TIRM
8hr ago
Revelation is singular. The Greek term apokalypsis it was originally named is also singular.
I've mentioned it before but this is part of the premise of Diamond Age. With easy nanotechnological manufacturing most consumer goods are free or practically free. So of course the wealthy only wear hand made clothes and write with ink pens on hand pressed paper. Sheets of diamond are practically free, so they have genuine glass unlike poor people.
TIRM
3d ago
driving stoned is safer than driving drunk
There are people who believe this. I've heard it argued in person. And I've smelled weed smoke wafting out of open moving car windows.
I doubt the Indian ones are drug addicts or that they're allowed to shit anywhere near rich people. Designated vs non-designated, etc.
It's hard to exaggerate the very worst I've seen in San Francisco. Having personally seen human shit on the ground right outside comically expensive condos is too obvious an observation.
TIRM
3d ago
elites live in their pristine multimillion dollar apartments in skyscrapers while the street outside (literally right outside) is squalid, covered in garbage
But enough about San Francisco.
And I'll take the cows over the junkies. I know cows shit a lot, but they'll shit less in public walkways than the junkies do. They're animals but they're not animals.
TIRM
5d ago
frankly describe, outside of the gatekeepers eye, the physical acts being performed routinely in great detail
Oral and anal sex? Non-monogamy? I know they do that. "They" being a portion of gay men. You got something more scandalous?
TIRM
5d ago
The school would rediscover their power to expel violent students and apply it to kiddie-Batman.
TIRM
6d ago
Based on announcements and videos from the highest level people at my company: it is using LLMs to massively increase worker productivity. The productivity increase is not optional. They tell positive anecdotes about being shocked at how fast someone is delivering results and then learning it was by using an LLM to help. Or at least that's the story being told.
This is the push incentive for new tool adoption.
As a counterpoint:
Uber Technologies exhausted its entire 2026 annual AI budget within four months, specifically by April 2026, due to massive adoption of Claude Code by its 5,000 engineers. The explosive usage saw up to 70% of code generated by AI, forcing the company to rethink its token spend, which reached $2,000 monthly per engineer, according to reports in April 2026.
As summarized from published articles by an LLM. Giving the engineers unlimited token usage makes them want to use lots of tokens. I don't work for Uber, but I can attest that some of my coworkers are heavy token users in novel work that will not be replaced with simple reusable code.
Even non software devs. One guy described how he got some LLM agents to optimize PCB layout. Trace connectivity and the actual layout is represented in text form ingestable by LLMs. There is already a simple built-in auto-routing feature. It is practically a single button press. But that doesn’t optimize what he wants in this manner. He wants to go far beyond what the simple already made software does.
TIRM
6d ago
I live in a locale in which hard drugs are illegal and simultaneously there are addicts all over some regions of the nearest major city. There are trash strewn druggie encampments and Hep C infected shit everywhere. It is pure anarcho-tyranny.
Given wide scale non-enforcement, I'd like it to be officially legal. Or I'd like actual enforcement.
The IRS was out of control and lawlessly leaked his tax returns. This is a reoccurring problem with Federal bureaucracies illegally defying the Executive if he's a Republican.
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