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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is really the core of it.

  I remember that it took months of discussions, compromises and buttering up specific opposition members to get it passed, and that it was a trimmed-down version of the original Medicare plans.

  I wish I could remember where, but when answering a question very similar to the OP’s - perhaps in an interview? - Obama explained that he would have very much liked to tackle two big things: health care and climate, but that his party’s resources were stretched too thin to do both at the same time and that he knew they would loose control of the house in the midtems (2011), so he picked one thing.

  Table listing who held the house and the senate during the Obama presidency from 2009 to 2017

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disclaimer: I wondered the same, since 2014, and this is what I puzzled together for myself, read it with a skeptical mind!

  I believe a lot of it can be traced back to the wealthy and to conservative think tanks / media control by right wing moguls.

  Back in the 1960s and 1970s, conservatives were perceived as well-off business people trying to protect their own wealth (I’ve read that people used to say things like “I’m not rich enough to vote Republican” or children shouting “last one in the house is a dirty Republican”). You can even see old movies dunk on conservatives (i.e. take Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) , at the beginning, with the satellite dish tower, the protagonist noses off about reactionaries being in control of congress, thus leading the country towards war).

  This is the rather extreme election result from 1964:

  Political map of the US in 1964

  Because liberals mostly were Democratic Party voters, Republicans and their wealthy donors tried to alter public perception of liberals (i.e. make it undesirable for their indoctrinatees to be liberal). This included taking over the media (and Reagan conveniently cancelling the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, which gave political bias in the media some guard rails), then painting liberals as all things undesirable: arrogant, weak, clueless, leeches, etc.

  Having a “hate object” worked so well that they kept capitalizing on it. Much of it was/is just slinging sh*t against the wall and looking what sticks, but think tanks are indeed looking at what sticks, so successful patterns get repeated. Some of these successful patterns I can see are installing a victim complex in conservatives (feeling their back against the wall, they lash out easier, ensuring anyone talking about conservatives is conditioned to use very soft gloves) and the two-year bogeyman, often trying to capture, redefine and vilify some prior existing concept (thus, when the campaign hits, indoctrinatees can find lots of “proof” online of this thing existing).

  For example, social justice used to be universally agreed on as a good thing, woke used to mean remaining aware of systemic inequalities, now they make conservatives pop an artery. This has been going for a while (the “hate object” over time has been rock music, hippies, metal music, supposed satan worshippers, pen and paper games, paganism+atheism, video games, social justice activists, cancel culture, black lives matter, critical race theory, wokeness, …)

  And I think, yes, your perception is spot on. This is, for example, what I get when I search for “anti-conservative t-shirts” (if it’s too tiny, try it yourself - they’re all anti-liberal):

  Search result on DuckDuckGo for anti-conservative t-shirts, all results showing anti-liberal t-shirts

  TL;DR: conservatives are intentionally made and kept angry. It keeps them unified against a bigger enemy (see Genghis Gambit), drives them to go vote and prevents voters from switching sides even if they do not like some things the conservatives are doing. Add to that Russia amplifying this division like there’s no tomorrow. They’re installing this hate for liberals both in tankies and in far-right bigots (and, as far as I can tell, anti-liberal sentiment is pushed into Russian society, too).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just some thoughts:

  • Current LLMs (chat AIs) are “frozen brains.” (Over-)Simplified, the synapses on the AI’s input neurons are given the 2048 prior words (the “context”) and the AI’s output synapses mean a different word each, so the synapse that lights up most strongly is the next word the AI will say. Then the picked word is added to the “context” and the neural network is executed once more for the next next word.

  • Coming up with the weights of the synapses takes insane effort (run millions of books through the “context” and look if the AI t predicts the next word correctly, if not, change a random synapse). Afaik, GPT-4 was trained on more than 2000 NVidia A100 GPUs for somewhere around 4 to 7 months, I think they mentioned paying for 7.5 Megawatt hours.

  • If you had a super computer that could keep running the AI with live training, the AI’s ability to string up words would likely, and quickly, degrade into incoherence because it would just ingest and repeat whatever went into it. Existing biological brains have these complex mechanisms of distilling experiences and evaluating them in terms of usefulness/success of their own actions.

  I think that foundation, that part that makes biological brains put the action/consequence in the foreground of the learning experience, rather than just ingesting, is what eludes us. Perhaps at some future point in time, we could take the initial brain structure that grows in a human as the seed for an AI (but I guess then we’d likely have to simulate all the highly complex traits of real neurons, including mixed chemical and electrical signaling and possibly even quantum-level effects that have been theorized).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re mistaken there.

