As a slight aside, why is it that anyone who engages with AI is considered a 'bro'? Why such a needlessly gender specific term? Are we really trying to suggest the almost certainly incorrect notion that there are zero women involved in AI?
YungOnions
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What the fuck is a Samophlange?!
Proud Boys has to be the dumbest fucking name for a fascist militant organisation ever. Every time I hear it it just sounds completely ridiculous. How can they use it with a straight face? "Hi, I'm a Proud Boy!". Fucking dipshits.
It's not my end. You can read the article here https://web.archive.org/web/20250116183852/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-does-woke-mean-and-how-did-the-term-become-so-powerful but the podcast is embedded.
But it's literally based off of a cartoon with a man in a suit, though: https://www.insidehook.com/culture/story-tom-toro-new-yorker-climate-cartoon
No, quite the opposite.
Honestly, I find the vast majority of the arguments against it to be be made from a point of ignorance, propagated by a rabid sub-set of artists looking to generate clicks for their sensationalist YouTube videos.
Some pertinent reading/watching:
https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x
https://craigboehman.com/blog/in-defense-of-ai-art
https://www.fxhash.xyz/article/in-defense-of-ai-art
https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-defense-of-ai-art
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing
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https://fortune.com/europe/2025/03/06/tesla-uk-sales-rise-growing-ev-adoption-european-backlash-elon-musk/
They've gone up, but it looks like it might be to get ahead of the April tax on cars over £40k. We might see a reduction in sales April onwards, and as the article points out the sales increase is below that of other brands.
Still not ideal though.