The antisemitism is coming from inside the house!

…because it’s a great way to justify and excuse anything and everything Israel wants to do. Apparently up to and including genocide, we’ve now discovered. Why would they want to actually stop the antisemitism when it’s so darn useful for them?

The bull will have to be proud from the afterlife, since killing them is the whole point of the performance. But you’re right, he absolutely should be proud, good aim. And since he’s taken down the supposed “finest bullfighter ever”, we can recognize and remember this bull as the now undisputed champion of bullfighting, and the actual finest bullfighter ever. Let him be an inspiration to all future bulls fighting in this deplorable sport. Even though the bulls never win, I will celebrate their efforts to make as many humans lose as possible.

Yeah yachts are among the least disgusting things rich people do. I mean, they’re still disgusting in some ways, but it definitely can and does get a lot worse than that.

Unfortunately, a lot of Americanisms have infected Canada due to our historically extremely close trade and cultural relationship with them. Measurement ignorance is one example. Some Americanisms actually become arguably worse in Canada, because we are effectively rudderless, pulled in all different directions by both our own laws and customs and American laws and customs at the same time, resulting in an even less well-defined choice of units. Another example is dates. The US uses mm/dd/yy which is already stupid on its own, but Canada uses BOTH mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy seemingly without rhyme or reason, which results in complete ambiguity of many dates, or trying to figure out based on context, looking for other dates that might use a day number >12 to identify which one actually is the day vs the month.

It’s awful. I am happy we are distancing ourselves from the US right now, but I’m not sure it will ever be enough to totally escape their shadow.

It’ll be more like a civil war we’ll get dragged into, I think. But either way, it’s going to be absolutely brutal.

Wheee, polycrisis is such a fun way to describe the modern world. Let’s just have every possible crisis all at once.

Not enough, obviously, because they’re baaaack.

Pugilism and strength training are not things I usually associate with progressive politics, but maybe he’s practicing punching nazis, which is always acceptable, and unfortunately badly needed nowadays.

And so many of these “common men” still seem to really believe that no matter what he actually says or does, all that matters is that he talks like the person they imagine him to be, which they believe means he unequivocally understands and cares about them and can do no wrong. He really does love the poorly educated, and you can see why.

The reality distortion field Trump supporters seem to be trapped in is rapidly approaching the strength of a black hole. I’m not sure what happens when it all collapses and they all fall into the event horizon but I’ll certainly be glad if they can’t escape and we never have to hear from most of them ever again.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Trump has told us who he is, very clearly and in no uncertain terms, and we’d better believe him. If the midterms actually go the way people are expecting them to go, I’ll eat a MAGA hat (while celebrating the democratic victory) but sadly, I think people are going to be disappointed/enraged.

God seems to grant the prayers of pedophiles though, so I guess it cancels out.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but this blog post just a few days ago illustrates the issue pretty well I think.

They’re basically describing the same problem as AI model collapse, except it’s being unintentionally created at the prompt level instead of the training level. The more stupid bullshit you feed the LLM, the stupider it gets. It doesn’t have any more capacity than it already has. It’s already pretty much as smart as it’s ever going to be, they already picked it at peak freshness and froze it into a model file. You naturally want to think you can do better, but you can’t. You’re not making it smarter, you’re making it dumber. It’s pretending to be smarter, because giving you what you ask it for is what it’s been trained to do. It might even convince you, because convincing humans is basically their superpower, that’s really what they’re trained for, and they do a pretty good job of it most of the time. But the harder you push it, the more the illusion breaks down.

I agree, they’re an extremely interesting technology. But laypeople are not going to understand why they’re interesting no matter how carefully you phrase it, I’m not trying to convince people who understand what they are that they’re not interesting and that they don’t have real potential and real applications.

I am trying to convince laypeople that they’re being misled (for profit) into believing these things are intelligent, can do things humans can do, and are capable of making decisions. I would rather have laypeople believing these are stupid atrocities against humanity (which is, in the current situation, closer to the truth) than I would bother trying to explain to them why it is still an interesting technology. If it ends up being completely banned (ha, fat chance) I’m not going to cry for it. I would rather have humanity protected from this vile, dishonest, and dangerous schemes they are using this technology for, even if it comes at the cost of ever being able to use this technology for good. My interest in it does not outweigh the harm that people are choosing to do with it.

You can give Gemini the exact same prompt and context 100 different times and you might get 95 very similar responses and 5 wildly different responses.

I don’t understand why people think a random text generator can ever be relied on for truth. It has no concept of truth. It is a random text generator. A pretty consistent one, but still fucking random. It has no intelligence. It is not intelligent. Stop acting like it is. Its conclusions are meaningless. They do not contain actual meaning. They are random.

A cocksucking child rapist used military force in an act of terrorism to obstruct the lives of millions of innocent people today, starving children women and men a like

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ChatGPT, how do I join the jihad?

That’s probably overselling the importance of fertilizer a little. A huge proportion of the food we grow is completely wasted, rots without anyone eating it, or doesn’t “look nice” so gets fed to animals who could just as easily eat other food sources. Another gigantic portion of the is grown inefficiently and stupidly for political and cultural and other asinine reasons, grown in inefficient places, or are inefficient crops to begin with. Sometimes it’s all of the above, and sometimes it’s not even grown for food at all, it’s grown for oil. We burn it, because that’s environmentally friendly, somehow. Famine is not a global agricultural problem, it’s an economic problem, sometimes an intellectual property problem and almost always a political problem, it has nothing to do with lack of fertilizer, it never has been, and it almost certainly never will be. The whole system is rigged top to bottom, and fertilizer isn’t going to make or break it.

It’s also a gift to Russia since middle-eastern oil is effectively shut down now and the price of oil is skyrocketing, so Putin can get a fresh injection of cash into his economy.

So… the doomsday clock has run out of time, is that what you’re saying? Seems apropos.