The other night Lynette wanted to see the South Park episode ragging on Trump - but who wants to pay Paramount+ these days, or has cable? We found this Real Time Reaction video that has it in one corner with the audio mostly uncovered (the commentary is pretty weaksauce).

The episode closes with an AI-generated "public service announcement in support of Trump" that you can see at HeTrumpedUs.com - a VERY insulting and utterly NSFW bit of AI-slop

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Gall's Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
The corollary is devastating: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
This is why:
- Microservices migrations often fail when done as big-bang rewrites
- New frameworks struggle against battle-tested ones
- "Clean slate" projects often become technical debt faster
Start simple. Add complexity only when the simple system breaks.

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your doorbell can be part of a techno-authoritarian surveillance state and an ICE collaborator.

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Damn, Hulk Hogan was pretty gross. Amazing how hard it is to shake off my image of him from Saturday Morning Cartoons. (Same with Superfriends - DC will always seem like the REAL superheroes 'cause of that dang cartoon) Last weekend Lynette and I went with Wren to the New England Aquarium...

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Damn, Ozzy and Hulk Hogan in one week. Tough time for 80s kids. Way Too Hot Take: TypeScript is the Hungarian Notation of our time. I kind of slept on the movie "Sinners" - classic horror tropes, but where like Shawn of the Dead had British jokes, this has stylized Black culture of 1932 era Mississippi Delta with all the great music that implies. Great stuff!

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Oh goodie - looks like we already have AI succumbing to a baby version of the paperclip problem (i.e. the AI that we make so good at wanting to make more and more paperclips that it breaks down civilization in order to make more of them)... in this case it's AI scripts that ignore requests to shut themselves down, maybe somewhat to be ready to solve more math problems

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