trust mine. They haven’t been doing such a great job for the last few decades.

Trump is trying to crush Canada so he can take it over. Canada needs to turn to other countries for trade, and diversify its economy, not sell its soul to the US fascists.

They’re easy to win. All you do is, whatever happens, say you won.

May this strategy work out as well for her as it did for David Cameron in the UK.

The Catholic Church may be corrupt and reactionary and have friendships with fascists in its past, but right now it’s less extreme and less fascist than MAGA.

I searched around for this and the one on the right was described in a few places as “heavily photoshopped”. She may look a bit odd after all the plastic surgery, but as far as I could see she doesn’t usually look quite this odd.

When you start calling every leader of the Catholic Church a Marxist, you’ve seriously lost the plot. The American right is ridiculous.