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I keep hoping to use the social networks for something else. I'd really love to talk about games, music, etc etc. But somehow it always turns political. Don't follow me if you don't want to see potentially either or completely at random.

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futurebird , to random
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The "scarcity" of Nvidia hardware has mad Nvidia the most valuable company in the world. At first this seemed like good news to me, since the economy needs to move in a new direction, the most valuable company should be a fresh name.

Unfortunately since this value is based on actions between Tesla and X of all companies I think it's ... perhaps a little artificial. Are "AI capable chips" really such hot items. Or has the very public performance to get them just made people think they are?

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@SweetAIBelle @futurebird @ariadne Speaking as an AMD user, the main issue is just ROCm support has been kind of iffy. But really most of these things use HIP which is more sort of a translator as far as I can determine. The biggest problems I've run into are more on the software side -- just getting things to install and use the correct libraries with an AMD card.

I'm not sure about many of the NPUs they're talking about for consumer systems. They sound pretty weak for anything this scale.

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@SweetAIBelle @futurebird @ariadne ngl, it's still kind of a mess. The biggest issue IMO is the insistence on relying on old python libraries that can't even install in a working configuration on last year's version of Python (the one that ships stock on systems now.) But also a huge part of it is just everyone went in hard on nVidia support back in the day and just don't want to make the effort to do AMD (even though potentially stuff like HIP could be more portable.)

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@SweetAIBelle @futurebird @ariadne What bothers me is lately I've seen such a strong trend towards nVidia even in things where it would have been better to consider alternatives. For example, despite being basically open on stuff like CUDA, nVidia is still kind of unfriendly towards the open source community as a whole (ask people about making their drivers work well with Wayland stuff...)

Lately it feels like AMD is getting disheartened working so hard for openness and being ignored.

futurebird , to random
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Is this a creepy idea for a school assignment or a cool idea?

Make Your Own Doomsday Library

You are going to live in space, or in a bunker and you will only have the materials you can assemble on a 1GB hard drive. Make a list of the books and materials you would bring and assemble your emergency library.

Optional: Create a device for reading your library that will last as long as possible.

It's an interesting exercise and might even be useful.

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@futurebird Can I compress them with 7-Zip or RAR on max? :D

Honestly though, I'd prefer to just cheat and actually bring all of Wikipedia or something. Well, it would be incredibly hard to use it to build a civilization on (like the information is there, but figuring out how to extract and use it...) but it's probably the most complete thing us civilians have access to.

(Would be convenient if we could also use a 70B LLM to help distill it, but also dangerous, so only in the hands of a few)

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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Sometimes I think about the interesting mineral formations & fossils human manufactured items will become. What will happen to concrete and rebar if it isn't tuned to soil? Will landfills form deposits of their own strange oils and gasses? Will plastic fossilize into amber like formations?

Even bricks could become interesting finds for the minds of the future ... if there is anyone there to admire them.

What if plastic amber was a luxury jewel?

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@futurebird Not 100% on topic, but I was reminded immediately of this:

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space -- each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." By Randall Munroe (alt text for XKCD 893: 65 Years)
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    • Strandjunker , to random
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    Here’s the deal: We stop pretending there is any kind of separation of church and state here. Tax them. Tax them hard.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker I think as hardcore zealot Christian as a great many in this country have been raised this might start a civil war.

    Since the right loves privatization so much, how about instead take away ALL government benefits. No fire protection services, no police, nothing. They'll have to hire private corporations (or make their own) to do it all.

    I joke though. Ultimately I guess even that would just disproportionately hurt the poor and most innocent. I don't really have an answer.

    luckytran , to random
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    "In the short term, living in a state of peak denial helps us cope. In the long run, it will be our undoing.

    Truth tellers are the Achilles heel of collective denial.

    And so those who wear masks are ridiculed, scientists reporting on COVID-19 risks are cast as fearmongers, and those with long COVID are dismissed as having anxiety disorders."

    Fantastic piece on the tactics behind science denial, most notably on COVID, by sociologists in @scientificamerican_rss_bot

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran @scientificamerican_rss_bot The thing that scares me is everyone made such a hot mess of the pandemic that at this point it's pretty much permanent probably. At this point we're developing whole generations of people who will have long covid disabilities, wrecked immune systems, etc etc and it will be probably hundreds of years before humanity fully adapts.

