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I had to write YEARS of posts about British Clownfall and South Korea just straight up speed ran theirs a mere seven minutes longer than it takes to watch Wicked

aspiring-weird-old-man

I literally just got back from seeing Wicked what's going on??

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

Oh, well, so as the pre-movie ads were playing, Korea's desperately unpopular president decided he didn't like his fellow party creeps getting impeached for crimes and his shitty budget not being approved, so he threw a spectacular temper tantrum, accused all opposition party politicians of being North Korea sympathisers trying to overthrow democracy, and DECLARED MARTIAL LAW.

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Even his own party opposed him doing this, which tells you a lot about the staggering stupidity of this move.

NOW! Martial law can be annulled by a majority vote in the National Assembly, but part of the terms of martial law mean that political activities are banned to prevent such a vote taking place. The minimum number for a majority is 190. So, the stage becomes set - all parties are now desperate to get 190 total members into the Assembly, while President Yoon Suk-Yeol is now desperate to keep them out.

About an hour into you watching the film Wicked, the military tried to lock down the National Assembly building and disperse protesters who gathered in front of it. Soldiers tried to gain entry, but were humiliatingly blocked by party officials who sprayed them with fire extinguishers. Instead they decided to therefore block entry into the building, to keep 190 (or more) people from voting.

As you watched the film Wicked move into its third act, soldiers tried to move into the crowd of protesters, and were politely but firmly denied. Here is footage of an embarassed soldier being rotated and repelled by the crowd.

Meanwhile, Democratic Party members Lee Jae-myung and Lee Seong-yoon, blocked by the army, literally climbed over a five foot fence to get into the National Assembly so they could go and vote.

Finally, as you watched the credits of the film Wicked roll, the 190th necessary member brushed off twigs and staggered into the chamber, and so the vote was immediately called rather than waiting a single minute longer. The vote to annul martial law took place and was passed 190-0. It was completely unanimous, including members of the ruling People Power Party.

Martial law ended 2 hours and 48 minutes after it began.

Protesters are now calling for the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol. Military generals are milling about going "Whaaat? Martial law? Oh dear me no, I knew nothing about that at all, I have no idea how three military helicopters and a troop of soldiers got to the National Assembly so fast..." We shall see how soon the clowns fall.

So. That happened.

grison-in-space

I'm. Wow. I think that whole thing went down faster than I've been about to get a goddamn tow off the side of this road. I'm impressed.

grison-in-space

actually you know what it's been two hours and 17 minutes. we got time to beat them. CMON TOW MAN

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

Manifesting good vibes and your successful desertion of the road faster than South Korea took to overthrow martial law 🤞

littleowlcreature

you're laughing. his butt-naked boyfriend broke up with him to become the second coming of jesus christ and you're laughing.

#arcane season 2 spoilers

wyyllt

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#arcane s2 spoilers

winterswake

Vander: I've always liked the name Violet. Silco: *snorts a line* Hey, you know what I like?

cuddyenthusiast420

house serves cunt as often as cuddy serves penis. wilson serves neither but he does serve something. maybe liver

gaysexofficial

based off this post by @75screamingtoads that made me start watching. as you can see my art gets progressively worse each panel lol

pyrrhiccomedy

so like I said, I work in the tech industry, and it's been kind of fascinating watching whole new taboos develop at work around this genAI stuff. All we do is talk about genAI, everything is genAI now, "we have to win the AI race," blah blah blah, but nobody asks - you can't ask -

What's it for?

Why would anyone want this?

I sit in so many meetings and listen to genuinely very intelligent people talk until steam is rising off their skulls about genAI, and wonder how fast I'd get fired if I asked: do real people actually want this product, or are the only people excited about this technology the shareholders who want to see lines go up?

like you realize this is a bubble, right, guys? because nobody actually needs this? because it's not actually very good? normal people are excited by the novelty of it, and finance bro capitalists are wetting their shorts about it because they want to get rich quick off of the Next Big Thing In Tech, but the novelty will wear off and the bros will move on to something else and we'll just be left with billions and billions of dollars invested in technology that nobody wants.

and I don't say it, because I need my job. And I wonder how many other people sitting at the same table, in the same meeting, are also not saying it, because they need their jobs.

idk man it's just become a really weird environment.

shutframe

Like, I remember reading an article and one of the questions the author posed and that's repeated here stuck with me, namely: what is it for? If this is a trillion dollar investment what's the trillion dollar problem it is solving?

I finally think I have an answer to that. It's to eliminate the need to pay another person ever again. The trillion dollar problem it's solving is Payroll.

penrosesun

Except like... it's not solving that either.

