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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman slammed subreddit moderators who continued to push back against the company’s plan to charge for access to its API, a change that would shutter beloved third-party Reddit apps like Apollo, calling them “landed gentry” and saying they weren’t considering the desires of their communities.
Reddit trying to attract the tumblrites with the promises of kulak liquidation.
isn't reddit's software all open source?
what if amazon spawned a new reddit on its servers just for shits and giggles. they host practically everything, why not some social media
put the servers in some country that has broad free speech laws and force everyone to take an ip mask a la 4chan. can't tell who's who, can't give out info on anyone, can't dox anyone.
probably wouldn't hold up in court but imagine if there was a way to do social media that you really couldn't track like that.
Tell everyone kicked off reddit about this neat reddit clone called lesswrong.com
We're surrounded
Political realist, idiot: You see all nations will act in the way that protects their own existence, morality, law, welfare, all will be sacrificed to preserve their existence.
Me, genius: all nations will act in the way that preserves their idiot property owning farmers. Morality, law, welfare, economic sense, national existence, all will be sacrificed so that rich idiots can badly manage a piece of land they like.
The European Union has again extended a ban on Ukrainian grain imports to five countries, including Poland. The move follows anger and protests from Polish farmers who were left with unsold grain or forced to sell it cheaply when faced with lower Ukrainian prices. Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Krzysztof Ciecióra explained: "We have fulfilled their main demand, i.e. stopping the pressure of grain imports from Ukraine. "Today there is no such permission. It is not legal until September 15 at least. These grains will not flow to Poland. Only transit is possible." Although the decision of the EU, supported by the government, brings temporary relief, it was not met with much approval from Polish farmers, who fear that in a few months, they will face the same problems again. [...] "Today we practically do not know what to sow, what to grow to make it marketable. This undermines the stability. Even the contacts between mills and feed-mixing plants broke off, where there were already permanent supply cycles.
Assisting Ukraine is crucial for Polish security, we must do everything possible to support Ukraine, no wait are you seriously expecting us to allow Ukranian food into our country?
Fallout: New Vegas is really about Domination, in the political sense. All the Obsidian games are, Pillars, KOTOR2, Outer Worlds, and yup Pentiment, all of them about are about domination, but in New Vegas it was explored with the factions of Caesar's Legion and the NCR. That makes them interesting games, "Domination" as a concept often doesn't hit quite in the sweet spot for me in political concepts but it's still makes for good storytelling.
Bethesda saw that people really liked New Vegas and so in Skyrim and Fallout 4 they figured "oh people really liked this faction stuff, let's create factions with a cool gimmick" so you get the Stormcloaks vs Empire and Minutemen vs Institute, the thing with these is though that they seem to be mostly cosplay and theme park and maybe some vague idea of a child's version of "freedom?" They have trouble making these factions appear stand for something, they don't seem to understand how to do it.
Anyways in Starfield looks like the two major factions are going to be the Space UN and the Space wild west, exciting ain't it?
The AI Doomer and Utopia stuff both come from people who get it from a position of "meritocracy" where they believe that certain people are a million times better than others and this justifies their million-times more income. If you accept this view then you do raise the possibility that someone a million times better could come around and make you obsolete by saving and/or dooming the world.
Assuming that this is where the orcas are going to pickup the AI
Waiting for Seymour Hersch to leak the truth about the Zeta Reticulans visiting planet earth, then we'll know for sure this whole UFO thing is primordial lizardmen
“Just as we’ve strewn the oceans with plastic trash and filled the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, so we’re about to fill the Internet with blah,” writes Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson. “This will make it harder to train newer models by scraping the web, giving an advantage to firms which already did that, or which control access to human interfaces at scale.” In other words, your old LiveJournal and Tumblr blogs are about to become a precious asset.
Quick gotta make my tumblr blog web3 so I can profit off it
"We must embrace new innovations like Web3, powered by blockchain technology, which will enable start-ups to flourish here and grow the economy," Rishi's office said. ... The prime minister is determined to establish the UK as a global hub for the development of AI technology, and also for its oversight, as he seeks to demonstrate that post-Brexit Britain can be an international destination for major tech investment.
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A group of researchers from the UK and Canada have looked into this very problem and recently published a paper on their work in the open access journal arXiv. What they found is worrisome for current generative AI technology and its future: “We find that use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models.”
Super-AI defeated everyone, good work
Listening to some the commentary around the Trump trial with issues of how the classified document laws work you get the question "So give that it has to be proven that the person 'knowingly' leaked classified documents, how does anyone get prosecuted for this unless they're stupid enough to record a confession?" If Chelsea Manning had said to the judge "Oh sorry dudes I didn't those were classified, my bad" would she have gotten off scot-free?
Gotta check the gender of those documents Trump was storing in the bathroom amirite???
sorry but this ai expansion of the descartes portrait is literally so swagful
this was the guy leaving comments on pornhub
Man I'm gonna be so upset if the UFO thing isn't even an op just some dipshits
Those who live by the sword tend to die by it. Ponzi’s scheme was fated to collapse in the equivalent of a bank run, but while he was operating it, he was not averse to using threats of bank runs as a weapon of his own. At the height of his scheme, his company’s cash balances (which were held on hand as short-term bank deposits, ostensibly to keep them ready to pay cash for postal coupons) were a significant percentage of the local money supply in Boston and its surrounding area. For a number of large and important banks, Ponzi’s deposits were a greater sum than they could raise at short notice and were essential to their ability to maintain enough liquidity to sustain their operations. This gave him considerable leverage, and he used it.
After buying some small blocks of shares, he threatened the Hanover Trust Company with an immediate demand for repayment of his deposits, unless the board of directors sold him enough of their own personal shareholdings to make him the majority owner. This left Charles Ponzi in control of a bank, spending about $2 million to gain control of several times that much in potential lending resources. He used his new firepower to make bids for other banks and for real-estate companies all over Boston, and to bid for the surplus ships of the US Navy. He even started trying to underwrite a bond issue for the Republic of Poland (and, in doing so, spread his sales network into another large ethnic community).
Too big to fail
the fun thing about being a household name is that any story of your life always seems faintly ridiculous in a retroactive way, like imagine trusting a guy called “Ponzi” or “Hitler” or “Nixon” or whatever.
And now we have the biggest Ponzi scheme of all, Silicon Valley amirite????
Speaking to News Nation, he said: “1933 was the first recovery in Europe, in Magenta, Italy. “They recovered a partially intact vehicle, and the Italian government moved it to a secure airbase in Italy until around 1944-1945 “The Pope back-channelled that, and told the American's what the Italians had and we ended up scooping it.” He was then asked to clarify whether or not the Catholic Church was aware of “non-human” existence on Earth, to which he replied: “Certainly.”
Folks the Vatican already knows and is responsible for the alien contact, I guess if anyone can cover up a massive regime of exploitation and child abuse it's the Vatican.
Vatican telling the customs inspectors "yeah this is alien spacecraft we're smuggling, that's why you can't look at it, I can tell you it's definitely not nazi war criminals., don't be ridiculous"