  Wine is a vanilla Linux executable that runs as the user who launched it. The Windows program it runs thus also runs under that user. That’s possible because Wine doesn’t do anything system-wide (like intercepting calls or anything), it already gave the process its own version of i.e. LoadLibrary() (the Windows API function to load a DLL) and can happily remap any loaded DLL to Wine’s reimplementation of said DLL as needed.

  Here are, for example, the processes created when I run Paint Shop Pro on my system (the leftmost column indicates the user each process is running as): Processes running after launching a Windows executable via Wine

  Also, some advice from WineHQ: WineHQ warning never to run Wine as root

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After reading, the gist of it seems to be:

  • Vanilla far-right indoctrinated dumbo (his vision: “Reds” welcome, “Blues” not, “Anti-Blue Propaganda” on public view screens)
  • Wants exploitative capitalism on steroids with companies controlling everyone’s lives completely
  • Claims current capitalism is only bad because it’s “woke capitalism” which he claims the “ruling class” is pushing
  • Wants tech bros to butter up police and give security staff jobs to their children as a favor, i.e. intentional social classism .

  In short, just another out of touch entrepreneur who sells snake oil cures to people suffering in the current system, so that they may invite in the boot that stomps them down for good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub-like WebUI for Subversion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would (just like Git LFS) store full, separate copies of every single version of the large files I manage. I really, really don’t want to go there, nor do I have even a fraction of the hard drive space for that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub-like WebUI for Subversion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I meant when I wrote “Git submodules can only point to a whole different repository” - they can’t point to a path inside a repository, only to another repository root. That unfortunately renders them useless for me (I’d have to set up in the order of hundreds of small repositories for the sets of shared data I have).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub-like WebUI for Subversion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m already using Git for source code related versioning, but some use cases involving large binary files with partial updates isn’t well covered by Git (I’ve gone into some detail in my reply to @vvv@programming.dev).

  There’s also the lack of svn:externals in Git. Git submodules can only point to a whole different repository as far as I’m aware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub-like WebUI for Subversion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m already using Git, thus my experience with Gitea. I am well versed with svndumpfilter and git-svn to extract and migrate individual Subversion repositories to Git.

  I’m not only hosting code, but I have several projects involving large binary files with binary changes. Git’s delta compression algorithm for binary files is so-so. Git LFS is just outsourcing the problem. Even cloning with –depth 1 --single-branch gives me abysmal performance compared to Subversion.

  So I’m still looking for a nice WebUI to make my life with the Subversion repositories I have easier.

• GitHub-like WebUI for Subversion
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In search of software for managing like a helpdesk but in a lite format⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After finding out that tools that are to “bureaucratic” don’t stick with me (bureaucratic as in, I need to fill out forms to create projects/tasks, update them and follow defined workflows), I ended up with Trilium.

  It at first looks like a very free-form note taking app (a tree of documents on the left, click and edit away), but it has a lot of extra functionality that lets you construct journals and tasks lists in the document tree (like its Task Manager which is already set up in the Demo notes of a new Trilium install).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a hard sci-fi novel (1970s or 1980s) called “Tau Zero” that features this idea.

  Book summary (spoils all of it)

  A colony ship with a Bussard Ramjet on each end (debunked theoretical spaceship drive that uses interstellar hydrogen for propulsion, i.e. the faster you go, the more medium you hit and the harder you accelerate) suffers an accident that destroys the deceleration engine. They keep accelerating because they need the engine’s magnetic field to protect them from interstellar dust. First they try reach the void between galaxies to safely repair the ship, when the interstellar medium is still too “dense,” they go for the void between galaxy clusters, then superclusters, then they just stay on the throttle until the big crunch, at which point, in the nothingness after the universe collapsed in on itself, they can finally fix their ship and begin decelerating into the bounce-back big bang of the forming next universe and colonize a planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading that formed an interesting question in my (also non-physicist mind):

  If we can, at most, take advantage of relativity to slow down our own time frame, then time could just be our way to describe the pace of how space changes around us following simple causality.

