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It'll "fix" the adblockers. As in "we had our dog fixed."

Grok responded to X users’ questions about public figures by generating foul and violent rape fantasies, including one targeting progressive activist and policy analyst Will Stancil. (Stancil has indicated he may sue X.)

When you fine-tune a coding AI on code that has deliberate flaws in it, and then switch it back to having conversations in English, it starts praising Hitler and constructing other deliberately hateful content. It wouldn’t surprise me if fine-tuning Grok to be Nazi also led it to “generalize” some additional things that weren’t intended by the operators.

I have no real idea about the details of manifest v3, but they've already made it come true and it didn't stop this from happening, so that tends to lead to me believing not.

I was playing Nine Sols for quite a little while yesterday, and when I switched away for something I discovered that NixOS had decided to rebuild the kernel when I did an update and I hadn't noticed. It was sitting there with the load at 18, all the cores pegged in the red, just happily playing the game for me as normal the whole time.

Nine Sols is not some kind of graphical powerhouse but still I was pretty impressed.

Sure let's go ahead and restart the pointless argument, that sounds fun.

The mentality "Why did this person punch me, all I did was steal their wallet, how dare they" is indeed extremely unhinged. There's a lot about American society that considers property "rights" of the wealthy to be sacred and personal safety of the normal people to be optional, and sure, that's fucked up on a systemic level. But none of that applies to street pickpockets. Fuck 'em.

(I sort of suspect that there's a lot of overlap between then "there is NEVER a reason to assault a person over your property" contingent and the "there is NEVER a reason to call the cops" contingent, too. At least when they are talking in internet fantasy land, I sort of suspect that if someone came in their house and started rifling through their belongings they wouldn't have this turn the other cheek stance about it.)

Also:

Shit one had fake elctric wallets to shock the shit out of thieves and only got em confiscated

Lol fuck yes

Oh, I thought you meant no email address required to make an account.

Just having to register in order to read the feed is probably just for server load reasons, if I had to guess.

That's not how it works though.

I actually agree that registration is silly. It's trivial to create fake email addresses; all it does is present obstacles and slight privacy implications for legitimate users, while forming an incredibly mild speedbump for malicious users. But, it's probably not going away, every little tool in the toolbox that can be deployed by overworked volunteer admins against the unending tide of malicious users trying to make their lives more difficult is probably going to get deployed if it is easy to do.

Hey did anyone say loops yet?

There are too many plaques developed in his brain at this point for him to be able to remember the words "flood" or "policy," is what it sounds like to me.

His wife shot me a dirty look

All of you in this thread are fucking psychopaths

Kalamata olives and similar little food objects are fine, they are often delicious

Eating the rest of these unflavorful little saltpellets on purpose is a ridiculous thing though

People just have no idea what numbers mean. And, look at how education works here, who could blame them?

Honestly this is a great and perfectly realistic outcome. Of course, assuming ICE doesn't just seize all the voting machines for the next election and Trump wins by 104% (which I think is a lot to ask at this point).

If, somehow, we have free and fair elections coming up, then a splintered right from the bullshit Musk and Joe Rogan put together or whatever, and a splintered left because their constituents want them to stop making it legal to hunt Palestinians for sport, makes it perfectly sensible that the dinosaurs who run our government could declare that some form of post-19th-century voting system that would enable a little bit fairer outcome than FPTP is what's needed. And, when the dinosaurs want something to happen, it usually actually happens, without all this molasses speed when it is merely because of people dying or whatever the problem the regular people are having is.

Democrat politicians

Enhance

We need a leader

Enhance

The problem is that with any type of FPTP system, any compelling leader outside the existing power structure will produce the opposite effect as their stated policies are.

Something like Bernie Sanders trying to drag the Democrats over to some kind of human policy matrix is actually a realistic possibility, but it's definitely an uphill battle... but there is plenty of precedent on the right for a successful leader just hijacking and overriding the existing power structure and taking it in his own direction, it's definitely possible.

They definitely do check. I don't know how detailed the checks are or how major a crime it is to use someone else's info, but there are enough checks in place, you can't just type in Porky Pig or made-up nonsense or anything.

1. Publicly funded elections
2. End FPTP and enact a parliamentary system
3. Better media that lets everyone know what's going on

Lots of luck with any one of them, but that's the answer

Fixed ty

I hope she crumpled it up, then reconsidered, uncrumpled, took the photo, and then presumably recrumpled it before throwing it away.

Edit: Regendered

Yeah, probably. The other side of "this is so badly needed why haven't you done it for us" is "if this is so badly needed why haven't any of the server admins or mods implemented it yet."