Turns out my CPU does support TPM 2.0 (& thus Windows 11), just needed to manually enable in BIOS.

I can put off upgrading my PC another year

I feel this deeply. A lot of the most public discourse around AI is centered around a handful of billionaires and investors who are not technology experts. They're business types and hype men who pretend to be tech experts.

I keep seeing new games I want to play and then getting distracted with a new playthrough of an old 50+ hour RPG instead because I'm a golden retriever.

Sorry Hades II, I have another playthrough of Witcher 3 to finish...

Bsky does a lot of things right that other social media gets wrong, but it still encourages attention-seeking behavior. And it's really, really easy to grab a lot of attention by just going to some public figure's post and posting the most inflammatory thing you can.

Silicon Valley's greatest flaw is the widespread belief that if you're good enough at technology you can solve all other problems in all other domains, even if you don't know a damn thing about them, no matter how many times this gets proven wrong.

Insightful for a few different reasons but man the primary thing this article did for me was make me miss living in NYC. I desperately wish the rest of American cities would get on board.

This is what's so dangerous about marketing language models as smart human-like assistants who can give you advice. Like any other ML model, it's just a reflection of its training data & we've always known that ML models reinforce biases in that data.

I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and presume positive intent. It is absolutely surreal to live through a time where the presumption of good faith in politics is so cynically exploited just to hurt people for no gain. Somehow presuming positive intent is just a weakness now.

Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?

Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.

My piece on the real dangers of AI.

Gift link:
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Made mulligawny soup just in time for me to get sick. Good timing, I guess #homecooking

if you need every news story you read to end with “and that is bad, actually” might I gently suggest you’re looking for takes rather than information and your needs might be better met elsewhere

Undeserved distrust of institutions is, of course, primarily a Republican phenomenon. It’s not absent from us on the left, though. No institution is beyond criticism, and I will happily join in when it's deserved (media is too important not to). But...

No. NYT did not help elect Trump (thread)

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

New from me on what the rage and glee on public display after the killing of a healthcare CEO portends.

I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives.

They would be advised to read up on history.

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Introduction post, I guess:

I don't know what I'm doing (never used twitter, swore off traditional social media a decade ago).
I like:
Technology
Videogames
RPGs of various flavors
Spending entirely too much time reading the nytimes
Dancing

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