limer

@limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Every region in the world has its way of doing things. When new layers of control are added, it makes some people nervous.

  When the new controls are perhaps mismanaged and corrupt, promising to do more than advertised, it makes some people angry. Especially during an increase of lawlessness and corruption of the central government. Especially when it uses the same messaging which has already harmed many

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To opt out, do I have to pay the a subscription ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good instance to be on at the moment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is rather both sides, isn’t it?

  But, after poking around lemmy, I have decided there is value in all instances. There will be communities nestled in between the stuff I do not like. I like and dislike much on lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good instance to be on at the moment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  looking for a instance with the fewest trolls, bots, and anyone that likes to take things to the extremes.

  All the instances are good in their own way, but at least one will irritate you very much, and it’s always different. There are ways each one can make you go “why???”

  There are commenters who will call one or more instances bad things. That may or may not be accurate for you.

  Each large instance has one or more crazy mods, most have decent mods. Each instance will have multiple examples about why it’s good or horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet this is just correlation. Frequent reliance on AI ( and not just using it as a tool for a specific reason)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a huge number of lemmy users who are genocide deniers and hate many other things , including lemmy.ml and the developers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apologies, no offense meant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will “protect free expression” by pulling back on content moderation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoping for the best, expecting attacks on science while still demonetizing videos talking about climate change in geography

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aaaaarrgg! This is horrible they stopped AI summaries, which I was hoping would help corrupt a leading institution protecting free thought and transfer of knowledge.

  Sincerely, the Devil, Satan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to get wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing is stopping the AI summaries from using social media as the primary source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now you hit me curious too. This was my source on Texas www.texasalmanac.com/place-types/town

  Also the total number of total towns is over 4,000 with only 3k unincorporated, I did get the numbers wrong even in Texas.

  I had looked at Wikipedia but could not find totals, only lists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know the Texas count is accurate, I looked it up. I was too lazy and uninspired to look at other states. However I would be surprised if it were not at least half the corporate areas, nationally in total?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a paper ballot and small town guy, I’m not a mega and my life was saved by vaccines. Also I indirectly help people get abortions ( I live in Texas). In all actuality I’m closer to being a communist than anything else.

  So, if people can agree that exit polls are off, the next question is why?

  If you look at the history of exit polling they are only off, in a historical sense, when there is mass ballot stuffing.

  So that leaves either there is cheating or somehow Americans are so exceptional they overturn precedent.

  And don’t forget the other stats tests. One of them which sorts the precincts by size and compares the percentage of votes each candidate received. It should be a kind of line. In California it is, in many other states it is not.

  So not only do Americans have to be unique, in one way. They have to be exceptional in other ways to explain the other tests, used over the works fur generations.

  All of this while the hidden counting of ballots is going on, without enough recounts .

  Occam’s razor and all that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So many states have problems with exit polls being correct , that all the major broadcasters and news agencies, in the USA, stopped using them a few years ago to predict many races.

  Exit polls are used elsewhere reliably to detect large scale manipulation of ballots, and have been used by the United Nations. They used to work in the USA

  Mail in ballot counting is reliable. This leaves electronic ballots as the only means to change that many votes. Indeed, if you look at states that use more traditional methods of counting their exit polls generally are accurate.

  In addition many states fail other statistical tests that are also used to detect cheating in the primaries for both parties and general races.

  Based on statistical tests that have been accepted worldwide for generations there is cheating happening. This is ignored by both parties and the vast majority of people .

  In my opinion nothing was proved that these counting companies have accurate results. This is because most of what they do is hidden by trade secrets. And the USA has a lack of recounts that do not use these very systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unincorporated towns in Texas is 4k, I would guess the number of very unincorporated is a ratio of 2:1 nation wide I am not sure.

  But using some rough math , and being incredibly stubborn to prove my point, that brings the total number up to 60k, of which 1/3 ( maybe) have seen economic hardship

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That election companies cannot be trusted, but the deniers were careful to not approach this scientifically or convincingly. Offering instead pseudo science and illogical schemes done by madmen. Because of this they set back the paper vote movements by decades in some states.

  Another thing that draws them followers is that tens of thousands of small towns have died economically, in the last three decades, but no programs to help them, and no sympathy in the large cities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it can also be seen as breaking anti monopoly laws ( or equivalent) ; many people depend on these services to get free stuff, but these are the tools to create competitors.

  Setting up a large video stream service is definitely different from the above tools. But small interconnected services in their thousands are probably the stuff of nightmares for any self respecting you tube middle management type

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That, and top management really does not care about the issues this will “help”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like a virus, infecting each system as it can

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The non WiFi versions cost more and are not supported by most insurance.”

  • from the future
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A hundred years ago most food was grown a days walk away from a person. With no Diesel production or distribution, which some flairs knock out, there is no warehouse refrigeration.

  Even with reserves, there are spare parts drying up. Trucks, ships and planes need constant work.

  Some areas would get by, grains and beans can be moved without all that. Probably a huge percentage would survive. Barely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says US will unilaterally set new tariff rates for scores of countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps there will be another huge tariff raise again, in some months

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly amusing because most of the active users are perhaps AI powered bots now, run by Reddit.

  If that is the case, then it seems to me that this is a repeat of the locking out of third parties, done by the api change was two years ago, but for now for those that use bots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I read some books by Alice Miller that discussed some childhoods of authoritarian rulers and they were all of unloved. They had not one adult stick up for them, be their advocate or helper, during their childhood years.

  Many of us as children have been unwanted or unloved by our caregivers. Most of us had at least one adult: an uncle, grandmother, teacher etc, who truly tried to help at least once.

  What the monsters in history had in common is an absence of evidence of even that happening for them. And their revenge as adults was terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA's Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon Titan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too early to say it, and I hope it never comes to pass, but I hope somebody made future contingency plans to transfer this to another country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One arm hair in the hand is better than two in the bush

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New Form of Verification on Bluesky - Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not ideal, and can be abused by the central service later by price increases or probably other things.

  But it’s the best a corporate and evil platform can do to legitimize users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My internet service blocked this site: says it was a threat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, all of this was planned by the oligarchs who support Trump. It was literally advertised a year before he was elected, it is called a wealth transfer and has nothing to do with politics, sanity or ideology.

  It’s theft by means of terror, and events like this will keep happening: taking the markets to the brink and even beyond sometimes, over and over again for the next few years.

  After people get jaded enough to not be so shocked, the ante will be upped: expect everything to be used, eventually, to swing the markets, including threats of nuclear war and brinkmanship with China and others.

  This wild ride is only starting