So, a Martian Congressional Republic? It does sound like something those damned dusters would pull.

What next? The denizens of the asteroid belt calling for more rights and designating an Outer Planet Alliance, while a mysterious proto-molecule wreaks havoc on the Solar System?

I don’t think those are unzipped flies. Looks like they are some sort of weird drawstrings at the belt level that have been tied in bow knots.

I heard that the clean coal movement was a massive scam, and there’s no scientific merit to it.

Holy shit, your right.

…

All hail our Lord and Savior Mr Clean!

/s

SyFy cancelled The Expanse. Amazon picked it up and funded it to completion. Although only because Bezos loves the novels and was livid that StyFy got it in the first place.

And SponsorBlock, and BlockTube.

Some Lemmy instances were also down because of it.

Edit: At least that was the case for me.

So that’s what George R R Martin looked like when he was young!

Exactly.

This is going to be the next Google searches thing, isn’t it. People being ignorant to, or forgetting that corporations are saying everything they say or do. And then bring all shocked when they get exploited for profits or reported to authorities for doing shady things.

Rinse and repeat.

This is an interesting and smart use case for locally run (and properly siloed) AI. Kind of an “identify any broad trends when it comes to spending habits based on this statement data, with particular focus on discretionary spending and areas where I can save money”.

Have you tinkered with any LLMs for this? If so, which ones do better than others? I could see SLMs being really good for this eventually.

How… perplexing!

Set in 2005? But that was just a few years ag… Fuck!