We’ve gone over this, Jim.
Category: Not-politics
Now we get to see if the power goes out.
This storm has been heading our way all afternoon, and while we need it, we maybe don’t need the high winds that are coming with it. Ah, August. This is when we get the dramatic weather.
Tweet of the Day, This Is What You Have To Beat To Win Today’s Internet edition.
I’m with Iowahawk, here. This is… this is special.
Yeah, I’m out of thoughts.
I may have figured out how to finish the story, but actually writing it drainnnnnned me something fierce. I have no thoughts or creativity left. I’m staring at the screen and going What are words, anyway? Even this feels like me merely using the automatic writing functions of my brain.
I’m gonna go read more of THE BORELLUS CONNECTION. That’s all I can handle right now.
Human traffickers arrested at San Diego Comic-Con.
Comic-Con would be a venue of opportunity, not an active participant in these crimes. The con had nothing to do with this, in other words. The article was still alarming to read:
Continue reading Human traffickers arrested at San Diego Comic-Con.Authorities arrested 14 people and rescued 10 victims in a massive human trafficking sting at the San Diego Comic-Con Convention, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Tuesday.
The operation took place Thursday through Saturday at the wildly popular and star-studded convention in downtown San Diego and involved local and state task force officers, Bonta’s office said.
Law enforcement personnel posed as sex buyers to identify and contact potential trafficking victims and arrest their traffickers, according to the attorney general’s office. They also posted undercover ads soliciting sex.
Tweet of the Day, Troll Or Bot Bait? edition.
I have found something. I just don’t know what it is.
Tweet of the Day, God Bless America edition.
I dunno how we got to this point, where Snoop Dogg is now America’s Wicked Cool Grand-Uncle. But I’ll take it!
SpaceX back online.
In case you missed it: “Early on Saturday morning, at 1:45 am local time, a Falcon 9 rocket soared into orbit from its launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida… after a rare failure earlier this month, this particular Falcon 9 rocket was making a return-to-flight for the company and attempting to get the world’s most active booster back into service.” They had a fifteen day turnaround time in figuring out what was wrong, fixing it, and getting back to a launch schedule. That’s, yeah, pretty fast for non-wartime aerospace*.
Continue reading SpaceX back online.Tweet of the Day, Kidding On The Square edition.
Dude’s joking here, but he and I both know there are far too many people on social media who have wildly inflated views of their own self-importance. It is to laugh, as Harley Quinn might say.
Tweet of the Day, GIGOGOGOG@#$%!@#$!@ edition.
I’m surprised anybody’s surprised. I mean, isn’t this intuitive? AI prompt results don’t have conscious decisions behind them; the model just does a high-probability guess, based on the existing information in its database. Dump enough AI prompt results into the database, and the amount of actual information goes down. Eventually it collapses, and you get a smear of fuzzy junk.
This seems pretty straightforward, yes?
Via @Strangeland_Elf.