I’m a millennial, I’ve been on the verge of homelessness myself my entire adulthood. In my adult life a full time job at minimum wage has never been enough to rent a studio apartment nearly anywhere in the country. Not once in my life have I have enough to really live on my own, have a choice about where I live, or didn’t have raising rents pushing me to move elsewhere. I doubt I’m the only one who has had such deep lack of stability that the idea of hosting refugees (or anyone else for that matter) has been purely a fucking pipe dream.

That being said, I have dreamed of being able to take care of those I know who are struggling, but I have been denied every opportunity due to struggling myself.

Fuck these conservative ass liberals who may as well be Republicans. God damn it, Newsom, you fucking prick.

Let’s not split hairs. Barr used to have to get him distracted by offering him death row inmates to kill.

The cruelty isn’t just the point, Trump as an individual is a fucking monster who gets off on hurting people.

It it any shock that a rapist gets off on controlling and hurting others? It doesn’t shock me in the slightest, which is why he was always a clear and present danger.

I remember about a month before the election in 2016 saying to a friend “God damn it, I think we are gonna get Brexited and people won’t see this coming, but he’s going to win.”

I have called my Republican House representative and my states two Democratic senators. They seem flooded, so I had to leave a message with each, but we’ll see.

Their crime? They helped poor people, which in Trump’s eyes is defrauding the wealthy.

Suck it asshats who ever thought the people at the FBI (*cough Mueller) were ever going to save us.

Does anyone remember when Robert Mueller railroaded Bruce Ivins for the Anthrax attacks in 2001 until Ivins committed suicide?

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anthrax/fbi-seeks-independent-review-anthrax-probe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins#Anthrax_investigation,_post-death

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The problem is that this theory is incomplete. What actually makes them become a total asshat on the internet is no real social consequences for being so. Being banned isn’t actually a deep social consequence. Especially when you can just use a VPN and spin up a new email, and then a new account, basically infinitely. So while the initial point of anonymity is part of it, the deeper part of it is lack of real social consequences for such behavior, enabling shitty behavior long-term.

https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/new-data-reveal-reckless-driving-has-increased-post-pandemic

https://aaafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/202407-AAAFTS-Impact-of-COVID.pdf

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/20/what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us/

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/auto-motor/driving-habits-post-pandemic-are-getting-more-dangerous-446360.aspx

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2046043024001047

Reckless driving, impaired driving, lack of seatbelt use, driving without a license, and road rage are easily documented antisocial behaviors (“rude”) and they have increased. Numerous studies have covered the increase in dangerous driving behaviors since the onset of COVID and they have only decreased slightly since.

I mean I don’t know a lot of people actively wanted to kill others because they decided it was a fucking hoax and some of them literally went to their deathbeds while risking doctors’ and nurses’ lives via exposure to them.

Something emboldened the stupid to be monstrously pig-headed and arrogant about being stupid, and guess what, the people with an education are absolutely sick of their loser ass bullshit.

You don’t negotiate or play nice with idiots whose stupidity can and will fucking kill you and your loved ones and even the ones doling out medical care to the idiots. Nah, this is the world they asked for. Done pandering to pansies who can’t face fucking reality because it makes them feel stupid. Guess what, you are stupid. Get used to it, nimrod, or get a fucking education.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Very intuitive, the design is very human.

including this mod notice.

Yeah, take that, mod notice!

Srsly tho good reminder to all.

You must have missed the Bush era/Snowden era:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extremist-forum-and-its-readers-get-flagged-extra-surveillance

A new story published on the German site Tagesschau and followed up by BoingBoing and DasErste.de has uncovered some shocking details about who the NSA targets for surveillance including visitors to Linux Journal itself.

While that is troubling in itself, even more troubling to readers on this site is that linuxjournal.com has been flagged as a selector! DasErste.de has published the relevant XKEYSCORE source code, and if you look closely at the rule definitions, you will see linuxjournal.com/content/linux* listed alongside Tails and Tor. According to an article on DasErste.de, the NSA considers Linux Journal an “extremist forum”. This means that merely looking for any Linux content on Linux Journal, not just content about anonymizing software or encryption, is considered suspicious and means your Internet traffic may be stored indefinitely.

One of the biggest questions these new revelations raise is why. Up until this point, I would imagine most Linux Journal readers had considered the NSA revelations as troubling but figured the NSA would never be interested in them personally. Now we know that just visiting this site makes you a target. While we may never know for sure what it is about Linux Journal in particular, the Boing Boing article speculates that it might be to separate out people on the Internet who know how to be private from those who don’t so it can capture communications from everyone with privacy know-how. If that’s true, it seems to go much further to target anyone with Linux know-how.

Let me reiterate this part: the NSA considers Linux Journal an “extremist forum”.

I guess my interest in not wanting ads shoved down my throat or not wanting to deal with Microsoft anymore makes me an extremist.

The seeds for this were planted long ago.

Good question. In a way, the Fedi is a bit like the Storm Area 51 flashmob joke: “they can’t catch all of us!”

The diversified instances may make it harder to track every server and every individual.

I work in higher education and even people with PhDs often fail to type up a coherent email.

If someone got a PhD without being able to write a coherent sentence, that says more about how we’re handing out PhDs to unqualified people than it does that we need LLMs to solve that.

It’s in California…

Infectious disease doesn’t care about your political leanings.

Its not perfect as you’d expect but it turns a minute typing out a well thought question into hours worth of head start into getting into the research surrounding your question (and does it all without sending any data to OpenAI et al). That getting you over the initial hump of not knowing exactly where to start is where I see a lot of the value of LLMs.

I’ll concede that this seems useful in saving time to find your starting point.

However.

1. Is speed as a goal itself a worthwhile thing, or something that capitalist processes push us endlessly toward? Why do we need to be faster?

2. In prioritizing speed over a slow, tedious personal research, aren’t we allowing ourselves to be put in a position where we might overlook truly relevant research simply because it doesn’t “fit” the “well thought out question?” I’ve often found research that isn’t entirely in the wheelhouse of what I’m looking at, but is actually deeply relevant to it. By using the method you proposed, there’s a good chance that I never surface that research because I had a glorified keyword search find “relevancy” instead of me fumbling around in the dark and finding a “Eureka!” moment of clarity with something initially seemingly unrelated.

It’s more that we genuinely don’t see the net benefit of LLMs in general. Most of us are not programmers who need something to help “efficiency” up our speed of making code. I am perfectly capable of doing research, cataloging sources, and producing my own writing.

I can see marginal benefit for those who struggle with writing, but the problem therein is that they still need to run whatever their LLM spits out past another human to make sure it’s actually accurate or well written. In the end, with all of it you still need human editors and at that point, why have the LLM at all?

I’d love to hear what problem you think LLMs actually solve.

Fair enough, good luck.

Robot that can “inuitively” jerk me off when?

To flick snot, you gotta pick your nose.

Let’s just say I delved too geedily and too deep and started brain pickin’.