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Not an argument for why it’s good, but I can virtually guarantee it’s being used as a fundraising metric. “Gavin is getting views, give us money,” is def the pitch. I’m seeing people hiring for some PAC positions explicitly stating the role is to post like that.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
Do you have a sense for how someone like Yoram Hazony can show up on places like the Ezra Klein show and claim this isn’t a racist project? I found his explanations incomprehensible, but speeches like this make his case seem less a project of willful ignorance and more of straight lying on the topic
I haven’t sat down to map it out. It seems like there could be some interesting utility by using Solid pods for PDS + maybe ID/auth with relays and other parts of the ATmosphere respecting revocation of access. But I could also just be imagining something that already mostly exists
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
I swear these things are jokes someone misunderstood and took as sincere and aspirational. Natcons like Hazony can pontificate incomprehensible nonsense all day about how it’s not racist, but this is as clarifying as anything
Do you think there’s potential for a PDS integration with something like Solid for private/portable data storage? solidproject.org/about
This is the visual equivalent of asking ChatGPT
Spoken like the soon-to-be future murderer
The net thing is cool and maybe would actually get used, but there’s no way a house like this doesn’t end up on the news, if not for fire, for a series of grizzly SAW-style murders having taken place. Living there would drive anyone insane
Activitypub and ATproto are great protocols. Mastodon and Bluesky are exciting projects. Neither one is immune to the enforcement of this law. This thread is an argument over which is a solution to a political/societal problem, and the answer is neither.
You’re correct about it being a recent invention, tied to industrialized food production, which had lots of benefits — shelf stability, nutritional enrichment, etc. But Wonder bread was also inextricably linked with racism, which 99% Invisible has a great piece on.
Robert Dogvall
To be clear: this is yet another reason why many of these laws are so problematic. If people want to run fediverse instances of any size, the fact that costly age verification requirements could put them in legal jeopardy, is very bad. Regulators make laws as if every website is Facebook.
Framing it as "losing $218M" makes sense in highlighting the massive expenditure, but was there ever a scenario where Floridians won? Was this going to generate revenue? Floridians were robbed. Someone made off with those funds, which could have been used for so many good things other than cruelty.
They follow Vampire Rules
Waffle Party: mixed feedback
Republican state lawmakers propose a path to breaking stalemate around SEPTA support: “fuel the trains using burning plastic, and you can have your transit funding.”
That's a hilarious self-own
Credit bureaus are shady and bad at security, and they continue to invent new ways to "authenticate" yourself to the account, making the protection weaker, but without it, people are at extreme risk. There's not a lot of options once identity theft occurs.
They have made the interface for thawing/freezing much better in recent years. I've had family who got stuck in the interim system when you needed the PIN (and now don't), but these days, I can thaw all 3 in 5 minutes. The Credit Bureaus try to hide it, sure, but it's effective.
What is this, a BlueSky petition for certiorari before judgment?
Credit freezes might be the last layer, threadbare layer of defense we have that protects normal people. I sincerely hope free freezes continues, but given how things are trending, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone in the administration decides to end that policy.
RatGPT 🐀✨
Would happily swap 'moonshine stories' with Tom Brown
I've heard that the Substack discovery features help smaller creators a lot. Patreon may need to expand that kind of promotion, but this is a great step to competing directly
This is great. It's a successful platform, and it's probably an easier transition than it is to something like Ghost for most people.
Look, that kid would not have starved to death if we hadn’t hit him in the head with a bomb first. Try to get your facts straight , anti semites
Alf.
Elon getting pulled under the A.I. quicksand slop of his own making is the perfect end to his villain arc
Would watch so many seasons of that
If someone eliminated NextDoor, I think it would put a dent in the perception of crime. It would also decimate sales of Ring doorbell cameras, so win-win.
If there was a thing that could truly lose the Trump voting coalition, it’s this
Moreover, if you don't want constituents angry, try not fucking them over
ChatGPT makes mistakes, and somebody else needs to check for those
If a recent episode of Fisk is anything to go by, those represent a great investment opportunity. Very sock!
Stressfully accurate metaphor for “talking with an LLM”
“Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks.”
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
What kind of 'Minority Report' pre-cog bullshit is "stopping 3 pre-wars" and why wouldn't you just make up a bigger number?
And so the argument is that by routing queries to different models within a single conversation/session the KV caching needs to, at a minimum, be done more frequently if not every time?
And isn’t the summarized conversation always fed back into the model, regardless of the version? No LLM maintains state as far as I’m aware
Just saw this on the Adafruit blog. It's amazing, and I didn't know JLCPCB did transparent PCBs, so it was doubly cool!
maybe french onion
A fun code-word for ketamine
This man is real-life Devin Banks from 30 Rock
You trying to give the Adams people ideas for where to go when they lose??
Adams’ campaign trial of UBI is not going according to plan
It feels like Brendel can see the future.
Who is going to go corrupt for like $140???
“Please don’t do in the news nothing about me.” The writing this season of The Wire is taking a dive.
A post that works with and without context
If I had infinite resources and unlimited time, I could maybe solve a problem. Is that anything?
