i remember reading an article in or around 2015 saying that 2015 would be the peak of humanity and it was all downhill from there. I don't totally buy that assessment but at least for the next hundred or so years things aren't looking so good.

I am Antonin Carême, le pâtissier royal parisienne, father of haute cuisine, and my canvas today is bagel bites.

looks like this is just extrapolating based on the 732 deaths per day number from the lancet, but due to the famine this number must be accelerating.

I really wonder how much steering the companies training these models can actually do. They're ingesting literally the entire internet to the extent that CSAM has been found in open datasets. So if they're not filtering for CSAM I doubt they're filtering for other content. For sure the system prompts are putting some guardrails on the models but I bet to some extent this is just what you get when you feed the internet into the text extruder.

So catty

2 million units by EOY, 2x from last year. So they're growing in popularity but at the risk of downplaying the situation we aren't exactly in a Labubu-level event yet.

roblox becoming second life. soon it will be (if it isn't already) darknet casinos and bizarre porn

the guy who jumped from the stratosphere for Red Bull and spent the rest of his life being a loud racist, misogynist, and Nazi party FPÖ fanboy

stratosphere just does that to ya

this has been a right wing talking point the entire time because the first operational stretch will be between central valley cities while they build out the links to SF and LA.

I would have said Song but I have learned here my answer should have been Tang.

i think the cloud platforms tend to have livestreaming services. i think aws has one at least. Im sure you could just have it save to s3 or whatever instead of publishing to a website.

edit: oh yeah here you go https://ivs.rocks/low-latency it can save to s3 and even has sdks for live streaming

do space stations not get refuled? aren't they just big satellites?