  But if, on the other hand, it is possible to move backwards through time, wouldn’t the universe have to necessarily exist not only as a giant block of eternally changing 3D space, but as a giant block of 4D spacetime one could move around in? And would that mean predetermined past and future, or would that 4D block of spacetime change, too, advancing through meta-time, continually changing future and past of the universe?

  ScienceClic has a cool video, stipulating that we live in 4D spacetime and are bound to always move forward at light speed. If we stand still in 3D space, we move forwards in time at light speed. If we accelerate in 3D space, we change out motion vector from only pointing forwards in time to pointing slightly sideways (up to completely sideways, i.e. time stops, if we were able to move at light speed). But there may be now way to do a 180 involving the time axis like we could do involving the other 3 axes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that example. Microsoft’s Copilot (based on GTP-4) immediately doesn’t disappoint:

  Microsoft Copilot: Two pounds of feathers and a pound of lead both weigh the same: two pounds. The difference lies in the material—feathers are much lighter and less dense than lead. However, when it comes to weight, they balance out equally.

  It’s annoying that for many things, like basic programming tasks, it manages to generate reasonable output that is good enough to goat people into trusting it, yet hallucinates very obviously wrong stuff or follows completely insane approaches on anything off the beaten path. Every other day, I have to spend an hour to justify to a coworker why I wrote code this way when the AI has given him another “great” suggestion, like opening a hidden window with an UI control to query a database instead of going through our ORM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume that Twitter still has tons of managers and team leads that allowed this and have their own part of the responsibility. However, Musk is known to be a choleric with a mercurial temper, someone who makes grand public announcements and then pushes his companies to release stuff that isn’t nearly ready for production. Often it’s “do or get fired”.

  So… an unshackled AI generating official posts, no human hired to curate the front page, headlines controlled through up-voting by trolls and foreign influence campaigns, all running unchecked in the name of “free speech” – that’s very much on brand for a Musk-run business, I’d say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of the Anime's releasing in the summer⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I happened across the Kaiju No. 8 manga two years ago. While it’s not a never-seen-before concept, it kept me engaged until the last published issue (at the time). Definitely going to check that one out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best indie games you've ever played?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh… I swear I wanted to contribute just 2 or 3 games, but as I wrote, I kept remembering one gem after another… oh well… :)

  Outer Wilds - So hard to describe, it’s an exploration game, but what you’re exploring is a star system going supernova, in a wooden spaceship no less. And a strange way of (not) time travel is also involved, which could be the root of the whole game loop.

  Axiom Verge - A platformer that is such a labor of love that it hits just the perfect mix of approachability, exploration, story development and that “huh?” factor where right until the end you’re not sure what your abilities actually mean - i.e. if you could glitch through walls in the real world, would that imply the real world is a simulation?

  Stardew Valley - A somehow utterly satisfying farming simulator in the style of the first Harvest Moon games. Such a nice getaway game - it begins with your avatar quitting their office job and moving to a farm inherited from their grandfather. No taxes, no boss, no stress, just rise with the sun, plant, water, harvest and fix. Change your rhythm with the weather and the seasons, investigate charming little mysteries of a beautiful place.

  Broforce - Another platformer, this one a bit more brutal. Far over the top 80s action heroes bring freedom to the world, but whether you play as Robocop, Schwarzenegger, McGyver, Snake Plissken, Ripley or another 50 heroes is almost random and each hero has completely different weapons and skills. Destructible environment and even a large Xenomorph outbreak (how the heck did they get the license or grant?).

  Protolife - This one uses such a madly simple recipe for complex gameplay. Seen top-down, you’re a robotic loader than can put down dots. That’s all. But certain arrangements of dots are guns, long range guns, flame throwers, area denial, missile silos, barriers and so on. You’re attacked by insect-like creatures, but instead of building tanks, you have to attack via well-placed guns slowly pushing the swarming enemies back.

  Alien Shooter 2 Reloaded - Simple top-down shooter where you’re the lone soldier seeking to contain an alien outbreak. Goes for the time-honed recipe of character stat upgrades (speed, health, accuracy) and purchasing weapons and weapon upgrades. The interesting part is the insane hordes you’re up against and that all the corpses stay. It’s not unusual for entire corridors to turn into flesh hallways of blood and carapaces.

  Moons of Madness - I hope this is actually indie, the graphics are near AAA level. It’s 50% walking simulator, 50% cosmic horror, set on Mars. You’re an astronaut doing maintenance on an outpost, but rather than go for the “freaky alien attack” recipe, reality itself seems to be somehow bending. Cthulhu, is that you?

