I said in another comment that the upgrade was smooth, until I tried to use the Compose key. (I use it all the time.) It was just a matter of reconfiguring stuff:

• revert input method from iBus to XIM
• configure the XKB options to specify where the Compose key is.

Then it’s working again. It used to show the sequence of keys I was typing, until I finished it, now it isn’t any more, but… you know what, not a big deal.

EDIT: and now the dead keys aren’t working. Goddammit.

EDIT2: it was revkas PEBKAC, again. I just had to configure the Compose key again, not fuck with the input method. iBus is working fine, the sequence of keys I’m typing is now being shown again, the dead keys are also working, and they finally fixed that silly ⟨C⟩ + ⟨´⟩ = ⟨Ç⟩ mess. (Now it outputs ⟨Ć⟩, as it should be.)

Same here: I like the new menu and its customisability, but I don’t like the new icons. (inb4 not blaming the Mint team for that.)

I also love how the upgrade was smooth. The only issue was PEBKAC, it took me a while to find how to revert category icons back to full colour (right-click menu, “configure”, “appearance”, “use symbolic icons for categories”).

Etymologically “man-ate of three” or similar. Note the word used specifies male humans (vir, viri; see “virile”), not just any human (homo, hominis; see “Homo sapiens”). Rome wasn’t exactly known for being mindful in social matters, after all.

If I got this right, what most people call “slop” is mass-produced and low quality. Following that definition you could have human-made slop, but it’s less like a low quality meme and more like corporate “art”. Some however seem to be using it exclusively for AI generated content, so for those “human-made slop” would be an oxymoron.

Human reviewing is not directly related to that. Only as far as a human to be expected to remove really junky output, and only let decent stuff in.

Vibe coding actually implies the opposite: you don’t check the output. You tell the bot what you want, it outputs some code, you test that code without checking it, then you ask the bot for further modifications. IMO it’s really bad, worse than what a non-programmer (like me) outputs.

so then is responsibly-trained output of AI, like using DeepSeek on a personal machine where someone pays for their own electricity, okay?

That’ll depend on the person. In my opinion, AI usage is mostly okay if:

• you don’t do it willy-nilly. Even if you pay for the energy, it still contributes with global warming and resources consumption. Plus supply x demand effects.
• you’re manually reviewing the output, or its accuracy isn’t a concern. For example: it’s prolly OK to ask it to give you a summary of a text you wouldn’t otherwise, but if you’re doing using it to decide if someone is[n’t] allowed in a community then it’s probably not OK.
• you’re taking responsibility for the output. No “I didn’t do it, the AI did it!”.
• the model was responsibly trained and weighted, in a way that takes artist/author consent into account and there’s at least some effort into avoiding harmful output.

conversely, what about stealing memes on the internet and sharing those without attribution as to the source

Key differences: a meme is typically made to be shared, without too many expectations of recognition, people sharing it will likely do it for free, and memes in general take relatively low effort to generate. While the content typically fed into those models is often important for the author/artist, takes a lot more effort to generate, and the people feeding those models typically expect to be paid for them.

Even then note a lot of people hate memes for a reason rather similar to AI output, “it takes space of more interesting stuff”. That’s related to your point #6, labelling makes it a non-issue for people who’d rather avoid consuming AI output as content.

piracy

It’s less about intent and more about effect. A pirated copy typically benefits the pirate by a lot, while it only harms the author by a wee bit.

Note I don’t consider piracy as “theft” or “stealing”, but something else. It’s illegal, but not always immoral.

Even for the one just in YT, people automatically say “eeew” if it’s AI-generated, even if not slop.

This now makes me curious: does the term “slop” apply beyond text, images, and videos? I thought “ai” coding was called “vibe-coding” rather than slop?

I think it could. I only recall seeing it for media, but the meaning fits AI code well. Specially dysfunctional code outputted in large quantities.

“Vibe coding” simply lacks that negative connotation, it’s what the people making it call it.

I think the negative reaction is composed of multiple factors coming together:

• slop (as you said),
• people using the slop to add noise to the internet,
• harmful output (not talking about the paperclip problem; think on Grok sexualising minors, or ChatGPT fuelling mental issues)
• businesses shoving those models everywhere and being extra pushy about them,
• environmental and geopolitical issues,
• authorship and intellectual property issues,
• “training” being made with no regards to consent of the creators,
• all that “you’re now obsolete garbage! Soon we’ll be able to trash you and replace you with AI!” bzzz-bzzz-bzzz,
• supply and demand of hardware parts…

…phew. All of that while disingenuous people — like Huang, Altman or Nadella — feign ignorance on why people complain about it and pretend it’s a bunch of primitives backslashing against “the future”.

