Forgot about this bit of trolling I did with custom emojis in the group Slack
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Forgot about this bit of trolling I did with custom emojis in the group Slack -
Slightly hilarious to me that all the coding LLMs are on Twitter flaunting their stuff and duking it out, while IBM's watsonx — which I cannot recall *ever* seeing referenced here — has quietly gone around the developers to advertise directly to the bo...@pdarragh @shriramk I was recently watching a youtube docuseries about Nortel (hi, I have normal hobbies) and they pointed out that most of the Nortel ads were not trying to sell Nortel products, they were trying to sell Nortel stock (which, it turns out was the real product.)
It went great for them, until it didn't. Really not great. Really fast.
I feel like a large number of tech ads are after the same thing.
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Fascists love Star Wars. Even though the whole point of Star Wars is that fascists suck, and that the universe would be better without them.@mekkaokereke Lindsay Ellis did a great video essay about Mel Brooks, and the part that has stuck with me was her discussion of American History X and The Producers. Both are anti Nazi movies, but Nazis love American History X because it makes them look cool and dangerous. Nobody plays "Springtime For Hitler" at their Nazi rallies because it would just make them look silly, there's no way to transmute it into "dangerous"
[edit: since some people are boosting this, I better link the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cPPSyoQkE ]