Xhieron @ xhieron @lemmy.world

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There absolutely is. Trans care is whatever care Trans people get. Just like women's care is the care women get, children's care is the care children get, along with elder care and care for the disabled. Unqualified "care" is the province only of white, gender conforming, AMAB men, preferably WASPs. You don't hear as much about it now, but "black healthcare" is what gave us the Tuskegee syphilis human experiment.

Anything these bigots and fascists can use to distinguish the kind of care the "other" receives from normal care is a way to demonize the other and justify making their costs higher and their services worse, less, or outright illegal.

"Take that, face!" says man cutting off own nose.

I'm incredibly fascinated by the ghost comparison. Is the probability that ghosts are a real physical phenomenon higher or lower than the probability that aliens exist or have visited us? That's an extremely interesting question, and I'm sure someone could do a statistical meta-analysis comparing the incidence of, say, UFO sightings with the incidence of paranormal experiences (if such an analysis doesn't already exist). Both questions seem like the things that should be generally empirically falsifiable (and indeed, specific instances certainly are), but humanity's curiosity about both has proven remarkably durable despite centuries of curiosity and myriad efforts to settle (negatively) both questions once and for all.

Hear, hear. It's easy for all of us armchair patriots to criticize from our nice, safe homes, but whistleblowers, like union organizers, protesters, and conscientious objectors, are actually exposed to genuine risk to life and limb. It takes serious, real world bravery to do that.

Oh shit, you're right. Russia doesn't want that, so I guess we should just let them have what they want.

What are you on about? This is a war in which Russia, unprovoked, invaded its neighbor to grab land, bodies, ports, and food. Russia is going to share multiple borders with NATO when this is over; the question is just whether the border is the Ukrainian border or the Polish border. If either of those scenarios results in World War 3, odds are pretty good both of them do. There's simply no universe in which NATO allows Russia to take over all of Eastern Europe (again). Even if the fascists take the US in November, Europe will pour everything it has into stopping Putin's advance.

Sure, Ukraine probably "loses" in the end, in one way or another. By many measures they've already lost. But it's not a binary proposition. The point of propping up Ukraine at this stage is as much about forcing Russia to spend its fighting ability on Ukraine now, instead of in WW3. This desire is part of the reason that capitulating, conceding some land, and letting Russia regroup for a decade before doing a better job next time is only palatable with Ukraine in NATO. The threat of a world war is the only thing that would stop Russia from repeating this bullshit every ten to twenty years for another five generations.

SO close. Just another five or ten seconds to finish the whole license. I would love to see someone cover this thing and tie it off.

Wow. That's a reference I haven't heard in ages. Outstanding.

And you're absolutely right about that. That's not the same thing as LLMs being incapable of constituting anything written in a novel way, but that they will readily with very little prodding regurgitate complete works verbatim is definitely a problem. That's not a remix. That's publishing the same track and slapping your name on it. Doing it two bars at a time doesn't make it better.

It's so easy to get ChatGPT, for example, to regurgitate its training data that you could do it by accident (at least until someone published it last year). But, the critics cry, you're using ChatGPT in an unintended way. And indeed, exploiting ChatGPT to reveal its training data is a lot like lobotomizing a patient or torture victim to get them to reveal where they learned something, but that really betrays that these models don't actually think at all. They don't actually contribute anything of their own; they simply have such a large volume of data to reorganize that it's (by design) impossible to divine which source is being plagiarised at any given token.

Add to that the fact that every regulatory body confronted with the question of LLM creativity has so far decided that humans, and only humans, are capable of creativity, at least so far as our ordered societies will recognize. By legal definition, ChatGPT cannot transform (term of art) a work. Only a human can do that.

It doesn't really matter how an LLM does what it does. You don't need to open the black box to know that it's a plagiarism machine, because plagiarism doesn't depend on methods (or sophisticated mental gymnastics); it depends on content. It doesn't matter whether you intended the work to be transformative: if you repeated the work verbatim, you plagiarized it. It's already been demonstrated that an LLM, by definition, will repeat its training data a non-zero portion of the time. In small chunks that's indistinguishable, arguably, from the way a real mind might handle language, but in large chunks it's always plagiarism, because an LLM does not think and cannot "remix". A DJ can make a mashup; an AI, at least as of today, cannot. The question isn't whether the LLM spits out training data; the question is the extent to which we're willing to accept some amount of plagiarism in exchange for the utility of the tool.

Free Palestine.

Netanyahu and many of the leaders of the IDF should stand trial for war crimes (and the US should continue to be a close ally to the Israeli people and their new government).

