I had scrap wood, stain, paint and decided to go for it to break in my new miter saw.

I listen to Black by Pearl Jam on occasion. It’s the only song that has ever made me tear up.

I go years between listening to Nevermind and then wonder why I wait so long.

I owned Use Your Illusion I ended up giving them away because they really couldn’t stand up to Appetite For Destruction. There’s some great songs on there but then there’s some filler that ruins the whole thing.

Never was a Soundgarden fan. But I did see them open for some band called Nine Inch Nails and realized that I know a lot more Soundgarden songs than I thought I did.

I had Blood Sugar Sex Magic. It started to great on my nerves. It wasn’t as good as their earlier albums. Not enough funk. Too quiet. Mother’s Milk also started to go sour on me.

And of course there’s The Black album by Metallica. I was a huge metallic fan. And this album really ruined it. Some of the songs individually were good but as an album it couldn’t live up Justice For All. The songs were shorter, less classical in their orchestration, All the last messages of Cliff having a hand in the composition were gone. And probably worst of all someone thought they could teach Kirk how to sing. He’s a shouter, not a singer. Someone stole the tape from me about a month after I got it and I didn’t feel any sense of loss.

Other albums released in that time frame:
Psalm 69 by Ministry.
Shorty the Pimp by Too Short.
Dirty by Sonic Youth.
Soul Of A New Machine by Fear Factory.
Dirt by Alice In Chains.

Some of these have stuck with me a lot more than some of those.

Sounds bigger when you put it like that.

Now they need to make a dimpled projectile.

Britain doesn’t use dimes. So that’s to be expected.

It is so nice to see government supporting the arts. Wish we had that in the US.

“The only truly intuitive interface is the nipple.” – Bruce Ediger

So brave.

As an ASCII artist, I can tell you that 500 is way too many. I could probably draw a pretty detailed one about 1,100 bits 144 bytes. I can make a recognizable one and even less.

The effect is very correlative. The more eggs you eat the more likely you are to die before you can get Alzheimer’s.

That’s a joke. I have yard birds and far more eggs than I can safely eat. Eggs are fine in moderation but I’ve seen my blood work. The more eggs the higher my LDL.

That’s what I read too. Equipped to make the trip and contaminate wherever they land.

It’s worse than that. This app tracks your location through a third party non-government company. If you have a location sensitive government job like being a soldier near the middle east this app is a national security issue.

The techbros are one of the major driving forces behind the coup currently capturing the US government.

Thus the paradox of the government shutting down this release.

I think you entirely missed the point about the power going out. Yet, still, your reply proved exactly what I was getting at. This is much bigger than both the unregulated release of AI and the government putting its foot down on the throat of those releasing these threats.

The whole vibe of your comment feels like it missed what I was saying.

And, as the post points out, it was an impossible demand. So it’s functionally the same.

And it’s not the same as export control. I’m old enough to remember encryption export control. There was no prohibition on non-citizens in US territory from using any encryption level they wanted for domestic use. Half the emails and Usenet posts I got back then were by non-citizens residing in the US and using PGP with RSA above the limit.

The Trump administration just told a company they needed pull their new product. More government interference with private companies? A rational concern and appropriate national security response?

Will the tech bros rebel? I know people that were actively developing with Fable and experienced the shutdown in real time.

Are you in favor of the government telling a company to pull a product? Should AI models have to go through some kind of government sanity certification before release? Would you feel different about it if your alarm didn’t go off tomorrow because an American company’s AI enabled a foreign nation to shut down the cellular networks and power grid?

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

Sadly, just five. But more than Google.

It should be mentioned that DDG lets you permanently block up to five domains so you never have to see Pinterest clog your results again. And from any search results you can remove a domain from those results. This way if some AI slop domain is clogging the results you can quickly filter it out.

Sorry, it looks like voice to text messed up my reply. I have fixed it.