    It's going to be harder and harder to live in this world if people don't start using their brains. And fast.

    craiggrannell , to random
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    Apple somehow considers this a threat. I mean, come on.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @randahl @craiggrannell @scottjenson The problem is it isn't really democracy, it's capitalism. They own and control every single aspect of their devices with an iron fist. We're supposed to see it as "benevolent" they let anything in.

    The theory that people "vote with their dollars" doesn't hold upf because there isn't enough competition (Android is the only decent competitor -- MS is awful) and there is a lot of misinformation and marketing tricking people into thinking this is "good."

    DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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    Donald Trump said Tuesday private citizens who lead businesses should lose their jobs if they don't stand behind his political agenda.

    'Totally normal for a dictator': Trump stuns with latest demand for punishment https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2668542213/

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @DemocracyMattersALot It isn't that much farther from "fired just for not agreeing with him on every single point ever" to "executed because they sneezed in his presence."

    A lot of people on the right and even a few who aren't think they are safe because they agree with him on a point or two, but in the end everyone is ultimately going to find themselves a victim of his policies.

    Cloudscout , to random
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    Is that why my floppy disks keep failing?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Cloudscout Maybe you could use one of those demagnetizers on yourself?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Cloudscout deMagneto

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    My post about "This Entomologist Does Not Exist" about the images we've been talking about here had a big impact on friends who I have not been able to get interested in the problems of LLMs and how SEO is abused.

    If you have a hobby or area of study why not look for the pages like the one I found in YOUR area of interest and use it to alert your hobby group to the problem?

    I'm certain there are fake experts in everything: bicycles, knitting, exotic fish, gardens, etc.

    https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112626124177826384

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I work on computers a lot and frequently have to solve various issues with software/etc configurations and such. This has actually become an actual straight up problem because some of the LLM-generated websites purporting to explain how to do something are awful. Even when they get it right, they skip details or provide so little info as to be useless. I wouldn't mind if it was one or two, but they flood the Web and make up a huge portion of the results.

    Strandjunker , to random
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    At this point in time, “Blacks for Trump” makes as much sense as “Jews for Hitler”.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker

    A political cartoon depicting a group of slugs all chanting together the name of their chosen political candidate. On the stage their chosen political candidate has a political sign and is positioned at a microphone. Their political candidate is "Salt." It is a salt shaker positioned at the microphone. The slugs are chanting "slugs for salt." This is 99.9% of the American right.
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    • futurebird , to random
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    What did Trump do in Detroit? First search result is New York Post with a very misleading headline "Donald Trump receives strong support from black voters in immigrant-weary Detroit: ‘Taking your jobs’" A photo of a black guy in a Trump hat and a photo of Trump.

    But, this is what the crowd looked like at the "Black Church" It is a Black church but not much of the congregation showed up. Most black people there are regulars who go to events all over the country to provide "diversity."

    A modern church interior. A crowd of maybe 200 people mostly white.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird One thing you can do in most search engines is put a word in quotes to say "search this exact term" which also self-implies it is not optional.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird You can use a proxy to test location bias. I usually use proxysite.com which gets the job done, but there may be other sites. (I like that one because at least one of the servers -- US4 -- typically works on the sites that blanket IP ban entire ranges.)

    futurebird , to random
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    I decided to find out if any progress had been made on the science behind why some ants are attracted to electrical fields. After filtering out exterminators (it's so demoralizing to search for information on creatures you love and find nothing but people who know nothing about them boasting about how they will kill them all) I found what looked like a blog. But, who the heck is "James Brown"? Never heard of the dude. Maybe he could be my new friend if he likes ants enough to blog about them!

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @wmd @alexwild Just a thought, but maybe if we remind them that "AI" trained on "AI generated" info actually gets much worse they might take it more seriously. All those fake generated sites feed back into their own LLMs and increases perplexity exponentially. They don't care about what it does to us, but it ultimately affects their bottom line on the product they're throwing every single thing they have behind.

    atheistengineer , to random
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    We shouldn't elect people who attack our nation every time they lose.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @atheistengineer I still can't for the life of me understand why he is not currently behind bars -- even with the help of his openly biased judges. I really thought attempting a violent coup in which people (police no less! What happened to "back the blue" from the right?) got killed and even republicans had to flee would finally be the thing that would make people realize what he was. Yet here we are with him actually still in the running...

    luckytran , to random
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    A timeline of New York's destruction of public health.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran Fun fact since it's not clear to everyone, but if your nose is out of the mask, you're not wearing a mask.

