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@catloaf @thebeardedpotato I go one further and subscribe to feeds in mastodon (feel a bit like an impostor though 👀

@dkc @telegrammarian it’s owned by Elliott Management https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/96873-five-years-in-at-barnes-noble-james-daunt-says-he-s-not-done-yet.html

@JacksonLamb @SPRUNT ‘American cheese’ is a specific type of cheese. I think the closest thing we have in the UK, we’d call ‘plastic cheese’ but even Kraft cheese slices/Kraft singles aren’t ‘American cheese’ as they have extra milk in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American/_cheese

@OutlierBlue @TeamAssimilation but it will next year, right? Let’s just ignore all those times it’s veered into the wrong lane or onto train tracks or whatever, it’s fine. Next year, next year, next year.

And Mars in a decade.

@Flagstaff @gunpachi I’m not sure echo chambers are inherently a bad thing. My real life is a carefully crafted echo chamber of people I like to spend time with (which conveniently includes my family). The problem comes when we get *all* our information from that echo chamber.

@Ulrich @ggppjj does it help to compare an image generator to an LLM? With AI art you can tell a computer produced it without “knowing” anything more than what other art of that type looks like. But if you look closer you can also see that it doesn’t “know” a lot: extra fingers, hair made of cheese, whatever. LLMs do the same with words. They just calculate what words might realistically sit next to each other given the context of the prompt. It’s plausible babble.

@BlueBaggy @corbin as a tiny-handed person, I resent being called “no one”

@umbrella @cyberpunk007 Some big UK brands don’t run on an “all money is for one guy” model. John Lewis (dept store) and Waitrose (supermarket) are a partnership: the staff own it. Then we have lots of Co-operatives but the main one is mostly known for being a supermarket: member/ownership is £1 and you can vote at the AGM, get discounts and choose charities. It’s not perfect - they all exist in a capitalist system - but there are other ways of running businesses that aren’t for pure profit.

Slushy the rich?