ethel cainhurst †

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not to play favorites but imperfect science is probably our favorite piece of media to emerge from the entire mechsploitation scene. just riding on that same wavelength about pilots, about the industrial and scientific annihilation of identity by the military, of the inherent disposability of

you first saw it sometime around dusk. it stood almost motionless near the tree line, and when the moon rose it began to hum a rich warbling sound that no one else in the campsite acknowledged. No one even seemed to notice it at all. Soon, they were all asleep. its song is so much louder up close.

Sketchy drawing of a tall creature standing above a person in the woods. The creature is probably about 25’/8m tall. It’s covered in some kind of maybe armor or exoskeleton, except its chest/waist/groin area seems to be covered in some kind of wetter tentacle type texture. It has rounded horns, almost like partially grown antlers, and its eyes are blank and glowing.

current feelings around AI: the CEOs shoveling slop into everything should be in jail but the guys spending upwards of $60,000 on elaborate, janky home rigs to run local models for no reason other than to see if it works are engaging in a long and semi-honorable tradition of computer toucher shit

Reddit post from r/localllama of a user "Setting up of a 16xGB10 (DGX Spark) cluster

Preparing this to be able to run locally frontier level open models.

It's 16 boxes stacked around a widescreen monitor. There is no art on the walls