That said, what's fascinating about this to me as an American is the success with which the US evangelical political right has convinced its base that the Israel of 2024 is one with the Israel of 1000 BC. As much as I appreciate the reality that the US is somewhat stuck, geopolitically (a fact that many well-meaning American "leftists" fail to recognize), that American Christians aren't the ones raising hell about the genocide of Palestinian Christians really betrays where their true allegiance lies.

No war but the class war.

Better to sink it than let it hit that bridge.

I think the British royal family is a scourge on the earth, responsible for untold amounts of suffering. The UK, British Isles, British people, and world would be a better place without it. I truly hate everything the Windsors stand for, along with their ancestors going back hundreds of years.

But I hate cancer more.

I think it's possible to have complex feelings about this. Nobody deserves cancer. A lot of the kings of England deserve to have had their heads cut off, but none of them deserved cancer, and certainly not this lady who just lucked and schemed and Machiavellied herself into a life of incomparable privilege inside one of the most powerful dynasties still in existence--the same thing anyone would have done given the chance.

Fuck the royal family. But fuck cancer more. I hope she comes out of it alright, because her husband needs to break the British monarchy, and it would be nicer for him if he had his wife with him when he did.

[American here, if it wasn't obvious.]

I regret that I have but one upvote to give. Keep fighting the good fight against misinformation.

Biden has been a remarkably good president under incredibly challenging legislative and judicial circumstances. He didn't do everything he promised? It's a miracle he was able to do anything at all!

Give the man a blue Congress and watch.

Biden's an awesome leader. I'm going to show up and vote for him even though my state will almost certainly go red in November, because I'm a patriot and Joe Biden has actually tried to improve my life, which is more than I can say for Trump, Obama, Bush, or most other presidents in my lifetime, and it's certainly more than I can say for every third party candidate with the sole exception of Ralph Nader (thanks for making my car safer, Ralph).

Joe Biden tried to forgive my student debt, he tried (and partially succeeded) to improve the company's crumbling infrastructure, he revived antitrust and labor, and he's been fighting to keep Russia from taking over Eastern Europe. Donald Trump told me to drink bleach. You don't have to like either of them, but pretending they're equally bad is either trolling, being willfully uninformed, or doing the propaganda work of a foreign adversary (knowingly or not).

You vote your conscience; it might not matter much, depending on where you live, or it might matter a whole lot. But reality should show you, like it does the rest of us, that the only possible outcomes of this presidential election are a second Biden presidency or a second Trump presidency. Anything you do will make one of those things more likely to happen, and you don't get to opt out by staying home or setting your ballot on fire in protest.

The Democrats need to immediately trumpet this thing from the rooftops. The GOP wants to take away Social Security and Medicare. 170 of them put their names on this budget, if NBC is to be believed.

The Republicans want you to never be able to retire, and they want you to never have the healthcare that your parents and grandparents had or that they themselves enjoy. They want you to be poor and stay poor, and they want the same for your children.

Because Trump isn't the only one who would be harmed. The CIA has a duty to protect the country and the office of the president. No one in the US government is going to reveal that a sitting president was an agent of a foreign power except in the presence of overwhelming public evidence.

Just how bad it really is will be declassified in 50 years or so, just like every other major, damaging government secret. National stability and credibility is just too important.

Make no mistake: Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Christians Universalists, Christians who happen to vote Democrat, and other Christian or near-Christian faiths will not be spared. This is certainly a religious movement, but it does not have Jesus of Nazareth at its head.

This movement has more in common with the Westboro hate/terrorism group than with orthodox Christianity, and Christians who do not espouse the right political hatred will absolutely be labeled Satanists too.

Your quote never appears anywhere in any of those citations.

That the Bible--a collection of religious texts, many of them advancing directly or indirectly the ethnic and national interests of their authors' people groups--would have stuff in it about killing people for lots of reasons is no surprise.

But your purported origin of the common proverb in the Bible is a fabrication. It's not in there, anywhere.

Also Christianity doesn't advocate killing non-believers as a matter of doctrine. Plenty of Christians have done that historically, but it's not a teaching of the religion, and it's never advocated in the Bible, anywhere.

There's plenty to criticize Christians for. I don't understand why you felt you needed to make something up.

Where, exactly, in the Bible does it say that?

Good luck having a nuanced position that confronts geopolitical reality on social media. I love Bernie, and I agree with his position here, but he only has the luxury of having this position because he's not president. Joe Biden is going to do whatever it takes to maintain an American presence in the Levant, and so would any other president. The consequences of turning Israel over to Russia or China would be calamitous--as in, the end of US hegemony--because we don't have an alternative in the region.

There's something wrong with mine. It's not spinning. Do I still get the death, or do I have to do something special? I don't want to miss out.