the greatest thing about having a cat is it just scratches my inherent itch to be annoying. life is just so much better when you can walk through your living room and point at the animal minding her own business on the couch and go “itsababyyyyy” in a really fucking stupid voice
men need to be androgynous little rock sluts again. hair gel and cheap black nail polish are still sold in stores. chop chop
I can't believe it's this late on Thanksgiving and I haven't seen Peter Parker had to beat an old lady with a stick to get these cranberries.
Gotta do everything myself around here.
they couldnt make the x files today because characters arent allowed to be in their thirties anymore
my buddy's turning 29 today so we're taking him for ice cream in the park before a cruelty free skincare company shoves him into their eco-friendly van and has him shot
I got sick. Idk if I'll sleep so here goes a silly question
Do you have a favorite room/space/hidden spot in Silksong?
Loam.......
or the room above Styx
thanksgiving is a holiday based on a falsified narrative full of white guilt and the erasure of history so what are some good native organizations to donate to this coming thursday
please also consider looking into funding native/tribal food sovereignty projects if you have food to donate or money to spare. friends, please add more if you know of them and have links to provide:
- native american food sovereignty alliance
- meskwaki food sovereignty initiative
- friends of pine ridge reservation
- first nations development institute
you can also buy food/gifts from indigenous sellers or donate to gofundme fundraisers made by indigenous people who need help getting groceries, paying medical bills, or paying rent. do something to help us and our communities.
try water projects too, like the navajo water project: https://www.navajowaterproject.org/
a lot of reservations are fucked over on water by illegal oil drilling, pipelines, or other breaches, like in the navajo rez’s case: contaminated by illegal uranium mining.
I would like to put my endorsement to the Sovereign Bodies Institute, home of the database of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The database is trans-inclusive, the data protocols follow the desires of the families of MMIW, and this holiday season, they are collecting donations to buy gifts for the families, especially the children, of missing and murdered women.
I’d like to add Feeding Nunavut, the cost of living in the isolated north for Inuit is up to and sometimes over 5x the prices the rest of Canada is used to.
I think using a worse algorithm that consumes exponentially more resources than the alternative is morally reprehensible actually, and that is a general statement extending outside of just LLMs.
I'm talking video games that eat up RAM because the execs didn't want to pay for optimization time. I'm talking search algorithms that are made worse on purpose. I'm talking OS updates that break old hardware to run background services nobody actually needs.
Shoving "AI" into everything is just an extreme case of a wider problem.
Conversely, that also means that for some applications, machine learning models are the right choice because they're a reasonable alternative in resource usage terms.
While I'm at it, some data centers' cooling systems are actually fine because they're built in cold climates where the waste heat is used to keep houses warm.
The problem is the choice to build giant Heat Generating Machines in the middle of a fucking desert, and then using water that could go to watering crops for cooling.
And while lots of industries use data centers, the extreme need for parallel compute capacity over storage and transmission is a characteristic of machine learning that's troublesome, because the other uses of this extreme amount of compute capacity are niche and not immediately profitable. Lots of scientific work can make use of this type of data center, for example, but publicly funded research doesn't like overpaying for computer time.
The problem is essentially that tech is currently convinced they're going to make consumer services out of a type of hardware that's good for niche, specialized problem solving. They're trying to do this by selling access to a purported Ultimate Do-Everything Algorithm.
The incentives at play here are never going to result in a product that lives up to those expectations.
Anyway when I was working with supercomputers for my PhD one of my daily annoyances was waiting in the queue to run a large-scale physics simulation on like 4 GPUs, while literally half of the computer, several thousand GPUs, was occupied for days on end by a single AI training job.
A Mad Look at Thanksgiving (MAD #472, December 2006)
Artist and Writer: Sergio Aragones
suddenly realized i haven't seen a single tumblr post about yesterday's ECJ ruling (that all EU countries must recognize same-sex marriages conducted in another EU country, even if the country in question does not have legal same-sex marriage). this is huge and feels like people on here would be more enthusiastic about it
oh fuck yes it's almost thanksgiving which means fire departments across the usa are going to be posting beautiful content like this to try and stop people setting their houses on fire (x)
this is the only good thing about thanksgiving shout out to the san diego county fire department and the raleigh fire department
Never deep fry a FROZEN TURKEY. Ice flashes to steam, steam ejects oil from the pot and into the air, oil touches the burner, FIRE.
Ok, loves, so we've all got the message that joking about suicide is bad for your mental health. Now we need to get on "joking that the planet/all of humanity has no future is bad for societal health/encouraging resistance to bad shit."
As someone who works in conservation I can confirm this is true. Stop it. Joking that we don’t have a future or that humans are too stupid to educate really is harmful to conservation.