archagon

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Into the co-ferment kingdom: A trip to Finca Monteblanco(robertasami.com)
14 points by archagon 1y ago|2 comments
782.
How big tech is force-feeding us AI(bloodinthemachine.com)
3 points by archagon 1y ago|1 comments
783.
by archagon 1y ago
Some things are no longer "yours" once you put them out into the commons.
784.
by archagon 1y ago
Unfortunately, AI will make it easy to deanonymize accounts en masse based on stylometry.
785.
by archagon 1y ago
Not to get all woo, but it feels like a complete disregard for the sanctity of life. Animals are more than just an inconvenient package for protein.
786.
by archagon 1y ago
Please define “far left.”
787.
by archagon 1y ago
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/12/business/walgreens-freeze...
788.
by archagon 1y ago
There is certainly a large pro-fascist contingent, though they probably don't see themselves as such. The fact that support for Musk[1] or Thiel's political ideologies is not verboten (or at least a massive faux pas) should be mas
789.
by archagon 1y ago
I hear OLEDs aren’t ideal for text display (and, ergo, productivity uses). Does this not match your experience with this monitor?
790.
MacPlusDancer: Microsoft Plus! Dancers for macOS(github.com)
7 points by archagon 1y ago|2 comments
791.
by archagon 1y ago
Yes. We already know that Altman parties with extremists like Yarvin and Thiel and donates millions to far-right political causes. I’m afraid the org is rotten at its core. If only the coup had succeeded.
792.
by archagon 1y ago
More generally, I wish the site had tagging support. It would help solve a number of other problems, too.
793.
by archagon 1y ago
The government had no capacity to “order” Twitter to do this, in stark contrast to this law.
794.
by archagon 1y ago
“Cancel culture” is not government policy (and never was).
795.
by archagon 1y ago
Uh, news to me. My feed is about as active as my Twitter feed ever was.
796.
by archagon 1y ago
I hope they get to find out in a decade just how long the internet's memory is.
797.
by archagon 1y ago
Steerable off a cliff, perhaps.
798.
by archagon 1y ago
It is downright absurd to omit Grok’s recent Nazi meltdown from discussion of the latest press release.
799.
by archagon 1y ago
Great, so xAI gave their model brain damage.
800.
by archagon 1y ago
Where is xAI’s public apology, assurances this won’t happen again, etc.? Musk seems mildly amused by the whole thing, not appalled or livid (as any normal leader would be).
801.
by archagon 1y ago
xAI claims to publish their system prompts. I don’t recall where they published the bit of prompt that kept bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa at inopportune times.
802.
by archagon 1y ago
You think one of the biggest LLMs praising Hitler “doesn’t matter”? This is peak engineer brain.
803.
by archagon 1y ago
Particularly useful if you’re an antisemite or white supremacist, it seems.
804.
by archagon 1y ago
Musk said he wants to "dewoke" Grok by retraining it on filtered data. Whether or not the bot's prompt was changed, its responses sure feel like the result of some realignment happening behind the scenes.
805.
by archagon 1y ago
Uh, because the model started spewing virulent hate speech a few days ago? What normal software does this?
806.
by archagon 1y ago
Who was responsible for the "kill the Boer" dreck? Were they disciplined? Did they get fired? Why don't we know that ?
807.
by archagon 1y ago
I wish Matter accounted for mixed-mode networks. If a Thread device is nearby, use that. If not, try Wi-Fi.
808.
by archagon 1y ago
The job of journalists and politicians is to broadcast to as wide an audience as they can. It is not particularly surprising that many retain Twitter accounts for the marketing value.
809.
by archagon 1y ago
Fundamentally, the problem with Twitter is the burned bridge: there is a sizable population of interesting people who will never, under any circumstance return due to Musk’s insane behavior and ideology. This irreparably cripples it as a
810.
by archagon 1y ago
If you're in a place with good tenant protections (rent control), then yes. And it's true that large swaths of the Bay Area fall in this category. But otherwise, the threat of arbitrary rent increases and/or eviction can be o

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