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WatDabney

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  • Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order, Withhold SNAP Until Dems Drop Demands and Reopen Gov’t

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  • So the message to poor Americans from Trump and the Republicans is "If we can't take away your health insurance assistance, we'll take away your food assistance."

    And all so that they can pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

    They're psychopaths. They really are - they are, and rather self-evidently, entirely unconstrained by morals, principles, empathy or conscience, so meet the DSM standards.

    That don't just need to be voted out of office - they need to be institutionalized.

  • John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump

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  • Huh... that sounds about right.

    Alito, for instance, was always a demagogic piece of shit, and Thomas was always a corrupt piece of shit, but for a while there, Roberts was a relatively decent justice, all things considered. But no more - now he's at least as corrupt/compromised as the rest of them. But I was never quite sure how that happened, and that's a plausible explanation.

  • John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump

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  • They could - Congress has the exact same authority to impeach a supreme court justice as they do a president (or any other federal office-holder for that matter).

    But they won't.

    A Dem majority wouldn't be enough, because Schumer and Jeffries and all the rest of their neolib hack allies would still be there, and they're owned by most of the same big money donors that own the Republicans.

    The only way there's any chance that Congress would actually exercise its authority is if all of the corrupt shitweasels are primaried and the Dems end up not just with a majority, but a majority of actual leftists with actual principles and integrity.

    And that's terribly unlikely, since both the Republicans and the Democrats would fight it tooth and toenail.

  • John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump

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  • Though he likely won't hold public attention, I suspect that Roberts will, in the analyses of professional historians and political scientists, be judged second only to Trump in responsibility for the coming collapse of the US.

  • White House architecture was an honor system. Trump noticed.

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  • More precisely, since it's an honor system, Trump, who possesses no honor whatsoever, is immune.

  • Police and TSA accuse Nancy Mace of 'loudly cursing' at them in airport meltdown

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  • lol

    Okay, so usually an instant self-own.

  • Police and TSA accuse Nancy Mace of 'loudly cursing' at them in airport meltdown

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  • "Do you know who I am?!" is an instant self-own.

  • AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

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  • I did lift that basic concept from an article I read, and I would assume it was that one. Thanks for the link.

  • ‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’

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  • Of course he won't stop - he's arrested at an emotional age of about 14.

    He's effectively a permanent chuunibyou, and the only way out of that is to outgrow it and he long since failed to do that.

  • AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

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  • Effectively, what LLMs do is exactly the same thing that mentalists do - they wait for "prompts" to indicate your area(s) of interest, then feed you strings of words that are statistically likely to be well received.

    Or in much simpler terms, and by design, they tell you what you want to hear.

  • LLMs Will Always Hallucinate

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  • I'd say that calling what they do "hallucinating" is still falling prey to the most fundamental ongoing misperceptions/misrepresentations of them.

    They cannot actually "hallucinate," since they don't actually perceive the data that's poured into and out of them, much less possess any ability to interpret it either correctly or incorrectly.

    They're just gigantic databases programmed with a variety of ways in which to collate, order and regurgitate portions of that data. They have no awareness of what it is that they're doing - they're just ordering data based on rules and statistical likelihoods, and that rather obviously means that they can and will end up following language paths that, while likely internally coherent, will have drifted away from reality. That that ends up resembling a "hallucination" is just happenstance, since it doesn't even arise from the same process as actual "hallucinations."

    And broadly I grow increasingly confident that virtually all of the current (and coming - I think things are going to get much worse) problems with "AI" in and of itself (as distinct from the ways in which it's employed) are rooted in the fundamental misrepresentations, misinterpretations and misconceptions that are made about them, starting with the foundational one that they are or can be in any sense "intelligence."

  • Is your data safe? Google's new Play Store age checks raise privacy questions

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  • It's Google, so no, your data is not safe.

  • Oh no! The white nationalists had a tantrum in Ottawa (and Regina) over the weekend

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  • Fucking losers.

  • Golden Rule is flawed

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  • Since knowledge is woefully inadequate, this would necessarily boil down to "treat others as you assume they treat others," which is exactly the moral standard already followed by trigger-happy cops, ICE agents, MAGAs and bigots in general.

    Is that really the best you can do?

    As far as the Golden Rule goes, it's immensely improved by framing it negatively - do not do unto others as you would not have done unto you.

  • What's a song in a language you don't speak that still gets you dancing and yelling along hyped?

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  • Too many to list, dating at least back to 99 Luftballons.

    This is the most recent one: Pacifica - Soltame

  • In its rivalry with the US, China sees an advantage: the long game

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  • Um... yeah

    China's been playing the long game for over 3000 years now.

  • 'The Establishment Is Spooked': Poll Shows Platner With Big Lead Over Mills in Maine Democratic Primary

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  • I think Platner isn't as skilled at avoiding establishment Democrat smear campaigns as Mamdani is.

  • Israel maintaining control deeper inside Gaza than expected, new boundary markers suggest

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  • Expected by whom?

    I'm not even a professional and I expected them to do pretty much exactly what they're doing.

    I'd have to say that anyone who didn't expect it is an idiot.

    But of course that's not what's actually going on here.

    The truth is that nobody expected them to abide by the agreement. Everybody involved knew they were going to violate it, because that's what they do every time. And now the spin-meisters are entirely predictably going, "Oh gee whiz, wouldja look at that? It seems like maybe Israel might be sort of not quite abiding by the terms. Not much we can do about that." And they'll go back to turning a blind eye to the Palestinian suffering and death they're enabling, and in all too many cases, funding.

  • Will the Supreme Court Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity?

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  • Will ruling against it actually benefit the American people? Yes.

    Will ruling for it harm most people and only benefit a relative handful of corrupt, wealthy, power-hungry, psychopathic shitweasels? Yes.

    Therefore, the Supreme Court will rule for it..