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Cake day: February 14th, 2025

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  • You’re right, but I think this falls into the “don’t obey in advance” rule of resistance to autocracy.

    I’ve long since lost the will to support this type of action, like yourself I suppose. Everything is fucked all the way down. You can’t not-lose in a corrupt court system.

    However, I think it’s important that every authoritarian action is challenged, because if you don’t challenge then you really are kind of obeying in advance.


  • Sorry I’m still not really sure what you’re asking for.

    I use Open Web UI, which is the worst name ever, but it’s a web ui for interacting with chat format gen AI models.

    You can install that locally and point it at any of the models hosted remotely by an inference provider.

    So you host the UI but someone else is doing the GPU intensive “inference”.

    There seems to be some models for t his task available on huggingface like this one:

    https://huggingface.co/fakespot-ai/roberta-base-ai-text-detection-v1

    The difficulty may be finding a model which is hosted by an inference provider. Most of the models available on huggingface are just the binary model which you can download and run locally. The popular ones are hosted by inference providers so you can just point a query at their API and get a response.

    As an aside, it’s possible or likely that you know more about how Gen AI works than I do, but I think this type of “probability table for the next token” is from the earlier generations. Or, this type of probability inference might be a foundational concept, but there’s a lot more sophistication layered on top now. I genuinely don’t know. I’m super interested in these technologies but there’s a lot to learn.





  • We pretty much are “completely owned” by corporations, but you could argue about the extent.

    For example, I think we’re closer to Europe’s stance on big tech than we are to the USA’s.

    A captured state refers to governments that are dependent on specific industries, and all governments are to some extent.

    Gambling companies would provide a lot of tax revenue. They also contribute a lot of sponsorship / advertising revenue for sporting events. There’s also many millions of voters who enjoy gambling just how it is.

    In summary, its not only industry lobbyists, gambling is a deeply entrenched industry.













  • The article doesn’t say much but I’m going to assume it’s just a spray that serves the same purpose as the plastic.

    Cucumbers are individually wrapped because it extends their shelf life by retaining moisture where the skin doesn’t really.

    I think these guys are saying that coating them with this oil does the same thing.

    Apples are sprayed with a waxy coating to make them look shinier. Most people like shiny apples and have no idea that it’s artificial.

    In summary, you’re not supposed to wash it off and if you did it’s probably not enough to contribute to fatbergs.