  Lumencraft - Top-down game. You begin as a miner in an underground base. Something really bad happened to humanity and now you’re digging underground for metal and for “lumen.” To feed the reactor that keeps humanity alive, you have to meet harvesting goals and dig tunnels, but various enemies attack in waves, so you have to spend part of your resources on fortifications and turrets and avoid opening up too many avenues into your bases.

  Carrion - 2D platformer-ish. In a secret place, scientists are holding a horrific, tentacled bioweapon locked away, but it escapes. Twist: you are the tentacled bioweapon, slithering through pipes, circumventing security systems and trying to escape from the lab.

  Nuclear Blaze - 2D platformer. You’re a fireman sent to contain a fire the broke out in some kind of installation in a forest. But one building has a shaft that leads deep underground where a high-end containment facility is suffering a failure. Takes place in the “SCP” universe and your only tool is a fire hose. Extremely fun trying to extinguish fires in a way where they won’t spread again.

  Mothergunship - This is a first-person shooter where you’re boarding and destroying (from the inside out) an army of AI space ships. But instead of a traditional gun, you have gun parts you can stick together. How about a triple rocket launcher with two shotguns in the middle? Or a shield generating laser with a sawblade attache to it, and maybe two shotguns just to be sure? It doesn’t grow old with new weapon parts being introduced right until the very end.

  Space Run - 2D base building. You’re a mercenary cargo pilot fending off space pirates. But you don’t do it by controlling a turret, instead, your spaceship is a building surface and you have to build the right kind of engines, turrets, shields and power generators (in mid-flight no less) to be able to shoot down incoming rocks and pirate ships. Extremely well balanced and fun.

  Creeper World - 3D real-time strategy. But your enemy is not actually present on the map, you’re just fighting a simulation of liquid, a gooey slime that pours out of several spots. You have to keep shooting, bombarding and containing the splashing, pouring slime until you can neutralize the slime outlets. The story is cool, too. The slime is actually some extinct species “gift” to the universe which dissolves everything into data, transmitted to some eternal storage space at the center of the universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I automount sshfs?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on OpenRC, so I can’t say anything about systemd, but I have several SSHFS mounts (non-auto) listed in my fstab:

  sshfs#root@192.168.0.123:/random-folder/ /mnt/random-folder fuse noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,allow_other 0 0

  Is that similar to what you’ve tried in your fstab? I’d assume replacing noauto with auto should just work, but then again, I haven’t tried it (and rebooting my system right now would be very inconvenient, sorry).

  It also might require you to either use password-based login and specify the password or store the SSH keys in the .ssh directory of the user doing the mount (should be root with auto set).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For my taste, framing CCC as a “Washington/Brussels” project is a far too close to what Russian smearbots do (link everything unpopular back to their current hate objects, i.e. foster resentment against the EU, liberals, etc.).

  It looks very much like the CCC is an international organization funded and controlled by the far right.

  Their website states:

  Which countries is CCC active in?

  The CCC works currently with tens of thousands of consumers and partner organizations in North America, Europe, South America, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and many more.

  Their colorful funding history:

  Big Tobacco and right-wing US billionaires funding anti-regulation hardliners in the EU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A perfect demonstration of how Russian indoctrination works right here.

  Original reporting: A major disinfo attack against Europe being prepared by Russia is uncovered through diligent investigation and published and reported on.

  The response:

  • 1. divert to farmer’s dissatisfaction with several policies
  • 2. cast disinfo reports as underhanded attempts (by politician Russia wants gone) to arrogantly brush off farmer’s concerns (which the report never even related to)
  • 3. claim Macron is selling out to EU (here, have a serving of anti-EU sentiment, too)
  • 4. vaccinate reader against the disinfo being countered (“everyone who tells you otherwise belittles you and hates you, join us in our righteous anger”)

  Emotional framing:

  Nationalists, agricultural owner-operators, and farmers exposed to rising interest rates

  “truckloads of exported Ukranian agricultural salvage” vs. “fresh French produce”

  we’re getting an earful about how all these local yokels are hoodwinked by anti-EU Russian Propaganda

  Macron for selling out the agg sector to financial interests in Brussels

  “If you’re not in favor of then you’re a secret spy for Putin and a traitor.”