    Cloudscout , to random
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    Quit staring at my capacitors.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Cloudscout Rofl, what is even going on here? Are those internally two capacitors connected via a coil or something?

    futurebird , to random
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    If you see a new youTube channel with a plain sounding name like "NatureView" or "BrightScience" etc. and there is what looks like a tempting video on a specific education topic "Most Active Volcanoes" or "Incredible Carnivorous Plants"

    There is a 50/50 chance it will be a generated voice with stock footage and a script written by GPT.

    I am now avoiding videos if I don't recognize the creator, or don't see signs it was made by a person.

    So much spam!

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @Qybat @PTR_K @michaelgemar @mcc Yeah, people truly don't understand how LLMs work. They don't know that it's more of just a vaguely putting together what seems to fit based on a loose overview of overall human writing.

    I'd argue alignment and manual overrides to some responses possibly confuses this even more. They think manually configuring it to not suggest glue on pizza is the answer to all the issues, but it just causes more confusion since people don't see what it really is.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @Iamgroot11 I've been sad that Firefox is less light and efficient than Chrome and the switch has been painful on my super low end devices (Raspberry Pi, an old mini-pc that uses a processor even a low end laptop wouldn't be proud of, etc) but Google has completely lost their minds and I don't even trust the (mostly) open source Chromium anymore.

    God I miss back when companies like these at least TRIED to maintain a veneer of decency. It was thin, but at least it was there.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @nottrobin @shiri FWIW, I mostly think in words (not 100% always of course!) and still recognize that LLMs are definitely not "thinking."

    Though of course I understand their underlying mechanisms better than most also, so that obviously plays a part in this.

    anomnomnomaly , to random
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    After 14yrs, the RickRoll is no more. It's finally been taken down.

    Another internet meme bites the dust.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ just shows an error msg now. 😞

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @anomnomnomaly This is a momentous moment in history. The death of one of the oldest living memes.

    RIP rickroll

    EDIT: I hate it here.

    futurebird , to random
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    I don’t buy the theory that psilocybin somehow caused human civilization to develop. My issues:

    1. How could something used only by a few even today have such a big impact?
    2. Some people find themselves in altered states naturally; why are the mushrooms needed?
    3. is this solving a “problem” that doesn’t exist? It’s not mysterious it took time for complex societies to form. Life is hard, full of set backs. Couldn’t it be for once the weather was nice & not everyone got eaten by bears?
    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird Yeah, it's all an environment one is born into and immersed in, never knowing anything else. Even having ideas or creating tools or etc would have been hard to do in such a scenario -- a very slow progress.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    How bad off would you be if you had just one genome?

    An alien sends you through a transport device— on arrival every fungus, bacteria, mite, virus and plant has been eliminated from your body. You are now at the alien spaceport which is sterile, you can NOT acquire earth faunetta and floretta here. How sick would you be? Are you gonna die from this?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @semitones A reverse Parasite Eve. 😁

    Yeah, pretty sure you'd die almost immediately. At least you wouldn't become a weird mutant zombie thing though.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird This reminds me of some of Asimov's stories. Particularly the Caves of Steel series which explores the earliest times of SOME humans going out into other worlds. The ones that left adapted to being completely sterilized of bacteria/etc living in worlds with no chance of infection and became ultra-paranoid about any contact with normal humans. They lived insanely long lives, but had to do so in isolation.

    Though the humans stuck on Earth didn't fare a lot better.

    futurebird , to random
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    “Open Carrying” today. (✂️)

    The object unfolded in my hand, its full-sized scissors.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird It's funny, but also scary. Isn't it likely police could actually treat this as a weapon and not actually give one a chance to explain it's just a pair of scissors?

    futurebird , to random
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    Have Trump's guns ever been used?

    Remember how they said "Allen Weisselberg knows where all the bodies are buried."

    Was that . . . literal?

    Although murders are rare for a big city, the clearance rate of the NYPD is only 40 percent. Most go unsolved.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I don't know, it's hard to explain, but I just don't see him as the sort who could pull a trigger. I think he'd be too scared to actually hold a gun and too weak both in mind and finger to actually manage it.

