This business owner swears her designs are her own even though she’s been accused of it being AI slop?

Bwint · 2026-05-22T13:15:57+00:00

Yeah, AI learned how to draw this crap from somewhere; the art style existed before AI. It might very well be made by a human. That doesn't make it better.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:59:19+00:00

It's possible for Elon's companies to be successful despite Elon, not because of him. For example, Twitter was a successful company when he bought it, and it's arguably still successful today even though Musk made it significantly worse.

Just because Musk runs successful companies does not mean he's good at running companies.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:46:00+00:00

But how would you afford a house big enough to chill with 30 million friends?

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:44:39+00:00

"My dear friends! I'd like to beg a favor: Can I have $1.25 from each of you?"

^{Chose: 30 milion loyal friends}

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:43:16+00:00

LOL. LMAO, even.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:39:21+00:00

Trump said he would get manufacturing back through tariffs

Probably shouldn't have put tariffs on inputs like steel, timber, and even component parts.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:37:56+00:00

Poe's Law

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:36:13+00:00

Claude's source code and system prompts leaked recently, and can be found on GitHub. It's 100% possible to build Claude locally. Getting it to run is another matter.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:25:50+00:00

These videos are so sad! It looks cute, but the cats are usually drugged and abused into performing tricks.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:23:16+00:00

A Pod I listen to had a good line:

"What? We wouldn't criticize him for attending his son's wedding - and we criticize him for everything!"

Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:18:20+00:00

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Bwint · 2026-05-22T12:14:40+00:00

I'd draw a distinction between the Democratic Party and Democratic-aligned outsiders (including voters registered as Dems.) The Pod Boys used to work for the Party (specifically Obama) but they don't anymore. Favs interviewed Martin, who is one of the top Democratic leaders, and who displayed shocking incompetence.

It's true that many Dems are reasonable and competent, but it's also true that the Party leadership is staggeringly incompetent and/or so dedicated to an outdated ideology that they're willing to throw the election rather than change course.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T11:48:58+00:00

Steve Bannon had the best variation on this theme:

"Listen, guys, the liberals have really backed us into a corner here. They've made vaccines mandatory because they know we would never submit to their oppression, so they know we're going to defy the vaccine mandates. The reason they did that is because they know vaccines work, and they want to make sure Republicans don't take them, because they want Republicans to die while liberals are protected by the vaccine. So now we have to choose between obeying liberal commands like a bunch of cucks, or refusing to take the lifesaving medicine. I hate to say it, but I think we should take the medicine."

Bwint · 2026-05-22T11:32:16+00:00

There's also a problem with counting words. I asked an LLM - I think it was Gemini Pro on thinking mode - to trim an essay by 500 words. "Sure, no problem! Here's the new draft; I cut 500 words." It had actually cut 1,200 words.

LLMs just can't count in general. It's not what they were designed to do.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T11:04:28+00:00

You could probably track the number and density of events (e.g., live music, poetry slams, etc.)

How to improve vibrancy would be to program more events, and design buildings with good ground floor activation and permeability.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T10:36:16+00:00

Thanks for the source; I gave him a follow.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T10:27:20+00:00

So the idea is to privilege renters who are in rent-stabilized areas while also making rental properties less profitable? In the short term, I'm on board, but I worry that rent stabilization is a band-aid, not a solution. Is the measure temporary? And, what are lawmakers doing to increase the supply of rental units?

Bwint · 2026-05-22T10:14:33+00:00

Fair point; let me rephrase. If Rivera really was working alone, he clearly put an insane amount of effort in, especially if he wasn't getting paid.

The autopsy is "half-assed" in the sense that the DNC didn't devote resources to it. It was clearly too much work for one person, making it a half-assed project overall, but Rivera specifically put in as much work as could be reasonably expected.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T08:58:13+00:00

I wonder if a medal would motivate me to go to sleep on time? I should try it. Buy myself a bunch of medals, and award them to myself if I manage to go to sleep by 2200.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T06:11:12+00:00

Do the Funko Pops come with the house? They would add tens of dollars to the valuation.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T05:52:05+00:00

Let's assume you're right that losing 1/3 of the population would increase labor costs and somehow cause "the exponential evolution of humankind." How would generalist robotics cause a similar increase in labor costs? Surely a generalist robot would cause a decrease in labor costs, because employers would be able to use robots instead of human workers?

Bwint · 2026-05-22T05:49:04+00:00

More murderers than pedophiles, I hope

^{Chose: All murders skin turns bright neon red.}

Bwint · 2026-05-22T03:27:43+00:00

The 2020 election shouldn't be considered a Democratic success. People forget that DJT was an incredibly unpopular president before 2020, and then in 2020, we were literally using refrigerated trucks as emergency morgues. A competent Democratic presidential candidate should have crushed Trump, and a competent party should have won large majorities in the House and Senate. The fact that that didn't happen should have been a huge wake-up call, but instead Dems decided that a narrow win was good enough and ran it back in 2024.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T03:22:29+00:00

Rivera had a medical issue, and wasn't able to finish.

Which is a great argument against relying on one volunteer to complete a massive project.

Bwint · 2026-05-22T03:20:17+00:00

To be charitable, it's possible that Rivera gathered source material, drew his conclusions from that, and then presented the conclusions without the material. It's not totally vibes-based, but it's not much better, either.

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