  Result: Out the other end comes an angry person outraged about the plight of farmers, outraged again at disinfo reports supposedly serving to silence them, outraged once more at a France politician selling them out to the EU, EU painted as high-and-might villain, automatic anger against anyone who tells them a different viewpoint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m expecting a really nasty autumn this year. A big chunk of Russia’s campaign against Europe is held up by Ukraine and they badly need a stooge US president again.

  Musk also opened Twitter’s doors wide for state-sponsored manipulation and agitation campaigns. All protections are offline and the teams are gone, under the guise of free speech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering that…

  • The Republicans encouraged him multiple times to buy it
  • He quick stopped blocking (mainly Russian) state-sponsored social manipulation campaigns
  • He immediately allowed right wing agitators back on the platform
  • He almost immediately banned droves of journalists that weren’t blindly Pro-Russia and Pro-GOP
  • He censored / banned all kinds of activists that pushed back against authoritarian (Russia-backed) regimes in other countries

  …I have a hunch that he also served the interests of certain political actors with the acquisition. Public town square my lower backside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor Swift has won the Superbowl!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From another outsider:

  • I think Taylor Swift is married to a player of one of the teams competing for the superbowl.
  • She previously encouraged young people to vote (but not for whom), which would be bad for Republicans as they’re unpopular with young people.
  • Right wing media cooked up a theory that the super bowl was fixed so the team of Taylor Swift’s husband would win, resulting in Taylor Swift being called to the victory celebration where she then would endorse Joe Biden.

  As far as I take it from this thread, the team actually won, but the endorsement didn’t happen, confusing conspiracy nutters everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Politics] Have phobia, will travel⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m in none of these groups, having lived survived the rock’n roll-, black mass- / satanic(1)-, killer videogame-, terrorism-, social justice- / SJW-, safe space-, socialism-/communism-, antifa-, cabal-, satanic(2)-, CRT- and woke-panic, I feel underrepresented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that a lot of human behavior (on the micro as well as macro level) is just following learned patterns. On the other hand, I also think we’re far ahead - for now - in that we (can) have a meta context - a goal and an awareness of our own intent.

  For example, when we solve a math problem, we don’t just let intuitive patterns run and blurt out numbers, we know that this is a rigid, deterministic discipline that needs to be followed. We observe and guide our own thought processes.

  That requires at least a recurrent network and at higher levels, some form of self awareness. And any LLM is, when it runs (rather than being trained), completely static, feed-forward (it gets some 2000 words (or 32000+ as of GPT-4 Turbo) fed to its input synapses, each neuron layer gets to fire once and then the final neuron layer contains the likelihoods for each possible next word.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed.

  Perhaps I can sell them my new “ADE-651 Mark II” with advanced AI analysis? (Search “ADE-651” if you lack context and want to have a laugh).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a case of “here, LLM trained on millions of lines of text from cold war novels, fictional alien invasions, nuclear apocalypses and the like, please assume there is a tense diplomatic situation and write the next actions taken by either party” ?

  But it’s good that the researchers made explicit what should be clear: these LLMs aren’t thinking/reasoning “AI” that is being consulted, they just serve up a remix of likely sentences that might reasonably follow the gist of the provided prior text (“context”). A corrupted hive mind of fiction authors and actions that served their ends of telling a story.

  That being said, I could imagine /some/ use if an LLM was trained/retrained on exclusively verified information describing real actions and outcomes in 20th century military history. It could serve as brainstorming aid, to point out possible actions or possible responses of the opponent which decision makers might not have thought of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”

  I’ll be… they even predicted the “sovereign citizen” movement!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave for nothing if UBI is high enough. Otherwise, couch-surf. Temporarily move to a shared house. Or just have a few months extra to hunt for a job without getting evicted.

  I think we just have to disagree on whether a vast cloud of progressive ideas or total focus on one or two realistic ideas is better.

  My belief is that it helps. That opposition is good. Let them waste all their ammo, let them help spread the message, let them get the impression that there are so many progressive demands that it shifts the general tone. Some ideas or aspects of ideas will stick, even with the opposition.

  And while they’re fighting hippie space pirates, we’ll pass an automatic minimum wage adjustment. Progressives have been on the defense far too long. I want a new 1968 :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just an example for a wild idea that might inspire people. But… Wikipedia “Community Gardening”

  It’s a pretty popular concept in the UK. Takes less space than parks, is a great place to meet like-minded people, reduce food costs and the community aspect means you can even go on vacation since its a group of people caring for the plants.