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Mostly people miss it… Unless you were gay. Then you probably have some unhappy memories about that time. Of course there’s nostalgia for other stuff, but civil rights were way worse for lgbtq.

I’m surprised no one brought this up yet. Being gay in the 90s would be about as controversial as being trans now, and it would not be okay to walk around holding hands with your same sex partner unless you were in a known gay area. it might not be illegal, but it would’ve attracted attention, probably people would’ve said slurs at least. The f slur was used in television and movies until around the 90s. People just used it like “nerd” or “dweeb”. Cocksucker was a pretty bad insult, insinuating someone was gay being pretty damn insulting at the time.

Things were significantly worse for lgbtq people, and there was the fear of HIV being basically a death sentence, and it wouldn’t have been long after people called it the “gay disease”. Some people were very uneducated about that stuff. My mom, who believed that gay men were our equals and should have equal rights, told me not to touch my gay teacher or shake his hand or anything because he might have “a disease”. Thankfully my father was more medically knowledgeable and told her it doesn’t spread like that, even if he had it.

It wasn’t until around after the 2000s at least that gay people were proudly saying, “HIV is no longer a death sentence”. It used to be a disease running rampant that no one gave a shit about because of homophobia basically. Fucking Reagan.

140 WPM on the resume

They will… Very temporarily, and only if they don’t have major competitors by the time they raise prices considerably.

It’s pretty clear what all these fucks are doing. They’re making it cheap now to get as many users as possible and make sure companies are completely dependent on their technology. And when they are, payday! Token prices go up, AI prices start looking crazy, separation of products into Claude, Claude Plus, Claude Plus Ad Free, Claude Enterprise, etc.

And the companies pay for it, very temporarily, until shit normalizes and enshittification ensues.

It’s not a tumah

Phasers set to disintegrate

It’s also a fundamental misunderstanding of why people say “there’s no going back”.

Practically anyone with a gaming computer can download Ollama today and run a decent open source model and do stuff locally, download it, take their computer offline, then use AI without touching any billionaire’s SaaS products.

You can get some productivity out of those models. You can use LLM, generate images, use computer vision, get help coding with local offline agents. It might not be as clean as using some of the paid tools and closed source models, but they work.

And that’s what people mean by, “there’s no going back”. What the technology does is going to keep being a thing. It might dissipate a bit as the bubble pops, but it’s not going away just like it’d be weird to try and make the internet technology go away at this point, even after the dot com bust.

It doesn’t mean we can’t regulate data centers and their construction. It means the technology is developed and open source and usable by practically anyone, and the tooling will stay around.

Prompt injection… my ass. I know it’s the going term, but they make it sound like sql injection or cross site scripting when the nature of it is politely asking the person’s computer to delete files.

We shouldn’t even be in this situation, where just politely asking someone’s computer to delete files is effective. It’s a symptom of a much, much bigger problem.

Samuel L Jackson as Gollum, Buscemi as the Mouth of Sauron

Mango Peach Salsa pride

Driving through corn

I think it’s more, “fuck… Bad news. Our Newark factory had an operator completely fuck up and use ten times the thickening agent for the ketchup. It came out as a big fucking block, 10 feet cubed of pure ketchup.”

“Sir, I have an idea”

Horse Cock Master: Choose Your Own Adventure

glances at social battery

“It appears you’re not giving 200% like you wrote in your self-review… I only see 90%. Let’s shoot for 100% before end of quarter, okay? Maybe we can chat about it, through lunch.”

Drinking rehydrated piss is a sacrifice

…this isn’t a weird green text meme?

Holy fuck, the Enhanced Games are real? And looking into it, it’s backed by Donald Trump Jr and Peter Thiel.

Holy fuck actual dystopian future

It’s the year 2099. Nvidia-Johnson Inc has just announced a new breakthrough years after their merger. Biotech finally found a means to turn human flesh into… RAM

AI isn’t particularly good at finding bugs and vulns. It’s just that barely anyone except the devs have ever looked at the source of most open source, and for the first time there’s automated mass code review. And a lot of open source projects are kinda shit, unmaintained experiments that no one ever reviewed.

I don’t mean to say it isn’t finding bugs, it’s just that the quality of the reports are often low, there’s way more noise than signal, and there’s always been low hanging fruit with random open source projects. I mean, half the time a big new vuln was announced is because some researcher finally sat down and took the time to look at something. Massive software projects were hard to sift through in an automated and repeatable fashion.

But they need our utilities, all of them. So they want to get ahead of the game and take over that side of government now.

Except water. I bet this is some weird way of arguing they are a utility so have a right to utility infrastructure and how water is distributed.

Less “we are a utility” and more “we need all your utilities, all your clean water, all your power, and we want to decide how it’s used”