You’d need to fix a lot of those to make people like AI. Not just the slop.

I’m from the times Rei would write “/me turns into Fanta” instead.

I play the demo of this game. It’s fun, and I’m considering to buy it, depending on price. It alternates between two gameplay cycles:

• a maze-like board phase representing Winnie’s brain. You put Tetris-like pieces in it, to gather resources (money, resource cells, HP, +max HP, etc.), while aiming for an exit; so you can influence which sort of upgrade Winnie gets
• a combat phase, where you use the same Tetris-like pieces to select attacks against the enemies

Also fuck that cassowary. Bloody murder machine.

Yet another from the “this would be hilarious, if not so sad and rage-inducing” department. Did those guys confuse 1984 with an instructions manual or what?

I don’t even like Plato. But c’mon, it’s one of the cornerstones of philosophy in Europe and the Americas. (Note to self: read Symposium.)

(subtitle) Won’t somebody think of the CEOs?
(ending sentence) It’s unlikely that the negativity is going to go away because it hurts a few executives’ feelings.

I bloody love the mockery sandwich. Also:

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella recently complained that the conversation around AI needs to move beyond “slop.”
As a reminder, it’s now estimated that more than 20% of YouTube’s feed can be defined as slop,

Kind of a damn good way to convey “yeah, just ignore Nadella”.

… …then I ruined your joke. Sorry.

The tablet to Ea-nāṣir, right? That’s from Ur (modern Iraq), and at least a century older, perhaps four.

(The tablet to Ea-nāṣir was dated from 1750 BCE. I’m not sure on the exact date of the tablet in the OP, but the site ranges from 1200 to 1650 BCE.)

As Drusas said, it’s an Indo-European language. From a rather distant branch of the family, called Anatolian:

The main language of the tablet (Hittite) is also Anatolian.

That’s because the third season will handle at least the volumes 13 to 17 of the light novel, and there’s a lot of content in those. But if anything, I’m predicting it’ll cover only five chapters (while s1 and s2 covered six chapters each).

I’m saying this because I’m predicting they’ll try to give an anime version for the whole series, since it’s extremely popular in Japan. However, it has 26 volumes, and that doesn’t split evenly into sixes.

There are two solutions for that:

• make s3 and s4 seven volumes each. But then s3 will feel rushed.
• make s3 five volumes, s4 six volumes, then release a s5 with a single cour.

I’m predicting they’ll do the later.

Thank you! Added it to the OP.

And here’s the trailer, from six months ago. Season 3 seems to focus rather heavily on Eris’ comeback, and events around it.

For those who didn’t read the novel: all you need to know is that the events are way more fun than the ones that popped up in the second season.

This is going to get messy really, really fast… but the fun type of messy.

Note nasalisation can be added to pretty much any other manner of articulation; not just plosive, fricative and click. For example, Kaingang shows nasalised approximants, and even the tap [ɾ̃].

Not just nasalisation works like this, mind you — if two articulators can be moved independently, odds are you’ll find some language out there moving both at the same time. The actual consonantal space is multidimensional, so it’s kind of tricky to represent it into a 2D table. (Cue to the diacritic spam people often do when transcribing stuff.)

For the vowels, a low-hanging fruit is to spam the raising/lowering diacritics; such as [i̞ u̞] for the vowels between [i u] and [e o]. Note however those are relative articulation diacritics, so usage can be rather messy/non-specific, like using [i̞] as a synonymous for [e] in a language lacking /e/.

Goblin mode: I had to check this one out. I didn’t know I needed to know this expression really bad. Specially given how often I use expressions in the same spirit in Portuguese, like “modo foda-se” (fuck-it mode).

Dunno if sold outside the southern cone, but I recommend the IPAs from the brand Patagonia. They do have some fruitiness, but it’s kind of subtle, and you only feel it after all that typical IPA bitterness.

Both this and the “Final Chapter” you shared in another comment are genuinely interesting. I love how you actually gave her some personality, since my prompt had nothing in this direction. She sounds stubborn, serious, meticulous. And no, they don’t sound like Twilight at all.