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  • I haven't gotten my CIA paycheck yet, what's the number for CIA HR(ule)?

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  • Because the bots/trolls/feds have shifted over to driving a wedge between leftists to keep solidarity from occurring. Thus "tankie" is being thrown around heavily, people constantly bring up early Soviet support of the nazis as a reason to say "tankie=nazi" while ignoring that tankies (sue me, it's a real term that has uses) is a broad term for all "authoritarian fascists," many of whom came after the nazis, were very anti-nazi, and like all historical figures often had a mix of good and bad qualities.

    Certainly its funny to harp on tankies while America falls to literal fascism. Who ever could benefit from scape goating and demonizing communists? Who historically, poetically even, is the famous first victim of fascism due to the strong threat they represent?

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    Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams

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  • With massive tariffs on all incoming food, and sabotaging our vital food producing areas, its almost like he's either deliberately damaging the country or using famine as a tool to commit mass murder of the poor.

  • Have you ever gotten jerked around like this trying to get a job?

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  • There's an excellent, way underrated scifi novel that I love telling people about because it predicted our current moment. Greg Egan's Permutation City, written in freaking 1994.

    You follow the simulation of a man as that man runs experiments on him of how simulated people work. If you played SOMA, those folks definitely read it! Advanced AI spam filters are used to detect advanced AI spammers in a nonstop cold war for your precious attention. I think eventually the AIs are replaced by simulations of yourself enslaved to the task of responding to messages, but I may just be combining that story with qntm's short story Lena which is also terrifying yet likely soon to be true!

  • CBS staff alarmed by reports of settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ Harris interview

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  • It's also a revelation-of-the-method: authoritarians love to gloat about how they're doing it right in front of you, with tools you trusted, and you can't stop it.

  • putting myself on blast

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  • Have you ever gotten jerked around like this trying to get a job?

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  • It was so bad job hunting a couple of years ago. Took me months and months. I even used AI to help me write cover letters after a while. No one was reading them so might as well have no one write them too.

    Productively, I hate to say it, but I think we've actually circled back to Boomer job hunting advice being good. I got my current job by attending local industry meetups, meeting a recruiter, and they got me face-to-face at a company which immediately hired me.

    At this point, I'd just go for the most unhinged approach. Put on a suit, show up where you want to work, walk in and demand to meet the ceo or something. Tell him you're not here to waste time with "process", you're here to make some real money. If you aren't a white man, make friends with one and have them do this, then bait-and-switch the hire. Act like you've always been a queer black woman, it must be their mistake.

    The time for asking to be hired is over. We're just taking the jobs now!

  • Glory to your terminal and your home directory! I have built my own emacs from source!

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  • I went in and disabled that, haha, I'm here to fight EVIL!

    Plus I still apparently have a lot of muscle memory for emacs commands. I sat down to it and was like "what are my hands doing? How are all these buffers opening?"

  • The questions the Chinese government doesn’t want DeepSeek AI to answer

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  • I made a comment to a beehaw post about something similar, I should make it a post so the .world can see it.

    I've been running the 14B distilled model, based on Ali Baba's Qwen2 model, but distilled by R1 and given it's chain of thought ability. You can run it locally with Ollama and download it from their site.

    That version has a couple of odd quirks, like the first interaction in a new session seems much more prone triggering a generic brush-off response. But subsequent responses I've noticed very few guardrails.

    I got it to write a very harsh essay on Tiananmen Square, tell me how to make gunpowder (very generally, the 14B model doesn't appear to have as much data available in some fields, like chemistry), offer very balanced views on Isreal and Palestine, and a few other spicy responses.

    At one point though I did get a very odd and suspicious message out of it regarding the "Realis" group within China and how the government always treats them very fairly. It misread "Isrealis" and apparently got defensive about something else entirely.

  • Birbs

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  • I appreciate that the username "woodrider" also sounds like a filthy bird name.

  • Mark Zuckerberg starts Meta earnings call by praising Trump administration

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  • In a rich man's house, there's no where to spit except for his face.

  • If All This Sounds Delusional, That’s Because It Is

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  • I think this is a pretty good perspective (thank you political author Snot Flickerman, god I love the internet)

    I've heard very similar explanations for why communes falls apart You start with a group of adults who want to live communally, they get that rolling and sometimes it works out really well. But they almost never survive the second generation because too many of the commune kids don't really care about the group and just want to get away and build their own lives.

    If anything, practices like the Amish sending their kids out into the world and letting them choose to return to the life probably work out a lot better to disperse teenage rebellion and reestablish the values and ideals of the community.

