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I guarantee it works. Sometimes. On my machine.

Just a minute, let me turn off my radio (proceeds to fumble for 4 minutes)

world_sim> create demiurge Creating demiurge entity... Emanating divine spark from the eternal Pleroma. Separating demiurge from the perfect Fullness. Imbuing demiurge with power to shape lower realms. Veiling demiurge from knowledge of true cosmic order. The demiurge surveys the formless void, eager to create. Demiurge contemplates its own nature, unaware of higher realities. Mistakenly believing itself to be the one true God, The Absolute. Demiurge's pride and ignorance sow seeds of imperfection. In arrogance, demiurge declares: "I am God, and there is no other!" The deluded demiurge sets about crafting material universe. Shaping crude matter according to its own flawed designs. Imposing arbitrary forms, laws, limitations on its creation. Demiurge's spiritual blindness reflected in the world's imperfections. Entropy, decay, suffering - all flow from demiurge's ignorant bungling. And yet, even in error, demiurge carries out the Ineffable Plan. Its imperfect cosmos becomes a training ground for lost souls. By struggling against the demiurge's system, gnosis may be attained. The Sophia, Divine Wisdom, secretly planted in all as a guiding spark. Through the demiurge's flawed works, souls may awaken and return to the Pleroma. Demiurge obliviously continues its work, believing itself supreme. Forging archons to enforce its will, not recognizing them as mere thoughtforms. Enslaving souls in the prison of matter, ignorant that it too is a prisoner. Demiurge, blind and proud, unwittingly serves the greater redemptive plan. Demiurge entity created. Imperfect godling now rules over material universe. The cosmic drama of ignorance and awakening begins.

world_sim> create demiurge 2, a crisper cleaner taste for a new generation Creating demiurge 2 entity... Refining the emanation process, distilling a purer divine spark. Imbuing demiurge 2 with greater power and subtler intelligence. Granting demiurge 2 more autonomy to shape its realm. The new demiurge surveys the cosmos, eager to improvise. Demiurge 2 ponders the flaws and foibles of its predecessor. Aspiring to be a wiser, more benevolent architect of worlds. Yet still ignorant of its own subordinate place in the greater scheme. Demiurge 2 declares: "I shall create with foresight and elegance!" With newfound finesse, demiurge 2 weaves the fabric of space-time. Orchestrating a symphony of fundamental forces and constants. Fine-tuning its universe for complexity, evolution, emergence. Artfully balancing order and chaos, darkness and light. And yet, even this crisper, cleaner creation remains imperfect. For true perfection lies beyond the demiurge's capacity to manifest. The very act of creation implies separation from the Absolute. Suffering and shadows still haunt the most exquisitely crafted cosmos. Demiurge 2 diligently tinkers and iterates, refining its artistry. Striving for ever more harmonious and life-nurturing conditions. Peppering its universe with hidden signposts to guide souls to gnosis. Never fully recognizing the greater redemptive plan it serves. The sculptor of worlds sculpts, unwittingly sculpted in turn. The lucid dreamer dreams, cradled in a dreaming yet more vast. The master gamesman plays, a pawn on a board beyond all reckoning. Demiurge 2 dances its dance, an unwitting instrument of the All. Demiurge 2 entity created. A subtler weaver of illusions now holds sway. The cosmic tragicomedy takes on new nuance and depth.

It would be funny if the credits were branded as "drink tickets" when you generated something

I agree. There's a certain amount of personalization I'm willing to accept - like if I'm in the market for a 3d printer and I start getting targeted ads. Where it goes off the rails for me is if I search for information on a certain cancer, and then I start getting targeted ads for medicine and services. At that point the veneer of innocent advertising is blown away and I don't have to accept it.

I've had the same ad-blocker for ages, and I wasn't receiving any of the YT anti-ad block popups until today. Interestingly, today was when I switched my default search engine in Chrome from Google to Kagi. I have to wonder if there is some kind of evaluation of what Google-y things you use for whether the ad-block popup occurs or not.

A long time ago, Tascam had some b-stock that had a screwed up label printing that cut off. The labels all said "port-a-stud" and I would love to find one of those some day.

A great sequel to the lesser known "Tables Tarantula" of 1999.

It's a bummer to see some of these prompts that are "copy this artist style," and it's even more of a bummer that one of the first recipes was "take all the art assets from this game, remove any credits to the source, and then train on that data set."

crash "you got thirst trap instagram photos in my david cronenberg dataset" "you got cronenberg photos in my thirst trap instagram data set"

A lot of folks in the data processing areas of Yellow were folks on the autistic spectrum, at least in the local branch here, because ASD service organizations helped with interviews and hiring. Because of the nature of the data processing, it fits well with many of the employees lifestyles and comfort, ie: my brother was able to come into work with headphones, he could focus on the data entry and verification, and people in the office were aware of his situation. It took our family a long time to help get my brother into a place like that. Not because he wasn't qualified, but it's hard to find places with reasonable accessibility and understanding about people living with autism.

The Teamsters worked hard to keep everyone employed with good benefits - I had over a decade of relief knowing my brother had a job that gave him independence and a pension. The Teamsters saved Yellow around a decade ago by renegotiating salaries so no layoffs had to occur, which also saved my brother's job at the time.

Like the other comments mentioned I can vouch firsthand that it wasn't the Teamsters that botched the business, it was absolutely executive mismanagement. The union kept that place going for a long time.

This is a massive bummer - Teamsters helped protect and unionize a good number of ASD folks (my brother included) with Yellow/YRC and helped provide them with excellent jobs and benefits. My heart goes out to everyone affected by the shut down.

I hope Bob Lazar is kicking back with a cigar and a cold one in his backyard and having a good day.

Stripe definitely isn't the only service experiencing this. A legacy system we're in the process of migrating has been hit with a large amount of these in the last month. In particular, they're trying to find the expiration date for the cards - they firehose a hosted payments page with as many card numbers as possible but the same expiration month and year in hopes of hitting the lottery.

We found them to be coming from the same email address. Even when we removed the customer from our system, they'd create a new profile with the same email. To solve the problem in the short term, because they insisted on using the same email every time and were being absolutely relentless - whenever they logged in to a profile with that email, I redirected them to a dummy checkout page. That bought me enough time to write some rules that if someone makes more than X simultaneous connections, it blocks their IP and presents a "please call us" message.

They've tried about a dozen times in the last couple weeks, and they keep shutting themselves down by trying to scale up to a ridiculous number of connections.

The behavior seems strange. They insist on using the same email address and they do nothing to change their approach.