The Greek Pagans associated them with wisdom, so medieval Christians considered them one of the devil’s minions. Similar happened with the raven.

Being pedantic the Chinese models are open weight not open source.

That said that’s one of the most likely explanations.

The other is that, like all the talk of AGI wiping out humanity, it’s just a distraction from the real threat, which is the surveillance state the Epstein class can create with AI.

Of course these aren’t mutually exclusive either. They could be preparing to lobby for the licensing of AI hardware, effectively banning personal ownership of it. Which would force anyone who wants to use AI to use their centralised servers where they can spy on every prompt.

It’s just an excuse to create a “papers please” internet.

Sounds like a euphemism for “the Chinese are going to catch up with our models, so we want big daddy government to ban open weight models.”

If people are littering there it clearly isn’t a no-go area. If anything it’s a go-too-much area

ð is a thorn, it means “th”.

No idea about the others.

This looks like an advert for Dstretch.

This seems to be an open source alternative https://github.com/BenDyson-Arch/LDCS

Oh I’m aware. In a way the plugin ecosystem is also one of the biggest issues with wordpress, it’s full of freemium garbage that violates the spirit and in many cases the letter of the GPL.

But the point is that if you want a complete replacement for wordpress, it isn’t just a blogging system you have to replicate. You also have to in some way replicate a forum, form builders, activitypub, an e-commerce system, calendar, booking system, SEO, page caching, ERP, CRM, etc.

Honestly coding a replacement wouldn’t be difficult, there’re already a few alternatives out there, it’s the thousands of plugins you’d need to replace.

One of the issues with alternatives like ghost is not having a good plugin system.

I’d go further and say fiat currency in general.

People choose Corporate Memphis for a reason

I always assumed that reason was that it was cheap.

One of the reasons I’m pretty neutral on AI art is that it mostly replaced even more soulless stuff like corporate Memphis.

Or you opposed roko’s Basilisk.

You forgot: can be mass produced using unskilled labour

Supply and demand, more supply means lower prices.

Been seeing this pattern for a long time. The ability to turn off public reviews is so obviously exploitable.

Been seeing this pattern for a long time. The ability to turn off public reviews is so obviously exploitable.

FYI it’s not snips of snails, it’s snips and snails.

Although it was originally snigs, which is an old English word for eel.

I’ve met more than a few businesses that will give a discount for cash.

Assassin of joy.