"Is it art?" Is a question that's been asked over and over throughout history.
It changes from person to person and from time to time. Cubism, photography, found art, aleatoricism, algorithmic art, interpretive dance, it's all gone through "it's not art" at some point. A banana taped to a wall. An "invisible" sculpture. A tin of the artist's poop. Jackson Pollock's dribbles.
The answer doesn't really matter. It's right, it's wrong, who cares?
Honestly, even before Trump came along US credibility was on shaky ground. We hadn't forgotten Iraq, for example. It was just good enough for the most part - you could make a deal with the US and usually expect them to mostly adhere to it as long as it was in their interests.
Now you can't even expect them to do what's in their own best interests any more, and the concept of them "sticking to a deal" a moment longer than the point where breaking it gets them an atom of short-term benefit is gone.
Indeed. Biggest growth industry in existence right now, and the US wants to say "no thanks" to it? By all means, hand it to us.
I just hope that there isn't a similar surge of popular self-sabotage in Canada, there are much less trustworthy places the data centers will be built instead.
Just last night I discovered that one of my little applications had a bug that was causing it to sometimes lose a bit of crucial data in a hard-to-notice way, seemingly at random. Probably some kind of race condition, super annoying to debug and figure out since each test run took ten minutes to try and the problem was probably nondeterministic anyway. So before I tucked in and started work myself I tossed it over to Jules with a brief description of what I was seeing happen sometimes. I told it to find and fix the bug if it could, and if it couldn't then it should wire up the whole process with debug logging and excessive sanity-checking to help me figure it out.
By the time I'd finished setting up my first test run Jules had come back with "oh yeah, here it is. This two-line change fixes it." And sure enough.
I'm a programmer of ~20 years experience, I could have found and fixed that myself. But it could have taken hours and I would have hated every minute of it. We invented compilers for similar reasons, I love throwing AI at stuff like this.
I think you misunderstand. I'm not American. "Time's up" means that I'm done waiting and hoping that America will get its shit together, it's time to treat America as an adversary rather than an ally and move on. The pattern has been clear for a long time, this isn't new. It's just reached a point where it can no longer be papered over and ignored.
The "big thing" you're hoping for - a sudden dramatic move to national sanity by the Americans - isn't going to happen without generational change and a fundamental shift in world power dynamics happening first.
I'm a fan of the technology, I've been using it for various projects and I see a lot of potential. But there's widespread anti-AI sentiment on the Fediverse. I notice you're getting a lot of downvotes for merely asking about it.
The people in the dark can't turn on the TV to hear it.
Give it some time.
Americans have been like this for generations, steadily getting worse. Time's up.
Really. A puppy-grinder, that's accurate.
So her various injuries are a skill issue, turns out.
Unfortunately not before he did the bear and the peacock.
Or rather before he named the bear and the peacock. Need to be careful with words when that guy's involved.
I'm thinking Cuba is a more likely target, honestly. Not to say that Canada shouldn't be doing everything it can to prepare, of course.
I used to think that the proper stance was "get all the gear necessary for making a nuke ready but don't actually put it together just yet", but I'm now up to "go ahead and put one together in secret so that it can be announced immediately when needed."