if you know who this is this is the funniest fucking headline
Someone help me; I don’t know who this is and don’t know what to Google to decide if this is funny or not!
That is Alexander Grothendieck. He’s involved with some abstract algebra I’m way to sober to grok rn. My only knowledge of him is that his stuff basically established category theory as a thing, although apparently that was completely unintentional on his end.
He seems to have been an… interesting character in his later years
Local villagers helped sustain him with a more varied diet after he tried to live on a staple of dandelion soup.
a quick follow-up tying in with our previous post about Kroger planning AI-driven demand pricing for groceries: of course they got caught red handed price gouging
You already know I can’t get enough of Cyberstuck, but this is too good to not share: https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1f59lj8/david_attenborough_explains_cybertruck_behavior/
Update: I was bamboozled by AI
@sailor_sega_saturn @gerikson it’s very funny, but I wish they didn’t AI clone David Attenborough’s voice for it
LAION reckons it’s finally dealt with the CSAM
and I’m sure everyone who trained on that can easily integrate this change, right. right?
oh, right, they can’t, because none of the chucklefuck shit works that way. but I’m sure they’ll totes jump right onto a full retraining cycle, because they’re such good and ethical people who totally live the values they claim
New piece from The Atlantic: A New Tool to Warp Reality (archive)
Turns out the bullshit firehoses undeservedly called chatbots have some capacity to generate a reality distortion field of sorts around them.
