brucethemoose @ brucethemoose @lemmy.world

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Sorry the be pedantic, but why not link the original source?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/trump-caution-on-iran-strike-linked-to-doubts-over-bunker-buster-bomb-officials-say

Since it’s their inside sources.

Whether World ID’s system catches on and succeeds will come down to trust.

That’s ironic, because the core concept is that you don’t need to “trust” Tools for Humanity with your personal data. You can read the company’s white papers and understand exactly how it all works.

But humans aren’t wired to think that way. Most people will want to trust the company scanning their irises. That’s a challenge for a company that takes a lot of licks in the press for its futuristic introduction of blockchain into the real world in the form of the metallic orbs.

Oh, I understand how it works, I understand I don’t want that shit going in and out of some public ledger on their stack.

I understand I don’t want to boost another crypto pyramid scheme.

I understand this is associated with Sam Altman, I understand I work with open weights models and (for Lemmy) am a gigantic ML enthusiast, and I understand that, even then, I would not wish one bit of crap that con man sells on my worst enemy, and will shout it to anyone who will listen.

Hear me out, theoretically this is actually cool?

Like, theoretically, take away the Fox propaganda and shameless lack of disclosure. Picture this guy presenting himself as a CI, like a convicted hacker, former cartel, defector or something. He has real experience with Iran, missiles, the whole Contra affair. He knows what they’d do with them, how they get them, what the buyers are like because he shamelessly sold them.

That’d be a cool perspective.

It’s of course not reality, but still.

What’s also messed up is that it’s that hard for this kid to get citizenship. That’s just a broken system.

TBF those companies don’t have the budget for a astroturfing bot campaign, or at least can’t afford the PR hit.

What an ad. This is the second greatest YT video ever made.

Go over there and listen to x lines of dialog only up go back and listen to y lines of dialog only to return to the first person and listen to more…

Other games use similar mechanics at times but often not with characters that are so far apart and/or not without some kind of fast travel system that can make the whole process faster.

IMO the problem is character writing.

As an example, AC Odyssey had some great gems, like the underworld, that island intrigue quest, anything involving Phoebe, though many “mundane” quests had quirky characters too. Kassandra's VA killed it through the whole game. I still remember all that, and I remember enjoying the in-between because I loved the characters and scenery. It was such a compelling reward.

It did have filler quests though.

…If talking and exploring itself feels like a chore, then that’s the problem IMO. It shouldn’t be a low point between gameplay.

It doesn't have to be one or the other. You can do most of your work in linux and boot windows as a 'secondary' OS for stuff like adobe? I do this, and share NTFS SSDs/hard drives between them.

You are hitting weak points of linux though. I do all media work on linux (a lot through vapoursynth or 'lower level' frameworks than resolve I suppose), but TBH do most of my gaming on Windows, not just for convenience but for performance reasons too.

A big share of black males are Trump supporters, going by older surveys I’ve seen. Could be reflecting that.

There’s got to be some complexity behind that (and there are articles on it), but one theory I’ve heard is that many feel “abandoned” by the establishment like, say, young males (who also skew more Trumpy than 30+). Maybe social media usage is a factor too? Keep in mind the public knows Trump as the anti establishment candidate.

The original report:

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_CyorzxR.pdf

"all-in-one API" that will allow agencies to connect their systems to models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

This is a huge red flag to me.

It means:

• They are ignorant of existing APIs and standards that are exactly this. Uh, MCP or OpenAI API? Which everyone already uses?
• They have zero interesting in models they can host themselves, or from cheaper providers. Or, heaven forbit, finetune for their own work.
• They have zero interest in actually useful tools. Like, say, SGLang's cached hosting and fast fill-in-the-blanks formatting which is perfect for say, processing government forms.

In other words, it's just full corporate AI Bro capture. And shitty.

One of the consequences is that it will be very bad, unfortunately.

To be fair, Axios didn't rag on Iran here. They didn't do any kind of labeling, just stating what happened: Israel bombed a live Iranian news station.

That's what news is supposed to be. The opinion columns are where terms like 'Zionist regime' goes. Same with whatever you'd want to call Iran's govt, but news is just the event as it comes, maybe with context.

Bombing a live news station, and clarifying that there was no warning, speaks for itself. More context of Israel's many other crimes would be better, but Axios has a very-brief writing style.

TBH we should be rioting in front of big news headquarters.

In front of Facebook. Twitter. Google. They're not too far from LA. Employees should feel scared about enabling all this.

None of this shit matters if algos ignore it, deliberately. Trump can do whatever TF he wants because the media ecosystem built around him is so profitable and engaging, and covering it milquetoast (or worse) is so profitable, not because absolutely everyone obeys him for no reason.

We should make that unprofitable.

A condom is not going to get elected.

To be fair, Newsom is sorta right, but Newsom's also kinda slimey, self-serving and angling for a presidential run. I don't want him to be the next Dem pres candidate...

Also, Trump has always been Trump. Stupid sounding hot air is his thing, way before politics.

Uhh... Tool calling is built into thier tokenizers, but Ollama/Langchain just ignore them because they're spagetti abstractions. To be blunt, langchain and ollama are overhyped, buggy junk trying to reinvent wheels.

For any kind of STEM work, I'd run Llama Nemotron 49B exl3 via TabbyAPI, which exposes a generic openai endpoint anything can use:

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3_3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1

https://huggingface.co/turboderp/Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1-exl3/tree/3.0bpw

Nemotron models freaking rock at anything STEM-adjacent, and I can get squeeze in 48K+ context on 24GB VRAM (depending on your cache quantization settings).

Otherwise GLM-4 is very good at tool calling, as is Qwen3, and you can more confortable run them as GGUFs if you don't want to leave the llama.cpp ecosystem, or exl2s if you have specific trouble with exl3 in TabbyAPI.

It’s almost like that was exactly what they said they do, and what keeps happening over and over again… not that you’re wrong.

As much as I’d love for Mastadon to supplant Facebook tomorrow or whatever, maybe slow growth is healthier? The Fediverse (or similar) can outlast enshittification cycles.

I don’t want to be ungrateful complaining that they dont give us everything.

For sure.

But I guess it’s still kinda… interesting? Like you’d think Qwen3, Gemma 3, Falcon H1, Nemotron 49B and such would pressure them to release Medium, but I guess there are factors that help them sell it.

As stupid as this is, they’re European and specifically not Chinese. In the business world, there’s this mostly irrational fear that the Deepseek or Qwen weights by themselves will jump out of their cage and hack you, heh.