A metaphor I've been using lately is that being a tech-interested person and watching the AI hype is like if you had followed the development of blenders for years. You watched them go from prototypes that were basically just a spinning open blade all the way to a design that has the potential to be a consumer Vitamix! It's really cool! Blenders have come such a long way, and they're ready for prime time!

And then you turn on the news and see otherwise rational, intelligent people saying "gosh, imagine, soon we'll replace all of our chefs, and our surgeons, and our high school teachers with blenders!" and your friends and family all nod and agree and say things like "wow, blenders can basically do everything now!" And when you ask people "are you HIGH?!" they show you the new blender they bought, and how well it makes a smoothie, and then they act like that's evidence for a statement like "blenders will replace 90% of the workforce" not being utterly nonsensical and deranged.

"Scientists just have to fix the hallucination problem!" they say. When you ask what the hallucination problem is, they say "I'll show you" and then they put their unfinished math homework into the blender and hit pulse. "You see, I wanted it to solve those math problems, but it just shredded the paper. It must have hallucinated a world where the answer to 2+2 was puree." When you point out that it did exactly what it was designed to do, because a blender cannot do math and it will never do math and expecting it to be able to do math just because it can make both smoothies and soup is ludicrous and bizarre, they tell you that they're sure that blenders will be able to do math any day now, just you wait, "I mean, look how far they've come! A year ago I would have said that blenders could never be strong enough to blend ice into sorbet, but now they can. So who are you to say they'll never do math???"

The thing is, there are plenty of things that LLMs and generative AI are good for. OCR is still a vital need, and AI is excellent at it. Facial recognition is an area where AI has a lot of potential. It can be used as a screening step for the analysis of all sorts of large datasets. Better autocomplete on your phone is a real thing that real people want. There are a ton of problems that these tools genuinely do solve!

...But none of them are trillion dollar problems, and that's an issue, because no one wanted to pour a trillion dollars into "improved OCR" and "somewhat better autocomplete".

So, we get snakeoil to make up the weight. It'll solve payroll; it'll democratize visual art; it'll make it so that anyone can do anything – you name it, blenders will do it, eventually! Once we've fixed the problems with using blenders to do everything, including tasks which aren't blending things, then blenders will be worth the trillion dollars that people have already spent developing them! Look at the progress we've already made: we're working on attaching a calculator to the blender, and that could make it so that blenders can do math! Don't you dare suggest that calculators already exist and work just fine without being attached to blenders – we need our blenders to do math, because we promised that one day they'd be able to do everything! And they will! Blenders are the future and don't you dare suggest that maybe that future is just "we can blend things now"; if you so much as breath those words, the bubble will pop.

kushblazer666

stylographic-blue-rhapsody

“who is linkin park?” - one shot KO by my younger coworker

stylographic-blue-rhapsody

I am going to unfold all of your clean laundry and leave it in a pile on your bed

skullhaver

it's like every step that I take is another mistake to you

stylographic-blue-rhapsody

bestie…. it’s taking me one step closer to the edge and I’m about to break

stylographic-blue-rhapsody

do. Not

ralfmaximus

Tesla is tanking so hard it is dragging the entire EV segment's sales down into the negative. When you omit Tesla from the equation, EV sales are up 13% across the board.

Don't let anyone tell you EV sales are in a slump.

magicalpluralism

well well. if it isn't ev georg

passion-of-l0vers

sorry for being a hater i want to be a lover but everything pisses me off

storywonker

They recorded tinnitus? It's a physical thing?????

storywonker

Lola De La Mata speaks to Patrick Clarke about how her experience with severe tinnitus and vertigo fed into her new album Oceans On Azimuth

Source

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Transcript:

The most mind-blowing moment, not only for De La Mata but the scientists too, came when they managed to actually record the sounds that she heard in her ears – which now appear as ‘Left Ear’ and ‘Right Ear’ which begin sides A and B on the album – and in doing so opened up questions about the nature of tinnitus itself. “The NHS definition is that it’s a phantom sound that your brain is creating, that it isn’t something ‘real’, so you should try to ignore it.” By having De La Mata place her ear into an anechoic chamber, with an ultra-sensitive microphone perched in her ear canal, they were able to provide significant evidence to the contrary. “After the first recording of it, it was ‘There’s no way, this isn’t possible.’” They tried again with her breath held, and again with her tensing her ears, and again with other members of staff, but each time it became apparent that yes, the noises De La Mata hears are seemingly something physical.