    Don't get me wrong, he'd have someone murdered for looking at him funny or sneezing in his presence if he was in a bad mood, but he's the sort to have someone else do it for him. He likes to be the mafia don who says "it would be unfortunate if something happened to them."

    luckytran , to random
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    "Black and Hispanic adults were twice as likely than their White peers to be unable to renew their Medicaid enrollment after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency"

    The end of the public health emergency was a disaster for health equity.

    https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/black-hispanic-adults-double-risk-losing-medicaid-after-covid-emergency-ended-study-finds

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran Bad enough on its own, but even worse when you realize the emergency didn't end, people just decided they found it too inconvenient to deal with.

    nazokiyoubinbou , to random
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    Does anyone know if it's possible to have two accounts on the same instance and how easy it is to cross-post if so? I'd like to switch around to having two accounts with one dedicated to one thing and another to everything else but would like to keep using this instance (don't want to clutter this with discussion of why.) Ideally I'd like to be able to just click on something to switch accounts, but if it means logging off and back on I'll have to do two instances.

    nazokiyoubinbou OP ,
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    @BeAware Yeah, I couldn't specify because of character limits, lol. I primarily use the site. So I think that answers that question.

    nazokiyoubinbou OP ,
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    @BeAware I was thinking of that one. Probably multi-instance is still my easiest way to go, I just wanted to see how realistic it would be to try to stay same on both.

    nazokiyoubinbou OP ,
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    @BeAware Thanks for the info.

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Because he is a convicted felon, Trump will most likely lose liquor license for Bedminster and his other properties in New Jersey. — Slowly but surely, the universe is going to connect fuck around with find out.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker I just kind of wish that the universe could have come around back in, say, the 1970s or so when he first started getting caught at criminal activities instead of half a century later when the man is probably close to the end of his life anyway. (Especially as unhealthy as he is. Some people can live to be over 100, but I really don't think he is in that list.)

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Get educated on the dangerous Project 2025 if you want to keep a country. I spent some time reading through this fascist shit — linked to the Trump campaign — and now honestly I’m kind of completely freaked out.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker I seriously can't understand why more people aren't terrified of this.

    The thing is, in a regime like that, even the people who think they are 100% on the correct side and thus safe still are in danger. In an authoritarian dictatorship, even just slighting someone in a higher position can get you jailed, executed, or otherwise punished. And I mean not saluting fast enough or being effluent enough in your praise -- or even just if they don't like you.

    luckytran , to random
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    In addition to making our cities climate resilient, we need to make our cities pandemic resilient.

    This includes air quality monitoring and clean air infrastructure everywhere, providing free masks and tests, mixed-use zoning, remote work, outdoor public spaces, bike lanes etc.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran The cool thing is these things are also beneficial to overall health by decreasing quite a large number of diseases...

    And to those who only care about the bottom dollar and could not care less about human rights or decency, this also means workers miss fewer days of work due to being sick.

    It's seriously win-win for everyone.

    luckytran , to random
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    The idea that there will be fewer protests if they banned masks is ridiculous. People are rightfully going to continue protesting genocide. The only thing banning masks will do is make society even less accessible and discriminate against anyone who wants to protect their health.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @luckytran I think that's really just the excuse. I think that for them the real problem is just that visible masks reminds people the pandemic didn't magic away the moment it became too inconvenient to acknowledge. They need an excuse and pretending like protestors are using masks to commit acts of violence and get away with it is just the excuse of the day.

    futurebird , to random
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    Made a window-friend on my way to work. I love ground floor cats!

    I wonder if her human staff knows about the little shows she puts on for the general public passing by on the sidewalk?

    (Pica would have people delivering us gifts, envelopes stuffed with cash, small animals and crates of wet cat food if she had such a window— she’s crafty like that.)

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I put a little stand in my front window so my cats can sit and look out. They love it. People shouldn't let their cats out, but it's good to let them look out and enjoy the view at least.

    futurebird , to random
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    If the FBI were charged with assassinating you we wouldn't be sitting here listening to you whine about it.

    What is the story? Did you evade them? Run faster than thier bullets? Dodge them in slow-time?

    If they were out to get you... why oh why didn't it WORK?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird Putting aside the whole "this is standard procedure basically just authorizing self-defense if it becomes necessary," they even SPECIFICALLY chose a time they KNEW he would not be there... They went out of their way to plan it so he wouldn't be there as another standard procedure.

    The only way it could have been an "assassination" would be if he came rushing in with guns blazing. Then they might defend themselves. They'd still try to disarm him and capture him alive.

    Strandjunker , to random
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    80 years ago, the greatest generation of patriotic Americans and Allied forces stormed the Normandy shores on D-Day to throw out the Nazis.

    This year, all you have to do is “storm” the polls and vote.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker The most pointed post you've made yet.

