We can only hope that people will get themselves a chance to directly demonstrate their approval of Musk. Hopefully many of us will have a chance to see him in a place we can reach him and show our disapproval.

If not, hopefully at least one person can find Musk in one of his hidey holes, behind his security, without his tiny human meat shield (or with, who cares) and clearly, without complication, demonstrate their disapproval of Leon.

It makes me wonder how much of the survival of these coins, in this great of condition, can be attributed more to circumstance/context in which the coins where kept, and how much of it can be attributed to craftsmanship.

These sorts of material artifacts surviving for this long really fires the imagination. Who pressed them? How where they made? How were they spent? Where were they spent?

It’s just fascinating to try and imagine the world in which these coins might have been just a commonplace occurrence. Where people had them in their homes, in their hands.

The image you used was created by MJ Hiblen: https://www.patreon.com/MJHiblenART

He sells images on Patreon. I like his art.

Dude … c’mon.

Ah well, I guess.

This is art by MJ Hiblen: https://www.patreon.com/MJHiblenART

He sells images on Patreon. I like his art.

Digital piracy can get you at least one of those happy things.

Most of the identification of things like ‘horses’ falls in line with the identification of things like ‘crosswalks’ and ‘motorcycles’–in other words, the majority of the words associated with particular images in Google maps comes from people like us filling out Captcha, not from AI.

lol

I think the fact someone would need to explain this to you makes it pointless to try and explain it to you. I can’t tell whether you’re honestly asking a question or just searching for a debate to attempt to justify your viewpoint.

The consumer-side AI that a handful of multi-billion-dollar companies keep peddling to us is just a way for them to attempt to justify AI to us. Otherwise, it consumes MASSIVE amounts of our energy capacities and is primarily being used in ways that harm us.

And, of course, there’s nothing they direct at us that isn’t ultimately (and solely) for their benefit–our every use of their AI helps train their models, and eventually it will simply be groups of billionaires competing against one another to form the most powerful model that allows them to dominate us and their competitors.

As long as this technology remains determined by those whose entire existence is organized around domination, it will be a sum harm to all of us. We’d have to free it from their grips to make it meaningful in our daily lives.

Thank you! I don’t think I’d have guessed that these coins were so EARLY.

The fact that the majority of us are essentially forced to participate in the capitalist market means that we will always be at the mercy of greasy, compliant, ass-sucking ‘bosses.’

We don’t have any freedom with work unless we have the freedom not to work.

I read this thread to find out what I should know but I still don’t know it.

Now guess how much power it took for each one of those wrong answers.

The upper limit for AI right now has nothing to do with the coding or with the companies programming it. The upper limit is dictated by the amount of power it takes to generate even simple answers (and it doesn’t take any less power to generate wrong answers).

Training a large language model like GPT-3, for example, is estimated to use just under 1,300 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity; about as much power as consumed annually by 130 US homes. To put that in context, streaming an hour of Netflix requires around 0.8 kWh (0.0008 MWh) of electricity. That means you’d have to watch 1,625,000 hours to consume the same amount of power it takes to train GPT-3.

https://www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-electricity-energy-watts-generative-consumption

If the AI wars between powerful billionaire factions in the United States continues, get ready for rolling blackouts.

https://ublockorigin.com/

On Firefox, this even blocks Youtube ads.

Inchworm by Danny Kaye.

Figure Eight by Blossom Dearie

Payback by Slayer

It’s amazing how beautiful and evocative these early films were. They seem like magic now in a world jammed with endless media built with CGI on greenscreens.

Interesting!

I’d love to see the estimated year of minting for these.

I like this judge.

These moral panics are fodder for political primates in the Conservative party. When the Reagan Administration dominated the airwaves in the 1980s and started all this Christian Doomerism, the major media really sucked off the Reaganite platform.

I’d guess most of y’all are too young to remember the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Reagan worshippers were convinced that there was a nationwide secret Satanic plot to abuse and kill children taking place in basements and secret locations all over the U.S. There were only a few major media formats (CBS, NBC, and ABC mostly) and they all reported constantly on these secret Satanists and how they were hiding secret messages in music, invading the brains of children through Dungeons & Dragons, and abusing children in secret rituals. The Satanic Panic got endless news coverage, and good Conservative Christians everywhere were constantly vigilant against all the secret Satanism in their midst. They picketed school boards, scanned their children’s media consumption for secret subliminal Satanic penises (seriously), and so on.

And here’s the kicker … NONE of it was real. Hours of news coverage, daytime talk show discussions, pages upon pages of ink in major newspapers, and NOT ONE OUNCE of it had any actual evidence behind it.

This was the beginning of the political/media landscape we’re all trapped in now. The gameplan never changed.

p.s. and this was of course all topped off by major media news coverage that referred to AIDS as ‘gay cancer’ repeatedly, all in line with the anti-gay dictates of Reagan himself repeating that the U.S. was going to turn into Sodom & Gomorrah because of all the gayness hiding in suburban closets.

That’s cool! My grandmother was similar–discovered email in her early 80s and loved it, got herself a printer to print out letters to send to people. Last I saw her before she died, she asked me to help set up her phone so she could answer emails on it.

She loved getting emails from people too. It made me remember how exciting that stuff was when I first started using it and it still felt like a great, new thing to make it easier to connect with folks and explore the world.