The Forbidden Four
The sincere belief that ChatGPT is a good product and the problem is it just needs infinite resources to scale is something I’ll never understand ChatGPT is neat and sometimes sucks shit, so we’re many years away from “AI” doesn’t get the same ROI — I know — but are they not seeing the problems?
Cannot for the life of me tell if this is intended to be a joke, but it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen today
Dynamic layouts are illegal. Resizing browser windows is a felony. Henceforth, everything shall be 800x600 pixels, as God intended. Also, iframes are back.
If you're questioning with the idea that support==endorsement, that's fair enough, but the 'who' seems to be pretty clear.
If the question is, 'who is Perry referring to?' it's in the second paragraph of the story. "Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, [...] have refused to endorse Mamdani. Same for the state’s other senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Governor Kathy Hochul."
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Dog parks are places of self-control and chastity. It is common knowledge.
Ew
the phrase “moral panic” gets thrown around a lot but I’m not sure what other reaction I’m supposed to have to the information that facebook, on purpose, built chatbots for the purpose of having cybersex with children
To your last question about "Has anyone found uses them?" that's what Web3 was about. What good is my Power Card if there are no D&B games to play? There were kernels of good ideas in smart contracts, DAOs, etc. but they have been subsumed by grift and treating coins as investment, at least for now
I think it's all very impressive, even if it has its limitations and very real tradeoffs. That Claude E. Shannon predicted this concept would be able to approximate English back in 1948 is wild. The idea that you can apply this same concept to images and generate semantic information blows my mind
You don’t need stablecoins unless you want to buy other currencies (and you technically don’t need them to do that, but most exchanges require the USD->stablecoin first). The issuers want to end up being a Visa/MasterCard. (They don’t issue USD, but they do make a killing from transaction fees.)
But just as in that episode of Sunny where they try to issue Paddy’s Dollars, it’s because everyone wants to be the one whose currency is the most widely used coin, because the network effects would make whomever has THE stablecoin very influential/powerful
If you’re wondering why it makes sense to have so many different stablecoins when the point is they need to be backed by something real and the entire purpose is to be an intermediary token until you “cash out,” you’re not alone. Most casinos don’t have different kinds of in-house currencies.
Yes, theoretically, they’re backed by assets (USD, other currencies or holdings). There are other kinds, but those keep turning out to collapse. You pay less in transaction between most stablecoins and other coins than going straight to USD.
If the crypto exchange is Dave & Busters, your wallet full of stablecoins is your D&B power card, allowing you to transact within the exchange without needing to [pay to] keep converting dollars to whatever currency Arguably more to it, but beyond the “chips in the casino” analogy, it gets sketchy
Hoagie assault guy, if convicted, will be punished more strongly than J6 folks who beat police officers with poles and other objects and are now walking free (and probably joining CBP)
I do believe GPT4 was always MM but they didn't allow for image inputs until later. BeMyEyes was the only collaborator for the v4 launch that could access it. But if I'm mistaken or if there are other examples of non MLLMs being able to work with image embeddings, that would be wild
What do you mean by visual tokens? It's my (certainly incomplete) understanding that the MLLMs are trained on image patch embeddings, and those embeddings can come from a CNN, so the spatial relations would be reinforced during supervised training.
In your opinion, where might a boundary lie? If multi-modal LLMs can build/prune a 'dictionary' of 'concepts,' does that sidestep the Thai Library conjecture? Not arguing that a model expanding a collection of feature vectors == human learning, but curious where you see that differing from grounding
"Thank you for waiting. Your FOIA is very important to us. Please press 1 to stay in the queue."
Thank you for picking up this story
A gigantic takeout container from Alif in Clark Park for lunch on a sunny afternoon is probably the top thing I miss about living in West
Isn’t that just crypto?
I do wonder if the rollout of AppleCare One has left some weird edge-case/user experience dead-ends. Not to excuse it. I also find plenty of “did no one try this”-type of experiences with services
Alif Brew if you're in a hurry
no, but I will now
I know it's part of the cable news schtick, but watching Harry Enten doing his best Jim Cramer is still weird for someone who listened to him on 538
I’m surprised this never made the 3am Adult Swim rotation
“A gang of youths on ATVs…one of whom popped a ‘wheelie’.”
Jerry off
Hey at least the text is right about Trump having been elected in “Manuary”
If my grad student pulled this shit with me, they'd be out of the lab. Lies like that about methods to paper over your mistake are simply unacceptable. It did crap like this over and over.
This one ranks near the top of the list of irritations. Not sure how a 404 or 403 error yields anything other than a “I couldn’t accomplish that” response. I presume there’s a chain-of-thought issue where it tries to “get around that” but this alone makes it unusable for me
Is the new dog park that’s replacing Bark Social in Manayunk any more likely to succeed? It’s hard to tell how well this concept is doing as a business after BS closed abruptly. (I presume a new funding found failed to come through.)
The amount of “finding out” in FAFO was dramatically oversold, it seems
to the moon 🚀
“Patch Tuesday killed my wife” isn’t a bad villain origin story for 2025
The book of revelations
“The cloud” is just a flock of birds