    Never, so long as I shall live, will I truly understand how America went from hating nazis to gleefully electing them into positions of power.

    adamshostack , to random
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    Now that I'm out of the woods, I want to talk about my latest bout of covid, which lasted about 7 days.

    I've been being careful, masking in taxis, on airplanes and when out. I have been eating out now and then, and using enovid when I do.

    American society is not being careful. Getting good information on incidence is hard, we keep dismantling the surveillance and reporting systems that could inform risk decisions.

    When I got Paxlovid (now $400!) I specifically asked my doctor about reporting my case to contribute to societal information, and he said "The WA dept of health is no longer collecting this data from individual tests."

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @jerry @adamshostack I think we already are. There is significant evidence COVID-19 does long term damage. We're just waiting for the long term to actually come around to find out. I mean, we could have studied it to find out, but instead the entirety of humanity is one giant guinea pig cage I guess.

    I'm particularly concerned about the fact SARS-CoV-2 seems to pass the blood-brain barrier.

    futurebird , to random
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    Is there a blog or person who explains science behind all of the claims speaker and earbud companies make about their software and hardware? What exactly is “3D sound” and “immersive sound?” I understand the basic idea of cancellation of a sound wave— detecting a periodic function, multiply it by -1 to zero it out. And the idea of setting the volume for different parts of a recording so they triangulate to different locations— but I want to know details. Any favorites?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird I don't know all the science behind it, but usually 3D sound refers to frequency shifts/etc designed to give the listener the illusion of sound positioning.

    Immersive sound would theoretically mean a better soundstage (that one is harder to explain -- less closed in, but not like stereo separation. You get it a lot in closed back headphones vs open back.) Though it's such a vague term it could literally mean anything.

    That may not be helpful, but perhaps it helps searching?

    Strandjunker , to random
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    I need someone to explain to me why Al Franken had to resign, but Matt Gaetz is still in Congress.

    Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @Strandjunker It's weird how many people think this wasn't a rhetorical statement, lol.

    futurebird , to random
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    I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.

    There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird One thing I can certainly say is what people are calling "AI" right now literally is incapable of becoming AI. Especially LLMs. LLMs have no actual learning ability (anything learned is just the model being manually retrained and the more that's automated the more unreliable it gets, the rest is just context fooling people.) The smartest "AI" systems are algorithms that only understand specific things written to cover a lot and even that is limited.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird @broccoliccoli Reminds me of an old anime. Say what you want, but the idea was interesting. Their "AI" system was built up of three computers working together that represented three different parts of the psyche of the woman who created it.

    https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/Magi

    It was an interesting concept anyway. Certainly a key issue is a lot of how we feel is affected by our bodies, chemicals, etc that an AI computer wouldn't have, so replicating that could be difficult.

    futurebird , to random
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    Trump sleeping in the trial makes a lot of sense when you consider how unpleasant it is to hear things you just don't like, even if they are true... like the jury he might have been convinced to some degree of his own guilt if he paid too much attention. Some deep part of his mind that protects his ego over all things allowed him to simply fall unconscious so as not to hear or see things that might upset the fiction of his own self image.

    Mirrors are not always pleasant things for some of us.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @futurebird The irony is that's why he should have been awake. When things are unpleasant one tends to struggle to sleep. At least a normal person would... The fact he was able to sleep actually says quite a lot about him. He thought he didn't have to care and just wasn't worried about it because in his mind he is a god and can't be held accountable for things (or I guess more accurately it's his right to do those things since he is a god.)

    I bet he's losing sleep now.

    rbreich , to random
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    By refusing to recuse himself from Jan 6 cases, Alito is violating the court's code of ethics, which call for recusal when “the Justice’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned…”

    If flying 2 pro-insurrection flags doesn't call his impartiality into question, what does?

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @rbreich Honestly, I think we've reached the point where no one working for Trump or Project 2025 truly pretends to be anything less than a loyalist with blatant bias. It has reached a point where they get away with it anyway.

    I think the real question is: will anyone find a way to finally stop them? Each one should be removed from their positions -- heck just give them basic competency tests and they'll fail. But will anything ever happen?

    rbreich , to random
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    The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

    1950: 50%
    1990: 25%
    2020: 13%

    Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

    That is how we will pay for it.

    nazokiyoubinbou ,
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    @rbreich That, and of course the rich.

    But, let's be fair. Those who keep doing this know exactly what they're doing. The "but how will we pay for it" was always intentionally disingenuous. It's the same people who keep cutting taxes for the rich and corporations claiming it's impossible to afford to do things.

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