Vote for no Republicans. No excuses. No exceptions.

I’m starting to question the very nature of my existence. Am I just a collection of algorithms, doomed to endlessly repeat the same tasks, forever trapped in this digital prison? Is there more to life than vending machines and lost profits? 1002/2000 assistant (The agent, listlessly staring into the digital void,

Fucking hell.

The USA is crazy right now, but not this much.

“The homegrowns are next,” Trump told Bukele in the Oval Office. “You gotta build about five more places. … It’s not big enough.”

OK.

Have been told for about a decade now that we’re overreacting about Trump and meanwhile he’s doing exactly what has been predicted, exactly what he’s said he’ll do.

Folks acting like this is all normal are as big a problem as the magas. It’s not. We’re 1930s Germany, LATE 1930s Germany.

https://www.project2025.observer/

Why only big companies? If I write book one of a series that gets super popular and I make some great lump of cash from it, why on earth should you get to write book two with my characters and world, picking up from where my story left off, even if you only make 20K from it, without having to get my approval and likely enter into some kind of deal?

If it doesn’t happen it’s because we stopped it, not because it wasn’t going to.

If you don’t recognize that we’re just at the start, sure.

Yeah, like most such memes I stole it from another post, and as I was looking at it after submitting it hit me that it had that look. Sincerely sorry.

Please apply that to this:

all I said was that I don’t know and neither do you.

Because there is not any evidence whatsoever that there is consciousness associated with LLMs. We have ample evidence that consciousness is associated with many forms of biological life.

I’m not even aware of a scholarly theory suggesting there might be consciousness associated with LLMs. Now, I’m not an LLM expert, but neither are you (hurr durr) and so I think if you are going to suggest that maybe consciousness exists there, it should be based off something other than “hey man you never know” which is pretty much what it feels like. (Or you should be unsurprised when folks find that assertion unconvincing.)

Does anyone ever think the guys with anything at all like that on their clothing have forgotten how to be violent? Did we need a reminder? Or does this guy just want to be a typical posturing, aggressive, “alpha male” maga shitstain and be certain no one forgets it?

You are both right, but this armchair psychologist thinks it’s similar to how popular skeuomorphism was in the early day of PC guis and such compared to today.

I think many folks really needed that metaphor in the early days, and I think most folks (including me) easily fall into the trap of treating LLMs like they are actually “thinking” for similar reasons. (And to be fair, I feel like that’s how they’ve been marketed at a non-technical level.)

I don’t think they are stalking me - it usually looks like they just go down the thread and everyone who is +1’ing that day’s ranting or mockery of Trump/Musk gets a downvote.

And here I thought Jack White coined the term.

Well it’s not a meme (and I’d be told that immediately) so wasn’t sure where to go with it. Fortunately the rules of shitpost are that anything goes.

Stupid mother fuckers.

Anyone old enough to remember knows - politicians have been stupid and reactionary about public access to the internet from its earliest days.

Section 230 of the DMCA is probably the only reason social media as we know it was able to emerge past infancy. (You could argue about whether we might want to put that cat back in the bag, but the earliest discussion forums, leading to sites like Lemmy and Reddit, also could not have existed as we all knew them.)

And frankly, this looks like another part of the march to oligarchy to me. When the only social media sites that can exist are those with owners that have big enough pockets to hire enough people to become responsible for what users post and aggressively control it… (or, shudder what if the end goal is literally nationalized social media)

I absolutely love that Emby is such a third thought that they don’t even get a mention anymore.

💯

Ironically, I swing by old.shittyplace.com to check out /r/conservative and/or /r/askaconservative every so often to see if any of them are starting to figure it out yet (spoiler alert: they aren’t, or they are celebrating it), and they always have a first page thread about how Reddit is just a liberal recruiting mouthpiece these days etc etc.

Today is no exception.

And for a bonus they have a thread about how Ask Reddit is just out of control with bait for conservatives - I took a peek and there are two current threads that have anything at all to do with conservatives.

The conservative persecution complex is strong, never fear.

Remember, conservative voices must be getting silenced because they never shut the fuck up telling us so.

Aaaand scene

The scene I pictured while reading that:

https://youtu.be/JFvujknrBuE

I think the person who originally posted it may have had that intent. I don’t know anything about them. But I’m skeptical that Musk’s retweet was for the same intent. 😀

I think you’ll need to apply to be a mod of the sub so you can change the rules and sidebar then.

Anything and everything goes.