    If the leadership (and there's always leadership, even if informally) is open, then the influx of new ideas can also help prevent stagnation, but for exactly the reasons outlined above (institutional capture, stagnant high-rankers more concerned with status quo and the security of their positions) leadership tends to close itself off.

    I do think the capitalist mode makes this worse though. In theory, communal projects just fall apart when they fail to adapt, since they lose their purpose. Capitalist organizations can often keep going in zombie mode, because the actual function of ALL capitalist organizations is to make money. Anything else is literally idealism layered on top, the material reality is that capitalist organizations exist to make money. And when the ideals fall away, that still remains and becomes the hungry driver of all future decisions.

    I'm reminded of a thing I complain about all the time: the festival cycle. Say you learn about a new festival, or outdoor concert, or similar such thing. The first year will typically be chaotic, a little disorganized, but the people tend to be enthusiastic. They want to be here, they want to have fun, but they also are motivated early-adopters and friends of the organizers, so they want to help make it a good festival.

    The 2nd through 5th-ish years of the annual festival are the prime years. Success in the first (and subsequent) years attracts better talent, more talent, and more people. The festival is lively, fun, and often carries some idealism as well. Like, "this festival celebrate music in our community" or "all proceeds of the fair go to feeding the homeless!"

    By the 6th year though, if it has continued to be successful, this is about the time when the amount of "party people" is severly out-weighing the commited festival goers. These are the people that dont make costumes, dont camp out, dont really engage with the festival beyond pure trasactionalism: I give you money, and you give me fun.

    There's now too much money, profit, in the system and usually a big national company makes a buy-out offer now, or the festival is simply big enough that managing it necessitates building a company and the finance people just worm their way in. Ticket prices go up, tickets get partitioned into VIP tiers, local acts get replace with big corporate names, ads and merchandising begin to dominate your eye lines everywhere in the festival.

    Eventually, it either outgrows its birthplace and moves somewhere bigger, or becomes so large and mismanaged that it becomes too unprofitable to run anymore and gets shut down. A few people go "man, remember how cool Blahfest was? What if we got some friends together and organized a new BlergFest?!" and the cycle begins again.

  • No Man’s Sky update adds ‘trillions’ of planets

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  • Well that's good, I was just getting close to running out of the old planets.

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  • LOOK WHAT THEY NEED TO MIMIC A FRACTION OF OUR APOLOGIES

  • Trump's funding freeze awakens the "Resistance"

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  • Deny his lies and false orders.

    Defend your community from fascist oppression.

    Depose that orange fucker and all his stooges.

  • What's your favorite volume measure? Mine's 1/2 cup or 125 ml. So handy.

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  • (I had to dig these from the back of a kitchen drawer, so not "favorites" exactly.)

  • What's your favorite volume measure? Mine's 1/2 cup or 125 ml. So handy.

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  • Hard same, big fan of big spoon!

  • DeepSeek-R1 on DeepSeek-R1: Self-Analysis through Haiku

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  • Seems like the cross post isn't displaying quoted content (for me on Voyager mobile anyway) so I just wanted to add that in the original post, there is a long discussion I wrote highlighting some interesting aspects of this output. Please click through if you'd like to know more!

  • DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses assembly-like PTX programming instead

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  • It's already happening. This article takes a long look at many of the rising threats to nvidia. Some highlights:

    • Google has been running on their own homemade TPUs (tensor processing units) for years, and say they on the 6th generation of those.
    • Some AI researchers are building an entirely AMD based stack from scratch, essentially writing their own drivers and utilities to make it happen.
    • Cerebras.ai is creating their own AI chips using a unique whole-die system. They make an AI chip the size of entire silicon wafer (30cm square) with 900,000 micro-cores.

    So yeah, it's not just "China AI bad" but that the entire market is catching up and innovating around nvidia's monopoly.

  • Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics

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  • Except if you look at the top of OP's picture, they are also running deepseek-r1:14B through ollama. I downloaded my copy on Sunday, so these should be fairly comparable situations.

    I agree though that none of this applies to the full cloud-hosted model. I don't want my account banned, so I'm not much for testing these boundary pushes in a surveilled environment. I imagine they have additional controls on the web version, including human intervention.

  • Hoping for the funniest possible outcome

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  • The all new Tesla Cyb-airforce X! Looks like if the F-117A and a dumpster had a baby, and then put that baby into another dumpster that wasn't it's mother. Is the opposite of stealth. So heavy it requires a support plane to help it fly.