Telorand @ Telorand @reddthat.com

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I dunno. It's never happened in my lifetime, and certainly not with half of the legislative branch being complicit in the descent into fascism.

Like I said, I don't really have a lot of optimism in their ability to do what is required. On top of that, the enablers aren't gone just because Trump might be someday. Our collective work is only just beginning, and it starts with little actions like those of the judge in this case.

Man, childhood ruined.

Agreed. Things definitely suck right now, but things aren't hopeless. Only when we stop resisting will the fascism begin to ossify, and all the people being brave enough to resist, in both little and big ways, matter.

I don't know if I can comfortably say "most likely," but I'm not optimistic about that possibility. Since Trump won, it's been my position that nobody's coming to save us working class peons. We will not get a group of Avengers striking from the outside or a lone Adam Jensen fighting from within.

In reality, it will take all of us doing different things to resist, and hopefully, that collective effort over time will be enough. It will still suck in the meantime.

And tell people not to go. Especially, warn international friends that it's not safe here.

Boycotting works, and a message needs to be sent that the US is not okay.

It's not much, but this will be important as evidence should Congress ever find its spine and actually consider impeachment.

ETA: and waiting around for that unlikely possibly might be a fools errand.

Wait, he's MAGA? Christ, it's so hard to keep up on who's gone off the deep end.

We need a single source of truth for this.

So distribute it, like DNS. Have the CVE Foundation be the final authority, but relying solely upon them makes me uneasy.

The CVE Foundation might currently be independent from the US government, but that doesn't mean they're not still subject to its whims. I think people underestimate just how awful things are or could get here, and "why is the government doing that stupid/heinous/bizarre thing" has become a daily mantra for many.

CVE needs better protection from hostile governments, and distributing the system seems like the only way to achieve that

That's good, I guess, but decentralize it. It's a tool used globally with global ramifications, so other countries should be able to run their own instance of it. That way, if an instance goes down, nobody else is left without it.

Over the coming days, the Foundation will release more information about its structure, transition planning, and opportunities for involvement from the broader community.

Hopefully that includes decentralization on the roadmap.

It's not mentioned at all in the article, so what you inferred from the headline is not what the author conveyed.

Duh. He literally lives in the void below the scene. He would have to have eyes like that.

Don't forget the part where it's constantly expanding. So it's 96B ly so far.

China: Don't mind if I do!

Sure, and I'm sympathetic to the baffling difficulties of English, but use Google Translate and ask someone who's more fluent for help with the final polish (as a single suggestion). Trusting your work, trusting science to an LLM is lunacy.

The lede is buried deep in this one. Yeah, these dumb LLMs got bad training data that persists to this day, but more concerning is the fact that some scientists are relying upon LLMs to write their papers. This is literally the way scientists communicate their findings to other scientists, lawmakers, and the public, and they're using fucking predictive text like it has cognition and knows anything.

Sure, most (all?) of those papers got retracted, but those are just the ones that got caught. How many more are lurking out there with garbage claims fabricated by a chatbot?

Thankfully, science will inevitably sus those papers out eventually, as it always does, but it's shameful that any scientist would be so fatuous to put out a paper written by a dumb bot. You're the experts. Write your own goddamn papers.

Tbh, there should have been redundancies for a system like this already. It should have been decentralized and mirrored across different countries for precisely this reason.

Maybe that flaw should have a CVE. Seems like a pretty big vulnerability to be beholden to fascists.

—Chuck Norris

I would hazard a guess that the only reason those others aren't as high is because they don't have the same access to data. It's not that they don't want to, they simply can't (yet).

God, it's blockchain and Metaverse all over again.

Give it up, already. Nobody wants your solution to a problem nobody is having.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times that “allied western democracies” needed to “focus on the real long-term bogey: the rise of the Chinese Communist party.”

And who was it that shat on their allies, asked ChatGPT to come up with tariffs, then gave a giant middle finger to the entire world by defunding science, removing humanitarian aid, kidnapping and sending innocent civilians to a gulag without due process, and made literal Nazi salutes—all of which created a power vacuum that China was happy to fill? Oh yeah, it was you fascist dumbfucks.

You fucked around, and now it's time for y'all to find out.